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West Virginia to introduce mobile phone voting in the midterm elections via Voatz's blockchain-based platform, mainly for troops serving abroad — Why voting in the US is so hard — West Virginians serving overseas will be the first in the country to cast federal election ballots using a smartphone app …
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| Li Yuan / New York Times: |
As young Chinese grow up without access to free speech platforms, many seem uninterested in spotting online censorship, accepting Beijing's narrative — HONG KONG — Wei Dilong, 18, who lives in the southern Chinese city of Liuzhou, likes basketball, hip-hop music and Hollywood superhero movies.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Ahead of OIG report expected to reveal no evidence of a DDoS attack on FCC comment system in May 2017, Ajit Pai says former CIO gave him inaccurate information — The FCC has come clean on the fact that a purported hack of its comment system last year never actually took place …
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| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank's Vision Fund plans to lead an investment of $3B-$5B in Alibaba's food delivery service Ele.me — - Masayoshi Son's fund is said to be heading up investor talks — The round marks a much-needed boost in a costly subsidies war — SoftBank Group Corp.'s monster Vision Fund plans …
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| Priya Anand / The Information: |
Sources: Amazon's sold ~50M Alexa devices, and only 2% of those owners have used Alexa to make a purchase in 2018; source: 90% of those haven't tried again — Amazon and Google both tout voice shopping—the ability to make purchases and check on the status of orders with verbal commands …
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Twitter says accounts for Alex Jones and InfoWars do not violate its policies, and it will leave them live for now — - Apple, Facebook and Google-owned YouTube removed videos, pages and podcasts posted by the controversial radio host. — Jones took to Twitter and its wholly owned … | Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
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| Robert Safian / Fast Company: |
Profile of Spotify CEO Daniel Ek on how his character has been central to the company's evolution and his plan to get the music industry dependent on Spotify — Daniel Ek [Photo: Tim Richardson; Set designer: Lauren Bahr at Kate Ryan Inc,; groomer: Alex LaMarsh]| Instapaper: |
Instapaper returns to EU users after being unavailable since May 24 for GDPR compliance and relaunches Instapaper Premium subscription for $2.99/month — This year Instapaper celebrated its tenth birthday and, now that we are an independent company, we've been thinking a lot about the next ten years of Instapaper and beyond.
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9to5Mac, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Digital Reader, Cult of Mac, and MacStories. Tweets: @instapaper. Thanks:@bthdonohue
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Klook, a Hong Kong-based online activity booking platform for travelers, raises $200M Series D from Sequoia China, TCV, and others — Klook, a Hong Kong-based online activity booking platform for travelers, has raised a chunky $200 million in a series D round of funding from Sequoia China …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Android 9, called Pie, is coming to Google Pixel phones today, but some key features won't officially ship until fall, like “slices” app search functionality — Google today revealed Android P stands for Android Pie, succeeding Android Oreo, and pushed the latest source code to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Overview of how AI has continued its fundraising tear in 2018, led by SenseTime Group's ~$620M funding and UiPath's $153M Series B — In late May, Chinese facial recognition technology developer SenseTime Group announced it had raised $620 million in a second round of funding.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Airbnb for Work says 700,000 companies are now using the program, up from 250,000 it reported in April of last year — Business travelers are increasingly ditching hotels and flocking to Airbnb, according to data revealed today by the home-sharing platform.
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| Varsha Bansal / The Economic Times: |
Indian ride-hailing service Ola plans to launch in the UK, beginning with South Wales in the next month, and expanding across the country by end of 2018 — Months after launching operations in Australia, homegrown cab-hailing platform Ola is now eyeing the UK market.| Ryan Browne / CNN: |
Pentagon updates policy, says DoD personnel must disable geolocation features on devices and in apps when deployed in locations designated as operational areas — Washington (CNN)The Pentagon is banning deployed personnel from using fitness trackers, smartphones and potentially even dating apps …
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