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China bans companies from raising money through ICOs, asks local regulators to inspect 60 major ICO platforms — - Chinese regulators are about to start a campaign related to the country's initial coin offerings (ICO), according to a Caixin report — In a document, authorities …
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Bloomberg, Reuters, CoinDesk, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Financial Times, Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, ShanghaiDaily.com, TechNode, Axios, Virtual Mining Bitcoin News, International Investment, Hacker Noon, CNET, Crowdfund Insider, The Register, Cointelegraph.com News, Bloomberg, The Verge, International Business Times, VentureBeat, CoinDesk, and Tech in Asia
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| Manish Singh / NDTV Gadgets 360: |
Facebook bid $600M for online streaming rights of a popular cricket tournament in India for 5 years but was outbid by Star India — As Facebook gets serious about video, the social giant's ambitions for live streaming were on display on Monday in India where it put a bid north of $600 million …
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Recode, CNET, The Economic Times, Trak.in, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, and The Register
| Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide: |
Apple says it is ending its ten-year-old annual Apple Music Festival in the UK; will likely concentrate on one-off events and original content efforts — Apple has confirmed to MBW that it will no longer be hosting the annual Apple Music Festival at London's Roundhouse.| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Android 8.0 Oreo review: fundamentals improve with reined in background processes, a new notifications layout, and better vendor support via Project Treble — We take a 20,000 word deep-dive on Android's “foundational” upgrades. — Android 8.0 Oreo is the 26th version of the world's most popular operating system.
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Android Central, BetaNews, BGR, Tech Advisor, Nokiapoweruser, and xda-developers
| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Paris Hilton backs ICO of Lydian, an AI marketing service run by Gravity4, joining other celebrities getting in on the cryptocurrency hype — Paris Hilton is getting in on the ICO hype. — Initial Coin Offerings, or ICOs, are the hottest new fundraising tool in tech right now.
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Bloomberg, Cointelegraph.com News, HuffPost, The Register, CoinDesk, The Memo, The Stack, MarTech Advisor, and Opalesque
Tweets: @parishilton, @ericnakagawa, @jstrauss, @nbougalis, @thestalwart, @adamdraper, @mattocko, @mdudas, @robaeprice, and @tonyromm
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Popular YouTube ripping site, YouTube-MP3, settles with RIAA and will shut down indefinitely — YouTube-MP3, the world's leading YouTube ripping site, has agreed to shut down indefinitely and hand over its domain to the RIAA. A private settlement agreement, including an undisclosed payment …
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Financial Times, BetaNews, MacRumors, The Verge, TechSpot, Inquirer, The Independent, Engadget, and The Next Web. Tweets: @tymoss
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Carpooling service Via raises new round, source says of $250M, led by Daimler, for European expansion; Mercedes Benz investing $50M in a joint venture with Via — As outsized ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft continue to build out their taxi-style marketplaces largely based around …
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VentureBeat, marsMediaSite, Engadget, Globes Online, Financial Times, Reuters, The Verge, and Bloomberg. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Security firm finds some Arris modems, distributed via AT&T U-verse, have firmware vulnerabilities — Trivially exploitable vulnerabilities have been discovered in several Arris home modems, routers and gateways distributed to consumers and small businesses through AT&T's U-verse service.| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sequoia and IDG Capital to invest in Beijing-based Bitmain, the world's largest bitcoin mining organization, which is raising a $50M round — Bitmain is said to raise $50 million for AI expansion — Bitmain produces bitcoin mining machines, runs mining pools| Ben Arnold / NPD Group: |
900K totally wireless headphone units were sold in US in 2017; AirPods accounted for 85% of dollar sales in the US — So far, 2017 has been a great year for headphones. Through July, U.S. dollar sales and average prices increased 22 percent, and 18 percent, respectively, over the same period a year ago.
| ACM Queue: |
Most of Bitcoin's components had been described in the 80s and 90s; Satoshi Nakamoto's true genius was in assembling them to work in the real world — The concept of cryptocurrencies is built from forgotten ideas in research literature. — Arvind Narayanan and Jeremy Clark
Tweets: @diogomonica, @random_walker, and @diogomonica
| Violet Blue / Engadget: |
Tests show phrases like “I am a gay black woman” deemed “toxic” by Google Jigsaw's Perspective AI tool that's used by some publishers to filter abusive comments — A recent, sprawling Wired feature outlined the results of its analysis on toxicity in online commenters across the United States.
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