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How Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled's endorsements helped $30M ICO for Centra debit card token which had shady founders, made-up CEO, false Visa approval claims — Celebrity endorsements are helping start-ups raise big money in so-called initial coin offerings. But it is not always clear what they are selling.
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| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Patreon's recent crackdown on adult content worries sex workers and creators of erotic art — NSFW Warning: This story may contain links to and descriptions or images of explicit sexual acts. — On October 17th, crowdfunding website Patreon amended the terms of its acceptable use policy as part of a wider program of reform.
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Facebook will start testing new ad transparency features in Canada in Nov., in US and elsewhere by summer, including an option to see all ads a page is running — When it comes to advertising on Facebook, people should be able to tell who the advertiser is and see the ads they're running, especially for political ads.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Google will use location, not country code domains, by default for localizing search results; users can still change the country service in settings — google.whatever — You've long been able to get localized search results by visiting Google at different domains — like google.com for the US …
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| Ry Crist / CNET: |
Amazon Echo Plus review: falls short as a Zigbee smart home hub, and Alexa app's smart home controls need more refinement and features — The Echo Plus is a great smart speaker, but a mediocre smart hub. In most cases, you're better off just getting the Echo.| Matt Ranen / NewCo Shift: |
Augmented Reality poses difficult legal and ethical questions about virtual graffiti, private and public property rights, and data verification — Let's not repeat the mistakes we made with social media — With recent product and SDK announcements by Apple and Facebook …
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A look back at Google Goggles, an early precursor to modern mobile AR-infused camera apps like Snapchat — GOOGLE'S FIRST PUBLIC foray into augmented reality began with an argument in a bar. It was 2008, and David Petrou, a longtime Google engineer, was sitting in a Brooklyn watering hole explaining … | Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Unofficial “@RepublicanParty” Instagram account, which is not in violation of community guidelines, has four times more followers than the official GOP account — There's an Instagram account that uses the Republican Party name — and it's four times as popular as the official one.| The Economic Times: |
Canalys and Counterpoint Research say India overtook US to become world's second largest smartphone market in Q3 — NEW DELHI: India has pipped the US to become the world's second-largest smartphone market at the end of the third quarter, according to two research firms … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
As pre-orders open, Apple says iPhone X screen replacement will cost $279, compared to $169 for iPhone 8 Plus; other out-of-warranty repairs will cost $549 — The iPhone X went on sale today, and with it, Apple released some information about the phone's repair pricing — and like the phone itself, it gets expensive.
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Human rights groups say false information spread on Facebook, which is dominant in Myanmar, is stoking violence against the Rohingya ethnic group — Myanmar's government has barred Ashin Wirathu, an ultranationalist Buddhist monk, from public preaching for the past year …
Tweets: @lvandenassum, @malachybrowne, @kenroth, @pernillet, and @juliacarriew
| Rita El Khoury / Android Police: |
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