Day: October 10, 2018

Criminals used Bitcoin to launder $2.5B in dirty money, data shows

New data shows criminals have laundered $2.5 billion worth dirty Bitcoin through cryptocurrency exchanges, and almost all of it ends up in countries with lax Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) regulations. Cryptocurrency research group CipherTrace conducted an analysis of 45 million transactions from the top 20 cryptocurrency exchanges globally in order to find out the prevalence of Bitcoin’s

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Research: Cryptocurrency is dying

Cryptocurrency exploded like a supernova as prices soared to nearly $20,000 in December 2017. But like a dying star, the crypto-market may now be facing an implosion. According to a new report from technology research group, Juniper Research, the cryptocurrency “industry is on the brink of an implosion.” The research highlights some key market metrics,

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Report: Apple bought Danish visual effects startup Spektral for $30M+ in December 2017; the company had raised $2.8M last year (Lucas Laursen/Fortune)

Lucas Laursen / Fortune: Report: Apple bought Danish visual effects startup Spektral for $30M+ in December 2017; the company had raised $2.8M last year  —  Even for uber-secretive Apple, the acquisition of Danish visual effects startup Spektral was especially hush-hush.  The tech giant bought the Copenhagen-based firm … Report: Apple bought Danish visual effects startup

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Sources detail how Amazon shut down a machine learning tool for rating job applications in 2017 because it was biased against female candidates (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)

Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: Sources detail how Amazon shut down a machine learning tool for rating job applications in 2017 because it was biased against female candidates  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc’s (AMZN.O) machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine did not like women. Sources detail how Amazon shut down

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Waze announces a US-wide rollout of its carpooling service Waze Carpool, first launched in 2016 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Waze announces a US-wide rollout of its carpooling service Waze Carpool, first launched in 2016  —  The navigation app first started experimenting with carpooling in 2016  —  For many drivers, Waze is the go-to app for circumnavigating pesky traffic jams. Waze announces a US-wide rollout of its carpooling service

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Senator John Thune, the top Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee, asks Apple, Amazon, and Supermicro for briefings on China's alleged implanted chips (Reuters)

Reuters: Senator John Thune, the top Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee, asks Apple, Amazon, and Supermicro for briefings on China’s alleged implanted chips  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee has asked Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc and Super Micro Computer Inc … Senator John Thune, the top Republican on

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Employees at Facebook's fact-checking partner in the Philippines, online news site Rappler, say they're struggling to "clean up Facebook's mess" (Alexandra Stevenson/New York Times)

Alexandra Stevenson / New York Times: Employees at Facebook’s fact-checking partner in the Philippines, online news site Rappler, say they’re struggling to “clean up Facebook’s mess”  —  MANILA — The fictional news stories pop up on Facebook faster than Paterno Esmaquel II and his co-workers can stamp them out. Employees at Facebook's fact-checking partner in

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