The Security and Exchange Commission reached an agreement with Elon Musk. He will pay a $20 million fine and step down as board chairman of Tesla. Musk settles with SEC, steps down as board chairman of Tesla Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreWolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: Beijing-based cryptocurrency startup Cobo raises $13M Series A, launches Cobo Vault, a hardware wallet featuring a self-destructing mechanism — Cobo, a Beijing-based cryptocurrency wallet startup, has closed a $13 million Series A funding round in its bid to expand its services overseas. Beijing-based cryptocurrency startup Cobo raises M Series A, launches
Read MoreMalta is fast becoming an international hot-spot for blockchain entrepreneurs, but reports have indicated two-thirds of applicants failed the licensing exam for operating cryptocurrency-related businesses. The shitty pass rates come even after Malta’s Institute of Financial Service Practitioners made last-minute changes to the marking scheme to boost the number of licenses it could award, Times
Read MoreThere’s something fitting about an Elon Musk business accepting Bitcoin, because, you know, they’re about as stable as each other. I’m here all week. That’s right, you can now buy the Boring Company’s Not A Flamethrower (from here on out, referred to as just a flamethrower) with not only Bitcoin, but a range of other
Read MoreRob Copeland / Wall Street Journal: Sources: data mining giant Palantir is weighing an IPO as soon as H2 2019; some bankers have told the firm it could IPO with a valuation of as much as $41B — Bankers have told the firm it could go public with a valuation as high as $41 billion
Read MoreIan Sample / The Guardian: Tim Berners-Lee’s Web Foundation finds a 12% slowdown in the global growth of internet access between 2007 and 2017, with African women the least connected — Report showing dramatic decline in internet access growth suggests digital revolution will remain a distant dream for billions of people Tim Berners-Lee's Web Foundation
Read MoreWhatsApp groups can occasionally be useful, but they can also become the bane of your existence, with their annoying notifications that are hard to mute. But some new features spotted in a test build of the app by WABetaInfo might make groups a little less painful. The first feature is called Silent mode, and it
Read MoreFor The Record: Spotify Premium gets streamlined navigation, personalized search, and endless artist radio, rolling out globally on iOS and Android starting today — We’re always looking for ways to provide the best possible methods for people to discover and enjoy the music they love. Spotify Premium gets streamlined navigation, personalized search, and endless artist
Read MoreThe nightstand-friendly but also portable Insignia Voice once sold for as high as $150. It’s an alarm clock and smart Bluetooth speaker. Best Buy's portable Google Assistant speaker is just – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAlexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: How one company spent between $1.2M and $4.6M over five months to get 45M+ impressions on Facebook political issue ads, without saying who’s paying for the ads — Over just two weeks in September, a limited-liability company calling itself News for Democracy spent almost $400,000 … How one company
Read MoreOr get a Qi charging stand for $10. Either way, just please don’t spend $40-50 at an Apple Store. And, psst, both stands work with other phones, too. This iPhone XR Qi charging pad is only – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA federal mandate to streamline the process for building out 5G could leave a lot of local municipalities feeling burned. How 5G pits the FCC, carriers against local governments – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’s a partnership of multimedia underdogs. Sonos in talks to add Roku's entertainment software to its devices – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTheodore Schleifer / Recode: How Silicon Valley’s rich can defer or even avoid capital gains tax, via a provision that Sean Parker helped craft, by investing in low-income Opportunity Zones — Sean Parker crafted a little-known part of the tax code called Opportunity Zones. Now every one-percenter in Silicon Valley wants in. How Silicon Valley's
Read MoreThere’s a lot going on our virtual spaces, and anyone with a smart phone can attest to this fact. There are pop-up notifications for everything you can imagine, and sometimes it’s possible for the one really important notification to get lost in a sea of minutiae. To really make sure you don’t miss that one
Read MoreJust over half of Americans (50.42 percent) who have used WhatsApp in the last six months are unaware that it’s owned by Facebook. This, my friends, is a pretty high figure. The research was carried out by DuckDuckGo, the privacy-protecting search engine. The same survey found that 56 percent of Americans who had used Waze,
Read MoreA consortium backed by major Chinese corporations Tencent and Huawei will debut its new open source “blockchain ecosystem” FISCO BCOS at the Singapore Fintech Festival next month. BCOS is geared towards providing enterprise-grade distributed ledger (DLT) solutions. Much like the Ethereum-based Hyperledger Fabric, its completely coinless. This makes BCOS more of a set application templates geared towards businesses looking to adopt DLTs than a
Read MoreZebpay, once India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is moving operations to Malta after having shut shop on its home turf last month. The exchange, which currently supports 20 cryptocurrencies, will serve users in 20 countries across Europe: Malta Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Netherlands Poland Portugal
Read MoreApple’s privacy tools now go beyond Europe, so more now get to download the personal data it has collected. Apple to US users: Here's how you can now see what personal data we hold on you Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreWith over $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency being stolen since 2017, British security services firm G4S is taking it upon itself to try and make the wild west of cryptocurrency a little less wild. The FTSE 250 listed firm is perhaps best known for providing security personnel, prisoner transport, and high-value money transport in around
Read MoreFrom Singapore to Israel, countries besides the United States and China are striving to play a role in the field of artificial intelligence. 6 Emerging Players in A.I. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreWebsite and app development is a necessary facet in today’s tech-based company culture. But as technological developments speed along, so too do the strings of potential bugs in new tech code. To discover the best methods for testing a product for errors before launch, I asked a panel of entrepreneurs from YEC the following question: When
Read MoreRobin Sloan is using a homemade software program to supply phrases and images for his new book. Computer Stories: A.I. Is Beginning to Assist Novelists Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThis Day In Deals is our new section where we share a historical fact and the day’s best deal – and try to connect them. The aim? To enrich ourselves financially, and you spiritually. Meet Félicette. In France on October 18 1963, Félicette became the first cat launched into space. Even more impressively, she was the only
Read MoreApple is already a powerhouse when it comes to designing processors for its phones. Now, it’s also reportedly working on chips for its computers, which will feature in Macs by 2020. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that Apple will launch MacBooks with a chip designed in-house, two years from now. He added that by 2023, the company would
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