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Jimmy Kimmel, Walking Dead part of $600,000 penalties for false emergency alerts

On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission reached a handful of settlements with media outlets following investigations into whether they misused the emergency alert system tone. The agency found that ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, AMC’s The Walking Dead, Animal Planet’s Lone Star Law, and Meruelo Radio Holdings all misused the emergency alert system (EAS) tone, a

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Amazon is selling gas for 30 cents to promote Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and police had to intervene

Photo: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Twitter) Amazon’s latest marketing campaign for the Prime Video series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has not gone as planned, with the Santa Monica Police briefly shutting down a 30-cents-per-gallon promotion for gas due to traffic delays caused by eager customers, according to ABC 7 reporter John Gregory. The promotion has

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Spain’s First Open Source Satellite

[Fossa Systems], a non-profit youth association based out of Madrid, is developing an open-source satellite set to launch in October 2019. The FossaSat-1 is sized at 5x5x5 cm, weighs 250g, and will provide free IoT connectivity by communicating LoRa RTTY signals through low-power RF-based LoRa modules. The satellite is powered by 28% efficient gallium arsenide TrisolX

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Cloudflare warns investors that sites like 8chan are a risk to its business

Internet services company Cloudflare is going public, and it describes the controversy over banning hateful websites — like 8chan and the Daily Stormer — as a potential risk factor. The company’s S-1 filing reports that objectionable sites could cause “significant adverse political, business, and reputational consequences.” The filing describes this risk as a double bind

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Ripple's investment subsidiary Xpring grants 1B XRP, around $262M, to Coil, a micropayments platform for content creators, to drive adoption of the token (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

Yogita Khatri / The Block: Ripple’s investment subsidiary Xpring grants 1B XRP, around $262M, to Coil, a micropayments platform for content creators, to drive adoption of the token  —  Ripple’s investment subsidiary Xpring has granted 1 billion XRP to Coil, a micropayments platform for content creators … Ripple's investment subsidiary Xpring grants 1B XRP, around

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Canalys: North American wearables market hit $2B in Q2, 2019, as market leader Apple grew 32% YoY with 2.9M shipments, Fitbit grew 18%, and Samsung grew 121% (Jeremy Horwitz/VentureBeat)

Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: Canalys: North American wearables market hit $2B in Q2, 2019, as market leader Apple grew 32% YoY with 2.9M shipments, Fitbit grew 18%, and Samsung grew 121%  —  In North America, the market for wearables — particularly wearable bands — is still continuing to grow, and Apple’s popular Apple … Canalys:

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