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    • Bleckwen, a cybersecurity company developing AI-based fraud detection and prevention systems for banks and others, emerges from stealth, raises $10M Series A (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Bleckwen, a cybersecurity company developing AI-based fraud detection and prevention systems for banks and others, emerges from stealth, raises $10M Series A  —  Bleckwen, a cybersecurity firm developing fraud detection and prevention systems for banks and financial technology companies … Bleckwen, a cybersecurity company developing AI-based fraud detection and prevention systems

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    • Nielsen Music Mid-Year Report: on-demand audio streams in the US grew 31.6% YoY to 507.7B in the first half of 2019 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

    Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Nielsen Music Mid-Year Report: on-demand audio streams in the US grew 31.6% YoY to 507.7B in the first half of 2019  —  Music streaming services have already delivered a new high of half a trillion (507.7 billion) on-demand streams in the first half of 2019, according to Nielsen’s mid-year Music Report

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    • TaTaTu, after raising $575M from royals and celebs in a private 2018 ICO for a blockchain-based Netflix-like service, now says it is not a blockchain business (Leigh Cuen/CoinDesk)

    Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: TaTaTu, after raising $575M from royals and celebs in a private 2018 ICO for a blockchain-based Netflix-like service, now says it is not a blockchain business  —  What started as a $575 million token sale is now a rewards program for watching videos.  —  TaTaTu’s initial coin offering … TaTaTu, after

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    • How tech like ground-penetrating radar, drones, lidar, hyper-accurate 3D mapping, and more is changing archaeology by enabling cheaper noninvasive site surveys (Andrew Dickson/OneZero)

    Andrew Dickson / OneZero: How tech like ground-penetrating radar, drones, lidar, hyper-accurate 3D mapping, and more is changing archaeology by enabling cheaper noninvasive site surveys  —  Lidar, drones, and more are helping field researchers uncover hidden worlds  —  eal Spencer likes to travel light. How tech like ground-penetrating radar, drones, lidar, hyper-accurate 3D mapping, and

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    Hackaday Links: June 30, 2019

    In our continuing series of, ‘point and laugh at this guy’, I present a Kickstarter for the, “World’s First Patented Unhackable Computer Ever”.  It’s also a real web site and there’s even a patent (US 10,061,923, not showing up on Google Patents for some reason), and a real product: you can get an unhackable laptop,

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    • Facebook says it will treat 2020 US Census like an election and will have "people, policies and technology in place to protect against census interference" (Facebook)

    Facebook: Facebook says it will treat 2020 US Census like an election and will have “people, policies and technology in place to protect against census interference”  —  Civil rights are the foundation of a free and just society — and something we care deeply about as a company. Facebook says it will treat 2020 US

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    • Profile of Jay Carney, formerly Obama's press secretary, who is now a member of Jeff Bezos' elite S-team, in charge of PR and policy at Amazon (Eugene Kim/CNBC)

    Eugene Kim / CNBC: Profile of Jay Carney, formerly Obama’s press secretary, who is now a member of Jeff Bezos’ elite S-team, in charge of PR and policy at Amazon  —  KEY POINTS  — Jay Carney is running public relations and policy at Amazon, which is the target of an increasing number of political attacks.

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    • China-based robotic process automation startup Laiye, whose product UiBot gained 6,000 enterprise users after launching in January, raises $35M Series B (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)

    Rita Liao / TechCrunch: China-based robotic process automation startup Laiye, whose product UiBot gained 6,000 enterprise users after launching in January, raises $35M Series B  —  For many years, the boom and bust of China’s tech landscape have centered around consumer-facing products. China-based robotic process automation startup Laiye, whose product UiBot gained 6,000 enterprise users

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    • Profile of 8chan founder Fredrick Brennan, who sold the site in 2015, and says he has soured not just on 8chan, but on the whole idea it represented (Nicky Woolf/Tortoise Media)

    Nicky Woolf / Tortoise Media: Profile of 8chan founder Fredrick Brennan, who sold the site in 2015, and says he has soured not just on 8chan, but on the whole idea it represented  —  How a childhood of anger led the founder of 8chan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet  — 

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    • Iran seized nearly a thousand computers used to illegally mine Bitcoin

    After detecting an unusual spike in energy consumption, Iranian authorities seized nearly a thousand computers being used to mine cryptocurrency, according to the country’s state media. Authorities discovered two bitcoin farms operating in abandoned factories in Yazd province, which caused a seven percent spike in the country’s power consumption this month. Iran’s central bank banned

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    • How TikTok users are supplanting the traditional functions of record labels, like talent scouting and publicity, for new artists (Alyssa Bereznak/The Ringer)

    Alyssa Bereznak / The Ringer: How TikTok users are supplanting the traditional functions of record labels, like talent scouting and publicity, for new artists  —  Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ is both a chart-topping phenomenon and a turning point for the music business.  Here’s what happens when a social media platform becomes a label.

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