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Bithumb, one of South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, says it has sold more than 38% of its total ownership to BK Global Consortium for $350M (Wolfie Zhao/CoinDesk)

Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: Bithumb, one of South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, says it has sold more than 38% of its total ownership to BK Global Consortium for $350M  —  Bithumb, currently the largest cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea by trading volume, just confirmed it has sold more than 38 percent … Bithumb, one of

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YouTube removes channels with duplicate content from its Partner Program, including videos repurposed without additional material; channels may reapply (Matt Binder/Mashable)

Matt Binder / Mashable: YouTube removes channels with duplicate content from its Partner Program, including videos repurposed without additional material; channels may reapply  —  If you’re a YouTube Partner uploading someone else’s work, beware.  YouTube is checking in on you and might revoke your Partner privileges. YouTube removes channels with duplicate content from its Partner

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Garmin launches Instinct, a rugged GPS smartwatch that is built to military standards for thermal, shock, and water resistance, available now for $300 (Dani Deahl/The Verge)

Dani Deahl / The Verge: Garmin launches Instinct, a rugged GPS smartwatch that is built to military standards for thermal, shock, and water resistance, available now for $300  —  Garmin just announced a new GPS watch called Instinct, built for endurance when worn during outdoor activities like running or mountain biking. Garmin launches Instinct, a

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Coinbase might nix its cryptocurrency index fund because investors weren’t interested

Coinbase has reportedly taken the decision to shut down its cryptocurrency index fund after lack of interest. An informant close to the matter told The Block the cryptocurrency exchange’s market-weighted index failed to attract enough interest from accredited investors. It appears the index did not perform as well as Coinbase forecast. The fund targeted at

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Google says it will offer its cloud identity technology, used within G Suite, as a standalone service to developers (Larry Dignan/ZDNet)

Larry Dignan / ZDNet: Google says it will offer its cloud identity technology, used within G Suite, as a standalone service to developers  —  Cloud Identity is built on Google’s BeyondCorp security model and previously sat within G Suite.  The company is also moving to be more of an Okta competitor. Google says it will

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Superstar plastic surgeon buys major South Korean cryptocurrency exchange

Just weeks before regulators decide the fate of domestic initial coin offerings (ICOs), one of South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges is changing hands. A consortium led by a superstar plastic surgeon has just bought a controlling stake in Bithumb for $353 million. Bithumb will now be directly managed by Singapore-based investment group BK Global Consortium,

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Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo says it reached ~30M daily searches, up 50% YoY, after taking seven years to reach 10M/day (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo says it reached ~30M daily searches, up 50% YoY, after taking seven years to reach 10M/day  —  Some nice momentum for privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo which has just announced it’s hit 30 million daily searches a year after reaching 20M — a year-on-year increase of 50%. Privacy-focused

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Israel-based CommonSense Robotics launches first fully automated fulfillment center in Tel Aviv, using a combination of robotic sorting systems and AI software (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Israel-based CommonSense Robotics launches first fully automated fulfillment center in Tel Aviv, using a combination of robotic sorting systems and AI software  —  Imagine if your neighborhood grocery or convenience store offered one hour, on-demand fulfillment not through middlemen … Israel-based CommonSense Robotics launches first fully automated fulfillment center in Tel

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A flood of fake Adobe Flash installers are reportedly installing XMRig, an open source crypto mining malware that siphons generated funds to a Monero wallet (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: A flood of fake Adobe Flash installers are reportedly installing XMRig, an open source crypto mining malware that siphons generated funds to a Monero wallet  —  If you think that Flash, the once-popular web plugin, couldn’t die fast enough, even those annoying fake Flash installers riddled … A flood of fake

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