Latest Sign of China’s Slowdown: A Technology Cash Crunch

“In private conversations, investors, entrepreneurs and economists admit that with the high debt level and a trade war with the United States, the room for government maneuvering is shrinking. The degrees of pessimism vary, but many of them are bracing for a tough ride ahead.  They told me to change all my savings into gold, a risk-management measure for extreme times. They worry that the trade war will hurt the tech and the venture capital industries because they operate globally.”

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/17/latest-sign-of-chinas-slowdown-a-technology-cash-crunch.html

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Egypt targets social media, journalists with ‘fake news’ law

“Social media accounts and blogs with more than 5,000 followers on sites such as Twitter and Facebook will be treated as media outlets, which makes them subject to prosecution for publishing false news or incitement to break the law.”

Read more: https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Egypt-targets-social-media-journalists-with-new-law-562746

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Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything

“At the intersection of programming, economics, cryptography, distributed systems, information theory, and math, you will find Vitalik Buterin, who has managed to synthesize insights across those fields into successful, real-world applications like Ethereum, which aims to decentralize the Internet.”

Read more: https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/vitalik-buterin-tyler-cowen-cryptocurrency-blockchain-tech-3a2b20c12c97

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Why the Media is Desperate to Reclaim its “Gatekeeper” Status for News

“Don’t you miss the good old days when you could believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the media reported it?”

Read more: https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/why-the-media-is-desperate-to-reclaim-its-gatekeeper-status-for-news/

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Letter from Shenzhen

“Chinese tech isn’t an imitation of its American counterpart. It’s a completely different universe.”

Read more: https://logicmag.io/04-letter-from-shenzhen/

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Hackers selling access to airport security systems for $10

“RDP administrators have been slow to adopt techniques like two-factor authentication and rate-limiting, which could prevent attacks like this one.”

Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/11/17559510/airport-security-login-rdp-attack-dark-web

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All Ears: Always-On Listening Devices Could Soon Be Everywhere

“A future full of always-listening devices will have its own complications, of course.”

Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/all-ears-always-on-listening-devices-could-soon-be-everywhere-1531411250

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Why Tech Employees Are Rebelling Against Their Bosses

“The disputed projects span a range, from building facial-recognition technology that could be deployed on unsuspecting people in public to providing computer services that a few years ago would have been run on a machine inside the Pentagon.”

Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/why-tech-worker-dissent-is-going-viral/

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Inside X, the Moonshot Factory Racing to Build the Next Google

“Seven years after its secretive launch, X is starting to spawn mind-blowing companies—and show us what an ever expanding Google means for the world.”

Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/alphabet-google-x-innovation-loon-wing-graduation/

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Dying Organs Restored To Life With Mitochondria Injections

“In the only human tests, mitochondrial transplants appear to revive and restore heart muscle in infants that was injured in operations to repair congenital heart defects.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/health/mitochondria-transplant-heart-attack.html

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