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  • Binance Crypto Exchange Issues Risk Warning, Keeps Trading, Withdrawals Suspended

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    Crypto exchange Binance is keeping trading and withdrawals suspended due to a risk warning, even after completion of their extended four hour scheduled upgrade today, June 26, according to a support notice from Binance. Binance had posted earlier about the added time of the upgrade, then added an update that the upgrade was complete and trading would begin at 9:30 am (UTC). However, another updatefollowed, noting […]

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  • Digital Signage – Enriching Experience at Amusement Parks

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    BY Alex Mardikian Amusement parks can use digital signage in really creative ways to offer a heightened and enriching experience to visitors. These businesses can use communication through digital signage in different ways to sell more, learn more about the visitors, and ensure that the patrons have a fun day on their premises. Visual communication […]

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  • People’s Bank of China Files Patent for Digital Currency Wallet

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    The Digital Currency Research Lab at the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has filed a new patent this week for a digital wallet that would allow users to track their transaction histories. The patent application was submitted with China’s State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) Friday, June 22. The new patent outlines how the proposed digital wallet could […]

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  • Alibaba Offshoot Trials First Blockchain Remittance to Philippines, Plans Global Expansion

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      Laura Desmond Alibaba subsidiary Ant Financial has trialled its first blockchain remittances, sending a transaction in three seconds, Bloomberg reports June 25. The company, formerly known as AliPay, completed a funds transfer between its AliPayHK app in Hong Kong and Filipino payment app GCash, its joint project with local telecoms company Globe Telecom. Part of a growing trend of Blockchain remittances […]

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  • Facebook Backpedals, Reverses Ban on Cryptocurrency Ads

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    Facebook has announced that it is revising its blanket ban on all cryptocurrency advertisements on the social media site. The announcement highlights that this is a revision of Facebook’s cryptocurrency policy, rather than a removal of the policy altogether. For example, advertising for binary options and ICOs are still banned. About the ban policy, Facebook Bussiness writes: […]

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  • What Canada’s Legalization of Marijuana Means to the US, Eh

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    Last week Canada announced a landmark decision in the history of legal cannabis when the Senate put the final stamp of approval on the law legalizing the recreational use of marijuana all across the country. This will make the Canucks the first G7 nation, and the second country in the world, to legalize recreational cannabis […]

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  • Babies were stolen from Spanish mothers and given to Franco allies; the first trial over the scandal is underway

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      It was almost half a century ago that Ines Madrigal was born in Spain and handed to a woman who was not her mother. In all those years, she has seen no trace of her birth mother, nor any evidence that she was willingly given up for adoption. Madrigal suspects she was one of […]

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  • European readers still blocked from some US news sites

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    Major American news sites, including the Los Angeles Times and the New York Daily News, remain unavailable to readers in the EU, a month after new data protection rules were implemented. The websites went dark in Europe after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law came into force on 25 May. GDPR gives EU citizens […]

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  • Delivering insulin in a pill

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    Given the choice of taking a pill or injecting oneself with a needle, most of us would opt to regulate a chronic health condition by swallowing a pill. But for millions of people living with type 1 diabetes, a painful needle prick once or twice daily is the only option for delivering the insulin that […]

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  • Trump revs up attacks on Harley-Davidson over production move

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    WASHINGTON/CHICAGO – U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Harley-Davidson Inc with higher taxes and said the iconic motorcycle maker would suffer from a public backlash if it goes ahead with a plan to move production for European customers overseas. Trump’s latest attack on a U.S. corporation is a sharp reverse for the president, who early in […]

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