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| Daily Token News Show | |
| Number | 3247 |
| Broadcast Date | MARCH 26, 2018 |
| Episode Length | 28:24 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane |
| Guests | Laura Shin |
With the popularity of ICO (Initial Coin Offerings) and other cryptocurrency as an investment strategy, how do existing taxation laws apply and how should they change in the future? Plus, Ford and Alibaba are partnering on a car vending machine in China and Uber is selling its SE Asia ride-hailing business to competitor Grab.
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Quick Hits
- Uber agreed to sell its Southeast Asian ride-hailing business to Singapore-based Grab. This leaves Indonesia's Go-Jek, backed by Google and Tencent, as the only other major ride-hailing and meal delivery competition in the region. Uber will take a 27.5% stake in Grab as part of the deal. The Competition Commission of Singapore still has to approve the acquisition.
- XDA Developers reports that Google logins on unlicensed devices now fail with a "device not certified by Google" message. This is likely to stop official Google Android apps from being distributed without Google's permission outside of the Play Store. Users of custom ROMs will have to register their Android ID with their Google account to get around this restriction.
- Microsoft released a public version of its Edge browser for iPad and Android tablets Monday. The browser has a continue on PC function and scales the Edge interface for tablet screens.
- The New York Times says entertainment executives told it Apple plans to roll out its new TV programming between March and summer 2019. Apple currently has a 40-person team working on Apple Worldwide Video. Apple has 12 TV projects in the works.
Top Stories
- This weekend Dylan McCkay, and a few other folks, found that their call history up to mid-2017 was stored in their Facebook data. Prior to Android 4.1, giving permission to Facebook's Android app to access contacts also gave it access to call history. That API was deprecated in October 2017 when most of the collection seems to have stopped. Facebook Lite and Messenger may still ask explicitly for call and text logs. Requesting a purge of contacts does not seem to successfully delete the call history. Facebook says the feature was used only to find friends and that users always had control over the data. The FTC confirmed Monday it's investigating Facebook and its data practices in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
- Fortune's Grace Donnely has a great explainer of how SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch last August 24 tore a hole in the ionosphere big enough to reduce GPS accuracy. Usually rockets take a curving trajectory because of heavy payloads, but since the Falcon 9's payload was light it took a nearly vertical path. That caused circular shockwaves that punched a 559-mile hole in the ionosphere for about three hours. A paper in the journal Space Weather estimates about a one-meter error in GPS could have resulted, though no errors were detected.
- Ford and Alibaba are partnering on a car vending machine in Guanghzhou, China. The multi-story Super Test-Drive center has dozens of Ford vehicles and a mechanical system lowers the selected car to the street. Users select a car they want from the Tmall app and have an option to take it for a three day test ride.
- Acer introduced the Chromebook Tab 10, the first tablet to run on Chrome OS. It has a 9.7-inch 2048 x 1536 display, an estimated 9 hours of battery, 4 GB of RAM, 32 GB of storage, a microSD card slot, headphone jack and USB-C port. It has a Wacom-branded stylus built in as well. It sells for $329, the same price as Apple's entry-level iPad, though Apple sells its stylus separately for an extra $99. The Acer Tab 10 goes on sale in North America in April, worldwide in May.
- Twitter announced it will no longer accept ads for initial coin offerings, crypto wallets and token sales, as well as most exchanges, although the company didn't disclose a time when the restrictions would begin. Google and Facebook have previously restricted such ads as well.
Discussion
- IRS reminds taxpayers to report virtual currency transactions
- Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)
- The Tax Rules That Have Crypto Users Aghast
- Live from SXSW: Michael Casey and Paul Vigna, Co-Authors of The Truth Machine, on Why the SEC Has Issued Subpoenas to ICOs
- SXSW Episode: Former DOJ Prosecutor Kathryn Haun on What the SEC Subpoenas and FinCen Letter Likely Mean
- Caitlin Long on How 'Utility Tokens' Are Now Legal In Wyoming
Pick of the Day
- Time to check in with Chris Christensen on the travel industry's stance on AI.
- Submitted by Chris Christensen
Mailbag
- I have been in technical support for over 10 years. In that time, I have had to keep up with updates and trends in technology on my own (thanks to BOL, TNT and DTNS for making that much easier). I have only taken one class that led to cert. I find myself needing more training, but I fear I'll bankrupt myself trying to pay for it all. I'd like to know how my fellow techs in the community deal with this.
Thanks in advance and keep up the good work, - Sent by Brandon
- I have been in technical support for over 10 years. In that time, I have had to keep up with updates and trends in technology on my own (thanks to BOL, TNT and DTNS for making that much easier). I have only taken one class that led to cert. I find myself needing more training, but I fear I'll bankrupt myself trying to pay for it all. I'd like to know how my fellow techs in the community deal with this.
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