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Twitter is taking applications for its paid 'Super Follows' subscriptions. Twitter will soon flip on some of its new monetization features, including “Super Follows” and Ticketed Spaces. The company announced that it’s opening up applications for the new features as it looks to for the first group of testers for the tools. (Karissa Bell via Engadget)
Bank of Israel to Use Ethereum Tech for Digital Shekel. Follow @crypto Twitter for the latest news. The Bank of Israel adopted Ethereum technology for an internal pilot run of the digital shekel, the Israeli financial daily Globes reported without saying where it got the information. (Gwen Ackerman via Bloomberg)
Ground temperatures hit 118 degrees in the Arctic Circle. Newly published satellite imagery shows the ground temperature in at least one location in Siberia topped 118 degrees Fahrenheit (48 degrees Celsius) going into the year's longest day. (Isaac Schultz via Gizmodo)
Hong Kong's Apple Daily Will Close After Government Choked Funds. Apple Daily, Hong Kong’s defiant pro-democracy newspaper that drew the ire of China’s leaders, said it would print its final issue Thursday, ending an era of unfettered reporting critical of Beijing in the city’s mainstream print scene. (Elaine Yu via Wall Street Journal)
French spyware bosses indicted for their role in the torture of dissidents.“When you look at attempts to hold these companies accountable, you see a lot of failures… we still face strong obstacles.”Clémence Bectarte, International Federation for Human Rights The charges were brought by brought… (Patrick Howell O'Neill via MIT Technology Review)
Our Most Dystopian Holiday. Today is Prime Day. Imagine trying to explain that to an alien or to a time traveler from the 20th century. “Amazon turned 20 and on the eve of its birthday, the company introduced Prime Day, a global shopping event,” reads Amazon's… (Ellen Cushing via The Atlantic)
Transmit Security raises $543M Series A to kill off the password. Transmit Security, a Boston-based startup that's on a mission to rid the world of passwords, has raised a massive $543 million in Series A funding. The funding round, said to be the largest Series A… (Carly Page via TechCrunch)
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