BitTorrent, an early mover (and currently the largest player) in decentralised computing architecture to distribute and store data, is being sold for $140 million in cash to Justin Sun and his blockchain media startup Tron, TechCrunch has learned. one shareholder we spoke to says there are two plans. First, it will be used to “legitimise” Tron’s business, which has met with some controversy: it has been accused of plagiarising FileCoin and Ethereum in the development of its technology. And second, as a potential network to help mine coins, using BitTorrent’s P2P architecture and wide network of users.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/18/bittorrent-tron/

Apple Australia fined $9 million for misleading customers in ‘Error 53’ lawsuit by ACCC. The unprecedented action against the multibillion-dollar US company and its Australian arm could also have further ramifications too, after the Court found Australians were legally allowed to get third-party repairs without voiding warranties, and could request brand new replacement devices rather than refurbished models.

https://www.couriermail.com.au/technology/apple-australia-fined-9-million-for-misleading-customers-in-error-53-lawsuit-by-accc/news-story/a3595ef10a15ec35c648c07f6327c378?nk=027d928eb76dded9b65cedfe560f46eb-1529461884

THE END OF DYSLEXIA Innovations in brain research and AI-fueled assistive technologies could level the playing field for those with language-based learning disabilities. Grammarly, a free cloud-based software extension that you add onto a web browser. The plug-in is billed as a "writing assistant," but I mostly used it as a spell-checker, a task at which it proved nearly omniscient. Grammarly could help me spell even the words that regularly flummoxed MS Word and Google.

https://www.wired.com/story/end-of-dyslexia/