Daily fantasy sports site FanDuel stops taking money in NY

By Liana B. Baker and Suzanne Barlyn NEW YORK (Reuters) – Daily fantasy sports site FanDuel said on Friday it stopped taking new deposits in New York after the state's attorney general declared the games to be illegal gambling. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sent cease and desist letters this week to daily fantasy sports market leaders FanDuel and DraftKings, demanding that they stop taking money from players in the state.

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Daily fantasy sports site FanDuel stops taking money in New York

By Liana B. Baker and Suzanne Barlyn NEW YORK (Reuters) – Daily fantasy sports site FanDuel said on Friday it stopped taking new deposits in New York after the state’s attorney general declared the games to be illegal gambling. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sent cease and desist letters this week to daily fantasy sports market leaders FanDuel and DraftKings, demanding that they stop taking money from players in the state

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Lufthansa says some frequent flyer accounts hacked

Lufthansa said hackers had managed to break into the accounts of some of its frequent flyers and use their miles to make purchases, just two weeks after British Airways suffered a similar attack. The hackers used lists to try to match usernames and passwords – when one matched, they made purchases using the miles on the frequent flyer’s account.

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China censorship sweep deletes more than 60,000 Internet accounts

Some of China's largest Internet companies deleted more than 60,000 online accounts because their names did not conform to regulations due to take effect on Sunday, the top Internet regulator said.

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School math answers only a scan away with Croatian app

By Zoran Radosavljevic ZAGREB (Reuters) – Damir Sabol, Croatian computer expert and entrepreneur, was helping his son with his maths homework when he had an idea. “I found it a bit tedious, all those additions and multiplications, so I reckoned, 'We already have intelligent software, why not make it deal with maths?'” Sabol said

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