Techmeme: FCC limits the time local authorities get to review 5G applications to 90 days, caps annual fees to $270 per small cell, unless cities can prove higher costs (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

FCC limits the time local authorities get to review 5G applications to 90 days, caps annual fees to $270 per small cell, unless cities can prove higher costs — FCC orders cities and towns to slash permit fees for 5G equipment. — The Federal Communications Commission today finalized …

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Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:

Google says it will now include creator and credit metadata in photos it displays on Google Images and will add copyright notice metadata in the coming weeks — Google hasn't always had the best of relationships with photographers, but today it announced a small measure that should go some way toward appeasing image rightsholders.

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Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:

Coinbase adds Coinbase Bundle, a new offering that lets users buy a market-weighted sampling of its 5 available cryptocurrencies, for as little as $25 — Coinbase is shaking things up quite a bit lately and its latest tools are geared toward cryptocurrency traders just getting their toes wet.

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Abner Li / 9to5Google:

Alphabet's Chronicle launches VirusTotal Enterprise, a business version of its free offering that, it says, increases malware search speed by 100x — Alphabet in January unveiled Chronicle as the latest project to graduate from the X moonshot factory. Focusing on cybersecurity …

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Butterfly, maker of ultrasound-on-a-chip device iQ that produces clinical-quality images uploaded to the cloud via iPhone, raises $250M at a $1.25B valuation — In the decades following the deployment of the first clinical ultrasound machine in 1956, the high-frequency scanners have become …

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Matthew Prince / The Cloudflare Blog:

Cloudflare launches its own domain registrar called Cloudflare Registrar, promises to never charge anything more than the wholesale price each TLD charges — “I love my domain registrar.” Has anyone ever said this? From before Cloudflare even launched in September 2010 …

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Sara Atske / Pew Research Center:

Study of US teens finds 59% say they have been bullied or harassed online, 79% say elected officials are doing only a fair or poor job of addressing the problem — 59% of U.S. teens have been bullied or harassed online, and a similar share says it's a major problem for people their age.

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David Stringer / Bloomberg:

Unnamed Australian teenager sentenced to eight months probation for breaching Apple's systems; investigators recovered 1TB of sensitive info copied from Apple — - Youth found accessing Apple networks addictive, court hears — Customers' data wasn't compromised by the attacks, Apple says

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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Didi Chuxing launches a taxi-hailing service in Osaka, Japan that links passengers with drivers from 10 local taxi companies — China's Didi Chuxing is fighting fires at home around passenger safety, but overseas the ride-hailing giant has moved into another new market after its taxi-booking service began operations in Japan.

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Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Google Maps for Android and iOS now helps you plan group events by adding places to a shortlist, sharing it via messaging services, and voting on the choices — If you've ever tried to settle on a place to eat, you know how time-consuming it can be. If you're not trying to describe each …

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