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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase adds Civic, district0x, Loom Network, and Decentraland to its Coinbase Pro trading platform and is considering 27 other tokens — UPDATE, 12/7/18 18:00 UTC: Four hours after announcing the list, Coinbase Pro said it was launching support for Civic, District0x, Loom Network and Decentraland's tokens.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Facebook bans “implicit sexual solicitation”, “vague suggestive statements”, and sexualized slang, a disappointing sign of how FOSTA has changed the internet — Well, well. As we've covered for a while now, FOSTA became law almost entirely because Facebook …
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Tweets: @cqwww, @pt, @uppittynegress, @lauraagustin, @jasonorne, @jberokoff, and @jo_bunnyxo
| Kara Swisher / New York Times: |
Huawei CFO's arrest at behest of US prompts fears of retaliatory arrests, amid a series of other worrisome US responses to strategic tech challenges from China — Tech executives worry China will turn to tit-for-tat arrests of Americans in response to the detention of Meng Wanzhou.
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
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Tweets: @business, @timobrien, @joannachiu, @wsj, @daveleebbc, @kateconger, @dee_bosa, @daveleebbc, @prchovanec, and @charlesarthur
| Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
Google publishes its plans for Mountain View's North Bayshore development which include 3.12M square feet of offices and up to 8,000 residential units — - Google just released its plans for a massive development in its home city of Mountain View, California.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Bird plans to raise at its current $2B valuation and Lime at $2B-3B, below their initial asks, amid tougher-than-expected business conditions — Shared electric-scooter companies Bird and Lime temper their valuation goals as they deal with vandalism and other growing pains
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Kotaku: |
As US Army launches Army Esports, a new gamer recruitment initiative, a look at its long collaboration with the gaming industry using tools like Marine Doom — In a burnt-out, four-story shopping mall on the eastern outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, one room blared with the raucous sounds of the '70s and '80s …
Tweets: @gamingthemind, @gik_and_a_half, @athertonkd, and @cecianasta
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
YouTube says over 200M people view gaming content each day globally, and 50B+ hours of gaming videos were viewed in the past year — YouTube Gaming has become a huge part of internet culture in recent years, and that was visible at The Game Awards this week — Every day, more than 200 million people view gaming content on YouTube.
Tweets: @imfun
| NEWS.com.au: |
Australian watchdog ACCC posts regulation recommendations regarding digital platforms, like Google: monitor handling of ads and news, ban default browsers, more — The hammer is coming down on Google and Facebook as Australia's top consumer watchdog warns they are becoming too powerful.
| Rachel Becker / The Verge: |
Most studies on the side effects of screen time have relied on self-reported data, an unreliable methodology that has been a major problem in nutrition research — Screen time is an all-encompassing term that could mean messaging friends, playing video games, or scrolling through Twitter.
Tweets: @shuhbillskee, @candice_odgers, and @psybrief
| Jamie Feltham / UploadVR: |
StarVR suspends its month old developer program with a $3,200 headset as it delists from Taipei exchange and its major shareholder, Starbreeze, runs out of cash — Less than a month after StarVR started accepting applications for its $3,200 developer kit program, the company has confirmed …
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| Owen Williams / Motherboard: |
By putting Edge on Chromium and planning to invest in the engine, Microsoft is showing it is committed to the web as a platform for the future of apps — The move will allow deeper integration of Chromium and Chrome on Windows, which will lead to major improvements in performance and battery life.
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MSPoweruser, TechSpot, and Android Central
Tweets: @jason_koebler, @jasonlk, @scottdavis99, @martinsfp, @getify, @ow, and @ow
| Financial Times: |
US export controls could slow China's ambitions to mass produce cutting-edge chips because the Chinese chip plants rely on US and other foreign equipment makers — Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, visited a memory chip plant in the city of Wuhan earlier this year.
Tweets: @financialtimes and @emilyzfeng
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