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| Zheping Huang / South China Morning Post: |
China's economic planning body has proposed new rules that would ban all local cryptocurrency mining farms; the rules are under public consultation until May 7 — Bitcoin, the world's most traded cryptocurrency, is now at around US$5,200, its highest level in four months China's plan …
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Tweets: @matigreenspan, @lisaabramowicz1, @el33th4xor, @coindesk, @pingroma, and @nouriel
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Google announces Cloud Run, bringing serverless and containerized app development together, and Cloud Run for GKE, running on Google's version of Kubernetes — Two of the biggest trends in applications development in recent years have been the rise of serverless and containerization.
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The Register, CNET, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, ZDNet, GeekWire, and Google Cloud Blog
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: 31.6-inch Apple display with mini-LED backlight will launch in Q2 or Q3 2019; new iPad and MacBook with mini-LED displays will launch by 2020 or early 2021 — TF Securities' Ming-Chi Kuo has released a report which lays out Apple's product interest in mini-LED technology.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
G Suite now lets Dropbox users work with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides directly inside the file sharing service, following a similar Box integration — More than a year after announcing a series of cross-platform integrations, Google and Dropbox have finally given a first glimpse …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Slack now has deeper integration with Office apps and files including full previews of Office files like PowerPoint slides and new Outlook and OneDrive apps — Available to Slack users today — Slack is integrating Microsoft's Office 365 services today.
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TechCrunch, Slack, The Next Web, GeekWire, PCWorld, Engadget, VentureBeat, WinBuzzer, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @tomwarren. Thanks:@samueljevans
| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Instagram class accounts are used by incoming freshmen to make friends and find roommates, similarly to how teens once used Facebook — By the time many college freshmen arrive on campus this fall, they'll have already met their roommate, their core friends, and many of their classmates on Instagram.
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| Jake Evans / ABC: |
Alphabet's Project Wing gets approval in Canberra, Australia to launch a commercial drone delivery service, will initially deliver from a dozen local businesses — Google has launched a world-first commercial air delivery business in Canberra's north, delivering gelato and golfing equipment by drone directly to homes.
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| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
Opera for desktop now includes a cryptocurrency wallet, after its Android app got one in December; wallet keys and transactions are synced between PC and mobile — Opera has updated its eponymous web browser for the desktop with a crypto-makeover and a number of additional features.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Facebook is using AI to map population density around the world and is releasing new maps covering the majority of Africa — The work has humanitarian applications, but it could also benefit Facebook's commercial interests — Facebook has always been a company with global ambition …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter lowers the number of accounts a user can follow per day from 1,000 to 400 to cut down on spam and bot activity — Twitter just took another big step to help boot spammers off its platform: it's cutting the number of accounts Twitter users can follow, from 1,000 per day to just 400.
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Tweets: @twittersafety, @yoyoel, @yoyoel, @yoyoel, @calbucci, @yoyoel, and @fredericl
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Roku rolls out an update that makes it less of a neutral platform, as it now more prominently features and automatically plays back The Roku Channel's content — In the past, Roku seemed to be more of neutral platform compared with streaming media player rivals like Amazon Fire TV or Apple TV.| James Ball / MIT Technology Review: |
Some fear the sweeping nature of UK's proposal to combine work done by 8+ regulators into a new “super-regulator” with the power to block online platforms — Technology giants will be forced to have a “duty of care” for their users, if a proposal announced by the government on Monday becomes law.
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| David Canellis / The Next Web: |
Bitcoin wallet Electrum hit by DoS attack with the attackers apparently directing users to download “backdoored” versions of Electrum to steal their bitcoin — The servers of popular Bitcoin wallet Electrum are under heavy attack, and users are advised to be extra careful when using the pl
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CoinGeek, SiliconANGLE, CryptoSlate, NullTX, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @electrumwallet and @hardfork
| EU Press Room: |
Facebook agrees to update its T&Cs in EU and clarify its use of user data to develop profiles and target advertising — Today, the European Commission and consumer protection authorities have welcomed Facebook's updated terms and services. They now clearly explain how the company uses …
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Engadget, CNET, TechCrunch, BetaNews, 9to5Mac, and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @eu_consumer and @eu_commission
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Klook, an online activity booking platform for travelers, raises $225M “Series D plus” led by SoftBank's Vision Fund — We recently noted that SoftBank's Vision Fund has stepped up its deal-making in Asia this year, and today it added a new company to its roster: travel services platform Klook.
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FinSMEs, China Money Network, and PE Hub Blog
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Yahoo reaches a revised settlement with US and Israeli victims of its 2013 to 2016 data breach, paying out $117.5M in total to as many as 194M people — (Reuters) - Yahoo has reached a revised $117.5 million settlement with millions of people whose email addresses and other personal information …
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Engadget and Dark Reading
| Joe Hindy / Android Authority: |
Snap is officially rolling out a faster version of its Snapchat Android app, which it's been rebuilding since the beginning of 2018 for better performance — Snapchat announced a big move in late 2017. It was going to fix all of the problems its Android version had in comparison to the iOS version.
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Android Police, 9to5Google, Gizchina, Thurrott, Firstpost Tech, Digital Trends, Social Media Today, The Verge, InvestorPlace, Engadget, Memeburn, XDA Developers, TechnoBuffalo, Neowin, and Business Insider
Tweets: @snapchat, @ohthatflo, @mtatsis, and @alexeheath
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft makes developer and “canary” builds of its Chromium-based Edge browser available today for Windows 10 64-bit, says builds for macOS “coming soon” — Microsoft today released the first Edge build based on Google's Chromium open source project, the same browser that Google's Chrome is based on.
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| Zheping Huang / South China Morning Post: |
Tencent leads game streaming in China after Panda TV shuts down; China's streaming market, the world's biggest, is expected to reach $16.5B in revenue by 2022 — China is home to the world's biggest live streaming user base, with industry revenue expected to grow to US$16.5 billion by 2022 … Sponsor Posts
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