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May 27, 2019, 9:40 AM

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Russell Brandom / The Verge:

Trump's claims that Huawei was banned because it is a security threat and that the ban may be lifted as part of a trade deal, are incompatible and make no sense — Over the past week, the US government has taken extreme and unprecedented steps against Huawei, cutting it off from every US partner …

More: Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, and The Startup

Tweets: @artemr, @greengart, and @reckless

David Richards / Channel News:

Report: court documents, government and industry sources detail decades of Huawei's alleged IP theft, from the science behind 5G to phone accessory designs — As Australians move to flog their Huawei smartphones due to security concerns and the fact that Google has pulled the plug …

Source: Wall Street Journal. More: Forbes, The Verge, and Forbes

Tweets: @kate_okeeffe, @wedfglobal, @kate_okeeffe, @erikholmwsj, @dnvolz, @kenweinstein, @birdyword, @kimzetter, @esaagar, @jkylebass, @alexrblackwell, @dnvolz, @stevekopack, @mattrosoff, @dnvolz, and @kate_okeeffe

Cecilia Kang / New York Times:

Small, rural carriers, dependent on Huawei's inexpensive equipment, are having to rethink expansion plans or replace existing gear due to the ban on the company

Tweets: @nytimestech, @nytimes, @bobfrankston, @greta, @sangernyt, @ceciliakang, and @nadabakos

James Vincent / The Verge:

China supplies around 80% of world's rare earths, crucial elements for electronics, but this monopoly is not an effective tool to retaliate over the Huawei ban

More: Ars Technica. Tweets: @verge, @drpippam, and @greenminerals

Ian Cutress / AnandTech:

AMD announces five Ryzen 3000 Series CPUs, including the Ryzen 9 3900X, a new mainstream desktop 4.6 GHz chip with 12 cores, coming July 7 for $499 — Today at Computex, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su is announcing the raft of processors it will be launching on its new Zen 2 chiplet-based microarchitecture.

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Ryan Smith / AnandTech:

AMD says the first GPU cards with the new Navi architecture, the Radeon RX 5700 series, are coming in July, touts 50% better power efficiency over Vega

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Daniel Cooper / Engadget:

Nvidia brings pro-level Quadro RTX 5000 series to laptops, announces 17 “RTX Studio” laptops from seven partners including ASUS, Dell, HP, Razer, and Gigabyte — NVIDIA has succeeded in shrinking its beefy Quadro RTX 5000 graphics hardware in order to bring it to laptops.

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Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:

Nvidia announces Nvidia EGX, its first AI platform for edge devices that can perceive, understand, and act on data in real-time without sending it to the cloud — Nvidia Corp. is bringing artificial intelligence to the edge of the network with the launch early Monday of its new Nvidia EGX platform …

More: VentureBeat and ZDNet

Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk:

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao is taking Sequoia Capital China back to court for allegedly harming his reputation after its case against him was dismissed — Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao is taking a unit of Sequoia Capital back to court after the VC investor's case against him was dismissed.

More: NewsBTC, Messari Crypto, Cointelegraph, Asia, The Block, Coinspeaker, CryptoGlobe, and Decrypt

Tweets: @cz_binance, @ellazhang516, and @mdudas

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

ARM announces the Cortex-A77 CPU and Mali-G77 GPU touting performance improvements, and a more energy efficient and powerful machine learning processor — Arm, the company that designs the basic chip architecture for most of the world's smartphones, today announced the launch of its next suite of designs for premium phones.

More: XDA Developers, The Verge, AnandTech, The Register, ZDNet, VentureBeat, PCWorld, AnandTech, and Engadget

Christopher Dring / World Health Organization:

World Health Organisation makes “gaming disorder” a recognized illness; classification to come into effect January 1, 2022 — Classification to come into effect January 1, 2022 — The 194 members of the World Health Organisation have recognised ‘gaming disorder’ as an illness at the 72nd World Health Assembly today.

Andrew Griffin / The Independent:

A look at Apple's secret testing lab where Secure Enclave chips are subjected to extreme tests and Q&A with Craig Federighi about Apple's commitment to privacy — UK exclusive: In a never-before-seen look at the company's privacy and security work, it takes on criticism …

More: 9to5Mac and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @reneritchie

Már Másson Maack / The Next Web:

Estonia's Ambassador at Large for Cybersecurity talks about “cyber diplomacy” and the need to establish “arms control” for cyberwarfare among Western nations — I'm an avid consumer of any TV series or podcast that's even remotely political.

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

India-based FreshToHome, which operates a fish, meat, and vegetable e-commerce platform, raises $11M Series A led by CE Ventures — Shan Kadavil, who spent early days of his career managing tech support firm Support and then heading India operations of gaming firm Zynga, says he had a calling of sorts when his son was born.

More: The Economic Times, YourStory.com, and Inc42 Media

Sam Byford / The Verge:

ASUS announces the ZenBook Pro Duo with two 4K screens, a 15-inch 16:9 OLED display and a 32:9 IPS “ScreenPad Plus” screen directly above the keyboard — One of the most decadent laptops ever created — Asus always likes to use its hometown trade show of Computex …

More: Engadget, Gizmodo, CNET, and Windows Central. Tweets: @cherlynnlow

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Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:

A look at the first “case” brought before Objection, which aims to use AI to evaluate news stories, and a Q&A with Objection's founder; the site is now dark

Daniel Arkin / NBC News:

Gene Shalit, a longtime film critic for NBC's Today who was with the show from 1970 until his retirement in 2010, dies at 100

Aidan Ryan / The Boston Globe:

A look at an AI-reliant news site for 19 towns south of Boston, which uses public meeting transcripts and LLMs to produce stories and has 350 paid subscribers

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Circle:

SEC's framework for digital assets, introduced this April, has created increasing uncertainty in crypto community and is driving innovative projects out of US

Tweets: @fredwilson, @poloniex, @skupor, and @mayazi

Adam Haworth / Charged:

Dating apps' design, which frequently uses gamification, manipulative copy, and growth hacks, can drive engagement at the expense of a healthy dating culture

More: Wired. Tweets: @rakeshlobster, @jasonsalas, and @aahaworth

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Kotaku:

The US esports industry seems to be in a bubble, with viewership stats that sources say are rosy-eyed at best, and inflated, unverified, or misleading at worst

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Crystal Tai / South China Morning Post:

Profile of Singapore-based ecommerce company Qoo10, which raised a total of $230M, sold its Japan site to eBay for $537M in 2018, and is expanding in SE Asia

Julia Alexander / The Verge:

YouTubers are seeing an increase in aggressive copyright claims from record labels, creating frustration among creators, who believe their work is fair use

Tweets: @georgepoulos_, @dinomfx, and @loudmouthjulia

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:

SEC filing: the CEO and co-founder of King is stepping down on July 1, three years after Activision Blizzard acquired the Candy Crush developer for $5.9B

More: CNET

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Intel Newsroom:

Intel Computex preview: its first volume 10nm Ice Lake mobile CPU, Core i9-9900KS special edition CPU running at 5 GHz on all 8 cores, and more

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Tweets: @devindra, @iancutress, @iancutress, @iancutress, @intelnews, @intel, and @iancutress

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

The imaginary “race” to 5G has been foisted on us by telecom giants which want something new to sell at high prices, instead of competing to improve service

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Paris Martineau / Wired:

Airbnb to give NYC data on 17K+ listings, plus data on every listing between Jan. 1, 2018 and Feb. 18, 2019 that could have potentially violated NY rental laws

More: Engadget. Tweets: @wired, @parismartineau, and @parismartineau

Li Jin / Andreessen Horowitz:

The state of the podcasting industry in 2019, including key trends and monetization strategies of audio apps in China

Tweets: @scottmaustin, @patricialclark, @kartvee, @mwmoretti, @ljin18, and @cheriehu42

Agnieszka Barteczko / Reuters:

Poland's government files a complaint with EU's top court against EU's new copyright law, which it says is “analogous to preventive censorship”

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