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June 14, 2019, 8:20 AM
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Sources: Facebook has signed up 12+ companies, including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Uber, to back the cryptocurrency it plans to unveil next week — Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Uber are among firms that will invest around $10 million each in consortium that will govern digital coin
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Huawei delays launch of its foldable Mate X phone from June to September, says it is doing extra tests after Samsung's troubles with the Galaxy Fold — KEY POINTS — The company had initially targeted a June launch, but a spokesperson told CNBC, that it was doing extra tests … | CNBC: |
Sources: Comcast and Charter agree to sell iPads and other Apple devices at a discount in iPhone deal; Comcast to pay for the cost of the discount — KEY POINTS — Comcast and Charter agreed to sell thousands of Apple devices as part of a deal to offer the iPhone to customers for its mobile service.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Binance says it is setting up a US trading platform in partnership with FinCEN-registered BAM Trading Services, but offers no timeline for its launch — Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, is launching a U.S. division. — The Malta-based company said Thursday …
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Tweets: @tusharjain_, @gautamchhugani, @akadosang, @txwestcapital, @gautamchhugani, @xrpcryptowolf, and @arrington
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google's Area 120 incubator launches Game Builder, a sandbox for people without programming skills to create 3D games, available free on Steam for Mac and PC — Area 120 is “Google's workshop for experimental projects,” and its latest prototype is Game Builder.
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The Keyword, The Verge, The Next Web, SlashGear, Firstpost Tech, Fossbytes, Pocket-lint, Android Authority, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gearburn, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @marciojmsilva
| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Sources: in Karan Bhatia's first year as Google's policy lead, he's encouraged relationship building with governments, cut some contract lobbyists, and more — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google is trying to plug a surge of public scrutiny around the world by overhauling …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
At E3, console makers and game publishers, including Ubisoft, Microsoft, and Google, touted subscription services as they race to become the “Netflix for games” — The race to become “Netflix for Games” is on — With the first details coming out around the next Xbox and PlayStation …
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| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Huawei seems to be showing lock screen ads on the P30 Pro, P20, Honor 10, P20 Pro, and others when the built-in magazine background images are used — Advertising has a time and a place, and the place is never on the lock screen of a smartphone you paid a lot of money for.
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Digital Trends, Inquirer, Engadget, XDA Developers, TechSpot, Phandroid, SlashGear, 9to5Google, Neowin, The Verge, Gearburn, and Slashdot. Tweets: @lukasstefanko
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Telegram says it faced a massive DDoS attack originating from China coinciding with protests in Hong Kong, where organizers used the app to evade surveillance — The popular encrypted messaging service Telegram is once again being hit with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Microsoft's xCloud and Google Stadia: they both work and they're both impressive, but they have different aims, so they are hard to compare — xCloud and Stadia are at vastly different stages of development, and aren't even directly competing right now| Reuters: |
Parler, a right-wing social site, had ~200K signups this week, reportedly Saudi Arabians frustrated at Twitter's policies; CEO says it doubled its total users — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A surge of about 200,000 users believed to be from Saudi Arabia who are frustrated at what they say is censorship …
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The Daily Caller. Tweets: @antifashgordon, @ahmed, @katielpaul, @littlehawk463, @hannahallam, @rvawonk, and @reuters
| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google rolls out a new search bar with icons beside the text for search categories including news, video, maps, and images on desktop — After a few months of testing, Google is finally rolling out the new Google search bar interface. — After a few months of testing it now appears Google …
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Android Police and 9to5Google
| Allen Day / Google Cloud Blog: |
Google details how developers could use Chainlink to enable Ethereum smart contracts to communicate with BigQuery — Try GCP — Get $300 free credit to spend over 12 months. — Free Trial — Blockchains focus on mathematical effort to create a shared consensus.
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Cointelegraph, NewsBTC, Blockonomi, Altcoin Buzz, Hacked, Forbes, Coinspeaker, and CCN Markets
Tweets: @gcpcloud, @quantstamp, and @chainlinkbull
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Yubico says it will replace some security keys used by US government and others due to a bug that reduces the randomness of cryptographic keys generated — Yubico staff discovers bug in YubiKey FIPS Series keys; offers replacements for affected customers. — Yubico said today it plans …
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Engadget, The Register, SecurityWeek, Security Affairs, The Mac Observer, and FedScoop. Thanks:@campuscodi
| Larry Cermak / The Block: |
Binance announces that it will stop serving trading customers in the US from September; Binance gets ~15% of its traffic from US customers — Binance, the largest crypto-to-crypto exchange by volume, has announced that it will stop serving US individual and corporate customers on its main platform, Binance.com.
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TechCrunch, CoinDesk, Binance, CryptoSlate, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoGlobe, Coinspeaker, and Cointelegraph. Thanks:@mdudas
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
UK-based digital bank Monzo launches in the US, says it doesn't have its own US banking license and won't be lending US customers money — Monzo's mobile-only bank has helped revolutionize British spending — British mobile-only bank Monzo is making its way across the pond to the US today.
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Monzo, The Verge, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, The Block, Digital Trends, PYMNTS.com, CNET, Quartz, Engadget, Yahoo Finance, CNBC, Forbes, and Telegraph
| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Initial impressions of iPadOS: new multitasking features are powerful but will take time to get used to, and Safari's desktop-class browsing is impressive — When I published my Beyond the Tablet story a few weeks ago, I was optimistic we'd get a handful of iPad-related features and optimizations at WWDC.
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The Sweet Setup, Six Colors, Daring Fireball, and On my Om
Tweets: @viticci, @chupchap, @danielpmcdermot, and @backlon
| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Sources: GE Ventures has been shopping itself for several months, looking for a buyer for its portfolio of more than 100 startups — KEY POINTS — GE Ventures is looking for a buyer for its portfolio of more than 100 start-ups, according to people familiar with the matter …
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Crunchbase News and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @chrissyfarr, @lorakolodny, @dylan20, @danielpearson, and @megancgraham
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
VMware says it is buying Avi Networks, a startup that helps companies with application delivery in the cloud, which has raised $115M, per Crunchbase — VMware has been trying to reinvent itself from a company that helps you build and manage virtual machines in your data center to one that helps …
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SiliconANGLE, VMware, Inc., ZDNet, and CRN
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