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June 14, 2019, 6:20 PM
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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 …
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 U.S. individual and corporate customers on its main platform, Binance.com.
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
Dave Gershgorn / OneZero:
Pew: 26% of US adults earning under $30K are “smartphone only” internet users, up from 12% in 2013; only 6% of those earning over $75k are “smartphone only”  —  Poorer Americans are increasingly reliant on smartphones as their primary way to access the internet
Amrita Khalid / Engadget:
Facebook releases AI Habitat, a platform to research embodied AI, which uses data from physical surroundings, and Replica, a dataset of sample spaces, on Github  —  Will virtual assistants be able to tell the difference between your living room and your kitchen?  Or even help you find a missing book or set of keys?
Frank Chaparro / The Block:
Sources: Libra Foundation, overseeing Facebook's upcoming cryptocurrency, may have eBay, Coinbase, Vodafone, a16z, USV, Thrive, more among the launch partners  —  Facebook has been quietly building out its cryptocurrency for over a year, and it looks like that time has been well spent …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Facebook has signed up 12+ companies, including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Uber, to back the cryptocurrency it plans to unveil next week
Nolan O'Brien / Twitter:
Twitter says its official app will return to the Mac by using its existing iOS codebase through Project Catalyst, with full feature parity with other platforms  —  What's the news?  —  Last week, Apple announced Project Catalyst for macOS 10.15 Catalina, which makes it easy for developers …
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.
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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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Kevin Delaney, co-founder of Quartz and Charter, has been tapped by NBC News to be head of digital content and subscription, a newly created role

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
E.W. Scripps begins a new round of layoffs and buyout offers ahead of its Q3 earnings report on November 6, affecting stations across the country

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Anime licensing platform AniBiz, launched in July by Crunchyroll founder Kun Gao, raised an initial $6M from TBS Group, Toei Animation, and TV Tokyo Holdings

More News

Volvo Trucks:
Volvo Trucks partners with logistics company DFDS to run Vera, its autonomous truck without a driver's cab, on a pre-determined route at a port in Sweden
Lauren Hirsch / CNBC:
Chewy, an online pet product retailer owned by PetSmart, closes up ~59% on its first day of trading after raising $1B in its IPO, and is now valued at ~$13.5B
André Staltz:
Research: of the 58 most popular open source projects on funding platform Open Collective, 80%+ receive income below industry standards or the poverty threshold
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
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

Earlier Picks

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
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”
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
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
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
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
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