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In an update to a previous report, Ming-Chi Kuo now says that all three new iPhones coming in 2020 will support 5G — The three iPhones expected to launch in 2020 will feature support for 5G, according to a new note to investors shared today by Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo and obtained by MacRumors.
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Berlin-based Fundament gets regulator's approval for $280M tokenized real-estate-backed bond offering on ethereum blockchain, which is open to retail investors — Fundament, a blockchain startup coming out of stealth mode, has received the green light to issue the first tokenized real-estate backed bond …
Tweets: @thedannyles, @ethereumnetw, @tokengineering, @coinmetro_kevin, and @sassal0x
| Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal: |
Inside the complex negotiations over the deal that is about to transform Dish into the fourth national wireless carrier in the US — Charlie Ergen, the poker-playing billionaire who co-founded Dish Network, has been hoarding airwaves for years. Now the U.S. government is handing him the cards he needs to make his play.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Europol says that free tools provided as part of its three-year-old “No More Ransom” project prevented ransomware gangs from making at least $108M in profits — No More Ransom project is celebrating its three-year birthday today. — On the three-year anniversary of the No More Ransom project …
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| Jeff Stone / CyberScoop: |
Since last year, UK and Netherlands police have been pushing young first-time accused cybercriminals into ethical computer training, instead of threatening jail — European authorities are testing out the idea that not every cybercrime investigation has to end with a hacker in handcuffs.| Bradley Brownell / Jalopnik: |
BMW makes Apple CarPlay an $80/year subscription service for new car owners — From the 2019 model year onward any new BMW sold will require the owner to pay an $80 annual fee in order to connect their Apple iTelephone device to their premium luxury automobile.
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Engadget, Cult of Mac, The Drive, Ubergizmo, Fudzilla.com, Network World, Trusted Reviews, iClarified, MobileSyrup, BMW BLOG, SlashGear, EFTM, LeftLaneNews, Yahoo News, Paul Tan's Automotive News, and Tom's Guide
Tweets: @dsilverman, @andrewjwatkins, @areitu, and @gerryconway
| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
How Famous Birthdays, which has 20M unique monthly users, became Gen Z's Wikipedia for new internet stars and a talent resource for the entertainment industry — If you want to know who the biggest TikTok star is right now, who is in Emma Chamberlain's squad, or where Baby Ariel grew up …
Tweets: @glenngabe, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, and @theatlantic
| Alan Beattie / Financial Times: |
How China is trying to increase its influence in global tech standards organizations like ITU, IEEE, and 3GPP, and how the US and EU are pushing back — The first wave of Donald Trump's trade war on China, punitive tariffs on $250bn of its exports, rivals the brutal protectionism of the Depression.
Tweets: @yuanfenyang and @evawxiao
| Jane Zhang / South China Morning Post: |
Source: TikTok owner ByteDance has acquired UK-based AI startup Jukedeck, whose software can autonomously compose music, for an undisclosed amount — Deal raises potential for TikTok to make AI-powered music composition widely accessible around the world The initiative raises the potential …
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Music Ally, TechCrunch, The Verge, hypebot, KrASIA, Firstpost Tech, The Daily Dot, The Next Web, equalocean.com, TechNode, and Deadline
| Jonathan Vanian / Fortune: |
Q&A with Satya Nadella on fostering Sony's success with Azure, the role of Xcloud in Microsoft's strategy to expand games beyond the living room, and more — Satya Nadella has never considered himself a “gamer,” but Civilization did manage to capture the attention of the Microsoft CEO for a stretch when he was younger.| Kara Swisher / Vox: |
Q&A with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on quarantining /r/The_Donald, a decision he says was intended to give the community a chance to change — /r/The_Donald was punished for hosting “violent content,” and Huffman isn't convinced the community's moderators are taking that problem seriously enough.
Tweets: @voxdotcom
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Benchling, which provides software for managing biotech research, raises $34.5M Series C led by Menlo Ventures — In a field where the laboratory notebook is still considered the state of the art, it's no wonder a company like Benchling, which provides software for managing life sciences research was able to nab $34.5 million.Sponsor Posts
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Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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Introducing Zoho connected apps for Google Gemini — Note: Now available to organizations in the Indian data center. Support for other Zoho data centers will be available soon.AI assistants have gotten remarkably …
Introducing Zoho connected apps for Google Gemini — Note: Now available to organizations in the Indian data center. Support for other Zoho data centers will be available soon.AI assistants have gotten remarkably …
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