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Trump says that at a recent dinner Tim Cook made a “very compelling argument” that Apple might lose its edge to Samsung due to tariffs on goods from China — - Many made-in-China Apple products to be hit soon with tariffs — Apple CEO made ‘good case’ about tariffs at dinner: Trump
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Disney+ to launch in Canada, the Netherlands, Australia, and New Zealand along with the US in November, will stream on all major platforms except Fire TV — Disney today confirmed its first global launches for the company's upcoming Disney+ subscription service, and it outlined which devices … | Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Spotify's Premium Family Plan is getting parental controls with an explicit content filter and a Family Mix personalized playlist for the whole family — Spotify is rolling out a new Premium Family Plan with a much-awaited setting. Parents will now have the ability to filter out songs with swearing …
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Binance says it plans to launch Venus, an “independent regional version of Libra”, which will develop “localized” stablecoins pegged to fiat currencies — The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance is planning to launch “Venus,” calling it an … | Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo are working on an AirDrop-style wireless file transfer protocol that will work between their devices with speeds of up to 20MB/s — Three of China's biggest smartphone makers are working together on a new wireless file transfer protocol that will work between their respective devices.
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Google shuts down its free service to show carriers weak spots in their coverage, sources say to avoid potential scrutiny over sharing data from its users — NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google has shut down a service it provided to wireless carriers globally that showed …
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23 Texas local governments hit in what appears to be a coordinated ransomware attack — Infection blamed on a strain of ransomware known only as the “.JSE ransomware.” — Twenty-three local Texas governments have been infected with ransomware last week in what Texas officials have described as a coordinated attack.
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[Thread] Twitter has been running ads from Chinese state news agency Xinhua that aim to discredit protesters in Hong-Kong — Every day I go out and see stuff with my own eyes, and then I go to report it on Twitter and see promoted tweets saying the opposite of what I saw. Twitter is taking money from Chinese propaganda outfits and running these promoted tweets against the top Hong Kong protest hashtags https://twitter.com/...
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How terrorist organizations, locked out of traditional financing options, have used cryptocurrency for donations in increasingly sophisticated ways — SAN FRANCISCO — Hamas, the militant Palestinian group, has been designated a terrorist organization by Western governments and some others …
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| Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk: |
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten launches crypto exchange for trading in bitcoin, ether, and bitcoin cash, via an Android app, with no fees for making trades — Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has launched its own exchange for crypto spot trading. — Announced Monday …
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Report: 650K+ tests in the US from early 2018 to early 2019 show that carrier throttling on mobile for Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon Prime Video, is pervasive — - New research finds location, time of day play no role — Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video targeted for slowdowns| Tiernan Ray / Fortune: |
Cerebras Systems unveils the world's biggest semiconductor chip with 400K cores, 1.2T transistors, and 18GB of SRAM memory, fit in the size of a silicon wafer — Tucked in the Los Altos hills near the Stanford University campus, in a low-slung bunker of offices across from a coffee shop … Sponsor Posts
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