Techmeme: Chinese Wikipedia volunteers are fighting censorship, threats, arrest, and violence, and exposing the threats to Wikimedia Foundation's free-knowledge mission (Alex Pasternack/Fast Company)

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Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:

Berlin-based Vay, which wants to launch a service in Hamburg in 2022 that uses remote operators to drive rental cars to and from users, raises a $95M Series B — Vay, a company that is trying to get self-driving car services to market faster by pursuing a teledriven approach …

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Max A. Cherney / Protocol:

Inside Intel's Ronler complex in Hillsboro, Oregon, where it conducts its most advanced research and houses the company's most important chip manufacturing site — HILLSBORO, Ore. — To create a beam of ultraviolet radiation precise enough to print the world's most advanced microchips …

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Alex Pasternack / Fast Company:

Chinese Wikipedia volunteers are fighting censorship, threats, arrest, and violence, and exposing the threats to Wikimedia Foundation's free-knowledge mission — This past July, before he was banned from Wikipedia, Techyan was one of dozens of volunteers preparing to speak at the free-knowledge movement's annual conference, Wikimania.

More: Slashdot. Tweets: @frankpasquale, @pasternack, @harrymccracken, @fastcompany, and @juhasaarinen. Thanks:@technologizer

Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak:

Malaysia passes a bill to imprison illegal streaming pirates, primarily those involved in the provision or facilitation of illegal streams, for up to 20 years — Laws that forbid the illegal uploading and downloading of copyrighted content are common around the world but the rise of streaming has sometimes exposed gaps in legislation.

More: Engadget, Lowyat.NET, Malaysiakini, thesundaily.my, and Lexology. Tweets: @sub8u

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

Bangalore-based Razorpay, a top payment processor in India whose products resemble Stripe's, raises a $375M Series F at a $7.5B valuation, up from $3B in April — Razorpay has more than doubled its valuation to $7.5 billion from $3 billion in April as one of India's largest fintech giants …

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

The case for Apple to offer a 15-inch iPad home hub is made clear by devices like the Portal and Echo Show 15, as well as Apple's ~5% smart speaker market share — I've been testing Amazon.com Inc.'s new Echo Show 15. My takeaway: It's time for Apple Inc. to get serious about the smart home and launch a giant iPad as a new hub.

More: PhoneArena, AppleInsider, and 9to5Mac

Tweets: @johnwilson, @mikeorren, @dan_ness, @mattbirchler, and @markgurman

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:

Sources estimate ~20% of the world's bitcoin miners remain in China, moving operations underground and evading detection after the country's crypto mining ban — - China cracked down on its domestic crypto mining industry in May, but many miners have figured out ways to continue operations and evade detection.

More: Riding The Wave. Tweets: @epro, @cnbc, and @kenziesigalos

Scott Murdoch / Reuters:

Chinese AI company SenseTime, which focuses on computer vision, relaunches its $767M Hong Kong IPO, a week after the US investor ban and pulling the IPO listing — Chinese artificial intelligence start-up SenseTime Group (0020.HK) relaunched its $767 million Hong Kong IPO on Monday …

More: BBC, Benzinga, The Economic Times, Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, Wall Street Journal, and South China Morning Post

Kate Park / TechCrunch:

South Korea-based online grocery startup Kurly, which says it plans to IPO in H1 2022 at a ~$5.8B valuation, raises $210M at a $3.3B valuation — Just half a year after its last Series F round announcement, Korean online grocery startup Kurly has closed a $210 million in a pre-IPO round …

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