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June 3, 2018, 6:55 AM

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Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Leaked 30-second video of macOS 10.14 shows Apple News app for Mac, a dark mode, and Xcode 10  —  Developer Steve Troughton Smith today tweeted photos of macOS 10.14 with some very juicy details about Apple's upcoming operating system.  The OS is very clearly sporting a fresh new dark theme …
Ryan Whitwam / Android Police:
The tablet section on the official Android website has been restored; Google SVP Hiroshi Lockheimer says removal was the result of a bug during a site update  —  Google has been doing an impressive job of pretending Android tablets don't exist for the last few years, and now it's done pretending.
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco:
Optimistic investors bid up Bitcoin ahead of introduction of futures, but new derivatives enabled pessimists to bet against Bitcoin, bringing the price down  —  Galina Hale, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Marianna Kudlyak, and Patrick Shultz From Bitcoin's inception in 2009 through mid-2017, its price remained under $4,000.
Yimian Wu / China Money Network:
Filing reveals Alibaba's financial affiliate Ant Financial has invested $321M in Chinese bike-sharing firm HelloBike at a $1.47B valuation  —  Alibaba's financial services unit Ant Financial has invested RMB2.06 billion (US$321 million) in bike sharing firm Hellobike, valuing the latter …
Kate Conger / Gizmodo:
Sources: Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene told employees that company will not renew its Project Maven AI contract with DoD; the current contract expires in 2019  —  Google will not seek another contract for its controversial work providing artificial intelligence to the U.S. Department of Defense …
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Telegram received its first update in two months after being locked out of App Store updates following a dispute with the Russian government and Apple  —  Telegram today received its first update in two months after an App Store update lockout caused by a dispute with the Russian government and Apple.
Manish Singh / VentureBeat:
Research: Hotstar has 69.4% of the Indian on-demand video streaming market, Amazon has 5% and Netflix has 1.4%; James Murdoch says Hotstar has 145MAUs  —  As Amazon and Netflix turn to the land of Bollywood in search of new users, they continue to face stiff competition from local giant Hotstar.

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