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July 23, 2018, 8:20 AM

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Erin Heffernan / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Uber, Lyft suspend driver who secretly live-streamed hundreds of rides on Twitch, after initially keeping him on and saying he did not violate Missouri law  —  EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published Friday night.  It was updated 9:30 p.m. Saturday with a statement from Uber saying …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Snapchat to discontinue Snapcash, its peer-to-peer payment feature, on August 30; the feature was created in partnership with Square in 2014  —  Snapcash ended up a way to pay adult performers for private content over Snapchat, not just a way to pay your friends.
Shara Tibken / CNET:
Qualcomm unveils first mmWave 5G and sub-6GHz antenna modules for 5G smartphones and mobile hotspots in 2019  —  Qualcomm has solved a major problem for a certain variation of 5G: getting the chips small enough to fit in handheld devices.  —  The company on Monday unveiled …
Eric Feng:
Overview of the iPhone-fueled “golden age” of tech startups from 2009-2012, how FAANG firms succeeded in its aftermath, and why B2C startups still have a chance  —  Ten years ago this month on July 10, 2008, Apple first unveiled the App Store and kicked off one of the greatest periods …
Richard Chirgwin / The Register:
Intel fixes longstanding Intel Management Engine flaws that let hackers on same subnet run arbitrary code; first 3 generations of Core chips won't get patches  —  Check your computer makers for patches  —  In case you missed it, Chipzilla has gone public with more security updates for the Intel Management Engine.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Facebook could recognize Holocaust denialism as hate speech and ban it on those grounds, but trying to censor every falsehood should be noted as a bad idea  —  To follow Mark Zuckerberg's utterances is to constantly cringe.  —  Last week was no different.
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
UK media firm Future plc, owner of 100+ brands including TechRadar and PC Gamer, to buy Purch, owner of AnandTech, Laptop Mag, and Tom's Hardware, for $132.5M  —  This week U.K. specialist publisher Future announced the purchase of technology platform and publisher Purch for $132.5 million …
Greg Sandoval / Business Insider:
Google Cloud to prevent its automated fraud-detection systems from suspending accounts with “established payment history” after a customer complaint went viral  —  - Google's cloud platform drew a lot of criticism after one of its customers, an admin of an account …
Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk:
Baidu announces Totem Point token for users of its new Totem stock photo sharing service, which uses the company's blockchain for validating ownership of photos  —  Chinese internet search giant Baidu has launched a proprietary token to incentivize users of its new blockchain-based photo validating and sharing service.

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