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China's economic planning body has proposed new rules that would ban all local cryptocurrency mining farms; the rules are under public consultation until May 7 — Bitcoin, the world's most traded cryptocurrency, is now at around US$5,200, its highest level in four months China's plan …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter lowers the number of accounts a user can follow per day from 1,000 to 400 to cut down on spam and bot activity — Twitter just took another big step to help boot spammers off its platform: it's cutting the number of accounts Twitter users can follow, from 1,000 per day to just 400.
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Instagram class accounts are used by incoming freshmen to make friends and find roommates, similarly to how teens once used Facebook — By the time many college freshmen arrive on campus this fall, they'll have already met their roommate, their core friends, and many of their classmates on Instagram.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: 31.6-inch Apple display with mini-LED backlight will launch in Q2 or Q3 2019; new iPad and MacBook with mini-LED displays will launch by 2020 or early 2021 — TF Securities' Ming-Chi Kuo has released a report which lays out Apple's product interest in mini-LED technology.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft makes developer and “canary” builds of its Chromium-based Edge browser available today for Windows 10 64-bit, says builds for macOS “coming soon” — Microsoft today released the first Edge build based on Google's Chromium open source project, the same browser that Google's Chrome is based on.
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| EU Press Room: |
Facebook agrees to update its T&Cs in EU and clarify its use of user data to develop profiles and target advertising — Today, the European Commission and consumer protection authorities have welcomed Facebook's updated terms and services. They now clearly explain how the company uses …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Klook, an online activity booking platform for travelers, raises $225M “Series D plus” led by SoftBank's Vision Fund — We recently noted that SoftBank's Vision Fund has stepped up its deal-making in Asia this year, and today it added a new company to its roster: travel services platform Klook.
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| Joe Hindy / Android Authority: |
Snap is officially rolling out a faster version of its Snapchat Android app, which it's been rebuilding since the beginning of 2018 for better performance — Snapchat announced a big move in late 2017. It was going to fix all of the problems its Android version had in comparison to the iOS version.
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Tweets: @snapchat, @ohthatflo, @mtatsis, and @alexeheath
| Jake Evans / ABC: |
Alphabet's Project Wing gets approval in Canberra, Australia to launch a commercial drone delivery service, will initially deliver from a dozen local businesses — Google has launched a world-first commercial air delivery business in Canberra's north, delivering gelato and golfing equipment by drone directly to homes.
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| David Canellis / The Next Web: |
Bitcoin wallet Electrum hit by DoS attack with the attackers apparently directing users to download “backdoored” versions of Electrum to steal their bitcoin — The servers of popular Bitcoin wallet Electrum are under heavy attack, and users are advised to be extra careful when using the pl
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
PubNub, which develops infrastructure to power data streams for real-time apps and IoT devices, raises $23M Series D — PubNub, a startup that develops the infrastructure to power key features in real-time applications and devices covering chat, tracking, and internet of things (IoT) …
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| Zheping Huang / South China Morning Post: |
Tencent leads game streaming in China after Panda TV shuts down; China's streaming market, the world's biggest, is expected to reach $16.5B in revenues by 2022 — China is home to the world's biggest live streaming user base, with industry revenue expected to grow to US$16.5 billion by 2022 … | Becky Peterson / Business Insider: |
In an updated filing, video conferencing company Zoom sets an IPO price range of $28-$32 per share, valuing it at $8.25B on the upper end of the range — - Video conferencing company Zoom has set an IPO price range of $28 to $32 per share, giving the company a $8.25 billion valuation on the upper end of the range.
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| James Ball / MIT Technology Review: |
Some fear the sweeping nature of UK's proposal to combine work done by 8+ regulators into a new “super-regulator” with the power to block online platforms, more — Technology giants will be forced to have a “duty of care” for their users, if a proposal announced by the government on Monday becomes law.| BBC: |
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