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Huawei delays launch of its foldable Mate X phone from June to September, says it is doing extra tests after Samsung's troubles with the Galaxy Fold — KEY POINTS — The company had initially targeted a June launch, but a spokesperson told CNBC, that it was doing extra tests …
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| Larry Cermak / The Block: |
Binance announces that it will stop serving trading customers in the US from September; Binance gets ~15% of its traffic from US customers — Binance, the largest crypto-to-crypto exchange by volume, has announced that it will stop serving U.S. individual and corporate customers on its main platform, Binance.com.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Facebook has signed up 12+ companies, including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Uber, to back the cryptocurrency it plans to unveil next week — Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Uber are among firms that will invest around $10 million each in consortium that will govern digital coin
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Sources: Libra Foundation, overseeing Facebook's upcoming cryptocurrency, may have eBay, Coinbase, Vodafone, a16z, USV, Thrive, more among the launch partners — Facebook has been quietly building out its cryptocurrency for over a year, and it looks like that time has been well spent …
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| Dave Gershgorn / OneZero: |
Pew: 26% of US adults earning under $30K are “smartphone only” internet users, up from 12% in 2013; only 6% of those earning over $75k are “smartphone only” — Poorer Americans are increasingly reliant on smartphones as their primary way to access the internet
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Sources: T-Mobile and Sprint have approached Dish, Charter, and Altice about buying Boost Mobile and some of Sprint's spectrum to get DOJ's approval for merger — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is moving closer to approving T-Mobile's $26 billion merger with Sprint … | Amrita Khalid / Engadget: |
Facebook releases AI Habitat, an open embodied AI research platform, and Replica, a photorealistic sample spaces dataset — Will virtual assistants be able to tell the difference between your living room and your kitchen? Or even help you find a missing book or set of keys?
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon to allow devs of Alexa skills aimed at kids to offer premium content for purchase; parents can opt out of the new feature and must approve purchases — Amazon will now allow developers to offer premium content for purchase in Alexa skills aimed at children.
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google rolls out a new search bar with icons beside the text for search categories including news, video, maps, and images on desktop — After a few months of testing it now appears Google has started rolling out the new search bar with icons. Instead of just using text to show …
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| CNBC: |
Sources: Comcast and Charter agree to sell iPads and other Apple devices at a discount in iPhone deal; Comcast to pay for the cost of the discount — KEY POINTS — Comcast and Charter agreed to sell thousands of Apple devices as part of a deal to offer the iPhone to customers for its mobile service.
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| Allen Day / Google Cloud Blog: |
Google details how developers could use Chainlink to enable Ethereum smart contracts to communicate with BigQuery — Try GCP — Get $300 free credit to spend over 12 months. — Free Trial — Blockchains focus on mathematical effort to create a shared consensus.
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Tweets: @gcpcloud, @quantstamp, and @chainlinkbull
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Hands-on with redesigned Apple CarPlay in iOS 13: new dashboard with Siri Suggestions, Do Not Disturb While Driving, calendar and settings apps, and Light Mode — Apple upgraded CarPlay in iOS 12 with support for third-party navigation apps including Google Maps and Waze … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers: an infusion pump widely used in hospitals and medical facilities has critical security flaws that allow it to be remotely hijacked and controlled — A hospital infusion pump widely used in hospitals and medical facilities has critical security flaws that allow it to be remotely hijacked … | Volvo Trucks: |
Volvo Trucks partners with logistics company DFDS to run Vera, its autonomous truck without a driver's cab, on a pre-determined route at a port in Sweden — Volvo Trucks' electric, connected and autonomous vehicle Vera will form part of an integrated solution to transport goods …
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| Lauren Hirsch / CNBC: |
Chewy, an online pet product retailer owned by PetSmart, closes up ~59% on its first day of trading after raising $1B in its IPO, and is now valued at ~$13.5B — KEY POINTS — PetSmart acquired Chewy.com in 2017 for roughly $3 billion to add an online business to complement its store base, as trends shifted online.
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