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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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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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| 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: |
Binance says it is setting up a US trading platform in partnership with FinCEN-registered BAM Trading Services, but offers no timeline for its launch — Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, is launching a U.S. division. — The Malta-based company said Thursday …
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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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| 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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KnowTechie, Android Police, Search Engine Roundtable, and 9to5Google
| 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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| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Initial impressions of iPadOS: new multitasking features are powerful but will take time to get used to, and Safari's desktop-class browsing is impressive — When I published my Beyond the Tablet story a few weeks ago, I was optimistic we'd get a handful of iPad-related features and optimizations at WWDC.
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| 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?| 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 … | 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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| Lauren Hirsch / CNBC: |
Chewy, an online pet product retailer owned by PetSmart, opens up ~64% on its first day of trading after raising $1B in its IPO, and is now valued at ~$14.3B — 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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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
At E3, console makers and game publishers, including Ubisoft, Microsoft, and Google, touted subscription services as they race to become the “Netflix for games” — The race to become “Netflix for Games” is on — With the first details coming out around the next Xbox and PlayStation …
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Tweets: @kobunheat, @toadsanime, @gamedadvii, @jayhooft, @backlon, and @loudmouthjulia
| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Sources: in Karan Bhatia's first year as Google's policy lead, he's encouraged relationship building with governments, cut some contract lobbyists, and more — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google is trying to plug a surge of public scrutiny around the world by overhauling …
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Tweets: @econompic, @tmannwsj, @rationalwalk, @peard33, and @lisaabramowicz1
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Telegram says it faced a massive DDoS attack originating from China coinciding with protests in Hong Kong, where organizers used the app to evade surveillance — The popular encrypted messaging service Telegram is once again being hit with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) …
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Tweets: @durov, @telegram, @techreview, @krislc, @hshaban, @evacide, @tomwarren, @scmpnews, and @ariahychen
| André Staltz: |
Research: of the 58 most popular open source projects on funding platform Open Collective, 80%+ receive income below industry standards or the poverty threshold — Most people believe that open source sustainability is a difficult problem to solve. As an open source developer myself …
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