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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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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
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: 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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| 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 US individual and corporate customers on its main platform, Binance.com.
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CoinDesk, TechCrunch, Binance, Trustnodes, Coinspeaker, CryptoSlate, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoGlobe, and Cointelegraph
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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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InsideBitcoins.com, Blockonomi, CryptoGlobe, NewsBTC, and ETHNews
Tweets: @tusharjain_, @gautamchhugani, @akadosang, @gautamchhugani, @xrpcryptowolf, @arrington, and @txwestcapital
| 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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| 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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Wall Street Journal and Washington Post
Tweets: @econompic, @tmannwsj, @rationalwalk, @peard33, and @lisaabramowicz1
| 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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The Sweet Setup, Six Colors, and Daring Fireball
Tweets: @viticci, @_am1t, @chupchap, @danielpmcdermot, and @backlon
| 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 …
Tweets: @fransbouma, @piamancini, @fakebaldur, @maintainerati, @josh412, and @marypcbuk
| 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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Game Informer, Engadget, Pocket-lint, Kotaku, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, GamesIndustry.biz, PC Gamer, USgamer.net, and VG247
Tweets: @kobunheat, @loudmouthjulia, @toadsanime, @gamedadvii, @jayhooft, and @backlon
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google's Area 120 incubator launches Game Builder, a sandbox for people without programming skills to create 3D games, available free on Steam for Mac and PC — Area 120 is “Google's workshop for experimental projects,” and its latest prototype is Game Builder.
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The Keyword, Inquirer, The Verge, SlashGear, Firstpost Tech, Fossbytes, The Next Web, Pocket-lint, Android Authority, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @marciojmsilva
| 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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Crypto Briefing, CryptoGlobe, Cointelegraph, Blockonomi, Hacked, Altcoin Buzz, NewsBTC, Forbes, Coinspeaker, and CCN Markets
Tweets: @gcpcloud, @quantstamp, and @chainlinkbull
| 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, @hshaban, @techreview, @krislc, @evacide, @tomwarren, @scmpnews, and @ariahychen
| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Huawei seems to be showing lock screen ads on the P30 Pro, P20, Honor 10, P20 Pro, and others when the built-in magazine background images are used — Advertising has a time and a place, and the place is never on the lock screen of a smartphone you paid a lot of money for.
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Digital Trends, Engadget, Inquirer, Technology Personalized, XDA Developers, TechSpot, Phandroid, SlashGear, 9to5Google, Neowin, The Verge, Gearburn, and Slashdot. Tweets: @lukasstefanko
| 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 …
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Engadget, CyberScoop, The Register, and Threatpost
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Microsoft's xCloud and Google Stadia: they both work and they're both impressive, but they have different aims, so they are hard to compare — xCloud and Stadia are at vastly different stages of development, and aren't even directly competing right now| Reuters: |
Parler, a right-wing social site, had ~200K signups this week, reportedly Saudi Arabians frustrated at Twitter's policies; CEO says it doubled its total users — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A surge of about 200,000 users believed to be from Saudi Arabia who are frustrated at what they say is censorship …
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The Daily Caller. Tweets: @antifashgordon, @ahmed, @katielpaul, @littlehawk463, @hannahallam, @rvawonk, and @reuters
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