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Sami Fathi / MacRumors:

YouTube says it is rolling out picture-in-picture support for YouTube Premium users on iOS and plans to launch the feature for all iOS users in the US — After a long wait, YouTube for iOS is officially gaining picture-in-picture support, allowing all users, non-premium and premium subscribers …

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California launches a digital vaccine verification system built using the open-source SMART Health Card Framework, with QR codes to show COVID-19 vaccine status — Vaccinated Californians now have a new way to show they are inoculated against the coronavirus without carrying around a flimsy paper card.

More: Engadget, San Francisco Chronicle, SFGATE, Los Angeles Times, KNSD-TV, ABC7, Los Angeles Times, Yahoo News, SlashGear, San Francisco Business Journal, dot.LA, and Reuters

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Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:

The Platform Competition and Opportunity Act, which ends Big Tech acquisitions, could backfire in several ways, like discouraging startups' productive behavior — Congress wants to stop most Big Tech acquisitions. But that won't neccesarily increase competition. — 5 hr ago

More: BIG by Matt Stoller, New York Times, Financial Times, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Politico, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Axios, and TechCrunch

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Dade Hayes / Deadline:

Roku says from May 20 to June 3, more Roku viewers streamed a Roku Original than Quibi users who streamed Quibi shows during the nine months of Quibi's lifetime — Roku has revealed viewership data for its original programming, much of which was powered by the acquisition of Quibi's library last January.

More: Roku, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, The Streamable, Vanity Fair, MobileSyrup, MarketWatch, Cord Cutters News, New York Post, and GameSpot

Tweets: @richlightshed, @caseynewton, @davezatz, @epro, and @backlon

Brandon Kochkodin / Bloomberg:

PitchBook: $17B have been invested in crypto startups this year, including $10B of digital assets from Block.one to capitalize crypto exchange Bullish Global — - VC funds already eclipsed annual amount for crypto investments — $10 billion Bullish Global raise largest in industry history

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Margaret Harding McGill / Axios:

WH unveils new US broadband map that uses data from FCC, Ookla, Microsoft, and more, showing a greater gap in internet access, as it pushes for more spending — The Biden administration Thursday unveiled a new mapping tool that shows much greater gaps in use of high-speed internet service across …

More: CNET, Input, The Daily Dot, FierceTelecom, Gizmodo, govtech.com, and Maps Mania

Tweets: @bharatramamurti, @superwuster, and @esri

Hugh Son / CNBC:

Goldman Sachs has begun trading bitcoin futures in partnership with Mike Novogratz's merchant bank Galaxy Digital — - The bank has begun trading bitcoin futures with Galaxy Digital, the crypto investment firm founded by Mike Novogratz, CNBC has learned exclusively.

More: The Record, The Block, Blockworks, NewsBTC, Decrypt, Bitcoin News, CoinDesk, PYMNTS.com, Cointelegraph, Bitcoin Magazine, and BitcoinExchangeGuide

Tweets: @novogratz and @hugh_son

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:

Sources: EU antitrust regulators plan to open a formal investigation into Google's digital advertising business before the end of the year — EU antitrust regulators are set to open another front against Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google by launching a formal investigation …

More: Android Central, PYMNTS.com, The Economic Times, and New York Post

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