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Kevin McCoy / USA Today: 10 mins ago

How counterfeit Apple products, such as adapters and chargers, take circuitous shipment routes via multiple companies to reach the US consumer market

Tim Culpan / Bloomberg: 35 mins ago

IPO prospectus of Meituan-Dianping, which owns Mobike, said that the Chinese bike-sharing service had 48.1M active bike users, 7.1M active bikes as of April 30

Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: 50 mins ago

UK-based Cleo, an AI chatbot that gives users insights into spending across multiple accounts and credit cards, raises $10M Series A led by Balderton Capital

Ina Fried / Axios: 65 mins ago

In internal email, Google CEO Pichai denied any effort to politically bias Google's search results, reinforced the company's need to remain politically neutral

Josh Taylor / BuzzFeed: 80 mins ago

Australian Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton accused of rushing legislation through parliament that tech companies say would weaken encryption

Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: 4½ hours ago

A look at how tech products aimed at civic engagement made by technologists from Silicon Valley have mostly failed to have any long term impact

Sources: Google made staff delete memo that said Dragonfly required logins to search, tracked location, and gave Chinese partner unilateral access to data

Megan Farokhmanesh / The Verge:

Telltale Games, which makes games based on franchises such as Jurassic Park and Batman, lays off most of its staff, keeps 25 to begin “majority studio closure”

Ina Fried / Axios:

In internal email, Google CEO Pichai denied any effort to politically bias Google's search results, reinforced the company's need to remain politically neutral

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:

Twitter says it fixed a bug that sent some users' direct messages from their interactions with business accounts to third-party developers, since May 2017

iFixit:

Teardown reveals iPhone XS has a notched L-shaped battery, iPhone XS Max has an extended logic board with an Apple-designed power management chip

Jonathan Huang / Google Developers Blog:

Google announces new experimental Daydream VR features for developers: support for all Android apps, new 6DoF controllers, and a see-through mode

Jon Reid / bna.com:

NYT sues FCC for records that NYT alleges may reveal Russian government interference in FCC's comment period before rollback of Obama-era net neutrality rules

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

PayPal says it has banned all Infowars-related sites for promoting hate or discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions

Colin Harper / Bitcoin Magazine:

Ethereum-based decentralized exchange Bancor to launch BancorX, an extension of its protocol to EOS blockchain that will allow cross-blockchain conversions

Alex Barinka / Bloomberg:

Luxury clothing marketplace Farfetch closes up 42% on its first day of trading, after raising $885M in its IPO; Farfetch is now valued at $8.2B

Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:

IPO prospectus of Meituan-Dianping, which owns Mobike, said that the Chinese bike-sharing service had 48.1M active bike users, 7.1M active bikes as of April 30

Josh Taylor / BuzzFeed:

Australian Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton accused of rushing legislation through parliament that tech companies say would weaken encryption

Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg:

A look at how tech products aimed at civic engagement made by technologists from Silicon Valley have mostly failed to have any long term impact

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