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Coinbase adds Civic, district0x, Loom Network, and Decentraland to its Coinbase Pro trading platform and is considering 27 other tokens — UPDATE, 12/7/18 18:00 UTC: Four hours after announcing the list, Coinbase Pro said it was launching support for Civic, District0x, Loom Network and Decentraland's tokens.
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| Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
Google publishes its plans for Mountain View's North Bayshore development which includes 3.12M square feet of offices and up to 8000 residential units — - Google just released its plans for a massive development in its home city of Mountain View, California.
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| Kara Swisher / New York Times: |
Huawei CFO's arrest at behest of US prompts fears of retaliatory arrests as Trump administration's response to strategic tech challenges from China disappoints — Tech executives worry China will turn to tit-for-tat arrests of Americans in response to the detention of Meng Wanzhou.| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Facebook bans sexual solicitation including vague suggestive statements, sexualized slang, and using sexual hints such as mentioning sexual preference — Well, well. As we've covered for a while now, FOSTA became law almost entirely because Facebook did an about-face on its position on the law …
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Kotaku: |
As US Army launches Army Esports, a new gamer recruitment initiative, a look at its long collaboration with the gaming industry using tools like Marine Doom — In a burnt-out, four-story shopping mall on the eastern outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, one room blared with the raucous sounds of the '70s and '80s …
Tweets: @gamingthemind, @gik_and_a_half, @athertonkd, and @cecianasta
| Rachel Becker / The Verge: |
Most studies on the side effects of screen time have relied on self-reported data, an unreliable methodology that has been a major problem in nutrition research — Screen time is an all-encompassing term that could mean messaging friends, playing video games, or scrolling through Twitter.
Tweets: @shuhbillskee, @candice_odgers, and @psybrief
| Jamie Feltham / UploadVR: |
StarVR suspends its month old developer program with a $3,200 headset as it delists from Taipei exchange and its major shareholder, Starbreeze, runs out of cash — Less than a month after StarVR started accepting applications for its $3,200 developer kit program, the company has confirmed …
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| Owen Williams / Motherboard: |
By putting Edge on Chromium and planning to invest in the engine, Microsoft is showing it is committed to the web as a platform for the future of apps — The move will allow deeper integration of Chromium and Chrome on Windows, which will lead to major improvements in performance and battery life.
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| Ali Tamaseb: |
An analysis of 195 startups with valuations over $1B, using 65 factors like founder background, industry sector, competition, and funding — I Spent 300 Hours Gathering Data On Billion-Dollar Startups and Here's 100 Charts You Shouldn't Miss — About 15 months ago, I embarked on a journey … | BuzzFeed News: |
Sources: FBI is now investigating fake net neutrality comments on the FCC website and has delivered subpoenas to at least two organizations — People's names and addresses were listed on the FCC's website beside net neutrality comments they didn't make. Now the FBI is interested.| Financial Times: |
US export controls could slow China's ambitions to mass produce cutting-edge chips because the Chinese chip plants rely on US and other foreign equipment makers — Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, visited a memory chip plant in the city of Wuhan earlier this year.
Tweets: @financialtimes and @emilyzfeng
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Uber has confidentially filed for an IPO; filing indicates it could go public as soon as the first quarter of 2019 — The filing indicates a public listing could come in early 2019, pitting the ride-hailing service against rival Lyft — Uber Technologies Inc. filed paperwork confidentially …
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