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Meth-smoking football coach who blew $2.1M on Bitcoin: ‘I’m still a believer’

Disgraced football coach Mark “Bomber” Thompson has admitted to abusing crystal meth and obsessively trading cryptocurrency for 12 hours a day in the lead-up to his arrest, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Today, Thompson (53) told Melbourne Magistrates Court that cryptocurrency was something he’d “been looking for” since the end of his career, and that

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EU opens formal antitrust investigation of Broadcom for suspected exclusivity practices and seeks an interim order to prevent anti-competitive behavior (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: EU opens formal antitrust investigation of Broadcom for suspected exclusivity practices and seeks an interim order to prevent anti-competitive behavior  —  The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into US chipmaker Broadcom which it suspects of restricting competition via … EU opens formal antitrust investigation of Broadcom for suspected exclusivity

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StockX, an online marketplace for sneakers, raises $110M Series C led by DST Global, General Atlantic, and GGV Capital and names Scott Cutler CEO (Erin Griffith/New York Times)

Erin Griffith / New York Times: StockX, an online marketplace for sneakers, raises $110M Series C led by DST Global, General Atlantic, and GGV Capital and names Scott Cutler CEO  —  StockX is one of several online marketplaces that have turned resales of shoes into a big — and highly valued — business. StockX, an

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Oppo demos an under-screen selfie camera with a display using a custom transparent material, plans to launch in a commercial phone "in the near future" (Sam Byford/The Verge)

Sam Byford / The Verge: Oppo demos an under-screen selfie camera with a display using a custom transparent material, plans to launch in a commercial phone “in the near future”  —  Coming to a commercial phone ‘in the near future’  —  The past couple of years of smartphone design have been dominated … Oppo demos

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