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D-Wave announces its next-gen quantum computing platform with 5,000 qubits, up from 2,000 qubits in its current system, planned to come to market in mid-2020 (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: D-Wave announces its next-gen quantum computing platform with 5,000 qubits, up from 2,000 qubits in its current system, planned to come to market in mid-2020  —  D-Wave, the well-funded quantum computing company, today announced its next-gen quantum computing platform with 5,000 qubits, up from 2,000 in the company’s current system. D-Wave

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Samsung begins mass production of 512GB embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) 3.0 chips for smartphones, with speeds of up to 2,100 MB/s (Mariella Moon/Engadget)

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Samsung begins mass production of 512GB embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) 3.0 chips for smartphones, with speeds of up to 2,100 MB/s  —  Samsung’s future phones, including the Galaxy Fold, will have read and write speeds comparable with snappy ultra-fast laptops. Samsung begins mass production of 512GB embedded Universal Flash Storage

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Russian court hands former Russian cybersecurity chief and a Kaspersky Lab executive lengthy prison sentences after being convicted on treason charges (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Russian court hands former Russian cybersecurity chief and a Kaspersky Lab executive lengthy prison sentences after being convicted on treason charges  —  A Russian court has handed down lengthy prison terms for two men convicted on treason charges for allegedly sharing information … Russian court hands former Russian cybersecurity

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UK-based Tessian, which applies machine learning to enterprise email security to eliminate threats, raises $42M Series B led by Sequoia Capital (Andrii Degeler/Tech.eu)

Andrii Degeler / Tech.eu: UK-based Tessian, which applies machine learning to enterprise email security to eliminate threats, raises $42M Series B led by Sequoia Capital  —  The US-based VC firm Sequoia Capital has led a $42 million funding round in Tessian, a cybersecurity startup headquartered in London; Latitude … UK-based Tessian, which applies machine learning

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Nivaura, which aims to use blockchains to automate the lifecycle for the issuance of financial instruments, raises $20M led by the London Stock Exchange (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)

Ian Allison / CoinDesk: Nivaura, which aims to use blockchains to automate the lifecycle for the issuance of financial instruments, raises $20M led by the London Stock Exchange  —  Capital markets blockchain startup Nivaura has raised a total of $20 million with the closing of its second seed extension round led by the London Stock

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An in-depth analysis of social media platforms through the lens of social capital theory and why we should think of them as "Status as a Service" businesses (Eugene Wei/Remains of the Day)

Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: An in-depth analysis of social media platforms through the lens of social capital theory and why we should think of them as “Status as a Service” businesses  —  Editor’s Note 1: I have no editor.  —  Editor’s Note 2: I would like to assure new subscribers to this

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