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Chinese food delivery service Meituan Dianping beats estimates with sales of $2.4B, net loss of $221M; Meituan stock rose 9.7%, taking its market cap to $100B+ (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Chinese food delivery service Meituan Dianping beats estimates with sales of $2.4B, net loss of $221M; Meituan stock rose 9.7%, taking its market cap to $100B+  —  – CEO Wang Xing warns of persistent pressure over 2020  — Hotel and travel services hit by virus fears, travel curbs Chinese food delivery

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Boot Your Pi over USB

Historically, booting a Raspberry Pi required an SD card. However, if you follow [tynick’s] instructions, you can get a Pi 4 to boot from the USB port. Combine it with a small solid state disk drive, and you’ll get great performance, according to his post. The caveat is this depends on a beta bootloader and,

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Chicago-based game studio Level Ex is updating two titles, widely-used by medical professionals to hone their skills, to include COVID-19 content (Elise Favis/Washington Post)

Elise Favis / Washington Post: Chicago-based game studio Level Ex is updating two titles, widely-used by medical professionals to hone their skills, to include COVID-19 content  —  For the last five years, Chicago-based studio Level Ex has been making mobile games to help medical professionals hone their skills. Chicago-based game studio Level Ex is updating

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Sensor Tower data: TikTok and Chinese twin app Douyin topped the charts globally for in-app purchases in April, generating $78M, up 10x from April 2019 (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Sensor Tower data: TikTok and Chinese twin app Douyin topped the charts globally for in-app purchases in April, generating $78M, up 10x from April 2019  —  – ByteDance’s popular video-sharing platform keeps rising  — Douyin, TikTok’s China version, contributed 87% of revenue Sensor Tower data: TikTok and Chinese twin app Douyin

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