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A profile of Hipcamp, a platform for campsite booking where listings include off-grid plots, RV hookups, ski huts, farmhouses, tepees, tree houses, and cabins (Anna Wiener/New Yorker)

Anna Wiener / New Yorker: A profile of Hipcamp, a platform for campsite booking where listings include off-grid plots, RV hookups, ski huts, farmhouses, tepees, tree houses, and cabins  —  Can a startup save the wilderness by disrupting it?  —  In Northern California, booking a public campsite is a blood sport. A profile of Hipcamp,

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India, which is increasingly trying to shelter local companies, has erected regulatory hurdles over the past year for how US tech firms operate in the country (Newley Purnell/Wall Street Journal)

Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: India, which is increasingly trying to shelter local companies, has erected regulatory hurdles over the past year for how US tech firms operate in the country  —  New barriers make world’s biggest untapped digital market a slog for Walmart, Facebook; taking cues from China’s protectionism India, which is increasingly

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Amazon launches a battery-powered portable Echo speaker in India with an enclosed 4,800mAh battery, claims up to 10 hours of continuous music playback (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Amazon launches a battery-powered portable Echo speaker in India with an enclosed 4,800mAh battery, claims up to 10 hours of continuous music playback  —  After launching nearly a dozen Echo speaker models in India in two years, Amazon said on Wednesday it is adding a new variant to the mix …

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Drugs hidden in child’s toy lead police to massive $1M cryptocurrency stash

Australian police have reportedly seized a record amount of cryptocurrency after intercepting a drug delivery from the UK. The dodgy drug delivery eventually led police to search a property in Marangaroo, Perth and seize AUD$1,524,102 ($1,022,827) worth of cryptocurrency. Detective Senior Sergeant Paul Matthews, the officer in charge of the drug and firearm squad, said

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