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    • As China's economic growth slows and US trade tensions hit new investment, companies like Baidu and Tencent are freezing headcounts and restructuring operations (South China Morning Post)

    South China Morning Post: As China’s economic growth slows and US trade tensions hit new investment, companies like Baidu and Tencent are freezing headcounts and restructuring operations  —  Tech sector demand for new hires down 25 per cent in first quarter from a year earlier, while jobs seekers up 37 per cent … As China's

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    • Companies like Alibaba are helping Shanghai deal with a new compulsory recycling program with services like on-demand trash pickup and garbage sorting mini-apps (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)

    Rita Liao / TechCrunch: Companies like Alibaba are helping Shanghai deal with a new compulsory recycling program with services like on-demand trash pickup and garbage sorting mini-apps  —  China’s war on garbage is as digitally savvy as the country itself.  Think QR codes attached to trash bags that allow … Companies like Alibaba are helping

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    • FBI and ICE have access to 641M photos including driver's license photos from 21 states for facial recognition searches, internal docs and GAO report show (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

    Drew Harwell / Washington Post: FBI and ICE have access to 641M photos including driver’s license photos from 21 states for facial recognition searches, internal docs and GAO report show  —  A cache of records shared with The Washington Post reveals that agents are scanning hundreds of millions of Americans’ faces without their knowledge or

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    • TradeLens, Maersk and IBM's blockchain-based platform, now has five of the world's top six carriers, responsible for 50%+ of all container shipping, on board (Emma Cosgrove/Supply Chain Dive)

    Emma Cosgrove / Supply Chain Dive: TradeLens, Maersk and IBM’s blockchain-based platform, now has five of the world’s top six carriers, responsible for 50%+ of all container shipping, on board  —  Dive Brief:  — Hapag-Lloyd and Ocean Network Express (ONE) — the world’s fifth and sixth largest ocean carriers, respectively … TradeLens, Maersk and IBM's

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    Hackaday Links: July 7, 2019

    Like modular synths? Sure you do, and you need another hole to throw money into! For the last few months, Supplyframe has been hosting synthesizer and electronic music meetups in San Francisco. This week, the HDDG/Piqued meetup will have a great talk with the creator of VCV Rack. VCV Rack is an Open Source, virtual,

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    • UK's Financial Conduct Authority proposes a ban on the sale of cryptocurrency derivatives like futures, options, and ETFs to consumers from next year (Financial Times)

    Financial Times: UK’s Financial Conduct Authority proposes a ban on the sale of cryptocurrency derivatives like futures, options, and ETFs to consumers from next year  —  UK market regulators are planning to ban derivatives on cryptocurrencies for retail investors, warning it is “impossible” to value them reliably … UK's Financial Conduct Authority proposes a ban

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    • Uber Eats couriers in Mexico, delivering orders by bikes, describe dangerous work conditions and impossibility of obtaining promised insurance after accidents (Martha Pskowski/The Verge)

    Martha Pskowski / The Verge: Uber Eats couriers in Mexico, delivering orders by bikes, describe dangerous work conditions and impossibility of obtaining promised insurance after accidents  —  In the past six months, five Uber Eats couriers in Mexico have died in crashes, and dozens more have been injured. Uber Eats couriers in Mexico, delivering orders

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