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Kuo: 31.6-inch Apple display with mini-LED backlight will launch in Q2 or Q3 2019; new iPad and MacBook with mini-LED displays will launch by 2020 or early 2021 (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Kuo: 31.6-inch Apple display with mini-LED backlight will launch in Q2 or Q3 2019; new iPad and MacBook with mini-LED displays will launch by 2020 or early 2021  —  TF Securities’ Ming-Chi Kuo has released a report which lays out Apple’s product interest in mini-LED technology. Kuo: 31.6-inch Apple display with

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Stack Overflow survey shows DevOps engineers are really, really content

Stack Overflow today released the results of its 2019 Developer Survey. The report highlights trends across a sample of 90,000 developers, located around the world, and focuses on a variety of subjects, including education, job satisfaction, and preferred technological stack. Some findings aren’t especially surprising. The survey shows that Python remains a popular – if

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Tencent leads game streaming in China after Panda TV shuts down; China's streaming market, the world's biggest, is expected to reach $16.5B in revenues by 2022 (Zheping Huang/South China Morning Post)

Zheping Huang / South China Morning Post: Tencent leads game streaming in China after Panda TV shuts down; China’s streaming market, the world’s biggest, is expected to reach $16.5B in revenues by 2022  —  China is home to the world’s biggest live streaming user base, with industry revenue expected to grow to US$16.5 billion by

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PubNub, which develops infrastructure to power data streams for real-time apps and IoT devices, raises $23M Series D (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: PubNub, which develops infrastructure to power data streams for real-time apps and IoT devices, raises $23M Series D  —  PubNub, a startup that develops the infrastructure to power key features in real-time applications and devices covering chat, tracking, and internet of things (IoT) … PubNub, which develops infrastructure to power data

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Mozilla rolls out new automated crypto-jacking filtering in Firefox

{$inline_image}Popular browser solution Mozilla Firefox is finally rolling out its long-awaited system for stopping internet baddies from secretly mining cryptocurrencies with your computing resources. As of today, users of Firefox‘ Nightly and Beta browsers are equipped with the option to automatically block crypto-jacking scripts (like the infamous CoinHive). In addition to illicit cryptocurrency mining, the latest

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Instagram class accounts are used by incoming freshmen to make friends and find roommates, similarly to how teens once used Facebook (Taylor Lorenz/The Atlantic)

Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: Instagram class accounts are used by incoming freshmen to make friends and find roommates, similarly to how teens once used Facebook  —  By the time many college freshmen arrive on campus this fall, they’ll have already met their roommate, their core friends, and many of their classmates on Instagram. Instagram

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Klook, an online activity booking platform for travelers, raises $225M "Series D plus" led by SoftBank's Vision Fund (Jon Russell/TechCrunch)

Jon Russell / TechCrunch: Klook, an online activity booking platform for travelers, raises $225M “Series D plus” led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund  —  We recently noted that SoftBank’s Vision Fund has stepped up its deal-making in Asia this year, and today it added a new company to its roster: travel services platform Klook. Klook, an

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