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Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, gets banned by UK regulator. Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has been banned from operating in the U.K. by the country’s markets regulator, in the latest sign of a growing crackdown on the crypto market around the world. (Ryan Browne via CNBC)
PayMaya owner Voyager Innovation raises $167M from KKR, Tencent and IFC, will launch digital bank in the Philippines. Voyager Innovations, the Manila-based owner of PayMaya, one of the Philippines' most popular payment and financial services apps, announced today it has raised $167 million in new funding to launch more financial services, including a digital bank. (Catherine Shu via TechCrunch)
The last-and only-foreign scientist in the Wuhan Lab speaks out. Danielle Anderson was working in what has become the world's most notorious laboratory just weeks before the first known cases of Covid-19 emerged in central China. Yet, the Australian virologist still wonders what she missed. (Michelle Fay Cortez via Bloomberg)
America's 'Smart City' Didn't Get Much Smarter. In 2016, Columbus, Ohio, beat out 77 other small and midsize US cities for a pot of $50 million that was meant to reshape its future. The Department of Transportation's Smart City Challenge was the first competition of its kind, conceived as a down… (Aarian Marshall via WIRED)
Americans Are Leaving Unemployment Rolls More Quickly in States Cutting Off Benefits. The number of unemployment-benefit recipients is falling at a faster rate in Missouri and 21 others states canceling enhanced and extended payments this month, suggesting that ending the aid could push more people to take jobs. (Eric Morath via Wall Street Journal)
Covering the tragedy in Surfside from near and far. Early on Thursday morning, a residential condo collapsed in Surfside, a town just north of Miami Beach, in Florida. Joey Flechas, a reporter for the Miami Herald, was quickly on the scene, since he lives ten minutes away from the building. (Columbia Journalism Review)
Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville is a vocal critic of China's government. He also owned stock in a Chinese company with Communist Party ties. Tommy Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama, has sought to ban US investments in China. Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey traded Microsoft stock a dozen times in one day. (Dave Levinthal via Business Insider)
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