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Klint Finley / Wired: Data shows GraphQL, a Facebook-developed open source data query language, has seen a sharp rise in adoption among JavaScript developers over

Daniel Oberhaus / Motherboard: How Jolla’s Sailfish has survived as an independent mobile OS by targeting government and enterprise sectors in Russia and China which

Julie Verhage / Bloomberg: Robinhood deletes tweets about launching checking and savings accounts, scrubs the page from its website, and now calls the offering a

Aisha Hassan / Quartz: Profile of MindGeek, which owns 9 of the top 15 porn sites worldwide, has 125M visits per day, and whose bandwidth

Timothy McLaughlin / Wired: How WhatsApp fuels fake news and violence in India, where a police officer says people can live without oxygen, “but without

Bruce Brown / Digital Trends: Amazon’s Echo Wall Clock, which connects to nearby Echo devices over Bluetooth to track and display timers via LEDs around

Peter Cao / 9to5Mac: The Cydia Store, an app store for jailbroken iOS devices, is shutting down; its creator says it was losing money and

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Propel raises $12.8M Series A from a16z, Kleiner Perkins, Omidyar, others for its Fresh EBT app to check food stamp/SNAP balances

Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: Report: Cloudflare has foreign terrorist organizations as customers, possibly violating US laws; Cloudflare says it works with US to meet legal

Wall Street Journal: LA-based Brud, which sources say raised $6M+, aims to turn CGI-based characters into social media celebrities, like Miquela, who has 1.5M Instagram