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Australia's best cheap headphones, discounts and deals in July 2019

Tundra, a new zero-commission wholesale marketplace, announces $12M Series A; Tundra generates revenue via premium checkout options like faster shipping (Jordan Crook/TechCrunch)

Japan will restrict the export of some materials used in smartphones and chips to South Korea

Facebook civil rights audit says white supremacy policy is ‘too narrow’

How journalists, researchers, and civil rights groups are using big data, which put gerrymandering on steroids, to easily and cheaply track redistricting (Louise Matsakis/Wired)

Japan will tighten restrictions on export of materials used in smartphone displays and chips to South Korea from July 4, over a dispute about war-time labor (Makiko Yamazaki/Reuters)

CoinMarketCap acquihires the team of Hashtag Capital, which started as a crypto trading fund, to improve the easily faked volume-weighted crypto price estimates (Daniel Palmer/CoinDesk)

Bleckwen, a cybersecurity company developing AI-based fraud detection and prevention systems for banks and others, emerges from stealth, raises $10M Series A (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Nielsen Music Mid-Year Report: on-demand audio streams in the US grew 31.6% YoY to 507.7B in the first half of 2019 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

TaTaTu, after raising $575M from royals and celebs in a private 2018 ICO for its blockchain-based Netflix-like service, now says it is not a blockchain business (Leigh Cuen/CoinDesk)

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Profile of Foxconn's new chairman Liu Young-way, who joined the firm as a special assistant to Gou in 2007 and was named head of semiconductor business in 2017 (Celia Chen/South China Morning Post)

Cozycozy is an accommodation search service that works with hotels and Airbnb

Week-in-Review: Auditing a dark age in Apple design