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European regulator want banks to hold personal details of cryptocurrency clients, while US wants swift work to establish less volatile ‘stablecoins’ Bitcoin has slipped below $30,000 as calls grew among regulators in the US, Europe and Asia for tighter checks on cryptocurrencies, and the less volatile digi-currency known as “stablecoins”. Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency …

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Host repeated false claim coronavirus vaccine ‘transmitting to unvaccinated people’ Follow our Covid live blog Restrictions: NSW; Vic; Qld; WA, NT and SA Hotspots: NSW map; Vic list; Qld; WA Vaccine rollout tracker; get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Airbnb has suspended a host in Victoria who refused to provide accomodation …

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Jeff Bezos has completed his pioneering foray into space. The Amazon founder and three crewmates touching down in the Texas desert early on Tuesday after a sub-orbital flight lasting 11 minutes. Bezos, 57, one of the world’s richest people with an estimated net worth of $206bn (£151bn), has attracted criticism for investing his fortune into space tourism …

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Billionaire launches from West Texas with his brother, an 18-year-old and an 82-year-old female aviation pioneer Bezos blasted for traveling to space as Amazon workers toil Jeff Bezos has taken off on his space travel company’s first flight with people on board. Related: How the billionaire space race could be one giant leap for pollution …

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Valve’s newly announced handheld console promises to put the latest PC games in your pocket. But do they belong there? It looks like Valve has done it again. The company that surprised everyone by pivoting from game developer to digital shopkeeper with the launch of Steam, then leapt into virtual reality with the HTC Vive …

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President says he hopes platform won’t take his earlier remark ‘personally’ and instead act to save lives Joe Biden has tempered his assessment that social media platforms are “killing people” by hosting misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccines, saying Monday that he hoped they would not take it “personally” and instead would act to save lives. …

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I can’t persuade the ride-hailing company something is wrong even though its bill is absurd Last week I booked an Uber from our favourite pub to my home in north London – a trip of 1.75 miles I have taken several hundred times. I was riding with two friends whom I regularly drop off on …

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Venomous snakebites cause tens of thousands of deaths each year. But homegrown apps are coming to the rescue – and protecting reptiles from reprisals When 12-year-old Anay Sujith felt a sharp sting in his leg while asleep in his hut in a village in Kerala, “I started yelling and woke up my parents,” he recalls. …

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Future fund scheme will see the Treasury co-invest with private enterprise in bid to make UK a ‘science superpower’ Fast-growing firms working on “gamechanging” technology, including in areas such as life sciences and clean energy, are being invited to apply for a slice of a £375m fund aimed at fostering innovation in the UK. The …

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US says Microsoft Exchange hack shows ‘aggressive behavior’ by China UK and allies accuse Chinese state-backed group of Microsoft hack Explainer: what is the Microsoft hack? 3.30pm BST This week marks six months that Democrats have held the majority in the Senate, and it kicks off with a lot of legislating on the joint pieces …

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