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Your WIRED daily briefing. Today, SpaceX is attempting to recover a Falcon 9 booster following a planned splashdown, Samsung is to start making cryptocurrency mining processors, Fujifilm has bought Xerox and more. Get WIRED Awake sent straight to your inbox every weekday morning by 8am. Click here to sign up to the WIRED Awake newsletter . 1. A SpaceX Falcon 9 splash-landed into the Atlantic and survived Following its successful launch of Luxembourg's GovSat-1 , a reused SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster has survived a planned splashdown into the Atlantic Ocean ( The Verge ). SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted: "This rocket was meant to test very high retrothrust landing in water so it didn’t hurt the droneship, but amazingly it has survived. We will try to tow it back to shore." 2. Samsung dominates chip market, announces cryptocurrency mining processors Samsung's latest financial statment has revealed that the company is now the world's biggest...

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Your WIRED daily briefing. Today, Facebook has banned cryptocurrency ads due to widespread scams, the UK's mass surveillance laws just suffered another hefty blow, Google took 70,000 malicious apps off the Play store in 2017 and more. Get WIRED Awake sent straight to your inbox every weekday morning by 8am. Click here to sign up to the WIRED Awake newsletter . 1. Facebook bans cryptocurrency adverts Facebook has banned advertisements relating to binary options, initial coin offerings and cryptocurrency because they are "frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices" ( TechCrunch ). In an explanatory blog post , Facebook Product Management Director Rob Leathern said that the sudden increase in mainstream awareness of cryptocurrencies had led to a surge in deceptive advertising. He wrote: "This policy is intentionally broad while we work to better detect deceptive and misleading advertising practices, and enforcement wi...

Your WIRED daily briefing. Today, internal government documents indicate that leaving the EU will severely inhibit British industry and economic growth, a new handheld genome sequencer is 99.5 per cent accurate, China denies bugging African Union IT systems and more. Get WIRED Awake sent straight to your inbox every weekday morning by 8am. Click here to sign up to the WIRED Awake newsletter . 1. Any Brexit scenario will reduce UK growth - leaked government analysis BuzzFeed News has obtained a leaked government Brexit impact assessment indicating that likely EU exit scenarios will have a negative impact on the UK's economic growth over the next 15 years. Almost all industries will be affected, with the chemical, manufacturing and financial sectors at particular risk. Even reducing regulations and protections in areas including the environment, product standards and employment law would not be enough to mitigate the economic loss from leaving the EU. The best ...

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