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    • A look at teen TikTok stars like "Mooptopia", who achieved sudden viral fame and found it hard to contend with the devotion and nonstop attention of fans (Kaitlyn Tiffany/The Atlantic)

    Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: A look at teen TikTok stars like “Mooptopia”, who achieved sudden viral fame and found it hard to contend with the devotion and nonstop attention of fans  —  Teens are making it big overnight, but that kind of fame can be a mixed bag.  —  A girl sits alone on

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    • YouTube taught its recommendation system how to recognize and demote conspiratorial videos, but organic link-sharing and bot promotion are thwarting its efforts (Clive Thompson/Wired)

    Clive Thompson / Wired: YouTube taught its recommendation system how to recognize and demote conspiratorial videos, but organic link-sharing and bot promotion are thwarting its efforts  —  From flat-earthers to QAnon to Covid quackery, the video giant is awash in misinformation.  Can AI keep the lunatic fringe from going viral? YouTube taught its recommendation system

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    • Starting Oct. 1, all new source code repositories on GitHub will be named "main" instead of "master" as part the company's effort to abandon non-inclusive terms (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

    Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Starting Oct. 1, all new source code repositories on GitHub will be named “main” instead of “master” as part the company’s effort to abandon non-inclusive terms  —  All new Git repositories on GitHub will be named “main” instead of “master” starting October 1, 2020. Starting Oct. 1, all new source code

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    • At Snowflake's IPO price, Sutter Hill Ventures' stake was worth $5.9B, Altimeter Capital's ~$4.4B, ICONIQ Capital's $4B+, Redpoint's $2.6B, and Sequoia's ~$2.5B (Sophia Kunthara/Crunchbase News)

    Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: At Snowflake’s IPO price, Sutter Hill Ventures’ stake was worth $5.9B, Altimeter Capital’s ~$4.4B, ICONIQ Capital’s $4B+, Redpoint’s $2.6B, and Sequoia’s ~$2.5B  —  Data warehousing company Snowflake went public on Wednesday in the largest software IPO ever, raising nearly $3.4 billion and valuing the company at $33.2 billion. At Snowflake's

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    • French startup Antaios raises $11M for developing SOT-MRAM that can potentially replace embedded non-volatile memory and SRAM cache in microprocessors and SoCs (Peter Clarke/eeNews Europe)

    Peter Clarke / eeNews Europe: French startup Antaios raises $11M for developing SOT-MRAM that can potentially replace embedded non-volatile memory and SRAM cache in microprocessors and SoCs  —  Antaios SA (Grenoble, France), a 2017 startup working on spin-orbit-torque (SOT) MRAM has secured US$11 million in funding. French startup Antaios raises M for developing SOT-MRAM that

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    • Sweden-based Joint Health raises $23M Series B for its app that connects patients with chronic hip and knee pain with physical therapists (Tammy Lovell/MobiHealthNews)

    Tammy Lovell / MobiHealthNews: Sweden-based Joint Health raises $23M Series B for its app that connects patients with chronic hip and knee pain with physical therapists  —  Funding will enable the company to expand its app for chronic joint pain to the US and further across Europe.  —  Swedish firm Joint Academy … Sweden-based Joint

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    • LA-based Boosted Commerce, which is building a portfolio of e-commerce brands, raises $87M and announces the acquisition of six Amazon fulfillment companies (PYMNTS.com)

    PYMNTS.com: LA-based Boosted Commerce, which is building a portfolio of e-commerce brands, raises $87M and announces the acquisition of six Amazon fulfillment companies  —  As it aims to develop an online shopping portfolio, Boosted Commerce said it has notched $87 million in investment and has purchased six Amazon fulfillment (FBA) firms. LA-based Boosted Commerce, which

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    • US delays TikTok ban by a week, as company says Oracle and Walmart may take 20% stake in TikTok Global's pre-IPO round, host US user data and computer systems (Jonathan Shieber/TechCrunch)

    Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: US delays TikTok ban by a week, as company says Oracle and Walmart may take 20% stake in TikTok Global’s pre-IPO round, host US user data and computer systems  —  Well… that was pointless.  —  After debasing the idea of free commerce in the U.S in the name of a misplaced

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    • Medigate, a provider of IoT and medical device security and asset management, raises $30M Series B led by Partech, bringing its total raised to $50M (Fred Pennic/HIT Consultant)

    Fred Pennic / HIT Consultant: Medigate, a provider of IoT and medical device security and asset management, raises $30M Series B led by Partech, bringing its total raised to $50M  —  What You Should Know:  — Medigate announced $30M in Series B financing to expand its medical and IoT device security solution to ensure patient

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