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Hulu to start testing a new home screen to replace the "confusing" Lineup feature with two different options called "Hulu Picks" and "Unwatched in My Stuff" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Hulu to start testing a new home screen to replace the “confusing” Lineup feature with two different options called “Hulu Picks” and “Unwatched in My Stuff”  —  Hulu is preparing to update its streaming app in order to make its simpler to navigate to and discover content you want to watch.

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IKEA's battery-powered smart blinds supporting HomeKit, Alexa, Google Assistant, and IKEA's Trådfri will be broadly available in Europe Feb. 2, in the US Apr. 1 (Jesus Diaz/Fast Company)

Jesus Diaz / Fast Company: IKEA’s battery-powered smart blinds supporting HomeKit, Alexa, Google Assistant, and IKEA’s Trådfri will be broadly available in Europe Feb. 2, in the US Apr. 1  —  Ikea is finally introducing low-cost, motorized smart blinds.  Called Fyrtur, the blinds will be available … IKEA's battery-powered smart blinds supporting HomeKit, Alexa, Google

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Sources: Bitmain co-founders Wu Jihan and Zhan Ketuan to step down as co-CEOs, will be succeeded by product engineering director Wang Haichao (Zheping Huang/South China Morning Post)

Zheping Huang / South China Morning Post: Sources: Bitmain co-founders Wu Jihan and Zhan Ketuan to step down as co-CEOs, will be succeeded by product engineering director Wang Haichao  —  – Bitmain accounts for 75 per cent of the world’s specialised computers used to earn new units of digital money Sources: Bitmain co-founders Wu Jihan

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Wikimedia announces the integration of Google Translate into Wikipedia's content translation tool used by editors, which now supports 121 total languages (Manish Singh/VentureBeat)

Manish Singh / VentureBeat: Wikimedia announces the integration of Google Translate into Wikipedia’s content translation tool used by editors, which now supports 121 total languages  —  For years, Wikipedia has been working on making its eponymous encyclopedia support more languages.  But the nonprofit’s effort has been slow … Wikimedia announces the integration of Google Translate

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AWS launches Amazon DocumentDB, a new document database offering that is compatible with MongoDB version 3.6 (Tom Krazit/GeekWire)

Tom Krazit / GeekWire: AWS launches Amazon DocumentDB, a new document database offering that is compatible with MongoDB version 3.6  —  The latest managed database to emerge from Amazon Web Services is based around MongoDB, setting up a new confrontation between the cloud giant and the company behind that open-source project. AWS launches Amazon DocumentDB,

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Some VCs say they are rooting for a market dip to counterbalance an overheated startup market, with a VC at IVP predicting valuations will drop 10%-40% in 2019 (Erin Griffith/New York Times)

Erin Griffith / New York Times: Some VCs say they are rooting for a market dip to counterbalance an overheated startup market, with a VC at IVP predicting valuations will drop 10%-40% in 2019  —  Some venture capitalists are rooting for a market dip to calm Silicon Valley’s overheated start-up scene. Some VCs say they

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