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Yotta Savings raises $13.2M Series A for its savings account app that instead of interest offers depositors a chance to win prizes ranging from 10 cents to $10M (Igor Bosilkovski/Forbes)

Igor Bosilkovski / Forbes: Yotta Savings raises $13.2M Series A for its savings account app that instead of interest offers depositors a chance to win prizes ranging from 10 cents to $10M  —  Savings account app Yotta Savings, cofounded by two Under 30 honorees, announced today that it has raised a $13.2M Series A …

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In August, internal research at Facebook showed that ~70% of the platform's most active civic Groups were considered too toxic to recommend to users (Jeff Horwitz/Wall Street Journal)

Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal: In August, internal research at Facebook showed that ~70% of the platform’s most active civic Groups were considered too toxic to recommend to users  —  The giant struggled to balance Mark Zuckerberg’s free-expression mantra against findings that rabid partisanship had overrun a feature central to its future In August,

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A look at the criticism in DC directed at CSET, a State Dept. bureau focused on cybersecurity and emerging technologies formed in the last days of Trump's admin (Maggie Miller/The Hill)

Maggie Miller / The Hill: A look at the criticism in DC directed at CSET, a State Dept. bureau focused on cybersecurity and emerging technologies formed in the last days of Trump’s admin  —  A newly established State Department bureau focused on cybersecurity and emerging technologies could give the Biden administration … A look at

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SetSail raises $26M Series A for its service that recommends when to pay salespeople, by monitoring the progress of sales across CRM, email, and other systems (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: SetSail raises $26M Series A for its service that recommends when to pay salespeople, by monitoring the progress of sales across CRM, email, and other systems  —  SetSail wants to upend the way sales people get compensated by paying them throughout the sales cycle, rather than a single commission after the

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League of Legends teams in the US recruited 40+ superstar players from Asia since 2016, with an average salary of $460K for a player in a team's starting five (Kellen Browning/New York Times)

Kellen Browning / New York Times: League of Legends teams in the US recruited 40+ superstar players from Asia since 2016, with an average salary of $460K for a player in a team’s starting five  —  League of Legends teams in the U.S. lag behind their competitors in Asia, so they recruit the world’s best

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Riverlane, which spun out of Cambridge University, raises $20M Series A led by Draper Esprit to build Deltaflow, its operating system for quantum computers (Silicon Canals)

Silicon Canals: Riverlane, which spun out of Cambridge University, raises $20M Series A led by Draper Esprit to build Deltaflow, its operating system for quantum computers  —  According to IBM, “Quantum computers can boost the development of new breakthroughs in science, medications to save lives … Riverlane, which spun out of Cambridge University, raises M

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A now-fixed 10-year-old bug in Sudo used in several versions of Linux allowed any local user to gain root access (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: A now-fixed 10-year-old bug in Sudo used in several versions of Linux allowed any local user to gain root access  —  A now-fixed Sudo vulnerability allowed any local user to gain root privileges on Unix-like operating systems without requiring authentication. A now-fixed 10-year-old bug in Sudo used in several versions of

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More than 2,000 police and fire departments in the US have now partnered with Amazon's Ring, with 1,189 new departments added over the past year (Dave Lee/Financial Times)

Dave Lee / Financial Times: More than 2,000 police and fire departments in the US have now partnered with Amazon’s Ring, with 1,189 new departments added over the past year  —  Controversial surveillance network has doubled in size in the country in the past year  —  More than 2,000 police and fire departments in the

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OpenCV And Depth Camera Spots Weeds

Using vision technology to identify weeds in agriculture is an area of active development, and a team of researchers recently shared their method of using a combination of machine vision plus depth information to identify and map weeds with the help of OpenCV, the open-source computer vision library. Agriculture is how people get fed, and

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Analysis of the first Oversight Board rulings, which in the long term may influence Facebook moderation rules more than the upcoming decision on Trump ban (Evelyn Douek/Lawfare)

Evelyn Douek / Lawfare: Analysis of the first Oversight Board rulings, which in the long term may influence Facebook moderation rules more than the upcoming decision on Trump ban  —  After seemingly endless announcements heralding the arrival of the Facebook Oversight Board (FOB) over the past 18 months, the board has … Analysis of the

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