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Sandberg deflected blame for Capitol riot, but fliers and hashtags promoting the pro-Trump rally circulated on Facebook and Instagram weeks beforehand (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: Sandberg deflected blame for Capitol riot, but fliers and hashtags promoting the pro-Trump rally circulated on Facebook and Instagram weeks beforehand  —  Fliers and hashtags promoting the pro-Trump rally circulated on Facebook and Instagram in the days and weeks beforehand Sandberg deflected blame for Capitol riot, but fliers and hashtags

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Asus announces Chromebook Flip CX9 for enterprises, with Titan C security, and CX5 for students, both equipped with Intel 11th-gen Core i7 and Iris Xe graphics (John Callaham/Android Authority)

John Callaham / Android Authority: Asus announces Chromebook Flip CX9 for enterprises, with Titan C security, and CX5 for students, both equipped with Intel 11th-gen Core i7 and Iris Xe graphics  —  – Asus announced new Chromebook Flip models today as part of CES 2021.  — The Chromebook Flip CX5 Chromebook is targeting students …

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What to expect from Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event: Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, and S21 Ultra, with S Pen support, Galaxy Buds Pro, SmartTag, and more (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge: What to expect from Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event: Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, and S21 Ultra, with S Pen support, Galaxy Buds Pro, SmartTag, and more  —  Three new phones, new earbuds, an item tracker, and more  —  Samsung’s next Unpacked event is less than a day away, kicking off on

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Ontario-based Prodigy Education, which offers an e-learning platform and math-focused games for elementary and middle school students, raises $159M CAD Series B (Isabelle Kirkwood/BetaKit)

Isabelle Kirkwood / BetaKit: Ontario-based Prodigy Education, which offers an e-learning platform and math-focused games for elementary and middle school students, raises $159M CAD Series B  —  Oakville, Ont.-based EdTech startup Prodigy Education, which offers an e-learning platform and math-focused games for elementary … Ontario-based Prodigy Education, which offers an e-learning platform and math-focused games

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Report: VC funding in the US reached a record high of $130B in 2020, up 14% YoY, but the total number of deals fell to 6,022, down for the second year in a row (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)

Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: Report: VC funding in the US reached a record high of $130B in 2020, up 14% YoY, but the total number of deals fell to 6,022, down for the second year in a row  —  What began as a desperate year for startups, characterized by mass layoffs as the pandemic took

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Grab raises $300M led by Hanwha Asset Management for its financial services business, which spun out of Grab in 2018 and is now valued at $3B (Mercedes Ruehl/Financial Times)

Mercedes Ruehl / Financial Times: Grab raises $300M led by Hanwha Asset Management for its financial services business, which spun out of Grab in 2018 and is now valued at $3B  —  New firepower comes as group faces an increasingly competitive landscape in south-east Asia  —  Grab, the south-east Asian ride-hailing and food delivery app

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Stepping Down Voltage with Reliability

The availability of inexpensive electronics modules has opened up a world of opportunity for more complex projects to be completed quickly. Rather than designing everything from scratch, ready-made motor modules, regulators, computer vision modules, and control modules all ready to be put to work after arriving at one’s doorstep. Sometimes, though, these inexpensive electronics aren’t

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Telehealth startup NeuroFlow, which uses applied AI to treat patients with behavioral health conditions, raises $20M Series B led by Magellan Health (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Telehealth startup NeuroFlow, which uses applied AI to treat patients with behavioral health conditions, raises $20M Series B led by Magellan Health  —  NeuroFlow, a digital health company combining workflow automation, patient engagement solutions and services, and applied AI to promote behavioral health … Telehealth startup NeuroFlow, which uses applied AI

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Jack Dorsey says Trump ban was the right decision for Twitter, but reflects a "failure" to promote healthy conversation and sets a dangerous precedent (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: Jack Dorsey says Trump ban was the right decision for Twitter, but reflects a “failure” to promote healthy conversation and sets a dangerous precedent  —  Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey explained in a tweetstorm that the company faced an ‘extraordinary and untenable circumstance’ Jack Dorsey says Trump ban was the right

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Japan-based SODA, which operates sneaker reselling marketplace SNKRDUNK, raises $22M Series B led by SoftBank Ventures Asia (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: Japan-based SODA, which operates sneaker reselling marketplace SNKRDUNK, raises $22M Series B led by SoftBank Ventures Asia  —  Tokyo-based SODA, which runs sneaker reselling platform SNKRDUNK, has raised a $22 million Series B led by SoftBank Ventures Asia. Japan-based SODA, which operates sneaker reselling marketplace SNKRDUNK, raises M Series B led

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