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Asus unveils 14- and 15-inch ZenBook Duo dual-screen laptops with a second display built into the keyboard; the 14-inch version ships this month from $1,000 (Monica Chin/The Verge)

Monica Chin / The Verge: Asus unveils 14- and 15-inch ZenBook Duo dual-screen laptops with a second display built into the keyboard; the 14-inch version ships this month from $1,000  —  Preorders start tomorrow  —  Asus has announced two new dual-screen ZenBook Duo laptops as part of its slate of CES 2021 announcements. Asus unveils

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Surveillance group exposes disturbing Huawei patent for AI-powered Uighur detection

A Huawei patent that mentions AI-powered identification of Uighur people and other ethnic groups has been discovered. The patent was exposed by video surveillance research group IPVM, the same organization that had previously spotted references to an AI “Uighur alarm” on Huawei‘s website, as well as evidence that Alibaba had offered “Uighur-detection-as-a-service.” IPVM also recently found 12 government

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Internal report: DoD halts deployment on classified networks of its $2B+ cybersecurity system for detecting intrusions and stopping attacks, citing poor results (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)

Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: Internal report: DoD halts deployment on classified networks of its $2B+ cybersecurity system for detecting intrusions and stopping attacks, citing poor results  —  – Deployment to classified systems halted, test office reveals  — It couldn’t stop a ‘realistic attack,’ testing chief reports Internal report: DoD halts deployment on classified networks of

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E-commerce optimization startup Tradeswell raises $15.5M Series A led by SignalFire (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: E-commerce optimization startup Tradeswell raises $15.5M Series A led by SignalFire  —  After launching in October, Tradeswell is announcing today that it has raised $15.5 million in Series A funding.  —  Co-founder and CEO Paul Palmieri previously led digital ad company Millennial Media … E-commerce optimization startup Tradeswell raises .5M Series

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Affirm begins trading at $90.90, up over 80% after pricing shares at $49; the company raised $1.2B after pricing shares above its $41-$44 range (Jessica Bursztynsky/CNBC)

Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: Affirm begins trading at $90.90, up over 80% after pricing shares at $49; the company raised $1.2B after pricing shares above its $41-$44 range  —  – Shares of Affirm, an online payments company, began trading on the Nasdaq.  — Affirm priced its shares at $49 apiece … Affirm begins trading at

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Israeli startup Vdoo, which helps detect and fix vulnerabilities in IoT devices, extends its Series B by $25M to $57M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Israeli startup Vdoo, which helps detect and fix vulnerabilities in IoT devices, extends its Series B by $25M to $57M  —  It’s estimated that there were some 50 billion connected devices globally in 2020, and while that really says a lot about how far we’ve come in tech … Israeli startup

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Airbnb says it is canceling and blocking reservations made for the week of Biden's inauguration in the Washington, DC metro area (Jessica Bursztynsky/CNBC)

Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: Airbnb says it is canceling and blocking reservations made for the week of Biden’s inauguration in the Washington, DC metro area  —  – Airbnb is canceling and blocking future reservations in the Washington, D.C., metro area during the week of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, the company said Wednesday. Airbnb says it

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