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Curve, which combines all of a customer's debit and credit cards into one app and a linked "smart" card which they can use for payments, raises $95M Series C (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Ryan Browne / CNBC: Curve, which combines all of a customer’s debit and credit cards into one app and a linked “smart” card which they can use for payments, raises $95M Series C  —  – Curve combines all of a customer’s debit and credit cards into one app and a linked “smart” card they can

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Indonesia-based BukuKas raises $10M Series A led by Sequoia Capital India to digitize SMBs with an "end-to-end software stack", bringing total raised to $22M (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: Indonesia-based BukuKas raises $10M Series A led by Sequoia Capital India to digitize SMBs with an “end-to-end software stack”, bringing total raised to $22M  —  The backbone of Indonesia’s economy are small- to medium-sized businesses, which account for 60% of its gross domestic product. Indonesia-based BukuKas raises M Series A led

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CEO of London-based payments company Checkout.com says it raised $450M in funding led by Tiger Global at a $15B post-money valuation, up from $5.5B last year (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)

Katie Roof / Bloomberg: CEO of London-based payments company Checkout.com says it raised $450M in funding led by Tiger Global at a $15B post-money valuation, up from $5.5B last year  —  – London-based fintech’s funding round led by Tiger Global  — Valuation after investment nearly triple last year’s CEO of London-based payments company Checkout.com says

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Intel previews 14nm Rocket Lake Core i9-11900K, its next consumer flagship processor, coming in Q1, promising up to 50% better integrated graphics performance (Dr. Ian Cutress/AnandTech)

Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: Intel previews 14nm Rocket Lake Core i9-11900K, its next consumer flagship processor, coming in Q1, promising up to 50% better integrated graphics performance  —  Spending five generations on the same base microarchitecture is a long time.  The excitement can be sustained through optimizing a process node … Intel previews 14nm

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Lenovo announces ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga: less than half an inch thick, 2K touch display with 450 nits of brightness, 11th-gen Intel i7 vPro, starts at $1,899 (Monica Chin/The Verge)

Monica Chin / The Verge: Lenovo announces ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga: less than half an inch thick, 2K touch display with 450 nits of brightness, 11th-gen Intel i7 vPro, starts at $1,899  —  Plus a new X1 Carbon and X1 Yoga  —  Lenovo announced a bunch of additions to its ThinkPad line today, headlined by

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Growing Opals In The Lab

Opals are unique amongst gemstones, being formed from tiny silica nanospheres arranged in precise structures that give them their characteristic shifting color when seen from different angles. [The Thought Emporium] loves a challenge, so set about growing some himself. It’s not the hardest gemstone synthesis ever, but it’s no cakewalk either. The process requires tetraethyl

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Twitter says it has suspended over 70,000 accounts involved in spreading harmful QAnon-associated content since Friday (Twitter)

Twitter: Twitter says it has suspended over 70,000 accounts involved in spreading harmful QAnon-associated content since Friday  —  Following the horrific events in Washington, DC, last week, here are some of the steps we’ve taken to protect the conversation on our service from attempts to incite violence … Twitter says it has suspended over 70,000

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