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Baidu announces it has formed a strategic partnership with Chinese automaker Geely to create a standalone electric vehicle company (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Baidu announces it has formed a strategic partnership with Chinese automaker Geely to create a standalone electric vehicle company  —  – Chinese internet giant Baidu has formed a strategic partnership with automaker Geely to create a standalone electric vehicle company. Baidu announces it has formed a strategic partnership with Chinese automaker

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Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt, which helps people control their data, has raised ~$20M to date and is piloting projects with UK's National Health Service and others (Steve Lohr/New York Times)

Steve Lohr / New York Times: Tim Berners-Lee’s Inrupt, which helps people control their data, has raised ~$20M to date and is piloting projects with UK’s National Health Service and others  —  Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in control of their personal data.  He has technology and a start-up pursuing that goal. Tim Berners-Lee's

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After Parler's ban, a social app called Parlor, which connects users following similar topics, got at least as high as #2 in the Play Store and iOS App Store (Rachel Kraus/Mashable)

Rachel Kraus / Mashable: After Parler’s ban, a social app called Parlor, which connects users following similar topics, got at least as high as #2 in the Play Store and iOS App Store  —  Online spaces in which one can freely talk of overthrowing the government in the name of Q and white supremacy are

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China's most popular workout app Keep raises $360M Series F led by SoftBank's Vision Fund with Tencent among investors, as sources value it at ~$2B post funding (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: China’s most popular workout app Keep raises $360M Series F led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund with Tencent among investors, as sources value it at ~$2B post funding  —  – The workout app owner gets $360 million in new funding round  — Tencent, Hillhouse are also among investors in latest round China's most popular workout

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Sources: Stripe will no longer process payments for Trump's campaign website and fundraising efforts, after violations of policies against encouraging violence (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Stripe will no longer process payments for Trump’s campaign website and fundraising efforts, after violations of policies against encouraging violence  —  Financial-technology company’s move follows last week’s riot at the Capitol  —  Stripe Inc. will no longer process payments … Sources: Stripe will no longer process payments for Trump's campaign website

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Parler CEO says the company has been dropped by "every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers", which could end the business (Bruce Haring/Deadline)

Bruce Haring / Deadline: Parler CEO says the company has been dropped by “every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers”, which could end the business  —  Parler CEO Mark Matze said today that his company have been dropped by virtually all of their business alliances after Amazon … Parler CEO

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Lenovo unveils ThinkReality A3 Smart Glasses that can show up to 5 virtual 1080p displays, come with 8 MP camera and 2 fish-eye cameras for room-scale tracking (Mariella Moon/Engadget)

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Lenovo unveils ThinkReality A3 Smart Glasses that can show up to 5 virtual 1080p displays, come with 8 MP camera and 2 fish-eye cameras for room-scale tracking  —  Lenovo has launched a new ThinkReality device for CES 2021, and the company says it’s “one of the most advanced and versatile” smart

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