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Austin-based legal tech services startup Disco raises $60M in equity and $40M in debt, bringing its total raised to $235M, at a valuation of $785M (FinSMEs)

FinSMEs: Austin-based legal tech services startup Disco raises $60M in equity and $40M in debt, bringing its total raised to $235M, at a valuation of $785M  —  Disc o, an Austin, TX-based legaltech company, received $40M debt financing from Comerica.  —  This deal brought Disco to complete … Austin-based legal tech services startup Disco raises

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Behind the success of Tencent's Honour of Kings, a League of Legends-like mobile title launched in 2015, which became the first game in history to hit 100M DAUs (Josh Ye/South China Morning Post)

Josh Ye / South China Morning Post: Behind the success of Tencent’s Honour of Kings, a League of Legends-like mobile title launched in 2015, which became the first game in history to hit 100M DAUs  —  Honour of Kings was created after Chinese gaming giant Tencent failed to convince League of Legends’ creators to develop

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Samsung announces its Galaxy Unpacked event will be held on January 14, where it's expected to unveil the Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, and S21 Ultra (The Verge)

The Verge: Samsung announces its Galaxy Unpacked event will be held on January 14, where it’s expected to unveil the Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, and S21 Ultra  —  Ring in 2021 with Samsung’s latest smartphones  —  Samsung will officially be announcing its latest lineup of Galaxy flagship phones … Samsung announces its Galaxy Unpacked event

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Hackaday Links: January 3, 2021

Last week we featured a story on the new rules regarding drone identification going into effect in the US. If you missed the article, the short story is that almost all unmanned aircraft will soon need to transmit their position, altitude, speed, and serial number, as well as the position of its operator, likely via

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How AI weeds the spam out of our inboxes

Of more than 300 billion emails sent every day, at least half are spam. Email providers have the huge task of filtering out spam and making sure their users receive the messages that matter. Spam detection is messy. The line between spam and non-spam messages is fuzzy, and the criteria change over time. From various efforts to automate spam detection, machine

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