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Twitter says it fixed a bug that caused some users to lose access to its "Latest" chronological feed option on its web application (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Twitter says it fixed a bug that caused some users to lose...

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:Twitter says it fixed a bug that caused some users to lose...

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Source: enterprise AI company DataRobot has raised ~$250M in new funding led by Altimeter Capital Management and Tiger Global at a ~$6B pre-money valuation (Dan Primack/Axios)

Source: enterprise AI company DataRobot has raised ~$250M...

Dan Primack / Axios:Source: enterprise AI company DataRobot has raised ~$250M in...

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Forum Brands, which provides market intelligence for e-commerce acquisitions, raises $27M Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Forum Brands, which provides market intelligence for e-commerce...

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:Forum Brands, which provides market intelligence for...

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Senator Warren asks the FTC for a "broad and meticulous review" of Amazon's MGM acquisition, citing Amazon's anticompetitive history and growing monopoly power (Catie Keck/The Verge)

Senator Warren asks the FTC for a "broad and meticulous...

Catie Keck / The Verge:Senator Warren asks the FTC for a “broad and meticulous review”...

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GAO report finds 20 out of 42 federal agencies surveyed use facial recognition tech and sheds light on how deeply the tech is integrated into federal agencies (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)

GAO report finds 20 out of 42 federal agencies surveyed...

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:GAO report finds 20 out of 42 federal agencies...

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Quizizz, which helps teachers create gamified quizzes and interactive lessons that generate instant student feedback, raises $31.5M Series B led by Tiger Global (Tarush Bhalla/Livemint)

Quizizz, which helps teachers create gamified quizzes and...

Tarush Bhalla / Livemint:Quizizz, which helps teachers create gamified quizzes and...

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TCGplayer, an online marketplace for trading card games, raises $35M from Vista Credit Partners to expand into collectibles such as sports cards and comic books (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

TCGplayer, an online marketplace for trading card games,...

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:TCGplayer, an online marketplace for trading card games,...

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Sources: amid escalating rivalry, neither Google nor Microsoft are keen to renew a recently expired truce to not use their lobbying firepower against each other (Bloomberg)

Sources: amid escalating rivalry, neither Google nor Microsoft...

Bloomberg:Sources: amid escalating rivalry, neither Google nor Microsoft are keen...

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Outbrain files for an IPO aiming to raise over $100M, says it had $767M in revenue last year, $4.4M in net income, and funnels ads to 7,000+ websites like CNN (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times)

Outbrain files for an IPO aiming to raise over $100M, says...

Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:Outbrain files for an IPO aiming to raise over $100M,...

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Why are cases surging in countries that used Chinese vaccines?

Why are cases surging in countries that used Chinese vaccines?

Among more than 90 countries that are using Covid-19 vaccines from China, several...

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Kim Jong Un warns of 'grave consequences' and fires top officials after Covid-19 incident

Kim Jong Un warns of 'grave consequences' and fires top...

Kim Jong Un fired several senior officials who failed to enforce North Korea's stringent...

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Microsoft says Windows 11 will feature a new Dynamic Refresh Rate, designed to save laptop battery life and boost refresh rates when they're really needed (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft says Windows 11 will feature a new Dynamic Refresh...

Tom Warren / The Verge:Microsoft says Windows 11 will feature a new Dynamic Refresh...

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Strong relationships serve Tomkins well

Strong relationships serve Tomkins well

Given their long-standing relationship, it perhaps came as little surprise that...