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The US DOJ will sell $56M worth of cryptocurrency it seized as part of the BitConnect fraud case; victims can apply to be reimbursed (Dan Mangan/CNBC)

The US DOJ will sell $56M worth of cryptocurrency it seized...

Dan Mangan / CNBC:The US DOJ will sell $56M worth of cryptocurrency it seized as...

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Google will begin paying Agence France-Presse for news content in Europe as part of a 5-year partnership, the first with a news agency under a 2019 EU directive (Agence France-Presse)

Google will begin paying Agence France-Presse for news...

Agence France-Presse:Google will begin paying Agence France-Presse for news content...

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Australia-based Practice Ignition, which offers client engagement and commerce services for businesses, raises a $50M Series C led by JMI Equity (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

Australia-based Practice Ignition, which offers client...

Kate Park / TechCrunch:Australia-based Practice Ignition, which offers client engagement...

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Alluxio, which develops data orchestration software for on-premises, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud environments, raises a $50M Series C from a16z and others (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Alluxio, which develops data orchestration software for...

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:Alluxio, which develops data orchestration software for...

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H1, a social network for health care professionals, raises a $100M Series C led by Altimeter Capital, 11 months after raising a $58M Series B (Emma Betuel/TechCrunch)

H1, a social network for health care professionals, raises...

Emma Betuel / TechCrunch:H1, a social network for health care professionals, raises...

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Ribbon Health, which offers an API data platform for health care companies, raises a $43.5M Series B led by General Catalyst with a16z and others participating (Heather Landi/FierceHealthcare)

Ribbon Health, which offers an API data platform for health...

Heather Landi / FierceHealthcare:Ribbon Health, which offers an API data platform...

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Paytm falls ~20% in its trading debut in India, giving it a market valuation of $14.9B, after raising $2.5B in its IPO (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Paytm falls ~20% in its trading debut in India, giving...

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:Paytm falls ~20% in its trading debut in India, giving...

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Q&A: Brian Chesky on how he restructured Airbnb during the pandemic, running a public company, crypto, the metaverse, working with Jony Ive's LoveFrom, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A: Brian Chesky on how he restructured Airbnb during...

Nilay Patel / The Verge:Q&A: Brian Chesky on how he restructured Airbnb during the...

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Grammarly, which helps users improve their writing with its AI assistant, raises $200M at a $13B valuation (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Grammarly, which helps users improve their writing with...

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:Grammarly, which helps users improve their writing with...

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Apple, Spotify, and other companies that distribute podcasts have done little to rein in COVID-19 misinformation, escaping the scrutiny social media giants face (New York Times)

Apple, Spotify, and other companies that distribute podcasts...

New York Times:Apple, Spotify, and other companies that distribute podcasts have...

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AMD reveals 50 security flaws in its EPYC processors and its Windows 10 graphics driver; Intel discloses 25 vulnerabilities in its products including CPUs (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

AMD reveals 50 security flaws in its EPYC processors and...

Simon Sharwood / The Register:AMD reveals 50 security flaws in its EPYC processors...

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Agreements between Apple and some states to offer digital IDs in Wallet show states covering the costs of issuing the IDs and Apple approving marketing efforts (CNBC)

Agreements between Apple and some states to offer digital...

CNBC:Agreements between Apple and some states to offer digital IDs in Wallet show...

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How Togo, a country where few possess a driver's license or national ID card, built a digital platform to rapidly disburse relief payments to millions of people (Ted Alcorn/Bloomberg)

How Togo, a country where few possess a driver's license...

Ted Alcorn / Bloomberg:How Togo, a country where few possess a driver's license...

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Taproot, the first major upgrade to Bitcoin's code since the introduction of Segregated Witness in 2017, goes live (Wolfie Zhao/The Block)

Taproot, the first major upgrade to Bitcoin's code since...

Wolfie Zhao / The Block:Taproot, the first major upgrade to Bitcoin's code since...

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Report finds that online child sexual abuse material is increasing in sheer volume, growing more complex, and capitalizing on tech's blind spots (Aisha Counts/Protocol)

Report finds that online child sexual abuse material is...

Aisha Counts / Protocol:Report finds that online child sexual abuse material is...

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Internal documents show Facebook defends algorithmic ranking because its data suggests that its algorithm knows what users want better than they do themselves (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

Internal documents show Facebook defends algorithmic ranking...

Will Oremus / Washington Post:Internal documents show Facebook defends algorithmic...