The pandemic has exacerbated the brutal conditions of workers at e-commerce and delivery companies in Asia even as average earnings per delivery declined (Steven Borowiec/Nikkei Asia)

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Silver surges as Reddit army turns to commodities The investors that caused GameStop to surge are now turning their attention to silver. February 01, 2021 at 07:32AM

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Groundbreaking biofuel rocket could be 'Uber for space' Stardust 1.0 has become the first commercial launch of a rocket powered by bio-derived fuel. February 01, 2021 at 10:56AM

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India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi Tensions are rising in Delhi where thousands of farmers are demanding agriculture reforms be repealed. January 30, 2021 at 10:44PM

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TikTok singer Amy Hawkins, 110, becomes viral sensation Almost 100,000 people have seen Amy Hawkins sing World War One song It's A Long Way to Tipperary. January 30, 2021 at 08:11PM

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'Harsh writing advice' memes take off on Twitter Twitter users take time off their busy writing schedules to share helpful - or unhelpful - tips. January 30, 2021 at 03:09PM

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'I was scammed out of £17,000 on Instagram' Since the pandemic hit the UK, reports of investment scams targeting Instagram users have risen 50%. January 31, 2021 at 05:32AM

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Apple releases an iCloud Passwords browser extension for Chrome on Windows (Abner Li/9to5Google)

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Microsoft says revenue from its various cybersecurity offerings crossed $10B over the past 12 months, up 40% YoY and ~7% of its total revenue for the year (Daniel Howley/Yahoo Finance)

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Network data indicates the onset of widespread internet disruptions in Myanmar amid reports of a military uprising and the detention of political leaders (NetBlocks)

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Many elderly people in the US aren't getting scheduled for COVID-19 vaccinations due to a lack of familiarity with navigating the internet and web-based signups (Bloomberg)

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Ula raises $20M Series A led by Quona Capital and B Capital Group to expand its food-focused e-commerce marketplace in Indonesia currently serving 20K+ stores (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

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Yotta Savings raises $13.2M Series A for its savings account app that instead of interest offers depositors a chance to win prizes ranging from 10 cents to $10M (Igor Bosilkovski/Forbes)

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In August, internal research at Facebook showed that ~70% of the platform's most active civic Groups were considered too toxic to recommend to users (Jeff Horwitz/Wall Street Journal)

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Profile of Chegg, which is valued at $12B, employs 70,000+ freelance tutors in India, and faces the issue of students using it to cheat by getting test answers (Susan Adams/Forbes)

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Robinhood reduces the number of companies with trading restrictions from 50 to 8, according to its website; GME, NOK, and BB are still among those restricted (Yueqi Yang/Bloomberg)

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A look at the criticism in DC directed at CSET, a State Dept. bureau focused on cybersecurity and emerging technologies formed in the last days of Trump's admin (Maggie Miller/The Hill)

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Home working increases cyber-security fears IT experts say that with people working from home the risk of hacking has increased. February 01, 2021 at 05:36AM

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SetSail raises $26M Series A for its service that recommends when to pay salespeople, by monitoring the progress of sales across CRM, email, and other systems (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

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League of Legends teams in the US recruited 40+ superstar players from Asia since 2016, with an average salary of $460K for a player in a team's starting five (Kellen Browning/New York Times)

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Riverlane, which spun out of Cambridge University, raises $20M Series A led by Draper Esprit to build Deltaflow, its operating system for quantum computers (Silicon Canals)

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A now-fixed 10-year-old bug in Sudo used in several versions of Linux allowed any local user to gain root access (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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More than 2,000 police and fire departments in the US have now partnered with Amazon's Ring, with 1,189 new departments added over the past year (Dave Lee/Financial Times)

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Analysis of the first Oversight Board rulings, which in the long term may influence Facebook moderation rules more than the upcoming decision on Trump ban (Evelyn Douek/Lawfare)

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The pandemic has increased the adoption of AR in automotive and other industries, where it is being used to provide remote assistance for employees in real time (Sara Castellanos/Wall Street Journal)

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Analysis: investors have pumped $7.3B into ~730 US-based fitness apps and services over the past five years, with $2.4B coming just in 2020 across 187 deals (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)

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A look at Bilibili, the "YouTube for China", as it balances competition and cooperation with Alibaba and Tencent, both of which invested in the video platform (Zeyi Yang/Protocol)

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Mozilla's 2020 Internet Health Report spotlights racial injustice of algorithms, lax data rights for gig workers, and accountability of social media firms (The Internet Health Report 2020)

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ELSA, an app that helps non-native English speakers improve pronunciation and speaking skills, raises $15M Series B, says its revenue increased by ~300% in 2020 (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

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Chinese self-driving startup AutoX announces that its robotaxi service, with no safety drivers on board, is now available to the general public in Shenzhen (Brad Templeton/Forbes)

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Canalys: a record 11.2M Chromebooks were shipped in Q4 2020, up 287% YoY, with Lenovo Chromebooks up 1,766%; in 2020, 30.7M Chromebooks were shipped, up 109% (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

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VAMS, a CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M to manage rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, has been abandoned by states due to bugs and problems (Cat Ferguson/MIT Technology Review)

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Alphabet Workers Union members in the US say they were blindsided by the announcement of an international alliance and are considering disaffiliation from CWA (Zoe Schiffer/The Verge)

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How one woman destroyed the online reputations of more than 145 people, aided by "complaint sites" in the US and platforms like Google that rarely intervene (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)

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Current and former staff say much of Amazon's struggles in gaming rest with the leadership of its gaming division, which reportedly has a budget of $500M/year (Bloomberg)

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Google pulls federated chat app Element from the Play Store citing abusive content, despite it only being a client for Matrix servers (Corbin Davenport/Android Police)

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Legal experts say Robinhood is not legally bound to carry out every trade and is protected from lawsuits by its user agreement (Tom Hals/Reuters)

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Verizon Media says it is planning personalized features for Yahoo Mail, and around 500K users watched NFL streams in the Yahoo Mail app in tests in Q4 2020 (Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider)

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Experts say Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature will damage Facebook's core business; the feature will limit Facebook's data collection from 85K+ iOS apps (Wall Street Journal)

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Profile of ShareChat, an India-centric social network which lacks English language support and has 160M MAUs, 100M of which signed up in the last year (Shubham Agarwal/Fast Company)

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Research: smartphone shipments in India fell 4% YoY to ~150M in 2020 and H2 2020 saw 100M+ shipments; among the top 5 brands, realme grew the most at 22% YoY (Prachir Singh/Counterpoint Research)

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Canalys: smartphone shipments in China fell 4% YoY to 84M in Q4 2020 and shipments for 2020 fell 11% YoY to 330M, as iPhone's share jumped from 15% to 18% YoY (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)

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Profile of Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta, who since the pandemic started has overseen three consecutive quarters of positive cash flow, a first for the company (Chloe Sorvino/Forbes)

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Robinhood explains why it placed restrictions on certain securities over the past week, says its clearinghouse-mandated deposit for equities increased tenfold (Under the Hood)

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Filing: Xiaomi has sued US Defense and Treasury departments, after the DOD blacklisted the company thereby blocking US investors from buying Xiaomi's securities (Bloomberg)

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Reddit's uncommon qualities as a community platform, inspiring nihilism and humor, may explain why r/WallStreetBets' growth feels reminiscent of r/The_Donald (John Herrman/New York Times)

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Clearsky researchers say Hezbollah's cyber unit Lebanese Cedar hacked 250+ unpatched Atlassian and Oracle servers at telecoms and ISPs in US, UK, Israel, more (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

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Robinhood has placed trade restrictions on more than 50 stocks as of Friday and limited the purchase of some stocks, like GameStop, to a single share (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

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Physna, a Cincinnati-based startup developing an AI-powered 3D modeling platform for industrial engineering, raises $20M Series B led by Sequoia (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

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Satellite boom attracts technology giants Tech giants promise faster, wider access to data thanks to cheaper satellite launches. January 29, 2021 at 05:43AM

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