Saudi Arabia-based Foodics, which offers restaurant management software including a cloud POS system, raises $20M Series B, bringing its total raised to $28M (Chris Albrecht/The Spoon)

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The unedited nature and serendipity of conversations makes Clubhouse a compelling platform for productive discussions on otherwise fraught topics (Casey Newton/Platformer)

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MediaTek unveils Helio M80, its first 5G modem, which supports dominant sub-6GHz 5G but misses out on the faster and more temperamental mmWave 5G standard (Hadlee Simons/Android Authority)

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Sources: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is expected to testify before the House Financial Services Committee in a panel hearing on GameStop on February 18 (Zachary Warmbrodt/Politico)

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Network security provider SonicWall says hackers are exploiting a critical zero-day vulnerability in one of its firewalls, and a patch is due Tuesday (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

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Google has agreed to pay $2.5M to 5,500+ female engineers as well as female and Asian job applicants who were allegedly subject to pay and hiring discrimination (Zoe Schiffer/The Verge)

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Sources: Democrats have complained to companies, including Google, that have suspended campaign donations, say they are being penalized for Republicans' actions (Wall Street Journal)

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