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Biden to Invite Trump to Unveil His Portrait at White House Resuming Presidential Tradition

President Joe Biden's press secretary Jen Psaki suggested that he will resume the tradition of inviting ex-presidents back to the White House to unveil their official p

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bluShift Aerospace launches its first rocket powered by biofuels

New space startup bluShift wants to bring a new kind of propellant to the small satellite launching market, with rockets powered by bio-derived rocket fuels. These differ from traditional fuels in tha

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Webull and Public remove restrictions on ‘memestocks’ after citing trade settlement firm as the cause

Two of the popular retail stock market trading apps that have hosted much of the activity related to the Wall Street Bets subreddit-spurred run on stocks including GameStop (GME) and AMC, among others

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Amazon’s Ring Neighbors app exposed users’ precise locations and home addresses

A security flaw in Ring’s Neighbors app was exposing the precise locations and home addresses of users who had posted to the app.Ring, the video doorbell and home security startup acquired by Am

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Fearing new variant, Merkel warns Germany may lock down until April

01:54 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned citizens that life is likely to continue under lockdown until April due to the new virus variant, first discovered in the UK.The countr

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World travel organization calls flight vaccines 'discriminatory'

03:41 Some airlines and policymakers have called for compulsory COVID-19 immunization for passengers, as the industry attempts to revive itself, after a bleak year in which global pass

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TikTok rolls out its first lidar-powered AR effect

Snapchat was among the first apps to leverage the iPhone 12 Pro’s LiDAR Scanner for AR, but now TikTok has followed suit. The social video app confirmed today it has launched its first-ever lida

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The Amazon-Berkshire Hathaway-JPMorgan healthcare joint venture is officially ending

A somewhat nebulous, but high-profile and potentially heavily-moneyed joint venture is coming to an end: Haven, the JV created by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase, is being “disba

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World gripped with political crises admit pandemic

04:59 2020 will go down in history as the year a pandemic killed more than1.7million people and crippled economies around the world. But it wasn’t the only crisis that brought about ha

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Germany to impose restrictions on travel from U.K.

The World Health Organization on Saturday said it was "in close contact with U.K. officials on the new COVID-19 virus variant". /Oscar del Pozo/AFP Germany plans to impose restrictions on trav

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BigID keeps rolling with $70M Series D on $1B valuation

BigID has been on the investment fast track, raising $94 million over three rounds that started in January 2018. Today, that investment train kept rolling as the company announced a $70 million Series

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Spotify resets user passwords after a security bug exposed private account information

Spotify said it has reset an undisclosed number of user passwords after blaming a vulnerability in its systems for exposing private account information to its business partners.In a data breach notif

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NASA and Boeing set do-over Starliner orbital test flight for March 2021

NASA and Boeing are looking to March 29, 2021 as the earliest possible date for their Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2), a key qualifying demonstration mission in their ongoing Commercial Crew spacefligh

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U.S. national Thanksgiving turkeys introduced in Washington

Two U.S. national Thanksgiving turkeys arrived at a luxury hotel in Washington, D.C., November 22, 2020. /VCG Named 'Corn' and 'Cob', the two turkeys were raised by Iowa turkey farmers.

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Mac-optimized TensorFlow flexes new M1 and GPU muscles

A new Mac-optimized fork of machine learning environment TensorFlow posts some major performance increases. Although a big part of that is that until now the GPU wasn’t used for training tasks (

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Four days left to save big on tickets to TC Sessions: Space 2020

If you’re a part of the early-stage startup space race, or aspire to such celestial heights, don’t miss out on early-bird savings to TC Sessions: Space 2020 on December 16-17. We’re at T-minus four da

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Beyond Meat earnings miss big on declining food service and consumer demand

Beyond Meat’s partnership with McDonald’s to develop the McPlant burger wasn’t enough to keep shares from collapsing after the company posted third-quarter earnings that fell far be