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MotoRefi raises $10M to keep pedal on auto refinancing growth

A month before the COVID-19 pandemic had spread to North America, auto fintech startup MotoRefi — newly armed with nearly $9 million in venture capital — was preparing to bring its refinancing platfor

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DHS to pause some deportations during Biden's first 100 days to review policies

The Biden administration late Wednesday ordered a pause on some deportations for 100 days starting no later than Friday as it reviews enforcement policies.Acting Homela

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Vantage makes managing AWS easier

Vantage, a new service that makes managing AWS resources and their associated spend easier, is coming out of stealth today. The service offers its users an alternative to the complex AWS console with

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Scraped Parler data is a metadata goldmine

Embattled social media platform Parler is offline after Apple, Google and Amazon pulled the plug on the site after the violent riot at the U.S. Capitol last week that left five people dead.But while t

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Decrypted: How bad was the US Capitol breach for cybersecurity?

It’s the image that’s been seen around the world. One of hundreds of pro-Trump supporters in the private office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after storming the Capitol and breaching secur

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What’s behind this year’s boom in climate tech SPACs?

There’s no denying that 2020 has been the year of the special purpose acquisition company.Since the beginning of the year, 219 SPACs have raised $73 billion, according to widely reported market

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Google slammed for ‘monopoly power’ in new antitrust lawsuit from 35 states

Another day, another major antitrust effort seeking to dismantle the unprecedented power of the world’s biggest tech companies.On Thursday, a group of 38 attorneys general announced a bipartisan

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Capella Space now offers the highest resolution SAR imagery commercially available

SF-based small satellite startup Capella Space is now exclusively offering the most cutting-edge synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery available on the commercial market. The company has now made ava

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Roblox buys digital avatar startup Loom.ai

Roblox announced today that it’s buying a digital avatar startup called Loom.ai. Purchasing a company that has focused singularly on creating more realistic human avatars is an interesting play

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Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine effective, but more analysis still needed

VCG Image A COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc provided protection against severe cases of the disease, though more analysis will be needed to see how w

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AWS adds natural language search service for business intelligence from its data sets

When Amazon Web Services launched QuickSight, its business intelligence service, back in 2016 the company wanted to provide product information and customer information for business users — not

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Singer Bobby Brown's son found dead at Los Angeles home

Bobby Brown Jr., the son of singer Bobby Brown, was found dead at a Los Angeles home Wednesday. He was 28.Los Angeles Police spokesman Officer Jeff Lee said officers were responding to a medical emer

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Test and Trace still missing four in 10 contacts of those who tested positive

Although a slight improvement on the previous week, the rate is still one of the lowest since Test and Trace began.

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Turkey's Finance Minister Albayrak resigns, citing health issues

Turkey's Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak resigned on Sunday, citing health reasons, according to a statement on his verified social media account. /Getty Images Turkey's Treasury

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Zoom launches end-to-end encryption for free meetings — with a catch

Zoom, the video calling company that millions turned to during the pandemic, has finally launched end-to-end encrypted video calls for free accounts.The company said last week that it was readying the

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SAP shares fall sharply after COVID-19 cuts revenue, profit forecast at software giant

SAP announced its Q3 earnings yesterday, with its aggregate results down across the board. And after missing earnings expectations, the company also revised its 2021 outlook down. The combined bad new

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WHO chief warns against COVID-19 'vaccine nationalism'

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the WHO, speaks at the World Health Summit via a virtual conference, October 25, 2020. /World Health Summit The World Health Organization (WHO) on Sunday ca