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Plenty has raised over $500 million to grow fruits and veggies indoors

Plenty‌ ‌Unlimited‌ has raised $140 million in new funding to build more vertical farms around the U.S.The new funding, which brings the company’s total cash haul to an abundant $500 million, wa

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M1 Finance closes $45M Series C mere months after it raised its $33M Series B

Just months after it announced a $33 million Series B, Chicago-based M1 Finance today disclosed a $45 Series C.The new financing event was led by Left Lane Capital, the same investor that led M1’

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Imperva to acquire database security startup jSonar

Cybersecurity giant Imperva will acquire jSonar, a database security startup that recently landed $50 million from Goldman Sachs.Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.The acquisition of

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Pinterest officially launches new Story Pins format in beta

Pinterest is announcing its spin on the increasingly popular stories format today — Story Pins, which combine multiple pages of images, videos, voiceover and overlaid text.We wrote about Story Pins ba

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Darkstore launches FastAF app for same-day product delivery

Darkstore, the tech-driven fulfillment solution to enable e-commerce companies to offer same-day delivery, has just released a consumer-facing app called FastAF. Right now, the app is only available

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Philips Hue’s new Play gradient lightstrip promises a big upgrade for home entertainment spaces

Smart lighting company Philips Hue has a new product in its home entertainment catalog that should make a smart TV lighting setup much easier and more powerful. The new Philips Hue Play gradient ligh

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Original Content podcast: Netflix’s ‘High Score’ is a selective tour through video game history

“High Score” is a new Netflix documentary series that looks back at the early years of the video game industry.Across six episodes, key developers, artists, executives and even players di

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U.S. CDC study suggests inmates should have been tested in mass

San Quentin State Prison in California, U.S. /CFP Correctional facilities that resisted mass coronavirus testing for inmates erred in their decision to only test inmates with symptoms, leading

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A U.S. school and the question of liberty

Students crowd a hallway at North Paulding High School in Dallas, Georgia, August 4, 2020. Hannah Watters/AP On her second day back at school, 15-year-old Hannah Watters took a photograph that

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Uber and Lyft lose bid to delay worker reclassification order in California

Uber and Lyft have lost their bid to delay a preliminary injunction that will force the two ride-hailing app companies to reclassify its drivers as employees. A California superior court judge denied

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Uber CEO says service faces temporary shutdown in California over worker reclassification ruling

Uber could be forced to shut down its ride-hailing app in California for several months if a court doesn’t overturn a recent ruling that classifies its drivers as full-time employees, CEO Dara K

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Bill Gates on COVID-19: I would have expected the CDC to do better

Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who warned about global pandemics in a TED Talk in 2015, shared his views on the U.S.' handling of the COVID-19 epidemic in an interview with WIRED on Friday."I'm sur

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Brush with fame: TikTok 'inspiring' says artist James Lewis

00:47 With strokes and flicks of his paintbrush James Lewis brings his artwork to life on TikTok which he finds more inspiring than other social media platforms.The lettering artist, f

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UK Nobel Laureate Scientist Slams ‘Shroud of Secrecy’ Drawn Over Gov't COVID-19 Response

The high-profile scientist’s comments join a wave of criticism that the UK government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing over its response to the ongoing coronav

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Botox injections could be used to treat depression, study finds

The research found that depression was reported up to 88% less often by patients treated with botox for six of eight conditions.

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Trump’s national security adviser has coronavirus

President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien has tested positive for the coronavirus — making him the highest-ranking official to test positive so

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Snap debuts a 13-week remote program to help developers create deeper Snap Kit integrations

Snap debuted its developer platform two years ago, and though it’s amassed several hundred integrations inside third-party apps, the company is still looking to scale deeper relationships with t