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- Tanium, a cybersecurity company valued at $9B+, is moving its HQ from just outside Oakland, CA to Kirkland, WA near Seattle, after going remote first in June (John Cook/GeekWire)
- AWS debuts Lambda functions with access to up to 10GB of memory and 6 virtual CPUs, ability to deploy Lambda functions as container images, millisecond billing (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
- Wyze unveils a $20 smartwatch with nine-day battery life and heart rate and blood oxygen tracking but no GPS support, slated to ship in February 2021 (Jon Porter/The Verge)
- AWS adds natural language search capabilities, now in preview as QuickSight Q, to its business intelligence service QuickSight (Jonathan Shieber/TechCrunch)
- AWS releases statement saying that it remains Zoom's preferred cloud provider, after Oracle boasted it would meet Zoom's core infrastructure needs in April (Simon Sharwood/The Register)
- Voi, the Stockholm-headquartered micromobility company known for e-scooter rentals, raises $160M in new funding, about two thirds equity and one third debt (Steve O'Hear/TechCrunch)
- Microsoft will remove user names from Productivity Score feature after a privacy backlash, says Microsoft 365 will only aggregate data at the organization level (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
- AWS launches preview of its Proton container management service for infrastructure provisioning and code deployment for serverless and container-based apps (Natalie Gagliordi/ZDNet)
- Google debuts Android Enterprise Essentials device management service geared at SMBs, which can enforce policies like device encryption and ban app sideloading (Abner Li/9to5Google)
- AWS unveils new compute instances like the compute heavy C6gn powered by Arm-based Graviton2 that it says performs 40% better on price vs comparable x86 options (Natalie Gagliordi/ZDNet)
- AWS unveils its new custom ML training chip Trainium with support for TensorFlow, PyTorch, and MXNet, coming 2021; AWS claims it outperforms rival cloud chips (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
- Microsoft Teams adds support for answering calls via Apple CarPlay, transferring calls between mobile and desktop, and adding call recordings to OneDrive (Tom Warren/The Verge)
- Olive, which says 600+ hospitals use its AI-powered bots to automate healthcare admin tasks, raises $225.5M led by Tiger Global, valuing it at $1.5B (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
- Flock Freight, an AI-driven marketplace helping shippers and SMBs find freight truckers, raises $113.5M Series C led by Softbank, after a $50M Series B in Feb. (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
- BlackBerry shares jump 50%+ on news that it will partner with AWS to jointly develop and market its vehicle data integration and monitoring platform, IVY (Jonathan Shieber/TechCrunch)
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- Mitch McConnell for the first time appears to accept President-elect Joe Biden's election victory over Trump
- Ahead of Giving Tuesday, Coca-Cola held a virtual dinner series event on social justice after funding millions in grants this year
- 'She deserves one': Obama says that Dolly Parton not receiving a Medal of Freedom during his presidency was 'a screwup'
- Top defense official overseeing fight against ISIS has reportedly been pushed out amid Trump's Pentagon purge
- China just landed its Chang'e-5 spacecraft on the moon. The mission could bring moon rocks to Earth for the first time in 40-plus years.
- Defying Trump, Attorney General Barr says the DOJ and FBI didn't discover voter fraud at a scale that would have changed the 2020 election results
- These are the key commercial real-estate deals and trends to watch
- The 5 most anticipated new TV shows coming in December
- The best Cyber Monday deals still available on Tuesday: Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Target, and more
- 'I have changed my mind': A top market strategist and long-time crypto skeptic explains why he now believes bitcoin should be in investor portfolios
- Senate Democrats introduce a plan to reinstate the $600 federal unemployment benefit until October 2021
- YouTubers filmed what may have been nighttime special-operations training near Area 51
- A reporter interviewed more than 80 Uber drivers in Kenya, and every one of them said they're struggling financially
- 29 tech gadgets we use to boost our productivity and comfort when we work from home
- The best Cyber Monday mattress deals that are still available from Casper, Leesa, and more
- You can improve (or even save) lives without being rich. Here are 3 things to know about effective giving.
- Congress has resumed talks about a new COVID-19 deal but here's why $1,200 stimulus checks probably aren't coming anytime soon
- Restaurant workers say they're afraid to enforce COVID-19 safety precautions because they'll lose out on tips
- As many as 89,000 households have left San Francisco since March, the latest sign of an exodus spurred by the pandemic
- Bank of America says says investor bullishness is rising, but is not yet euphoric. Here why that signals the S&P 500 could gain 10% over the next year.
- Former Hamburger University worker sues McDonald's, alleging a coworker sexually assaulted and harassed her for years
- This $8 clay mask is one of the most popular beauty products across the internet, and it's the only thing that has helped clear up my skin
- Trump's chief science advisor said Americans have a 'social responsibility' to get vaccinated against the coronavirus
- I tried 3 weeks of recipes from Home Chef and found them to be convenient, fresh, and delicious
- Kristi Noem's grandmother died in a nursing home hit by COVID-19 as the South Dakota governor continued to downplay the virus
- Nikola falls 18% as insider lockup period expires, allowing founder Trevor Milton to sell 91 million shares
- The best books of 2020, according to Amazon's editors
- 23 Cyber Monday 2020 deals you can still get for under $50, including Instant Pot, Google Nest, and the new Echo Dot
- How United Airlines overcame one of the largest limitations to transporting Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to the US
- Some PlayStation 5 resellers are getting wild threats from angry buyers on Facebook and Craigslist
- What would happen if you stopped sleeping, day by day
- An anti-gay Hungarian politician has resigned after being caught by police fleeing a 25-man orgy through a window
- 8 people who died from COVID-19 after letting down their guards or falling for anti-science rhetoric
- Sephora is opening 850 mini stores at Kohl's locations in the next 2 years
- BlackBerry spikes record 65% after finalizing deal with Amazon for automotive data software
- Rudy Giuliani talked to Trump about getting a preemptive pardon before the president leaves office, report says
- These are the best e-learning platforms for free or cheap online classes, whether you want to switch careers or pick up a new hobby
- A witness in Trump ally Sidney Powell's lawsuits says the voting results in 'Edison County' indicate fraud. No such place exists.
- Elevate your next Zoom video call by transporting yourself, and colleagues, to these 16 stunning hotels and destinations around the world for free
- 'An effort to restore the rule of law': GOP lawmakers file articles of impeachment against Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine over COVID-19 restrictions
- Volkswagen unveils 'Mission T' to catch up to Tesla ? and has tapped a Porsche race-car engineer to help make it happen
- The inclusive underwear brand Parade is beloved by Gen Z and received $8 million in funding in its first year. Here's how its 23-year-old founder convinced investors from Warby Parker and Bonobos to go all in.
- How Michael Jordan makes and spends his $1.6 billion fortune
- Bolivia's new government is encouraging people to take toxic bleach as a cure for COVID-19, a victory for a months-long disinformation campaign
- 17 cheap Cyber Monday deals for under $25 that are still available, including the Google Nest Mini, Kindle Unlimited, and Legos
- Zoom slides 14% as slowing sales-growth forecasts make investors question the stock's 200% post-COVID rally
- How does Stadia work? How to stream games on Google's cloud-gaming platform
- The rise and fall of the Nikola Badger, the all-electric Cybertruck rival that never was
- Corporate growth could see a 10% drop in virus-slammed industries amid mounting debt levels, New York Fed says
- EBay is telling scammers to stop selling photos of the PlayStation 5 for hundreds of dollars
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