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Biden’s COVID-19 relief bill earmarks $9B to beef up the CISA and $200M to hire technology and cyber experts to support the federal CISO and US Digital Service (Emily Birnbaum/Protocol)

Emily Birnbaum / Protocol:Biden’s COVID-19 relief bill earmarks $9B to beef up the CISA and $200M to hire technology and cyber experts to support the federal CISO and US Digital Service  —  He will announce the plan on Thursday night.  —  President-elect Joe Biden is hoping to push a massive COVID-19 relief bill through Congress…
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Lithium Miners & Battery Makers Are Feeling The Tesla Effect

CNN reported that Tesla’s stock surge isn’t just making Elon Musk and Tesla investors rich — it’s affecting other industries as well. Investors who are focusing on other industries, such as lithium and batteries, are also benefitting from Tesla’s success

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A look at the rise and fall of Xiami, Alibaba’s Chinese music streaming service, which only had 22.4M MAUs by Oct. 2020 vs. 450M+ for Tencent’s three music apps (South China Morning Post)

South China Morning Post:A look at the rise and fall of Xiami, Alibaba’s Chinese music streaming service, which only had 22.4M MAUs by Oct. 2020 vs. 450M+ for Tencent’s three music apps  —  Once a leader, Xiami saw its monthly active users (MAUs) fall to 22.4 million by October 2020, a tiny fraction of the…
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Profile of New Zealand-based Letterboxd, a social network for reviewing movies, which has grown to 3M member accounts during the pandemic (Calum Marsh/New York Times)

Calum Marsh / New York Times:Profile of New Zealand-based Letterboxd, a social network for reviewing movies, which has grown to 3M member accounts during the pandemic  —  The social media network has finally left the cinephile niche and entered the mainstream.  —  Early last decade, Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow …

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A security researcher was able to purchase one of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s top-level domains, potentially preventing malicious use by attackers (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:A security researcher was able to purchase one of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s top-level domains, potentially preventing malicious use by attackers  —  Fredrik Almroth thought the authorities would try to save the critical domain name.  Nobody ever did.

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FAA approves the first fully automated commercial drone flights, letting Massachusetts-based American Robotics operate its drones in rural areas below 400 feet (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:FAA approves the first fully automated commercial drone flights, letting Massachusetts-based American Robotics operate its drones in rural areas below 400 feet  —  American Robotics granted permission to operate drones without hands-on piloting  —  U.S. aviation regulators have approved …

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SpaceX Cargo Dragon Splashes Down Loaded With Science Experiments

SpaceX’s upgraded Dragon cargo spacecraft splashed down at 8:26 p.m. EST on Wednesday west of Tampa off the Florida coast, marking the return of the company’s 21st contracted cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station for

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Electrifying Fleets: Going From Pilot Scale To Full Scale

Fleet electrification at pilot scale is relatively simple: buy a vehicle, buy an inexpensive Level 2 charger, and you’re done. But as fleet managers start electrifying a large share of their fleet vehicles, a more difficult set of challenges awaits and they will need to begin planning now

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US Energy Department Announces $14.5 Million For Offshore Wind Environmental Research

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $14.5 million for environmental research to support U.S. offshore wind development

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Israel-based social casino game developer Playtika closes up 17.1% on its first day of trading, valuing the company at $14.5B, after raising $1.88B in its IPO (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:Israel-based social casino game developer Playtika closes up 17.1% on its first day of trading, valuing the company at $14.5B, after raising $1.88B in its IPO  —  Playtika went public today in an initial public offering at $27 a share, giving the mobile game publisher a valuation of $11.4 billion.

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