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Snyk raises $150 million at $1 billion valuation for AI that protects open source code

January 21, 2020
Snyk, a cybersecurity platform that helps developers find vulnerabilities in their open source applications, has raised $150 million in a round of funding led by New York-based private equity firm Stripes, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Coatue, Tiger Global, BoldStart, Trend Forward, and Amity. This takes Snyk’s total funding to $250 million from backers including Alphabet’s GV…
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6.7-inch iPhone 12 to be thinner than iPhone 11 Pro Max, more sizing details

January 21, 2020
A new supply chain report from Macotakara today sheds new light on the sizing details of the 2020 iPhone lineup. The report also includes one notable caveat compared to what other reports have widely claimed we can expect from the iPhone 12 lineup in terms of design. According to today’s report from , it’s possible that the iPhone 12 lineup could have the “same housing design” as the…
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OnePlus 7T: 5 reasons to still pick up the cut-price flagship

January 21, 2020
The OnePlus 7T is arguably the best mainline OnePlus phone to date for a wide variety of reasons. It manages to leverage so much of what made the OnePlus 7 Pro one of the best flagship devices of 2019 with only some very minor corner-cutting for a slightly to help achieve a…
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LG G8 ThinQ gets Android 10 update in the US, starting w/ Verizon, Sprint

January 20, 2020
LG’s track record with updates lately has been pretty awful, but the company is currently working to “recover trust.” As of today, the Android 10 update for the LG G8 ThinQ is now available in the United States, and it’s starting with users on Verizon and Sprint. Spotted by , Verizon is rolling out the Android 10 update now with the same changes we’ve seen through the beta and public…
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iPhone: How to delete iCloud backups

January 20, 2020
Want to get rid of an old iCloud backup or hit the reset button and start over fresh? Follow along for how to delete iCloud backups on iPhone and iPad. iCloud storage can be used up quickly between all of the rich photos and videos, iMessages, and the many third-party apps…
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DARPA-backed Soft Robotics raises $23 million for autonomous grippers and sorters

January 20, 2020
Soft Robotics raised another $23 million to continue developing its solutions to the seemingly intractable problems gripping and sorting machines face. As work published by MIT and others has established, picker robots struggle with complex poses and unfamiliar objects. That’s because they not only have to locate objects and understand how to grasp them, but because they’ve got to set them…
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