Techmeme: Profile of the popular password management app Dashlane, which has raised $110M last spring and is airing its first ever Super Bowl ad (Brian Barrett/Wired)

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Now that tech has connected most of the world, a look at the opportunities and issues this creates for the 2020s — We connected (almost) everyone There are 5.5bn adults on earth, 5bn have a phone and 4bn have a smartphone

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Sam Byford / The Verge:

Alleged leaked video shows off Samsung's folding Galaxy Z Flip — Samsung's next foldable should be coming this month — Samsung's next folding phone is likely to be announced this month, and what appears to be the first hands-on video with the device has just appeared online.

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Brian Barrett / Wired:

Profile of the popular password management app Dashlane, which has raised $110M last spring and is airing its first ever Super Bowl ad — A company you've never heard of is spending millions of dollars to let you know it can make your online life easier. — This year's crop …

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Justin Villamil / Bloomberg:

Uber suspends 240 accounts of users in Mexico who came into contact with two drivers who possibly had the coronavirus, to help contain its potential spread — Uber Technologies Inc. has suspended 240 user accounts in Mexico to contain the potential spread of coronavirus.

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FinSMEs:

Justworks, which offers HR tools like health benefits access, payroll, and compliance support to SMBs, raises $50M Series E, bringing its total raised to $143M — Justworks, a NYC-based HR technology company, closed a $50m Series E funding. — The round, which brought total funding to $143m …

More: Justworks and Cheddar. Tweets: @justworkshr

Emma Goldberg / New York Times:

How doctors and nurses are using TikTok to demystify the medical profession by sharing info on topics like sex education, vaping, coronavirus, and nutrition — They have M.D.s, but are they up for this challenge? — For decades, sex education in the classroom could be pretty cringey.

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Rebecca Heilweil / Vox:

UK startup Exscientia and a Japanese pharmaceutical firm claim to have created the first human trial-ready drug using AI, which took under a year to develop — An OCD drug created via AI will be tested on humans. — The British startup Exscientia claims it has developed …

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Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:

As Apple closes its offices, stores, and contact centers in China, Ming-Chi Kuo lowers Q1 iPhone shipment forecasts by 10% due to Wuhan coronavirus outbreak — Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has lowered his iPhone shipment forecast by 10 percent to 36-40 million units in the first quarter of 2020 …

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Whip Media Group, the parent company of TV and movie tracking app TV Time, raises $50M Series D, bringing its total raised to $115M — In the streaming era, data on a show's viewership and popularity is harder to come by. It's no longer as simple as setting up a Nielsen box to get data …

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Tom Simonite / Wired:

A look at a secretive team of quantum researchers at Alphabet's X, who are focused on creating new algorithms and applications to run on quantum computers — Google's parent touted its quantum supremacy achievement last year. It doesn't talk about a group at X working on software.

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Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:

Israel-based serverless computing startup Nuweba raises $10.2M in an expanded seed round, bringing its total raised to $15M — Serverless computing startup Nuweba Labs Ltd. said today it has raised $10.2 million in an expanded seed funding round. — Blumberg Capital led the latest investment …

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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

Doubtnut, an India-based startup which wants to teach math and science concepts through short videos, raises $15M Series A led by Tencent, says it has 13M MAU — Doubtnut, a Gurgaon-based startup that operates an app to help students learn and master concepts from math and science using short videos …

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