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New president sworn in amid Trump snub - BBC News

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Covid: UK records new daily high of 1,820 deaths

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EU chief warns over ‘unfiltered’ hate speech and calls for Biden to back rules for big tech – TechCrunch

In a speech to the European Parliament today marking the inauguration of US president Joe Biden, the president of the European Commission has called for Europe and the US to join forces on regulating tech giants, warning of the risks of “unfiltered” hate speech and disinformation being weaponized to attack and undermine democracies. Ursula von der Leyen pointed to the shock storming of the US capital earlier this month by supporters of outgoing ... Full story

Lessons from Top Hat’s acquisition spree – TechCrunch

Top Hat , a startup that digitizes textbooks and turns them into an interactive experience for college students, announced on Wednesday that it has acquired yet another business: Fountainhead Press. The acquisition marks Top Hat’s third scoop of a publishing company in the past 12 months. Consolidation is going to be huge in the next few years for edtech, as bigger players raise enough financing (and gain profits) to be able to afford other ... Full story

A theory about the current IPO market – TechCrunch

As expected, shares of Poshmark exploded this morning, blasting over 130% higher in afternoon trading from the company’s above-range IPO price of $42 . The enormous and noisy debut of Poshmark comes a day after Affirm, another IPO, was treated similarly by the public markets . Both explosive debuts were preceded by huge December debuts from C3.ai, Doordash and Airbnb . It seems today that any venture-backed company that can claim some sort of ... Full story

Joe Biden’s new gig – TechCrunch

After serving as Obama-Biden campaign manager and White House Deputy Chief of Staff and now living in San Francisco and working with the tech sector, I am hopeful about the Biden-Harris administration’s ability to put in place smart policies and regulatory stability to further unleash the industry’s vast potential — not to mention the effect their calm and measured leadership could have on our greater economy. However, with new leadership comes ... Full story

Joy Morgan: Murdered student 'may have been given drugs without knowing'

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Low-deposit mortgages return after Covid slump

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AI And Creativity: Why OpenAI’s Latest Model Matters

When prompted to generate "a mural of a blue pumpkin on the side of a building," OpenAI's new deep ... [+] learning model DALL-E produces this series of original images. OpenAI. OpenAI has done it again. Earlier this month, OpenAI—the research organization behind last summer’s much-hyped language model GPT-3—released a new AI model named DALL-E . While it has generated less buzz than GPT-3 did, DALL-E has even more profound implications for the ... Full story

AirPods Max Reveal A Brilliant Secret, But Don’t Try This At Home

A surprise mechanism lurks inside AirPods Max. iFixit. AirPods Max, the new over-ear headphones from Apple, have just been the subject of an iFixit teardown. And in the process, a quite unexpected secret of the way they’ve been put together has been revealed. Oh, and iFixit awards these headphones the best repairability rating yet for Apple’s AirPods range. MORE FROM FORBES Apple Watch Can Detect Covid-19 Before Symptoms Arise, New Study Shows. ... Full story