Smart home company Level Home raises a $100M+ Series C led by Cox Communications, and acquires fellow smart home company Dwelo (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

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Smart home company Level Home raises a $100M+ Series C led by Cox Communications, and acquires fellow smart home company Dwelo  —  Seems there’s a fair bit of M&A news on the smart home front these days.  Following Ecobee’s acquisition by generator company Generac, Level Home today announced …

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Canadian AI expert Raquel Urtasun launches Waabi, which aims to build a self-driving platform that’s capable of complex reasoning, with $100M CAD Series A (Meagan Simpson/BetaKit)

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Canadian AI expert Raquel Urtasun launches Waabi, which aims to build a self-driving platform that’s capable of complex reasoning, with $100M CAD Series A  —  Canadian artificial intelligence (AI) luminary Raquel Urtasun has moved on from Uber’s self-driving unit and launched her own company …

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Uncertainty about the nature of the list of 50K potential Pegasus targets created confusion and controversy, but doesn’t negate the investigation’s key findings (Kim Zetter/Zero Day)

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Uncertainty about the nature of the list of 50K potential Pegasus targets created confusion and controversy, but doesn’t negate the investigation’s key findings  —  A series of blockbuster stories published this week around a leaked list of 50,000 phone numbers have created confusion …

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Sources: CloutHub and FreeSpace are among the apps vying to be next platform of Trump, who “wants cash money up front” in exchange for followers he would bring (Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: CloutHub and FreeSpace are among the apps vying to be next platform of Trump, who “wants cash money up front” in exchange for followers he would bring  —  CloutHub and Skylab Apps are among companies vying to work with the former president, who was sidelined by Facebook and Twitter

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NBCU-owned Rotten Tomatoes launches a streaming channel, currently available on The Roku Channel and which will later expand to Peacock and Comcast’s Xumo (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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NBCU-owned Rotten Tomatoes launches a streaming channel, currently available on The Roku Channel and which will later expand to Peacock and Comcast’s Xumo  —  Rotten Tomatoes is continuing on its quest to grow into something substantially bigger than its Tomatometer movie and TV rating scores.

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Spotify adds a What’s New feed on iOS and Android, showing continually updating new releases from followed artists, rolling out over the coming weeks (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)

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Spotify adds a What’s New feed on iOS and Android, showing continually updating new releases from followed artists, rolling out over the coming weeks  —  Spotify is introducing a feature to notify people when their favorite artists and podcast producers have a new release to check out.

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Dish complains to FCC that T-Mobile, its partner for wireless services, plans to shut down the CDMA network used by millions of Dish’s Boost Mobile users (Ina Fried/Axios)

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Dish complains to FCC that T-Mobile, its partner for wireless services, plans to shut down the CDMA network used by millions of Dish’s Boost Mobile users  —  Dish Network sent a letter to the FCC on Thursday, complaining that T-Mobile — its partner for wireless services …

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Twitter will begin offering paid Ticketed Spaces to Android users in the US, after iOS got the feature in August (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Twitter will begin offering paid Ticketed Spaces to Android users in the US, after iOS got the feature in August  —  Twitter has announced that paid Ticketed Spaces are coming to Android users in the U.S. over the next few days.  Hosts on Spaces, Twitter’s live audio room feature, will now be able to sell access to Ticketed Spaces.

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PortalOne raises $15M seed from Atari, Founders Fund, Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, and others for its hybrid gaming/TV show app, coming out of closed beta soon (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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PortalOne raises $15M seed from Atari, Founders Fund, Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, and others for its hybrid gaming/TV show app, coming out of closed beta soon  —  Gaming and streamed video have been two of the biggest pastime winners during the last year+ of pandemic living.

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Australia-based OCR Labs, which provides identity verification and regulatory compliance services, raises $15M Series A led by Oyak Group (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)

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Australia-based OCR Labs, which provides identity verification and regulatory compliance services, raises $15M Series A led by Oyak Group  —  With the gig economy came the need for ID verification, thus startups like OnFido (raised $188.8 million) appeared, alongside several others.

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