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Samsung Galaxy phone users across the world, including users of devices such as the new Z Flip, the Note 10+, and Galaxy S, A and J users have reported receiving a bizarre push notification from the South Korean smartphone manufacturer that displayed the 'Find My Mobile' feature with only the number 1, which disappears when clicked. Samsung has explained that the push was sent unintentionally during an internet test.

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Teikametrics is a new startup that aims to help people more efficiently sell their goods on Amazon and has now even partnered up with retail giant Walmart. The company plans to use a revolutionary new operating system that will allow these sellers to optimize every aspect of their business. The company has now raised $15 million in funding.

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PocketPills, a new startup based in Canada, has gathered $7.35 million in investments and intends to use it to expand across the country. The startup has created an online pharmacy in the form of an app/website that will help insurance companies and the healthcare industry save money. The company hopes to propagate the use of generic drugs.

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Twitter has recently acquired Chroma Labs, the company behind the Chroma Stories app that allows users to utilize and customize various templates that can be posted as stories to Instagram Stories, Snapchat, and more. The Chroma Stories app will now no longer get any updates and the team behind the app has been given different projects.

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SpaceX has now become partners with Space Adventures, a private space tourism company that has already launched a few commercial astronauts into space. This means SpaceX will likely be able to start launching commercial flights as soon as their Crew Dragon spacecraft is ready. the spacecraft is scheduled to take two NASA astronauts into space in a few months.

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An endpoint security firm with roots in the Israeli cyber intelligence community, SentinelOne has successfully raised an additional 200 million USD in funding in a valuation that puts the company at 1.1 billion USD, up from a 500 million USD valuation earlier in the year. Co-founder and CEO Tomer Weingarten has stated that an IPO seems like the next logical choice for the rapidly growing startup.

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TikTok is introducing a 'Family-Safety-Mode' allowing parents to set controls limiting app usage by their teenagers. The parent/guardian is responsible for managing these settings for their teens and no settings can be changed without their involvement. These parental controls, however, are a subset of the controls users can enable for themselves to limit screen-time. TikTok has also produced video-series encouraging users to take a break from their phones.

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SpaceX has just launched 60 more satellites into space, bringing its total network of satellites to 300. The company has now become the largest commercial satellite operator in the world and hopes to bring high-speed low-cost internet to users all over the world, beginning with the US and Canada.

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Redbox, a company best known for its DVD rental kiosks, has announced that it will be launching its streaming site and that all its content will be available for free. The site will organize content into channels in order to help users find what they want to watch. The service is currently not available in all of the US.

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Apple has announced that the spread of the coronavirus has disrupted both the production and sales of the latest iPhone. It is the first US-based corporation to say that the virus has hurt its finances. This drop is coming because most Apple stores in China have either been shut down or are open for limited hours.

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The British government has revealed that they will be investing £1.2 billion on a powerful supercomputer that will collect and analyze data about the weather all over the country. This data will then be used to guide public policy and will make weather monitoring faster than it has even been.

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Oyo Hotels and Homes, a rapidly expanding hospitality startup operating in over 800 cities in 80 countries with more than 43,000 hotels, has recorded an annual increase in revenues but also deeper losses, with most of these coming due to the Indian company's aggressive expansion into more countries. Management recently acknowledged the mistake and pledged to be more cautious with expansion in 2020.

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The US army has made its own esports team made up entirely of enlisted soldiers who have also been trained to talk to potential recruits. This is a new tactic they are using to appeal to 17-24-year-olds in order to convince them to volunteer to join. The army's recruitment numbers have only gone up since the initiative began.

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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has recently said that it should not be up to companies such as his to decide what constitutes free speech. He went on to say that governments should come up with a new regulatory system for social media, suggesting that it could be a combination of the regulations already in place for telecoms and media companies.

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Built by two of the founders of the popular, now-defunct short video sharing platform Vine, HQ Trivia was an app that allowed users to win real money by participating in an online mobile-based game show, answering trivia questions on various subjects. But due to several issues, its userbase fell from a peak of 2.3 million to just 67,000 last month, causing the founders to shut it down.

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Sean Rad, the founder of popular online dating app Tinder which is currently worth almost 10 billion USD, has publicly backed a new app built by a certified sexual health professional Dr. Britney Blair, called Lover, which aims to help users discover their sexual preferences and matches similar ones to their partners. Lover has currently raised 5 million USD in seed funding from Rad.

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Police in the southern Indian state of Telangana developed a facial recognition app as part of the operation smile. According to the police, the app will be a game-changer in tackling the child trafficking problem in India. The police scanned more than 3,000 records on the app and reunited more than 1,500 kids with their families through facial recognition. Tens of thousands of children go missing in India every year.

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Researchers in Montreal have said that they have found a way to edit emotional memories using beta-blockers and therapy. The technology will help patients remove emotional pain that is associated with certain memories while maintaining the actual memory itself. The tech has worked on 70% of the patients it has been tried on.

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Startups with married co-founders are raising huge capital in funding rounds. Clearbanc, a Toronto based venture capital firm is an example. Co-Founders Andrew D’Souza and Michele Romanow said that their company would have been half of its size if they both were not together. They both were dating each other in 2014 when they came up with the idea of clearbanc. Julia and Kevin Hartz of Eventbrite is another example.

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Innovaccer, a startup that aims to provide a single source for all healthcare data and management for patients and physicians, has successfully raised 70 million USD in funding from Microsoft-backed M12, Dubai-based Mubadala Capital and Westbridge Capital among several others, and boasts a rapidly increasing user base of 3.8 million patients, claiming to have saved 400 million USD for healthcare systems worldwide.

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Founder and CEO Hussam Hammo's Jordan-based game developer Tamatem has successfully raised 3.5 million USD in funding from existing investor Wamda Capital as well as new backers, setting the company up for expanding its operations into other Middle Eastern countries and continuing its mission of providing content for underserved gaming markets worldwide.

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According to some insider information, Instagram is internally testing a new 'Latest Posts' feature that will show users the latest posts from their network as soon as they launch the app. Instagram is currently using a system that shows users posts that they are most likely to engage with, instead of what posts were made latest.

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Hobbi is yet another experimental app released by Facebook and is currently only available on iOS. The app is centered around documenting and sharing your progress as you work on your favorite hobby or personal project. The app does not have any built-in social features as of yet, but users can externally share their pictures and videos.

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In a deal that has now successfully passed through the UK's competition regulations, Google and its parent company Alphabet have purchased big-data analytics company Looker Data Sciences in a 2.6 billion USD all-cash deal. Looker's analytics tool, which allows users to visualize large datasets without writing complex scripts, will work in tandem with Google Cloud's BigQuery tool which specialized in handling large datasets.

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Flip, an employee messaging service based out of Stuttgart, Germany has successfully raised 3.6 million EUR, almost 4 million USD, from investing firms LEA Partners and Cavalry Ventures, and several others. Flip capitalizes on the rising trend of workplace-specific messaging apps such as Threema and Staffbase to offer a messaging service that keeps all relevant employees in a project or company informed of progress in a legally compliant manner.

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