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Sources: Bolt, which offers a one-click checkout service, is seeking to raise ~$400M at a $14B valuation, after raising $393M at an $11B valuation in October (The Information)

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Amazon says it has sold over 150M Fire TV devices worldwide (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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Blockchain audit service CertiK raises an $88M Series B3 led by Insight, Tiger Global and Advent at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $230M (Jacquelyn Melinek/TechCrunch)

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Sources: SolarWinds hackers gained access to emails of Trump administration’s top DHS officials, including acting Secretary Chad Wolf and cybersecurity staff (Alan Suderman/Associated Press)

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Virginia Giuffre describes Ghislaine Maxwell’s private parts in unsealed court docs

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New York-based Parallel Learning, a telehealth service focused on students with learning challenges, raises a $20M Series A led by Tiger Global (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

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Oura, which makes a smart ring for personalized sleep and health tracking, says it has raised funding at a $2.55B valuation and has sold over 1M Oura Rings (Abigail Gentrup/Front Office Sports)

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Facebook is rolling out an opt-in feature, allowing “Hey Facebook” to be used as a wake word for its Portal displays and Oculus Quest platform (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge)

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‘If Loving You Is Wrong’ Recap: Season 5 Episode 12 — [Spoiler] Dies

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Andy Jassy will become CEO at the most politically perilous moment in Amazon’s history; it remains to be seen if he will try to make inroads with lawmakers (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)

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Twitter’s Spaces is well positioned to challenge Clubhouse as it’s intuitive, a logical fit for Twitter, and adds a meaningful new experience to the Twitter app (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

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Court filings show that Epic committed $444M on “minimum guarantees” for game developers that release on Epic Game Store but stay off of Steam for a year (Tyler Wilde/PC Gamer)