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Netflix announces four comedy specials to be hosted and produced by Dave Chappelle, with a focus on other veteran comedians (James Hibberd/The Hollywood Reporter)

Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 Pico, a tiny microcontroller for hardware projects that uses Raspberry Pi’s own RP2040 chip (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

Osmind, which provides EHR software to chart and update mental health patient information and documents, raises a $40M Series B led by DFJ Growth (David Shultz/Fast Company)

Amazon announces AWS IoT TwinMaker to help developers create digital twins of real-time systems like buildings, factories, equipment, and product lines (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Customer data management service RudderStack raises $56M Series B led by Insight Partners, says from 2020 to 2021, its customer base grew 3x, revenue grew ~4.5x (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Tim Berners-Lee’s Inrupt, which helps people control their data, has raised ~$20M to date and is piloting projects with UK’s National Health Service and others (Steve Lohr/New York Times)

Draftea, a fantasy sports app focused on Latin America, raises $13.2M led by Kaszek with participation from Sequoia, Bullpen, and FanDuel founder Nigel Eccles (Anita Ramaswamy/TechCrunch)

DexCare, whose software helps health systems manage capacity and patient appointment booking, raises a $50M Series B, after a $20M round in March 2021 (Charlotte Schubert/GeekWire)

In the Philippines, presidential frontrunner Bongbong Marcos is using TikTok and troll farms to rewrite his dictator father’s violent past for young Filipinos (David Pierson/Los Angeles Times)

Berlin-based Gorillas, a same-day grocery delivery service, raises $290M Series B at a $1B+ valuation led by Coatue Management, DST Global, and Tencent (Steve O’Hear/TechCrunch)

Disney+ ended 2021 with 129.8M subscribers, up 37% YoY; in the US and Canada it had 42.9M subscribers, international excluding Hotstar 41.1M, and Hotstar 45.9M (Variety)

Crypto.com halted withdrawals and requires users to re-sign-in and reset 2FA; research shows Crypto.com lost 4,600+ ETH, worth $15M+, during a suspected hack (Andrew Asmakov/Decrypt)