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A tech startup just raised $1 billion — and an IPO could be around the corner

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Cybersecurity startup Wiz said this week that it had raised $1 billion in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Thrive Capital.

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Amazon is about to start advertising Amazon products when Prime Video users hit pause

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Amazon is making it easier than ever for users of its video streaming service to buy directly from commercials. The e-commerce giant announced Tuesday that it’sintroducing three new interactive ad formats later this fall to its Prime Video service. The announcement came a week before the company is set to make its upf…

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More than 30% of the world's electricity is now coming from renewable energy

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The Earth is careening toward a dangerous level of global warming. At this rate, the planet will eventually lose its ability to provide us with the conditions necessary to sustain our continued survival. Many of the industries that contribute to that warming through greenhouse gas emissions, like oil companies and the…

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The mystery of how water escaped from Venus might have been solved

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Around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth and Venus were born in the midst of a chaotic star system. With the neighboring worlds being of the same size and similar structure, it’s believed that both planets likely began with similar amounts of water. Today, however, Venus is a hellish world with intense heat and crushing…

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Disney CEO Bob Iger says Marvel will slow things down

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Marvel’s diplomatically up-and-down recent history has sat alongside a desire from its parent company Disney to see the studio capitalize on the post-Endgame era with Marvel content overflowing from not just the box office, but our TV screens as well. It’s meant that in the last 5 years, there’s been a lot of Marvel,…

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The U.S. barred Intel and Qualcomm from selling chips to China's Huawei

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The Biden administration has increased its restrictions on sales of U.S. technology to Huawei Technologies as China’s leading technology firm draws more scrutiny. The move, first reported by The Financial Times on Tuesday, will curb some U.S. companies from selling chips to Huawei that are used in smartphones and…

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