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Nintendo to open its first official store located in Japan

We dismantle Facebook’s memo defending its “Research”

Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s artist-collaboration platform HitRecord raises $6.4M

Kleiner Perkins officially reboots with a $600 million early-stage fund

Net neutrality battle gets a new day in court tomorrow

Digital influencers and the dollars that follow them

10 strange historical observations of North American monsters

Foxconn is killing a second $9B factory

10 times snails revealed facts and weird stories

Social media should have “duty of care” towards kids, UK MPs urge

Nintendo posts $958M profit but cuts Switch target despite strong Christmas sales

10 discoveries that completely confuse modern scientists

Samsung posts fourth-quarter profit drop, warns of weak demand until the second half of 2019

Grab raises $200M from Thailand-based retail conglomerate Central Group

With its Greenlots acquisition, Shell is moving from gas stations to charging stations

Tesla says the Model Y is coming in 2020

Tesla reports back-to-back profitable quarters

MIT researchers are training a robot arm to play Jenga

Amazon partners with New York colleges on a cloud computing job training program

10 iconic mascots and their surprising stories

FabFitFun raises $80 million for its growing lifestyle brand

10 people executed for murder who did not do it

Amex blocks Curve as the fintech startup vows to fight “anti-competitive” decision

10 unusual discoveries that challenge scientific beliefs

Wanna Kicks, a new AR app from Wannaby, lets you virtually “try on” your next pair of kicks

iRobot’s robotic lawnmower was 10 years in the making

Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them

Pinterest puts an IPO on its pinboard, hiring Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan to lead an offering this year

Knotch raises $25M to help marketers collect data about their content

Announcing TC Sessions: Mobility, a one day event on the future of mobility and transportation

Gmail on mobile gets a fresh coat of Material Design paint

Top 10 Alternative Uses for Common Objects During the Apocalypse

Huawei ‘disappointed,’ denies charges

Most of the Fortune 100 still use flawed software that led to the Equifax breach

10 interesting facts about the rise of sex robots

Entrepreneur First eyes further Asia growth to build its global network of founders

10 troubling facts about "America's wicked man"

Apple disables group calling in FaceTime in response to eavesdropping bug

Southeast Asia’s Grab is adding Netflix-like video streaming to its ride-hailing app

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez calls out big tech on climate change controversy

Former Munchery employees sue company, blame CEO for shutdown

Screen time inhibits toddler development, study finds

Facebook drafts a proposal describing how its new content review board will work

Apple’s new developer guidelines signal that scammy subscription apps’ time is up

10 dubious items produced by haute couture designers

Lack of transparency in healthcare startups risks another Theranos implosion

10 most scary stories of people having met Ted Bundy

Curve, the all-your-cards-in-one app, adds support for Amex

10 amazing ways that animals help us treat diseases

Naspers takes full control of Russian classifieds site Avito in $1.16B deal

China’s Didi teams up with state-owned BAIC to deepen electric vehicle push

Startups Weekly: Is Munchery the Fyre Festival of startups?

A simple data analysis disproves the argument for building a border wall

Too few cybersecurity professionals is a gigantic problem for 2019

Samsung is ditching plastic packaging

BMW, Porsche, Jaguar Land Rover invest in roadside assistance startup Urgently

10 unexpected events that occurred during the awards ceremony

The new Two Minutes Hate

Where seed and early-stage funding is growing, contracting or holding steady

10 times a meteor fell on Earth and went back into space

The facts about Facebook

10 inspiring stories to help you through the week (27/01/19)

Has the fight over privacy changed at all in 2019?

How have tariffs impacted robotics?

What (we think) we know about the Samsung Galaxy S10

Without proof, is Huawei really a national security threat?

Original Content podcast: Fyre Festival docs shine light on a social media-fueled disaster

One-quarter of jobs are at ‘high-risk’ of being automated

The state of the foldable

10 staggered stories that you may have missed this week (26/01/19)

Metroid Prime 4 development was going so badly, Nintendo is starting over

Top 10 world premieres of hybrids

Daily Crunch: Facebook is shutting down Moments

New iPad mini and entry-level iPad are around the corner

10 famous festivals that ended in a total disaster

Trump agrees to reopen the federal government through mid-February

BioWare’s ambitious Anthem is off to a rough start as players bring servers to their knees

The Predictive Index brings in $50M to help businesses create winning teams

Tinder agrees to settle age discrimination lawsuit

Pentagon stands by finding of no conflict of interest in JEDI RFP process

Airbnb acquires Denmark’s Gaest to expand in bookings for meetings and offsites

Meet the little-known Chinese WiFi startup that rubs shoulders with WeChat and Alipay

10 amazing events this week (25/01/19)

StarCraft II-playing AI AlphaStar takes out pros undefeated

10 things you never knew about McDonald's

Hidden screen in iOS 12.2 beta hints at AirPods that can handle ‘Hey Siri’

10 strange things you did not know about memory

Ultima Thule shows its lumps in latest images from New Horizons flyby

Theranos documentary review: The Inventor’s horrifying optimism

Go-Jek makes first close of $2 billion round at $9.5 billion valuation

Lightning Motorcycles is taking reservations for its $12,998 electric motorcycle

Intel shares drop 6% after delivering poor guidance for Q1

Tradeshift says it’s seen a ‘huge drop’ in UK transactions amid Brexit uncertainty

After an abrupt shutdown, Munchery’s small business vendors are the ones picking up the bill

10 allergies that you would never have imagined exist

Verizon’s unlimited data carrier Visible starts selling iPhones, announces Android compatibility

Apple cuts 200 staff from its Project Titan autonomous car division

10 ordinary household items that our ancestors killed

Singapore’s Credit Culture raises $29.5M for its soon-to-launch digital loan business

10 little-known prehistoric beasts with incredible claims to fame

Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China

Twitter testing ‘Original Tweeter’ tag to distinguish who started a thread

Buzzfeed will cut its staff by 15% in major round of layoffs

Microsoft Edge on mobile now includes a built-in fake news detector

Aibo learns to be a better watchdog

Suppose TV can now alert you to changes in TV packages, so you get the best deal

Wag founders ditch dogs for bikes with $37 million in funding