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  • SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk (R) gestures as he arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer Awards ceremony, in Berlin, on December 1, 2020.Britta Pedersen / POOL / AFP via Getty ImagesNewsletters

    Tesla, GameStop, and the power of ‘meme stocks’

    By Robert Hackett and David Z. Morris
  • Payroll write on keyboard isolated on laptop backgroundCompanies

    Exclusive: Fintech startup Check raises $35 million, led by Stripe

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  • NEW YORK, NY – MAY 01: (L-R) Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief, WIRED and Marc Andreessen, Founder & General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz attend Wired Business Conference in Partnership with MDC Partners at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on May 1, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Larry Busacca/WireImage for Wired)Newsletters

    Tech and crypto funder Andreessen Horowitz wants to replace the media. Is that bad news?

    By Jeff John Roberts and David Z. Morris
  • SANTA COLOMA DE FARNERS, SPAIN – JANUARY 15: Detail of Pfizer’s Covid-19 Vaccine on 15, 2021 in Santa Coloma de Farners, Spain. Spain registers a new record of daily infections with 40,197 infected by coronavirus. (Photo by Manuel Medir/Getty Images).Health

    Vaccine reserves promised by Trump officials simply aren’t there—and states are left to deal with the chaos

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  • Zach-Perret-PlaidNewsletters

    Plaid without Visa? It might be a blessing in disguise

    By Jen Wieczner and David Z. Morris
  • An aerial view of light traffic on Hollywood Boulevard (L) and the 101 freeway mid-morning on April 18, 2020. New data from TomTom shows that Los Angeles had the 10th largest drop in traffic congestion of any city in the world in 2020. Many other American cities also had persistent declines in traffic.

    These U.S. cities led the world in reduced car traffic last year

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  • Modern Treasury founders (l-r): Sam Aarons, Dimitri Dadiomov, and Matt Marcus.Companies

    Exclusive: Y Combinator alum Modern Treasury raises $38 million

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  • WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 06: Protesters interact with Capitol Police inside the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress held a joint session today to ratify President-elect Joe Biden’s 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. A group of Republican senators said they would reject the Electoral College votes of several states unless Congress appointed a commission to audit the election results. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)Politics

    Why did police fail to protect the Capitol?

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  • WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 06: President Donald Trump greets the crowd at the “Stop The Steal” Rally on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Trump supporters gathered in the nation’s capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 election. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)Politics

    ‘We will never concede’: How Donald Trump incited an attack on America

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  • A supporter of US President Donald Trump sits inside the office of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as he protest inside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 6, 2021. – Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the a 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)Politics

    Attempted coup at Capitol presents key opportunity for cyberattack, experts warn

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  • Business trapNewsletters

    Trump and Mnuchin’s parting sneak attack on financial privacy

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  • A healthcare worker at a Covid-19 testing site in San Marcos, California on Jan 2. California’s state health agency is a client of Color, a digital health startup that announced new fundraising today.Health

    Health tech platform Color is a unicorn after new funding round values it at $1.5 billion

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  • GERMANY, BONN – DECEMBER 23: Symbol photo on the topic Bitcoin, Bitcoin crash, Crime, money laundering, Bitcoin bubble, etc. The picture shows a burning Bitcoin (physical coin).The Coins

    A brief history of Bitcoin bubbles

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  • In this photo illustration, a person files an application for unemployment benefits on April 16, 2020, in Arlington, Virginia. – The government reported Thursday that another 5.2 million US workers filed for unemployment benefits, taking the four-week total to 22 million, a staggering figure in a downturn that economists say presents the country with its most severe outlook since the Great Depression of the 1930s. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)Politics

    Trump’s delayed signing of the new relief bill won’t create a loss of unemployment payments after all

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  • A charge nurse receives their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination site at Torrance Memorial Medical Center on December 19, 2020 in Torrance, California. – The vaccine brings hope for health care workers as the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reports over 600,000 positive COVID-19 cases in the county. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)Health

    Digital patient vaccination records could be the foundation for a ‘vaccine passport’

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