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Georgia voters head to the polls to decide control of the U.S. Senate

All eyes are on Georgia, where voters went to the polls on Tuesday to decide the fate of the U.S. Senate. Stephen Fowler, a political reporter for Georgia Public Broadcasting and host of the Battleground: Ballot Box podcast, joins Judy

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Donald Trump’s election delusions are getting grander – CNN

Donald Trump’s election delusions are getting grander  CNN How Donald Trump’s Presidency Ends  The Atlantic Donald Trump’s Alarming Call to Battle in Georgia  The New Yorker Will fight like hell to hold on: Donald Trump  Mint Donald Trump pressures Mike Pence to overturn election

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Google to add App Store privacy labels to its iOS apps as soon as this week

Contrary to reports, Google is not delaying updates to its iOS apps because it doesn’t want to comply with Apple’s recently announced App Store Privacy Labels policy. The new policy, a part of the company’s larger privacy push, requires developers

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OpenAI’s DALL-E creates plausible images of literally anything you ask it to

OpenAI’s latest strange yet fascinating creation is DALL-E, which by way of hasty summary might be called “GPT-3 for images.” It creates illustrations, photos, renders or whatever method you prefer, of anything you can intelligibly describe, from “a cat wearing

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Hack of federal agencies ‘likely Russian in origin,’ say security agencies

The statement represents the U.S. government’s first formal attempt to assign responsibility for the breaches at multiple agencies and to assign a possible motive for the operation.

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News Wrap: White Wisconsin officer avoids criminal charges in Jacob Blake shooting

In our news wrap Tuesday, the white police officer who shot and paralyzed a Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin last summer will not be charged, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 tops 356,000, the nation’s top national security agencies acknowledges

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In Los Angeles County, ‘the virus is virtually everywhere’

The United Kingdom is in the midst of a lockdown, as the U.S. faces a surge in hospitalizations from COVID-19. The coronavirus has been particularly bad In Los Angeles County, California, where the daily death toll is nearing 400 and

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Daily Crunch: NYSE won’t delist Chinese telcos

The New York Stock Exchange reverses course, Nintendo acquires a game studio and an Indian electronics and lifestyle startup raises $100 million. This is your Daily Crunch for January 5, 2021. The big story: NYSE won’t delist Chinese telcos The

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