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Microsoft drops the price of foldable Surface Duo by $400 to $999 and says it will arrive in the UK, France, Germany, and Canada on Feb. 18, expanding beyond US (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft drops the price of foldable Surface Duo by $400 to $999 and says it will arrive in the UK, France, Germany, and Canada on Feb. 18, expanding beyond US — The first international release for Microsoft's dual-screen device — Microsoft is dropping the price of its foldable Surface Duo device … https://bit.ly/3tRyU12

Ahead of its debut Thursday, Bumble raises $2.15B in its IPO with shares priced at $43 each, up from the previous range of $37-39 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Ahead of its debut Thursday, Bumble raises $2.15B in its IPO with shares priced at $43 each, up from the previous range of $37-39 — - Listing upsized, priced above already elevated range — Wolfe Herd is youngest female CEO to take big U.S. firm public https://bit.ly/3cXYMTb

Sources: Facebook is building an audio chat product, currently in the earliest stages of development, that is similar to Clubhouse (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Sources: Facebook is building an audio chat product, currently in the earliest stages of development, that is similar to Clubhouse — The social network, which has a history of cloning its competitors, has started working on an audio chat product. — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is building … https://bit.ly/3jDzoDB

Instagram to impose stricter penalties, including removing accounts, to prevent abusive messages in DMs, after racist abuse was directed at footballers (Sky Sports)

Sky Sports: Instagram to impose stricter penalties, including removing accounts, to prevent abusive messages in DMs, after racist abuse was directed at footballers — Instagram to remove accounts of people who send abusive messages while developing new controls to help reduce the abuse people … https://bit.ly/3aP43d6

In iOS 14.5 beta, Maps adds a feature letting US users report accidents, hazards, and speed checks along their route using Siri or CarPlay (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Juli Clover / MacRumors: In iOS 14.5 beta, Maps adds a feature letting US users report accidents, hazards, and speed checks along their route using Siri or CarPlay — The iOS 14.5 beta, available to developers and public beta testers, adds a new Apple Maps feature that lets you report accidents, hazards … https://bit.ly/2NdQzzr

Police officers in Beverly Hills have played licensed music while being filmed by citizens, seemingly in an effort to trigger social networks' copyright filters (Dexter Thomas/VICE)

Dexter Thomas / VICE: Police officers in Beverly Hills have played licensed music while being filmed by citizens, seemingly in an effort to trigger social networks' copyright filters — Police officers in Beverly Hills have been playing music while being filmed, seemingly in an effort to trigger Instagram's copyright filters. https://bit.ly/2MGA9jb

Armis, which provides IoT device security software, raises $125M led by Brookfield Technology Partners at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $300M (Dylan Martin/CRN)

Dylan Martin / CRN: Armis, which provides IoT device security software, raises $125M led by Brookfield Technology Partners at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $300M — 'We are building our business with the support of Brookfield now, the folks at Insight and CapitalG, towards an IPO … https://bit.ly/3jvexCg