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Adam Clark / Wall Street Journal : Under pressure, Deliveroo, Uber, and others in Europe are looking to reach labor agreements that offer some benefits without making workers full employees   —  Food-delivery platforms in Europe are offering couriers extra benefits in the hope of averting costly legislation on employment rights

Follow for updates on the Georgia Senate runoffs.

The growing effort to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom has received another boost -- this time from Kevin Faulconer, a former mayor of San Diego.

Follow for the latest updates on the presidential transition.

Follow for the latest updates on the presidential transition.

The House and Senate will meet for a joint session Wednesday to certify the Electoral College results, the last step in finalizing the presidential win for Joe Biden – but some GOP lawmakers are saying not so fast.

Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost : Parks Associates: 20% of US broadband households currently use ad-supported streaming services and 15% use a freemium service, like Peacock   —  Twenty percent of U.S. broadband households currently use an ad-supported OTT service, and 15% use a “freemium” service, according to Parks Associates research.

Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., said Republican congressmen held a rare Saturday night conference call to address their goal of overturning the Electoral College’s votes Jan. 6.

CNN says its former talk show host Larry King has been hospitalized with COVID-19 for more than a week

Wall Street Journal : An overview of tech to expect in 2021: better webcams, portable UV sanitizers, “assisted reality” glasses, more subscription services attached to hardware   —  New ways to work, exercise, see the doctor, watch movies and sanitize every surface in sight will continue to proliferate.

The far-right, male-only group, the Proud Boys, will descend onto Washington, D.C., in protest the same day Congress plans to certify Electoral College votes, officially confirming President-elect Joe Biden’s win.

The civil lawsuit against actor Danny Masterson will be arbitrated through the Church of Scientology, according to new reports.

A coalition of GOP senators and senators-elect, led by Sen. Ted Cruz, will object to the Jan. 6 certification of the presidential election results when a joint session of Congress meets next week unless there is an emergency 10-day audit of the results by an electoral commission.

Amid heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Saturday warned President Trump that any "fireworks will backfire."

New York Times : Sources: investigators are checking if SolarWinds was hacked via its offices in Czechia, Poland, and Belarus, where the company moved much of its engineering   —  Those behind the widespread intrusion into government and corporate networks exploited seams in U.S. defenses and gave away nothing to American monitoring of their systems.

Brad Paisley is the reason one Nashville man is beginning his New Year on a positive note.

The crucial Jan. 5 runoff elections are only three days away.

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler is promising to "push back harder" against anarchists and Antifa radicals after another riot rocked the city on New Year's Eve, admitting that months-long efforts to stem the violence have failed.

Alice Gledhill / Bloomberg : Bitcoin crosses $30K to reach an all-time high, after growing almost 50% in December   —  Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency, topped $30,000 for the first time, just weeks after passing another major milestone.  —  The currency gained almost 6% on Saturday to reach nearly $31,000 …

Kirk Cameron rang in the New Year by continuing to defy a stay-at-home order issued in Southern California.

The Georgia Senate runoff elections are only three days away.

William C. Gustafson / GitHub : Developer of Amphetamine, which has been on the Mac App Store since 2014 and has 400K+ downloads, says Apple is threatening to remove the app due to its name   —  Amphetamine is a free app that helps keep your Mac awake.  Amphetamine has been on the Mac App Store since 2014 and it's been downloaded over 432,800 times.

Mariannette Miller-Meeks, an Iowa Republican who ran for Congress four times, is expected to be sworn in Sunday -- even as a challenge to her razor-thin, six-vote victory looms. 

President-elect Joe Biden plans to include a lighting ceremony honoring Americans who have died from the coronavirus as part of the events leading up to his Jan. 20 inauguration.

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak : Search traffic to piracy sites dropped roughly a third from December 2019 to November 2020, coinciding with updates to Google's algorithm in January and May   —  When the file-sharing boom started twenty years ago, most ‘sharing’ took place in dedicated applications such as Napster and Limewire.

There's more than three years to go until the next Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire presidential primary, but what some considered the first cattle call in the 2024 White House race takes place next week.

Kevin Roose / New York Times : A look at the tech companies and people that helped with issues from COVID-19 to wildfires to Black Lives Matter in 2020   —  This year, technology firms big and small stepped up to help with the Covid-19 pandemic and other thorny challenges.  —  Some years, I have to dig deep to come …

A federal judge on Friday dismissed a last-gasp lawsuit led by a House Republican that aimed to give Vice President Mike Pence the power to overturn the results of the presidential election won by Joe Biden when Congress formally counts the Electoral College votes next week.

A 60-year-old Republican state senator from Virginia has died from coronavirus complications, the senator’s office confirmed Friday night, according to reports.

The backlash to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's handling of the coronavirus stimulus bill could be hitting close to home -- literally.

Mark Sullivan / Fast Company : 35 tech executives, investors, and experts offer their forecasts on tech trends in 2021, from increased investments in remote work to new data governance models   —  As we come to the end of a crazy 2020, many of us are suffering from COVID-19 exhaustion.  But as two vaccines begin their rollouts …

McConnell and other Republicans scuttled efforts to bring the matter up for a standalone vote before the current session of Congress ends.

Thune drew Trump’s ire in recent days after he criticized the president’s bid to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post : China's Zhejiang province, home to companies like Alibaba and NetEase, has approved the country's first regional law focusing on public data and digital economy   —  The legislation was hailed by tech leaders as a milestone for the ‘governing the digital industry according to the law’ Zhejiang's …

President-elect Joe Biden’s plans to include a lighting ceremony honoring the more than 341,000 Americans who have died from the coronavirus as part of the events leading up to his inauguration.

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer : A new Golang-based worm has been actively dropping XMRig cryptocurrency malware on Windows and Linux servers since early December, mining Monero   —  A newly discovered and self-spreading Golang-based malware has been actively dropping XMRig cryptocurrency miners on Windows and Linux servers since early December.

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The House of Representatives asked a federal judge in Texas on Thursday to dismiss a Republican congressman’s lawsuit seeking to give Vice President Mike Pence the power to decide which electoral votes to count when Congress meets on Jan. 6 to finalize November’s presidential election.

The third time is not the charm for this couple.