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President-elect Trump invites Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend his inauguration next month. / CBS News
Some Democrats regret going sour on Elon Musk. Meta gives $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund. / Politico, The Wall Street Journal [+]
President Biden will commute the sentences of around 1,500 people. / Reuters
In Canada, euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths. / BBC News
In Mexico, an app with an AI diagnostic tool has led to a nine percent drop in suicide. / rest of world
Artificial intelligence startups are moving into San Francisco's empty office buildings. / CNBC
A therapist describes what it's like to work with "designed" teenagers in Silicon Valley. / WIRED
The tipping point for self-driving cars is said to be near. "The fact is that self-driving cars are getting safer." / IEEE Spectrum
Unrelated/related: Photographs of children working in Nigeria's lithium mines. / The Associated Press
Fans are reverse engineering Netflix to create unauthorized archives of favorite shows. / 404 Media
Why was Spotify's "wrapped" so poorly received this year? Partly because its software isn't fun to use. / The New Yorker
Matthew Haughey explains what it's like to experience a "spamalanche" attack. / A Whole Lotta Nothing
The best-selling specialty pizza in Taiwanese Pizza Hut history? One adorned with calamari, fried chicken, and Oreos. / Gastro Obscura
See also: A Japanese convenience store launches a drinkable mayonnaise. / The Independent
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