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A Republican House candidate prematurely claimed victory in a race to unseat Democratic congresswoman Lauren Underwood, and then went to new member orientation even after she was declared the winner

Pelosi's office backs down. Incoming House member dinner switches to boxed meals after event gets skewered on social media.

Bonus: An extra week to save on tickets to TC Sessions: Space 2020

GM recalls 68,000 electric Chevy Bolts over battery fire concerns - The Verge

OxygenOS 11.0.4.5 for the OnePlus 8T rolls out with 11 different fixes

Hisense 70-inch 4K UHD Smart Android TV deal is still available for $400 - CNET

What The Crown season 4 gets right (and wrong) about Princess Diana - CNET

Apple Watch SE Black Friday deal: 44mm back to $260 at Amazon - CNET

A scheme to hand Trump electors in state legislatures is highly unlikely to happen.

Hackers sponsored by Russia and North Korea are targeting COVID-19 researchers

Ticketmaster's UK wing fined ~$1.6M by the UK ICO after a report found they failed to put appropriate security measures in place prior to their 2018 data breach (Shoshana Wodinsky/Gizmodo)

Facebook plans to use machine learning to sort its moderation queue prior to human review, prioritizing viral and potentially severe content first (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Oculus Quest 2 update adds support for 90Hz games; an Oculus Move app for tracking fitness metrics while playing is coming in the following week (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge)

Uber is reportedly in talks to sell its self-driving vehicle division to a startup run by former Uber, Tesla, and Google executives and backed by Amazon

NextView Ventures closes its fourth fund with $89 million