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This week in data, we've got declining birth rates, a Twitter hack, and a $1.7B healthcare IPO. Check it out below.

130 accounts: Twitter says that 130 users were targeted in a recent security breach, including high-profile accounts like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Apple, and many more. Compromised accounts were used to promote a bitcoin scam. Cybersecurity tech is evolving quickly as companies try to keep up with new threats. From zero-trust networking to anomalous behavior detection, we dig into emerging trends and high-momentum startups shaping the cybersecurity space in our 2020 Cyber Defenders report.  

$1.7B: Relay Therapeutics went public at an initial market cap of about $1.7B — its last disclosed private valuation, given at the end of 2017, was $233M. The Google Ventures-backed drug discovery company was included in our 2020 list of game changing startups. See the rest of the featured companies, and the tech they’re working on, in this report. 
 

+1 unicorn: Plant-based milk maker Oatly became a unicorn after raising $200M at a valuation of $2B — a 6x increase in valuation in less than a year. We look at how alternative protein startups are reshaping the global livestock industry in our Meatless Future report.

$15B: An EU court ruled in favor of Apple, saying the company does not need to pay around $15B in back taxes to Ireland. Apple previously agreed to deals with the Irish government to limit its tax bill as an incentive to set up a European base in the country, an arrangement that the EU claimed was illegal state aid.  
 

$10.2B: UiPath raised $225M at a valuation of $10.2B. The AI-enabled robotic process automation company has now raised more than $1.2B in disclosed equity funding. UiPath is the top-funded AI startup in the US, but AI companies are popping up all over the country. See the most well-funded AI startup in each US state in this infographic. 

$100M: Autonomous drone company Skydio raised a $100M mega-round. From defense to healthcare to agriculture, we look at 38 ways that drones could impact society in this report.  
 

8 years: Samsung said in a whitepaper that 6G, the still-in-development successor to the 5G connectivity standard, could be ready to be deployed as early as 2028. The company predicts that 6G could offer 50x the data transfer rates of 5G, supporting applications like mobile holograms and better virtual reality. We look at what 5G — which is currently rolling out across the world — brings to the table in this explainer. 

17 years: Microsoft issued a fix for a bug which had been in its code for 17 years. The vulnerability, which the company says is not known to have been exploited, could reportedly have allowed attackers to take over a victim’s entire IT infrastructure — making it possible to steal sensitive information and manipulate network traffic like emails.
 

3x: Researchers found that 2 earthquakes that occurred in California last year have made the San Andreas Fault 3x more likely to rupture, according to a paper published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. The new modeling puts the chance of a big earthquake being caused by the fault line, which many fear could threaten LA, at 1% per year — i.e. that's one every century.  
 

9.7B people: The world population could peak at 9.7B people in 2064, with 183 countries projected to have a declining population by the end of the century, according to a study published in the Lancet. The research forecasted that China’s population could decline to 732M by 2100, a 48% decline compared to 2017 levels.

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Some dogs are becoming "overly bonded" after spending so much time with their owners in quarantine. 

As a result, these dogs are throwing tantrums when they're separated from their owners. Dog trainers are advising that now would be the right time to reinforce their independence to avoid future meltdowns.

Cats, on the other hand, are "annoyed" that their owners are hanging around so much, according to animal trainer William Berloni.