Facebook's NPE division launches BARS, a TikTok-like app for rappers to create and share their raps using professionally created beats, in closed beta (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

After predicting autonomous vehicles would be commonplace by 2021, the industry is resetting expectations and committing to years of further R&D (Cade Metz/New York Times)

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Pave, whose software analyzes HR data to help companies close pay and equity gaps, raises $46M Series B led by YC Continuity at a $400M post-money valuation (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Nashville-based Built Technologies, which provides cloud-based construction lending software, raises $125M Series D led by TCV at a $1.5B valuation (Joel Stinnett/Nashville Business Journal)

Quizizz, which helps teachers create gamified quizzes and interactive lessons that generate instant student feedback, raises $31.5M Series B led by Tiger Global (Tarush Bhalla/Livemint)

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Microsoft is planning to fix a Windows 10 vulnerability that could corrupt a NTFS-formatted hard drive simply by viewing a folder with a malicious shortcut (Tom Warren/The Verge)