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1) Uber has some new competition in Brazil — the government-backed app Taxi.Rio which has seen its usage rise by 60% in recent months.
2) New data released by the Copernicus Climate Change Service shows that 2021 was the fifth-warmest year on record. While 2021 didn't break any records itself, the new data means that the seven hottest years ever recorded have now been the last seven years.
3) Back Market, a company that operates a marketplace of refurbished smartphones for people who don't want to fork over $1,000 every 2 years for a new one, has raised a fresh round of funding at a $5.7bn valuation.
4) Inflation has hit another record in the US, with prices rising 7% in December 2021 compared to the same month the year before. That's the fastest pace of price rises for almost 40 years.
5) Apple has removed some of the blatant copycats of the popular word game Wordle from the App Store.
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