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    Intel and Nvidia Chips Power a Chinese Surveillance System

    URUMQI, China — At the end of a desolate road rimmed by prisons, deep within a complex bristling with cameras, American technology is powering...

    ‘The Crown’ introduces its Princess Diana – TechCrunch

    “The Crown,” Netflix’s lavish historical drama about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, has returned for a fourth season that focuses on Elizabeth’s...

    WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against critic – TechCrunch

    Karan Bajaj, an Indian entrepreneur who teaches meditation and in a recent book guides others on how to avoid noise, is going after the...

    Week in Review: Venture-backed loneliness – TechCrunch

    Hello everyone and welcome back to Week in Review! Natasha here, subbing in for Lucas while he’s out. This week, we’ll talk about loneliness...

    Hollywood’s ‘We’re Not in Kansas Anymore’ Moment

    LOS ANGELES — In explaining why WarnerMedia had decided to release the much-anticipated big-budget “Wonder Woman 1984” simultaneously in theaters and on the streaming...

    A bug meant Twitter Fleets could still be seen after they disappear – TechCrunch

    Twitter is the latest social media site to allow users to experiment with posting disappearing content. Fleets, as Twitter calls them, allows its...

    How the pandemic drove the IPO wave we see today – TechCrunch

    This is The TechCrunch Exchange, a newsletter that goes out on Saturdays, based on the column of the same name. You can sign up for...

    Uber’s Black employee base shrinks – TechCrunch

    Welcome back to Human Capital, where I break down the latest in diversity, equity and inclusion, and labor in tech. TL;DR: This week, Apple announced...

    52 Years Later, IBM Apologizes for Firing Transgender Woman

    In August 1968, Lynn Conway, a promising computer engineer at IBM in Sunnyvale, Calif., was called into the office of Gene Myron Amdahl, then...

    Affirm, Airbnb, C3.ai, Roblox, Wish file for tech IPO finale of 2020 – TechCrunch

    Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here. The wait...

    Apple slashes commissions, Twitter launches Fleets, warnings about Parler – TechCrunch

    Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through...

    5 user experience fails and how to fix them – TechCrunch

    Hulu is the first major streaming platform to offer a social watching experience. And with most major league sports now being allowed to resume...

    Watch SpaceX launch a satellite that will monitor the world’s oceans – TechCrunch

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVFPzTDCihQ SpaceX is set to launch a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Saturday morning, with a target liftoff...

    All IPOs should be paid for in Robux – TechCrunch

    Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is an all-time first...

    No, a Negative Coronavirus Test Does Not Mean You Can Safely Socialize

    In the lead-up to Thanksgiving, Americans are no stranger to planning. But this year, as they prepare to let turkeys brine and pie crusts...

    Antibodies Good. Machine-Made Molecules Better?

    The coronavirus might be new, but nature long ago gave humans the tools to recognize it, at least on a microscopic scale: antibodies, Y-shaped...