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    Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?

    There are now businesses that sell fake people. On the website Generated.Photos, you can...

    Roblox is going public – TechCrunch

    Roblox opens its books, Snap makes an acquisition and Pfizer and BioNTech seek regulatory approval for their vaccine. This your Daily Crunch for...

    Clubhouse, the – The New York Times

    A business trying to make money off mansions full of TikTok influencers has gone public on the stock market through an unusual deal. It...

    No, Trump’s sister did not publicly back him. He was duped by a fake account.

    On Friday morning, President Trump shared a seemingly innocuous article on Twitter. The piece said that his sister, Elizabeth Trump Grau, had publicly voiced...

    A fistful of IPOs, Affirm’s Peloton problem, Zoom Apps and more – TechCrunch

    DoorDash, Affirm, Roblox, Airbnb, C3.ai and Wish all filed to go public in recent days, which means some venture capitalists are having the best...

    New Pfizer Results: Coronavirus Vaccine Is Safe and 95% Effective

    The companies said that out of 170 cases of Covid-19, 162 were in the placebo group, and eight were in the vaccine group. Out...

    Study Questions Whether Masks Protect Wearers. You Need to Wear Them Anyway.

    Researchers in Denmark reported on Wednesday that surgical masks did not protect the wearers against infection with the coronavirus in a large randomized clinical...

    Restaurant search engine FoodBoss adds support for direct delivery from restaurants – TechCrunch

    FoodBoss aims to be something like Kayak for online food ordering — the place where you can search across different service and apps to...

    Scientists: How Has the Pandemic Changed Your Work?

    Over the past year, the coronavirus pandemic has underscored for the entire world the value of science — not only for tracking the spread...

    Walmart is buying JoyRun assets to add ‘peer-to-peer’ product delivery – TechCrunch

    The last time we wrote about JoyRun, it was raising $10 million. Today, the Bay Area startup has some very different news to share,...

    Kea raises $10M to build AI that helps restaurants answer the phone – TechCrunch

    Kea is a new startup giving restaurants an opportunity to upgrade one of the more old-fashioned ways that they take orders — over the...

    What went viral this week.

    Here at Daily Distortions, we try to debunk false and misleading information that has gone viral. We also want to give you a sense...

    A16z is now managing $16.5 billion, after announcing two new funds – TechCrunch

    Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has closed a pair of funds totaling $4.5 billion, the firm confirmed in a blog post this morning. The firm has...

    Mobileye taps Luminar to supply lidar for its robotaxi fleet – TechCrunch

    Luminar, the buzzy sensor startup that is on the verge of becoming a publicly traded company, locked in a supplier deal to furnish...

    When Sharks Turned Up at Their Beach, They Called in Drones

    Once rare off Southern California beaches, great white sharks are beginning to show up more often. The newcomers are mostly juvenile sharks, which prefer...

    ORIX invests $60M in Israeli crowdfunding platform OurCrowd – TechCrunch

    Japan-based financial services group ORIX Corporation today announced that it has made a $60 million strategic investment into the Israeli crowdsourcing platform OurCrowd. In...