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    Spike Lee’s Next Project: A Viagra Musical

    Spike Lee has directed films about a Black detective’s quest to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan, a bombing of an Alabama church and the...

    IBM is acquiring APM startup Instana as it continues to expand hybrid cloud vision – TechCrunch

    As IBM transitions from software and services to a company fully focussed on hybrid cloud management, it announced  its intention to buy Instana, an...

    Google Pay gets a major redesign – TechCrunch

    Google is launching a major redesign of its Google Pay app on both Android and iOS today. Like similar phone-based contactless payment services,...

    Jinx launches a text-to-buy dog food platform, with help from Initialized Capital – TechCrunch

    Jinx is launching a simple way to buy dog food and manage orders via text message. The startup says it has developed “the first text-to-buy...

    Farmstead, a grocery startup with a focus on software, raises $7.9M – TechCrunch

    Farmstead, a startup that operates an online grocery business while also selling software to other grocers, is announcing that it has raised $7.9 million...

    Nestlings wants to help international students navigate a messy higher-ed environment – TechCrunch

    The admissions process for international students applying to colleges is outdated. For starters, there is no Common App, the one-stop application that U.S. students...

    With a 2021 IPO in the cards, what do we know about Robinhood’s Q3 performance? – TechCrunch

    Let's examine a key Robinhood revenue category in Q3 to understand the unicorn's trajectory After rising sharply in the second quarter of 2020, Robinhood’s income...

    Abacus.AI raises another $22M and launches new AI modules – TechCrunch

    AI startup RealityEngines.AI changed its name to Abacus.AI in July. At the same time, it announced a $13 million Series A round. Today, only...

    Giuliani peddles election conspiracy theories and falsehoods.

    Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, has spread a litany of falsehoods and conspiracy theories in media appearances and social media over the...

    Go Jauntly applies AI to seek scale via ‘greener’ walking routes – TechCrunch

    Unless you’ve been on very extended digital detox, you’ll have noticed algorithms don’t exactly have the greatest reputation these days, saddled as they are...

    Device that combines air circulation with UV-C light deployed in first U.S. homes to help decrease COVID-19 transmission risk – TechCrunch

    Now that we know the virus that causes COVID-19 can be transmitted via aerosol (tiny particles in the air that can hang around for...

    Amazon brings Alexa Routines to Fire TV – TechCrunch

    Amazon announced today it’s bringing Alexa Routines — the feature that allows users to create their own Alexa shortcuts that combine multiple actions...

    Can an H-1B co-founder own a Delaware C Corp? – TechCrunch

    Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year...

    Children in U.S. May Miss 9 Million Vaccine Doses in 2020, Report Warns

    Children in the United States are on pace this year to miss nine million vaccine doses for measles, polio and other highly contagious diseases,...

    Kerry Washington backs jewelry startup Aurate – TechCrunch

    Actress Kerry Washington has made an investment of undisclosed size in direct-to-consumer jewelry startup Aurate. This isn’t Washington’s first startup investment — she’s also backed...

    No, Trump did not win in Nevada.

    President Trump claimed a “big victory” on Monday night after officials in Clark County, Nev., voted to rerun one local race that had a...