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    Ride Vision raises $7M for its AI-based motorcycle safety system – TechCrunch

    Ride Vision, an Israeli startup that is building an AI-driven safety system to prevent motorcycle collisions, today announced that it has raised a $7...

    Beyond Meat unveils two new versions of its Beyond Burgers – TechCrunch

    Beyond Meat has launched two new versions of its Beyond Burgers, the company announced today. The two new options will be available on store...

    How esports can save colleges – TechCrunch

    Brandon Byrne Contributor Brandon Byrne is the CEO and co-founder of Opera Event, a technology platform that connects content creators, teams and sponsors to one another...

    Hulu will increase the price of its live TV service again on December 18th – TechCrunch

    It’s price hike season! Just a few weeks after Netflix bumped up prices on a bunch of its plans, it looks like Hulu will soon...

    Deep Vision announces its low-latency AI processor for the edge – TechCrunch

    Deep Vision, a new AI startup that is building an AI inferencing chip for edge computing solutions, is coming out of stealth today. The...

    3 growth tactics that helped us surpass Noom and Weight Watchers – TechCrunch

    Henrik Torstensson Contributor Henrik Torstensson is CEO and co-founder of Lifesum. Previously, he was Head of Premium Sales at Spotify and SVP, Strategy at Stardoll. Many consumers...

    GitHub defies RIAA takedown notice, restoring YouTube-dl and starting $1M defense fund – TechCrunch

    GitHub has restored the code of a project that the RIAA demanded it take down last month after finding that the group’s DMCA...

    Arrikto raises $10M for its MLOps platform – TechCrunch

    Arrikto, a startup that wants to speed up the machine learning development lifecycle by allowing engineers and data scientists to treat data like code,...

    Fox News’s ‘partisan right’ audience on YouTube is dropping, researchers say.

    Disinformation about election fraud is thriving on YouTube, and right-wing outlets that most aggressively push false information are gaining new, conservative viewers on the...

    You can now embed Apple Podcasts on the web – TechCrunch

    Apple is making it easier to discover and listen to podcasts via the web. The company announced today an Apple Podcasts embed web player...

    Spain’s Other Covid Casualties: Undetected Cancer Cases

    MADRID — Last March, as the coronavirus was tearing across Spain, Lídia Bayona Gómez started to suffer bouts of vomiting and coughing.A nursing home...

    Strava raises $110 million, touts growth rate of 2 million new users per month in 2020 – TechCrunch

    Activity and fitness tracking platform Strava has raised $110 million in new funding, in a Series F round led by TCV and Sequoia,...

    5 key innovations taking e-scooters to a half-billion rides in 2021 – TechCrunch

    Travis VanderZanden Contributor Travis VanderZanden is the founder and CEO of Bird. Four years ago, shared e-scooters didn’t exist. Today, they’re on track to surpass half a...

    Squarespace adds support for memberships and paywalled content – TechCrunch

    Squarespace is adding a new monetization option for websites built on the platform: Member Areas, where businesses can charge for access to exclusive content. Chief...

    The DOJ has approved Mastercard’s acquisition of Finicity – TechCrunch

    Federal regulators have approved Mastercard’s acquisition of Salt Lake City-based startup Finicity, which provides open-banking APIs. The deal is expected to go for...

    A former right-wing media creator on how a ‘different reality’ became so prominent.

    Matthew Sheffield started his first conservative website in 2000, dedicating it to criticizing the former CBS News anchor Dan Rather, who Mr. Sheffield believed...