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    Fight Over Gig Workers Persists Despite Win for Uber and Lyft

    “Tens of thousands of drivers in New York State, who as independent contractors were getting hundreds of dollars less, as employees are entitled to...

    Training Facial Recognition on Some New Furry Friends: Bears

    From 4,675 fully labeled bear faces on DSLR photographs, taken from research and bear-viewing sites at Brooks River, Ala., and Knight Inlet, they randomly...

    ‘Coded Bias’ Review: When the Bots Are Racist

    While working on an assignment involving facial-recognition software, the M.I.T. Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini found that the algorithm couldn’t detect her face —...

    Amazon’s new ‘Care Hub’ lets Alexa owners keep tabs on aging family members – TechCrunch

    Amazon today announced a set of new features aimed at making its Alexa devices more useful to aging adults. With the launch of...

    Come June 1, 2021, all of your new photos will count against your free Google storage – TechCrunch

    Come June 1, 2021, Google will change its storage policies for free accounts — and not for the better. Basically, if you’re on...

    What does Biden’s win mean for tech immigration? – 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...

    Snap acquired Voca.ai, which makes AI-based voice agents for call centers, for $120M – TechCrunch

    Snapchat is the quintessential consumer app: with an array of fun filters, it encourages people to send fun, disappearing messages to friends and has...

    To own an AR future, Niantic wants to build a smarter map of the world – TechCrunch

    Niantic is continuing to bet heavily on the idea that it knows where consumer computing is headed, namely towards augmented reality. The game development...

    Former Dropbox CFO Ajay Vashee is joining the powerhouse venture firm IVP in January – TechCrunch

    Ajay Vashee — who spent the last eight years at Dropbox, rising from the head of finance to CFO over his tenure and...

    Tweets from Biden aide show campaign’s frustration with Facebook.

    Bill Russo, a spokesman for the Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s presidential campaign, posted a flurry of tweets late Monday to decry the election-related misinformation...

    Europe puts out advice on fixing international data transfers that’s cold comfort for Facebook – TechCrunch

    Following the landmark CJEU ‘Schrems II’ ruling in July, which invalidated the four-year-old EU-US Privacy Shield, European data protection regulators have today published 38-pages...

    Facebook extends its temporary ban on political ads for another month – TechCrunch

    The election is settled, but the nation is far from it. Before Election Day in the U.S., Facebook hit pause on all political and...

    Only 72 hours left until early-bird savings end for TC Sessions: Space 2020 – TechCrunch

    We’re just about a month away from TC Sessions: Space 2020, a two-day conference dedicated to bold visionaries with the passion, audacity and technical...

    Palo Alto Networks to acquire Expanse in deal worth $800M – TechCrunch

    Palo Alto Networks has been on buying binge for the last couple of years, and today it added to its haul, announcing a deal...

    As edtech crowds up, Campuswire bets big on real-time learning – TechCrunch

    Campuswire was in a fortuitous spot when colleges and universities across the world shut down on short notice because of the threat of...

    TikTok test lets users fundraise for charity from their profile – TechCrunch

    TikTok is testing a new feature that allows users to raise funds for causes and charities they care about directly from their TikTok...