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    Shopify stock is up in pre-market trading as earnings blow past estimates – TechCrunch

    Shopify stock jumped nearly 3% in pre-market trading today after announcing earnings that handily beat the estimates set by Wall Street. The Ottawa-based provider...

    Twitter’s API access changes are chasing away third-party developers – TechCrunch

    'Twitter made it mathematically impossible to turn a profit' Edward Tian is a computer science student at Princeton and an investigator at Bellingcat who combines...

    Sinch announces Conversation API to bring together multiple messaging tools – TechCrunch

    As communicating with customers across the world grows ever more challenging due to multiple channels, tools and networking providers, companies are looking for a...

    Slingshot Aerospace raises $8 million to help it expand to new verticals beyond aerospace and defense – TechCrunch

    Austin and El Segundo-based Slingshot Aerospace was born out of a realization that while there is a massive amount of information collected by observation...

    ByteDance launches its first gadget in a big education push – TechCrunch

    ByteDance on Thursday unveiled its first consumer hardware product, a smart light lamp with a display, that it says is part of its...

    GetYourGuide closes $133M convertible note as travel startups continue to weather the Covid-19 storm – TechCrunch

    On the heels of Germany announcing another lockdown to try to contain the rapid rise in Covid-19 cases in the country, one of the...

    Trump hints at stopping “powerful” big tech in latest ‘get out the vote’ tweet – TechCrunch

    If there was any doubt that yesterday’s flogging of big tech CEOs by Senate republicans was anything other than an electioneering stunt, president Trump...

    How to Run a Race in a Time of Surging Coronavirus

    At the Grand Canyon Trail Half Marathon on Nov. 7, one of the few longer events scheduled to take place this fall in-person, participants...

    A Lullaby by Any Other Name Would Sound as Sweet

    Babies love lullabies, and a new study suggests they don’t much care what culture the songs come from, what language they are sung in,...

    ‘Tsunamis of Misinformation’ Overwhelm Local Election Officials

    “They’re definitely overwhelmed,” said Isabella Garcia-Camargo, an organizer of the Election Integrity Partnership, a new coalition of misinformation researchers. ...

    Living in Noisy Neighborhoods May Raise Your Dementia Risk

    Long-term exposure to noise may be linked to an increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.Researchers did periodic interviews with 5,227...

    Upgrade adds rewards program to its credit card – TechCrunch

    Fintech startup Upgrade has been quite successful with its two flagship products — a low-cost credit card and personal loans. The company is making its...

    LinkedIn’s Career Explorer helps you identify new kinds of jobs based on the skills you have – TechCrunch

    One of the key side-effects of the Covid-19 pandemic has been how it has played out in the economy. There are currently 12.6 million...

    Marriott International announces partnership with Grab in six Southeast Asian countries – TechCrunch

    The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the hospitality industry especially hard, and hotels around the world are looking for ways to regain revenue. Today, Marriott...

    Officials Warn of Cyberattacks on Hospitals as Virus Cases Spike

    Hundreds of American hospitals are being targeted in cyberattacks by the same Russian hackers who American officials and researchers fear could sow mayhem around...

    ‘Perception Hacks’ and Other Potential Threats to the Election

    In Georgia, a database that verifies voter signatures was locked up by Russian hackers in a ransomware attack that also dumped voters’ registration data...