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    Egnyte introduces new features to help deal with security/governance during pandemic – TechCrunch

    The pandemic has put stress on companies dealing with a workforce that is mostly — and sometimes suddenly — working from home. That has...

    Amazon launches a program to pay consumers for their data on non-Amazon purchases – TechCrunch

    Amazon has launched a new program that directly pays consumers for information about what they’re purchasing outside of Amazon.com and for responding to...

    French TV networks team up to launch streaming service Salto – TechCrunch

    There’s a new streaming service in France called Salto. The companies behind the new service have been around for a while though. Salto ...

    Think You Have ‘Normal’ Blood Pressure? Think Again

    The study, directed by Dr. Seamus P. Whelton, cardiologist and epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in...

    Microsoft Azure announces its first region in Austria – TechCrunch

    Microsoft today announced its plans to launch a new data center region in Austria, its first in the country. With nearby Azure regions...

    Recognizing Miscarriage as an Occasion for Grief

    There is a tendency to pathologize this grief, Dr. Hiefner said; if a 5-year-old died, no one would think it was comforting to say,...

    Call analytics platform Invoca expands into sales, e-commerce and customer experience – TechCrunch

    Invoca, which helps companies extract and use data from customer phone calls, is expanding today with the launch of products for e-commerce, customer experience...

    A 30-Mile Rafting Trip Through Alaska’s Tongass National Forest

    At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, with travel restrictions in place worldwide, we launched a new series — The World Through a Lens...

    Google calls DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit “deeply flawed” in GIF-laden blog response – TechCrunch

    Google was clearly anticipating today’s U.S. Department of Justice antitrust complaint filing – the company posted an extensive rebuttal of the lawsuit to...

    How an Ill-Fated Fishing Voyage Helped Us Understand Covid-19

    The threat posed by the virus, though, has made randomized trials extremely difficult to do. While researchers have randomly assigned macaque monkeys to receive...

    Google Photos revives its prints subscription service, expands same-day print options – TechCrunch

    Google Photos is reviving its photo printing subscription service and introducing same-day prints. The company earlier this year had briefly tested a new...

    Beam is building a web browser that gathers knowledge from your web activity – TechCrunch

    Remember Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer? Those applications from the 1990s used emphatic metaphors in their names to talk about a simple task —...

    In Reversal, Twitter Is No Longer Blocking New York Post Article

    SAN FRANCISCO — It is the 11th hour before the presidential election. But Facebook and Twitter are still changing their minds.With just a few...

    Election Tech That’s Super Simple

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.Friends, I love technology that is deceptively...

    Read the Document – The New York Times

    A PDF version of this document with embedded text is available at...

    Pickle app puts on users, as millennials/Gen-Z latch onto location apps to fight Covid lockdowns – TechCrunch

    As the coming of winter combined with the coronavirus continues to put new restrictions on peoples’ movements, location-based apps are on the rise again....