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    Pakistan Bans TikTok, Citing Morals. Others Cite Politics.

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan has become the latest country to ban TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media platform, in a move that government critics said...

    Venture capital gets less diverse in 2020 – TechCrunch

    Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free,...

    Wig-Looking Poisonous Caterpillars Can Inflict Pain, Officials Warn

    First, it was murder hornets. Now it’s stinging caterpillars.As if there wasn’t enough to worry about in 2020, foresters in Virginia are warning that...

    Public investors stay in love with tech, as Root and Affirm file to IPO – TechCrunch

    Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here. Why are...

    Antitrust investigation dubs App Store a monopoly, Microsoft adopts ‘app fairness’ rules, pandemic boosts Q3 app revenues – TechCrunch

    Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through...

    Netflix’s ‘Enola Holmes’ is thoroughly mediocre – TechCrunch

    There’s nothing excessively bad about “Enola Holmes,” a new film about Sherlock Holmes’ younger sister Enola. But there’s nothing particularly good, either. The film was...

    A prison video visitation service exposed private calls between inmates and their attorneys – TechCrunch

    Fearing the spread of coronavirus, jails and prisons remain on lockdown. Visitors are unable to see their loved ones serving time, forcing friends and...

    Regeneron Asks F.D.A. for Emergency Approval for Drug That Trump Claimed Cured Him

    The drugmaker Regeneron said on Wednesday evening that it had submitted an application to the Food and Drug Administration for emergency approval of the...

    Apple Does Not Need to Return Fortnite to App Store, Judge Rules

    SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge ruled on Friday that Apple did not need to reinstate the popular video game Fortnite in its App...

    60-plus free agents – TechCrunch

    A lot has been made of the open memo that CEO Brian Armstrong published nearly two weekends ago, essentially barring political activism at work...

    Judge rules that Apple can ban Fortnite but can’t terminate Epic’s Unreal developer accounts – TechCrunch

    The California judge in the legal skirmish between Epic Games and Apple has denied Epic’s request that Apple be forced to reinstate...

    Nevada Halts Use of Rapid Coronavirus Tests in Nursing Homes

    Kristen Cardillo, BD’s vice president of global communication, said the company was aware of the situation in Nevada and was “conducting thorough investigations.” She...

    Federal Official Threatens Nevada for Halting Rapid Tests in Nursing Homes

    The leader of the nation’s coronavirus testing efforts condemned Nevada’s health department on Friday for ordering nursing homes to discontinue two brands of government-issued...

    How can employers hire & comply with all this new H-1B craziness? – 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...

    Uber engineer explains why he spoke out against Prop 22 – TechCrunch

    Welcome back to Human Capital where we discuss the latest in labor, and diversity and inclusion in tech. This week’s eyebrow-raising moment came Wednesday when...

    Why Amazon and Panasonic are betting on this battery recycling startup – TechCrunch

    JB Straubel, the Tesla co-founder and former CTO, is often cast as the humble and pioneering engineer, the quiet one who toiled away in...