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    Plexiglass Barriers Won’t Stop the Virus at the Debate, Experts Warn

    A box fan, an air filter — and duct tape to attach them.With four such cobbled together devices, at perhaps a total of $150,...

    Startups joining SK Telecom’s accelerator include AI-driven mapping and vision for delivery robots – TechCrunch

    We don’t often cover telecom technology startups, but it’s periodically worth checking in to see what’s happening in that space. We can get a...

    Trump can’t recruit ‘army’ of poll watchers under new voter intimidation rules – TechCrunch

    In a blog post Wednesday, Facebook said it will no longer allow content that encourages poll watching that uses “militarized” language or intends...

    Daily Distortions: QAnon Gets it Wrong, Again

    Hours after Facebook cracked down on all QAnon groups, pages, and Instagram accounts, conspiracists integrated the prohibition into their narrative. Here’s how they got...

    Amazon sends legal notice to India’s Future Group over deal with Ambani’s Reliance Retail – TechCrunch

    Amazon has sent a legal notice to Future Retail, India’s second largest retail chain, for breaching the terms of its contract by selling...

    Facebook Amps Up Its Crackdown on QAnon

    Facebook, facing criticism that it hasn’t done enough to curb a fast-growing, fringe conspiracy movement, said on Tuesday that it would remove any group,...

    12 Accusations in the Damning House Report on Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google

    House lawmakers released a scathing report on four of the world’s largest tech companies, accusing them of abusing their market power. The report, which...

    ‘Triller Money’: How a TikTok Competitor Is Buying Star Power

    When talk of a possible TikTok ban began in July, the leaders of a small social video app called Triller saw a growth opportunity.To...

    Here’s the curtain raise on the Sight Tech Global agenda – TechCrunch

    The goal of Sight Tech Global, a virtual, global event on December 2-3, 2020, is to gather the world’s top experts who are applying...

    Google to cut big checks for news publishers, Substack continues to draw top creators, more – TechCrunch

    Welcome back to Extra Crunch’s Media Roundup, where I round up the stories that entrepreneurs in the content and advertising business should be thinking...

    The major ransomware attack you probably didn’t hear about – TechCrunch

    Watching the news this past week was like drinking from a firehose. Speaking of which, you probably missed a busy week in cybersecurity, so...

    YouTube Premium subscribers get a new perk with launch of testing program – TechCrunch

    YouTube has long allowed its users to test new features and products before they go live to a wider audience. But in a...

    Transportation VCs suggest frayed US-China ties will impact mobility markets – TechCrunch

    On Tuesday, during TechCrunch’s annual Mobility event, we had the opportunity to interview three investors who spend much of their time focused narrowly on...

    Adding Claire Díaz-Ortiz to its partnership, Magma Partners launches initiative to invest in female founders in LatAm – TechCrunch

    Claire Díaz-Ortiz has been many things over the course of her career — an angel investor, an early Twitter employee (who notably got the...

    Tech-publisher coalition backs new push for browser-level privacy controls – TechCrunch

    Remember ‘Do Not Track‘? The tracker-loving adtech industry hopes you don’t recall that decade+ doomed attempt to bake user-friendly privacy controls into browsers. But...

    Is it easier and faster to get an O-1A than an EB-1A? – 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...