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    YouTube’s Power of the Purse

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.Facebook is a place where people get...

    What Does Simp Mean? – The New York Times

    The word “simp” isn’t new. In fact, it’s pretty old.But it has been dragged into fresh popularity. In the same way that older songs...

    How European seed firm Connect Ventures finds ‘product-first’ founders – TechCrunch

    Connect Ventures, the London-based seed-stage VC that was an early investor in Citymapper and Typeform announced a new $80 million fund last month to...

    New Issue Discovered With Rolls Royce’s Trent 1000 Dreamliner Engines

    As UK engine maker Rolls-Royce pushes towards rectifying old issues with the Trent 1000, another issue has arisen. Rubbing wear, which could lead to...

    Adobe tests an AI recommendation tool for headlines and images – TechCrunch

    Team members at Adobe have built a new way to use artificial intelligence to automatically personalize a blog for different visitors. This tool was built...

    Police hack criminal phone network; Randori raises $20M Series A – TechCrunch

    Last week was, for most Americans, a four-day work week. But a lot still happened in the security world. The U.S. government’s cybersecurity agencies warned...

    CARES Loans Terms Agreed By Delta, United, & 3 Other Airlines

    The US Department of the Treasury has announced today that five airlines have agreed on terms for loans under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and...

    NY-based autonomous reusable rocket startup lands Air Force contract – TechCrunch

    New York-based startup iRocket has landed a contract award from the U.S. Air Force to develop and build its fully autonomous small payload rockets,...

    Microsoft secretly seized domains used in COVID-19-themed email cyberattacks – TechCrunch

    A court has granted a bid by Microsoft to seize and take control of malicious web domains used in a large-scale cyberattack targeting...

    Nvidia’s Ampere GPUs come to Google Cloud – TechCrunch

    Nvidia today announced that its new Ampere-based data center GPUs, the A100 Tensor Core GPUs, are now available in alpha on Google Cloud. As...

    Everything you need to know about the virtual TC Sessions: Mobility 2020 – TechCrunch

    You may have heard that we’re taking our events virtual this year. And that means TC Sessions: Mobility is going virtual as well. This...

    As Palantir preps IPO, a look back at its growth history – TechCrunch

    Yesterday evening Palantir, the quasi-secretive data mining and analysis firm, publicly announced that it has privately filed to go public. The disclosure came in the...

    United Airlines Warns That Employee Furloughs May Be Coming

    In an internal presentation, United Airlines has prewarned thousands of employees that furloughs and layoffs may happen come October 1st. The airline has to...

    Zoom announces new Hardware as a Service offering to run on ServiceNow – TechCrunch

    Zoom announced a new Hardware as a Service offering today that will run on the ServiceNow platform. At the same time the company announced...

    Quaestor is reinventing business metric collaboration for the startup party round era – TechCrunch

    Business is the foundation, of, well, business. For startups, finding a working business model and honing it through decision-making, smart hires, and relentless focus...

    Amazon adds ‘hands-free’ Alexa to its Alexa mobile app – TechCrunch

    Amazon is making it easier for mobile users to access its Alexa virtual assistant while on the go. The company announced today it’s making...