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    Apple and Google block banned apps in India – TechCrunch

    Banned Chinese apps are beginning to disappear from India’s app stores, Palantir is raising more funding and Venmo starts testing Business Profiles. Here’s your Daily...

    Pioneering CRISPR researcher Jennifer Doudna is coming to Disrupt – TechCrunch

    Jennifer Doudna, a woman whose work has triggered the explosion in innovation in the field of synthetic biology and has given researchers around...

    Let’s stop COVID-19 from undoing diversity gains – TechCrunch

    Rachel Sheppard Contributor Any disaster will have its harshest repercussions on people who were already marginalized. It’s unsurprising, then, that when it comes to jobs and...

    Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute is rolling out a spit test for COVID-19 testing – TechCrunch

    Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, have begun trials of a new spit test for COVID-19 infections developed by the university’s Innovative Genomics...

    The great stink in software pipelines – TechCrunch

    Greg Law is the co-founder and CTO at Undo.io, a software failure replay platform provider. It’s the summer of 1858. London. The River Thames is...

    India’s richest man takes on Zoom – TechCrunch

    India’s Reliance Jio Platforms, which recently concluded a $15.2 billion fundraise run, is ready to enter a new business: Video conferencing. On Thursday evening,...

    Airline Environmental Commitments Are Less Strict Under CORSIA Changes

    The aviation industry is slowly recovering from the travel slump caused by the coronavirus. As flight schedules, they have a knock-on effect on CO2...

    Apple launches an online portal for Apple Card account holders – TechCrunch

    Apple today has launched an online portal for its Apple Card credit card, allowing account holders to manage their balance, view statements, schedule payments...

    Ford taps Disney Media Works to mark the return of the Bronco SUV – TechCrunch

    Ford is teaming up with Disney Media Networks to mark the return of its iconic Bronco SUV through a series of short films...

    Bogus Ideas Have Superspreaders, Too

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.If the Rock encouraged his 58 million...

    JetBlue Ups Domestic Offering With 30 New Routes

    JetBlue Airways announced last month that it would be adding 30 new routes on its domestic network over the summer months. The airline believes...

    Lemonade and Accolade open sharply higher as public markets rally – TechCrunch

    Despite today’s bucket of plus-and-minus economic data, stocks are heading higher in regular trading. And among the shares rising the most are today’s two...

    Are virtual concerts here to stay? – TechCrunch

    The COVID-19 pandemic pushed the music industry to experiment seriously with virtual concerts. Historically, musicians and their managers have been careful about challenging the traditional...

    JetBlue Pilots Won’t Face Involuntary Furlough Until May 2021

    JetBlue’s 3,600 pilots are today breathing a sigh of relief after it was revealed yesterday that the airline had reached an agreement with its...

    Get your pitchdeck critiqued by Accel’s Amy Saper and Bessemer’s Talia Goldberg at Early Stage – TechCrunch

    The art of the pitchdeck. Few things are more critical to the success of startups seeding capital. And make no mistake, it is an...

    British Airways Repatriates Nearly 40,000 UK Citizens In 3 Months

    British Airways has repatriated almost 40,000 British citizens since it started such flights in late March. The airline’s flight schedule has been minimal since...