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    Robinhood’s financial news team launches its first video series – TechCrunch

    Stock trading app Robinhood has seen rapid growth during the pandemic, leading it to raise hundreds of millions more dollars in funding — most...

    Microsoft Surface Duo review – TechCrunch

    In the early days, Microsoft had misgivings about calling the Surface Duo a phone. Asked to define it as such, the company has had...

    AstraZeneca Pauses Vaccine Trial for Safety Review

    A spokeswoman for the Food and Drug Administration declined to comment.A person familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said...

    Cleaners Demand Harassment Safeguards From the Booking Service Handy

    Housekeepers who work in hotels and casinos often face harassment on the job, studies have shown, but it is not clear how often cleaners...

    EU lawmakers say it’s time to go further on tackling disinformation – TechCrunch

    A major European Commission review of a Code of Practice aimed at combating the spread of disinformation online has concluded the self-regulatory instrument is...

    Unity launches its Cloud Content Delivery service for game developers – TechCrunch

    Unity, the company behind the popular real-time 3D engine, today officially launched its Cloud Content Delivery service. This new service, which is engine-agnostic, combines...

    PayPal, Visa expand Instant Transfers for fast payouts globally on all PayPal’s networks – TechCrunch

    The COVID-19 pandemic continues to put huge stress on people’s and businesses’ finances, and in an effort to meet some of the crunch, today...

    Orchard real estate platform raises $69 million Series C led by Revolution Growth – TechCrunch

    Orchard, the tech-forward residential real estate platform, has today announced the close of a $69 million Series C funding led by Revolution Growth. Existing...

    Dgraph launches Slash GraphQL, a GraphQL-native database Backend-as-a-Service – TechCrunch

    Dgraph Labs, the startup behind the popular eponymous graph database, today announced the launch of its Slash GraphQL service. Slash GraphQL is a...

    New York Will Test the Dead More Often for Coronavirus and Flu

    Cough, fever, chills — with fall fast on the way, symptoms alone won’t be useful in distinguishing Covid-19 from similar-looking cases of the flu....

    The Risks of the Prescribing Cascade

    A popular treatment for high blood pressure, which afflicts a huge proportion of older people, is a common precipitant of the prescribing cascade, Dr....

    Dentists Are Seeing an Epidemic of Cracked Teeth. What’s Going On?

    When I reopened my dental practice in early June, the tooth fractures started coming in: at least one a day, every single day that...

    N.I.H. Director Undercuts Trump’s Comments on Covid-19 Vaccines

    “Well, yes it is, and I’ve said that often,” he said. “We want to set an example.”Dr. Fauci, whose differences with the president have...

    Huawei phones will start running on HarmonyOS in 2021 – TechCrunch

    Huawei is planning to launch its proprietary Harmony operating system on smartphones in 2021, the firm announced at its annual developer conference in Dongguan...

    I Got Blown Up in Iraq. Years Later, Amputating My Leg Set Me Free.

    I only have flashes of memory from getting hit in a roadside bomb attack near Balad,...

    Curio, the curated audio platform for journalism, has closed $9M Series A funding – TechCrunch

    Curio, the burgeoning audio platform that offers a curated library of “expert” journalism, has closed a $9 million in Series A round funding. The round...