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    Yes to Tech Optimism. And Pessimism.

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.I recently made a promise to myself,...

    Watch these 6 startups compete in Pitchers & Pitches tomorrow – TechCrunch

    What do you get when you combine six early-stage startup founders with a panel of top VCs and savvy TechCrunch editors? It’s Pitchers &...

    Your first sales hire should be a missionary, not a mercenary – TechCrunch

    Micah Smurthwaite Contributor Micah Smurthwaite is a partner at Next47 focusing on investments in enterprise software, infrastructure, cybersecurity and frontier technology companies. As the first sales hire...

    Four days left on early bird savings for TC Sessions: Mobility 2020 – TechCrunch

    Want to save $100 on your pass to TC Sessions: Mobility 2020? Silly question, right? Of course, you do. Here’s the thing. You have...

    Emily Miller and Another P.R. Expert Ousted At F.D.A. After Blood Plasma Fiasco

    The F.D.A. had been considering allowing the use of convalescent plasma as a treatment for Covid-19 on an emergency basis, but last week The...

    To Play Poker in a Pandemic, Americans Flee the U.S.

    As a result of the shutdown, most international online poker sites stopped letting people from the United States use their sites.So, in August, when...

    Coronavirus News: Live Updates – The New York Times

    This graph can tell you a lot about your future. Each bar shows how many new infectious diseases emerged in a year. In 1944,...

    Alexa can now pay for gas at over 11,500 Exxon and Mobil stations in the U.S. – TechCrunch

    In January, Amazon announced a new feature would allow Alexa users to pay for their gas at the pump using voice commands via Echo...

    Why the Coronavirus Stalks Children of Color

    Just under 3 percent were Asian, and about 10 percent were listed as “other” or multiracial. Fewer than 1 percent of the children were...

    India’s IT minister accuses Facebook of suppressing right-leaning pages – TechCrunch

    Ravi Shankar Prasad, India’s IT, and Law and Justice minister has accused Facebook India’s leadership team of suppressing the reach of pages that...

    Financial institutions using Plaid Exchange can share instant account activity – TechCrunch

    A few months ago, Plaid unveiled Plaid Exchange, a product that helps financial institutions build and maintain an API that other developers can use....

    Oral-B’s iO smart toothbrush is a big upgrade in just about every way – TechCrunch

    It can be easy to mock the very concept of a ‘smart toothbrush’ – what other device in our lives do we use daily...

    Netflix is making a series based on ‘The Three-Body Problem’ – TechCrunch

    Netflix just announced its plans to turn Cixin Liu’s “Three-Body Problem” trilogy into an original science fiction series. The show will be executive produced...

    The 5G version of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S7 starts at $850 and arrives September 18 – TechCrunch

    2020 was going to be the year 5G went truly mainstream. Things obviously haven’t gone according to plan these past several months, but this...

    Meet the $3,300 edition of the Galaxy Z Fold 2 – TechCrunch

    If you’re going to spend $1,000 on a phone, you might as well spend $2,000. And honestly, if you’re going to spend $2,000, why...

    Bambuser raises $45M after shifting focus to live video shopping – TechCrunch

    Bambuser is a name that you may not have heard in a while, but the Stockholm-headquartered company is announcing today that it’s raised $45...