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    Carbon Health’s Eren Bali and Color’s Othman Laraki will join us at Disrupt 2020 – TechCrunch

    The COVID-19 pandemic has left no industry untouched, but the healthcare industry is arguably the one that stands to be transformed the most by...

    Florida Judge Strikes Down Order Requiring Schools to Physically Reopen Amid Covid-19 Risks

    Quarantine rules are expanding around the world, but not in America. The virus is circulating in Gaza. Researchers in Hong Kong find that in...

    Leaked S-1 says Palantir would fight an order demanding its encryption keys – TechCrunch

    Palantir, the secretive data analytics startup founded by billionaire investor Peter Thiel, would challenge a government order seeking the company’s encryption keys, according...

    Covid-19 Live Updates: Flu Season Could Worsen Virus Testing Delays

    During 15-minute shows performed in Tokyo over the weekend, thrill seekers shrieked and trembled in glass caskets as they listened to ghost stories and...

    Facebook News to expand internationally to the U.K., Germany, France, India, and Brazil – TechCrunch

    Facebook News, the social network’s dedicated news section launched to U.S. audiences in June, is soon expanding to international markets. The company announced today...

    COVID-19 blamed as smartphone sales plummet 20% in Q2 – TechCrunch

    The last couple of years have been tough on the smartphone industry, as sales plateaued and eventually eroded. But nothing could have prepared manufacturers...

    In South India, Amazon Builds Its Largest Office Yet

    The austere building is hardly distinguishable in the landscape of glass and concrete buildings making up Asia’s Silicon Valley, as Hyderabad, India, is known....

    Kymeta raises $85.2 million led by Bill Gates to speed growth of its satellite-cellular antenna tech – TechCrunch

    Global communications startup Kymeta has raised a new $85.2 million funding round, led by Bill Gates . The Redmond-based company has developed a...

    Netgear debuts a new 15.6-inch Meural WiFi Photo Frame with automatic album syncing – TechCrunch

    Smart frames as a gadget category might seem like they’ve already had and passed their moment in the sun, but Netgear’s Meural line,...

    Self-charging, thousand-year battery startup NDB aces key tests and lands first beta customers – TechCrunch

    Pleasanton-based green energy startup NDB, Inc. has reached a key milestone today with the completion of two proof of concept tests of its nano...

    Be featured in The Great TechCrunch Survey of European VC – TechCrunch

    TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe. Our <a href=”https://forms.gle/k4Ji2Ch7zdrn7o2p6”>survey of VCs in Paris will...

    Facebook Plans Legal Action After Thailand Tells It to Mute Critics

    BANGKOK — Facebook is planning legal action against the government of Thailand for ordering the social media platform to partially shut down access to...

    With Hacks and Cameras, Beijing’s Electronic Dragnet Closes on Hong Kong

    To get onto his Facebook account, the police used Tony Chung’s body.When officers swarmed him at a Hong Kong shopping mall last month, they...

    Ant Group, the Alibaba Payment Affiliate, Files to Go Public

    Ant Group, the payment- and finance-focused sister company of the Chinese e-commerce titan Alibaba, filed paperwork on Tuesday to list shares in Hong Kong...

    UK immersive music startup MelodyVR acquires Napster from RealNetworks for $70M – TechCrunch

    Napster, the pioneering digital music brand from way back when, is changing hands once more. Today, a UK startup called MelodyVR, which creates immersive...

    Kamala Harris’s Big Tech Connections

    Ms. Harris danced around sensitive issues. With online privacy, she said, she wanted to strike a balance between what’s good for business and protecting...