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    Substack explains its ‘hands-off’ approach to content moderation – TechCrunch

    Content moderation has been a thorny topic in 2020. And when I say “thorny,” I mean in the sense of having multiple congressional hearings...

    Elon Musk claims he tried selling Tesla to Apple but Tim Cook wasn’t interested – TechCrunch

    Tesla stock’s miraculously bizarre 2020 might have a gone different way had Apple’s Tim Cook agreed to a meeting in recent years,...

    Bandit ML helps e-commerce businesses present the most effective offer to each shopper – TechCrunch

    Bandit ML aims to optimize and automate the process of presenting the right offer to the right customer. The startup was part of the summer 2020...

    NASA opens new launchpad at Kennedy Space Center meant to serve multiple commercial launch customers – TechCrunch

    NASA has finished work on a new launchpad at its Kennedy Space Center in Florida – Launch Complex 48 (LC-48), a pad that...

    With a $50B run rate in reach, can anyone stop AWS? – TechCrunch

    AWS, Amazon’s flourishing cloud arm, has been growing at a rapid clip for more than a decade. An early public cloud infrastructure vendor, it...

    To win post-pandemic, edtech needs to start thinking big – TechCrunch

    The edtech market raked in more than $10 billion in venture capital investment globally in 2020, but for students, parents and teachers, the year...

    Remembering the startups we lost in 2020 – TechCrunch

    Even in a non-hell year, running a successful startup is a tremendous lift. After the events of 2020, however, no doubt many already lean...

    Twitter’s POTUS account will reportedly be reset to zero followers when Biden takes over – TechCrunch

    In this country, we have a longstanding peaceful transfer of power for the executive office, even in the wake of the hardest-fought elections. Certain...

    MIT Media Lab names Dava Newman as new director – TechCrunch

    MIT’s famous Media Lab, the multidisciplinary idea factory that produces many a fascinating invention and influential thinker, has found a new director in its...

    TechCrunch’s Favorite Things of 2020 – TechCrunch

    It goes without saying, but 2020 was a bad year for a lot of people. For many, it was a year of stress, of sadness,...

    Singapore-based open finance startup Finantier gets backing from Y Combinator – TechCrunch

    Being “underbanked” doesn’t mean that someone lacks access to financial services. Instead, it often means they don’t have traditional bank accounts or credit cards....

    How Retail Online Shops Are Trying Augmented Reality

    OAKLAND, Calif. — When Eden Chen wants to go sneaker shopping, he takes out his smartphone and points the camera at his feet. Shoes...

    Pulse Oximeters and Coronavirus: Devices Have Higher Error Rate in Black Patients

    The analysis, of 10,789 paired test results from 1,333 white patients and 276 Black patients hospitalized at the University of Michigan earlier this year,...

    Boardable’s board management software for non-profits raises $8 million – TechCrunch

    Indianapolis-based Boardable, a provider of board management software tools for nonprofits, has raised $8 million in a new round of financing, the company said. The...

    IAC plans to spin off Vimeo as an independent company – TechCrunch

    IAC announced today that it plans to turn Vimeo into an independent, publicly-traded company. Last month, IAC CEO Joey Levin wrote a letter...

    Austin-based ReturnSafe raises $3.25 million for its employee health management tools – TechCrunch

    ReturnSafe, a symptom checking and contact tracing employee health management toolkit for businesses, has raised $3.25 million in financing from investors including Fifty Years...