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    How the pandemic drove the IPO wave we see today – TechCrunch

    This is The TechCrunch Exchange, a newsletter that goes out on Saturdays, based on the column of the same name. You can sign up for...

    Uber’s Black employee base shrinks – TechCrunch

    Welcome back to Human Capital, where I break down the latest in diversity, equity and inclusion, and labor in tech. TL;DR: This week, Apple announced...

    52 Years Later, IBM Apologizes for Firing Transgender Woman

    In August 1968, Lynn Conway, a promising computer engineer at IBM in Sunnyvale, Calif., was called into the office of Gene Myron Amdahl, then...

    Affirm, Airbnb, C3.ai, Roblox, Wish file for tech IPO finale of 2020 – TechCrunch

    Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here. The wait...

    Apple slashes commissions, Twitter launches Fleets, warnings about Parler – TechCrunch

    Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through...

    5 user experience fails and how to fix them – TechCrunch

    Hulu is the first major streaming platform to offer a social watching experience. And with most major league sports now being allowed to resume...

    Watch SpaceX launch a satellite that will monitor the world’s oceans – TechCrunch

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVFPzTDCihQ SpaceX is set to launch a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Saturday morning, with a target liftoff...

    All IPOs should be paid for in Robux – TechCrunch

    Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is an all-time first...

    Antibodies Good. Machine-Made Molecules Better?

    The coronavirus might be new, but nature long ago gave humans the tools to recognize it, at least on a microscopic scale: antibodies, Y-shaped...

    Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?

    There are now businesses that sell fake people. On the website Generated.Photos, you can...

    Roblox is going public – TechCrunch

    Roblox opens its books, Snap makes an acquisition and Pfizer and BioNTech seek regulatory approval for their vaccine. This your Daily Crunch for...

    Clubhouse, the – The New York Times

    A business trying to make money off mansions full of TikTok influencers has gone public on the stock market through an unusual deal. It...

    No, Trump’s sister did not publicly back him. He was duped by a fake account.

    On Friday morning, President Trump shared a seemingly innocuous article on Twitter. The piece said that his sister, Elizabeth Trump Grau, had publicly voiced...

    A fistful of IPOs, Affirm’s Peloton problem, Zoom Apps and more – TechCrunch

    DoorDash, Affirm, Roblox, Airbnb, C3.ai and Wish all filed to go public in recent days, which means some venture capitalists are having the best...

    Restaurant search engine FoodBoss adds support for direct delivery from restaurants – TechCrunch

    FoodBoss aims to be something like Kayak for online food ordering — the place where you can search across different service and apps to...

    Walmart is buying JoyRun assets to add ‘peer-to-peer’ product delivery – TechCrunch

    The last time we wrote about JoyRun, it was raising $10 million. Today, the Bay Area startup has some very different news to share,...