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    Kea raises $10M to build AI that helps restaurants answer the phone – TechCrunch

    Kea is a new startup giving restaurants an opportunity to upgrade one of the more old-fashioned ways that they take orders — over the...

    What went viral this week.

    Here at Daily Distortions, we try to debunk false and misleading information that has gone viral. We also want to give you a sense...

    A16z is now managing $16.5 billion, after announcing two new funds – TechCrunch

    Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has closed a pair of funds totaling $4.5 billion, the firm confirmed in a blog post this morning. The firm has...

    Mobileye taps Luminar to supply lidar for its robotaxi fleet – TechCrunch

    Luminar, the buzzy sensor startup that is on the verge of becoming a publicly traded company, locked in a supplier deal to furnish...

    When Sharks Turned Up at Their Beach, They Called in Drones

    Once rare off Southern California beaches, great white sharks are beginning to show up more often. The newcomers are mostly juvenile sharks, which prefer...

    ORIX invests $60M in Israeli crowdfunding platform OurCrowd – TechCrunch

    Japan-based financial services group ORIX Corporation today announced that it has made a $60 million strategic investment into the Israeli crowdsourcing platform OurCrowd. In...

    Despite commitment to anti-racism, Uber’s Black employee base has decreased – TechCrunch

    Uber today released its latest diversity report, showing a decline in the overall representation of Black employees in the U.S. despite an increased...

    Loadsmart raises $90 million to further consolidate its one-stop freight and logistics platform – TechCrunch

    Leading on-demand digital freight platform Loadsmart has raised a $90 million Series C funding round, led by funds under management by BlackRock, and...

    Xesto is a foot scanning app that simplifies shoe gifting – TechCrunch

    You wait ages for foot scanning startups to help with the tricky fit issue that troubles online shoe shopping and then two come along...

    These Algorithms Could End the Scourge of Tuberculosis

    In some of the most remote and impoverished corners of the world, where respiratory illnesses abound and trained medical professionals fear to tread, diagnosis...

    Google, Facebook and Twitter threaten to leave Pakistan over censorship law – TechCrunch

    Global internet companies Facebook, Google and Twitter and others have banded together and threatened to leave Pakistan after the South Asian nation...

    If you didn’t make $1B this week, you are not doing VC right – TechCrunch

    Five IPOs, a lot of very, very happy VCs The only thing more rare than a unicorn is an exited unicorn. At TechCrunch, we cover a...

    Index ventures into Latin America to back Sofia, a Mexico City-based telemedicine and health insurer – TechCrunch

    Arturo Sanchez and his co-founders have spent the past two years developing the telemedicine and insurance platform, Sofia, as a way to give customers...

    What is Roblox worth? – TechCrunch

    Public markets appear to be even more risk-on in 2020 With Roblox joining the end-of-year unicorn stampede towards the public markets, we’re set for a...

    Prices increase tonight for our space focused event, TC Sessions: Space – TechCrunch

    “Space, the final frontier…” You can probably recite the “Star Trek” opening monologue in your sleep. But we’re talking science fact, not fiction, and...

    Snap acquired Voisey, an app to create music tracks overlaying your own vocals – TechCrunch

    Snapchat helped pioneer the use of lenses on faces in photos and videos to turn ordinary picture messages into fantastical creations where humans can...