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    BuzzFeed acquires HuffPost – TechCrunch

    HuffPost has a new owner, with its current parent company Verizon Media reaching an agreement to sell the site to BuzzFeed. The Wall...

    Facebook details AI advances in catching misinformation and hate speech – TechCrunch

    Facebook’s battle against misinformation will never be over at this rate, but that doesn’t mean the company has given up. On the contrary...

    Tech in the Biden era – TechCrunch

    President-elect Joe Biden may have spent eight years in an administration that doted on the tech industry, but that long honeymoon, punctuated by four...

    GM ups electric and autonomous vehicle spending to $27 billion through 2025 – TechCrunch

    General Motors said it will spend $27 billion over the next five years on the development of electric vehicles and automated technology, a 35%...

    We Should Be Able to Use Apps Without Fear of Government Surveillance

    Wave hello to our On Tech editor, Hanna Ingber, who picked a few faves. Some of the hammer poems were submitted by professional writers....

    How Sidney Powell inaccurately cited Venezuela’s elections as evidence of U.S. fraud.

    Sidney Powell, a lawyer on President Trump’s election legal team who represented the former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, has been a major...

    How Fake Reviews Hurt Us and Amazon

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.Here’s a conundrum of the digital age:...

    Google Stadia and GeForce Now are both coming to iOS as web apps – TechCrunch

    Google and Nvidia both had some news about their respective cloud gaming service today. Let’s start with Nvidia. GeForce Now is now available...

    A look at its economics, profits and revenue concentration – TechCrunch

    Also, what happens if Peloton puts on the brakes? Last night Affirm filed to go public, herding yet another unicorn into the end-of-year IPO corral....

    ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ is coming to HBO Max (and some U.S. theaters) on Dec. 25 – TechCrunch

    Although COVID-19 is surging in the United States and around the world, Warner Bros. still plans to release “Wonder Woman 1984” on Christmas Day...

    Microsoft brings new shopping tools to its Edge browser – TechCrunch

    Microsoft announced a few updates to its Edge browser today that are all about shopping. In addition to expanding the price comparison feature...

    Google rolls out iOS widgets for Gmail, Drive and Fit; says Calendar and Chrome coming soon – TechCrunch

    Google has updated its flagship iPhone apps with support for home screen widgets, a new feature of iOS 14. The company announced today it’s...

    Head of the US Space Force, Gen. John W. ‘Jay’ Raymond, joins us at TechCrunch Sessions: Space – TechCrunch

    Space Force is at a critical part of its young life, and Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond leads the service forward as its commanding...

    Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost explains the strategy behind acquiring Spacemaker – TechCrunch

    'Culturally, they're the right company. Vision and strategy-wise, they're the right company.' Steve O'Hear @sohear / 8 hours Autodesk, the U.S. publicly listed software and services company...

    Amazon’s smart glasses get an upgrade, as its smart ring is discontinued – TechCrunch

    As strange as they are, you would be forgiven for getting about the existence of Echo Frames. Amazon announced the smart glasses...

    Messaging app Go SMS Pro exposed millions of users’ private photos and files – TechCrunch

    Go SMS Pro, one of the most popular messaging apps for Android, is exposing photos, videos and other files sent privately by its users....