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    RIP Google Music, one of the company’s last examples of generosity – TechCrunch

    Google Music is dead, and with it one of the few remaining connections I have to the company that doesn’t feel like a gun...

    No, Dominion voting machines did not cause widespread voting problems.

    Dominion Voting Systems, which makes software that local governments around the nation use to help run their elections, is now at the center of...

    These Microbes May Help Future Martians and Moon People Mine Metals

    Microbes may be the friends of future colonists living off the land on the moon, Mars or elsewhere in the solar system and aiming...

    QAnon Struggles After Trump Election Defeat

    Last weekend, as jubilant Democrats danced in the streets to celebrate the election of Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the country’s 46th president, QAnon...

    Facebook plans to continue a ban on political ads for another month.

    Facebook said on Wednesday that it plans to continue a moratorium on political advertising for the foreseeable future, a move that may affect Democrats...

    Fact-Checked on Facebook and Twitter, Conservatives Switch Their Apps

    Corey Adam, a political comedian from Minneapolis, joined a mass social media switcheroo last week.That was when Mr. Adam, 39, a conservative and libertarian,...

    Join us for a live Q&A with Bessemer’s Byron Deeter next Tuesday at 3 p.m ET, noon PT – TechCrunch

    The Extra Crunch Live series rolls along with a big new installment next week as Jordan Crook and Alex Wilhelm will welcome Bessemer Venture...

    Ring doorbells recalled over fire threat – TechCrunch

    Amazon -owned Ring devices have long been under scrutiny of privacy advocates. Now the brand is dealing with another issue entirely, as the U.S....

    Fight Over Gig Workers Persists Despite Win for Uber and Lyft

    “Tens of thousands of drivers in New York State, who as independent contractors were getting hundreds of dollars less, as employees are entitled to...

    Training Facial Recognition on Some New Furry Friends: Bears

    From 4,675 fully labeled bear faces on DSLR photographs, taken from research and bear-viewing sites at Brooks River, Ala., and Knight Inlet, they randomly...

    ‘Coded Bias’ Review: When the Bots Are Racist

    While working on an assignment involving facial-recognition software, the M.I.T. Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini found that the algorithm couldn’t detect her face —...

    Amazon’s new ‘Care Hub’ lets Alexa owners keep tabs on aging family members – TechCrunch

    Amazon today announced a set of new features aimed at making its Alexa devices more useful to aging adults. With the launch of...

    Come June 1, 2021, all of your new photos will count against your free Google storage – TechCrunch

    Come June 1, 2021, Google will change its storage policies for free accounts — and not for the better. Basically, if you’re on...

    What does Biden’s win mean for tech immigration? – TechCrunch

    Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year...

    Snap acquired Voca.ai, which makes AI-based voice agents for call centers, for $120M – TechCrunch

    Snapchat is the quintessential consumer app: with an array of fun filters, it encourages people to send fun, disappearing messages to friends and has...

    To own an AR future, Niantic wants to build a smarter map of the world – TechCrunch

    Niantic is continuing to bet heavily on the idea that it knows where consumer computing is headed, namely towards augmented reality. The game development...