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    Cellwize raises $32M to help carriers and their partners adopt and run 5G services – TechCrunch

    As 5G slowly moves from being a theoretical to an active part of the coverage map for the mobile industry — if not for...

    Positive vaccine news punishes pandemic-boosted companies like Zoom, Peloton, Etsy – TechCrunch

    Stock markets worldwide are soaring on news that a vaccine candidate is 90% effective at preventing COVID-19, and could start coming to market in...

    What’s all this about Europe wanting crypto backdoors? – TechCrunch

    A press report emerged over the weekend claiming European lawmakers who are worried about terrorism are speeding towards a ban on end-to-end encryption. Spoiler:...

    Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine proves 90% effective in first results from Phase 3 clinical trial – TechCrunch

    The COVID-19 vaccine being developed by Pfizer and its partner BioNTech has shown to be effective blocking vaccine in 90 percent of participants...

    What Makes Sand Soft? – The New York Times

    What is the softest sand in the world? Why is some sand softer than others?— Peter S., Brooklyn, N.Y.We don’t know. No one understands...

    Apple places supplier Pegatron on probation over labor conditions – TechCrunch

    Apple has suspended new business with supplier Pegatron after the Taiwan-based original equipment manufacturer misclassified student workers. Apple also said Pegatron broke...

    Singapore-based sales productivity platform Nektar raises $2.15 million seed round – TechCrunch

    Nektar co-founders Abhijeet Vijayvergiya and Aravind Ravi Sulekha Singapore-based Nektar.ai, a productivity platform for sales teams, has raised $2.15 million in seed funding. Founded earlier...

    Tim Berners Lee’s startup Inrupt releases Solid privacy platform for enterprises – TechCrunch

    Inrupt, the startup from World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, announced an enterprise version of the Solid privacy platform today, which allows large organizations...

    A Step Forward in the Promise of Ultrafast ‘Hyperloops’

    MOAPA, Nev. — Hyperloop technology, which promises to transport people and goods at speeds of up to 600 miles an hour, has long seemed...

    ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is the historical chess drama we need right now – TechCrunch

    On paper, “The Queen’s Gambit” might not sound like a compelling drama: Based on a novel by Walter Tevis, the Netflix series tells...

    What we’ve learned about working from home 7 months into the pandemic – TechCrunch

    When large parts of the world were shutting down in March, we really didn’t know how we would move massive numbers of employees used...

    The gig economy in a post-Prop 22 world – TechCrunch

    Welcome back to Human Capital and congrats on making it through one of the hardest weeks of the longest year. Now that the Associated Press...

    Here comes the next IPO wave – 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...

    The gig economy, cannabis and car data are tech-election winners in 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 US...

    Joe Biden wins the 2020 US presidential election – TechCrunch

    Following a tense week of vote tallying, Joe Biden won the state of Pennsylvania and vaulted ahead in the race to become the next...

    Elections’ impact on the app store, new app privacy requirements, iOS 14.2 arrives – 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...