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    Microsoft reverse engineers a budget computer with the Surface Laptop Go – TechCrunch

    The Laptop Go is a strange and sometimes successful mix of Surface design and budget decisions Brian Heater @bheater / 7 hours The Surface Laptop Go joined...

    Virgin Galactic readies first spaceflight from Spaceport America for ‘later this this fall’ – TechCrunch

    Virgin Galactic is getting ready to fly its first mission to space from its Spaceport America facility in New Mexico. This is the...

    When to Buy a New Phone. Or Not.

    Apple will talk on Tuesday about its new iPhones and other doodads. Brian X. Chen, a technology columnist for The New York Times, has...

    Finally, the First Room-Temperature Superconductor

    In 2015, Mikhail Eremets, a physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, reported that hydrogen sulfide — a molecule consisting...

    Gadgets Were on the Way Out. Then 2020 Happened.

    Gadgets were supposed to be over. Smartphones, tablets and smartwatches cannibalized the weaker devices around them, including cameras, music players, navigation units, fitness trackers...

    Trump Overstates W.H.O. Position on Lockdowns

    This week, President Trump exaggerated a position taken by the World Health Organization, saying that the agency had vindicated his derision of lockdowns during...

    I came on a B-1 visa, then COVID-19 happened. How can I stay? – 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...

    True Ventures has $840 million more to invest in nascent and breakout startups – TechCrunch

    True Ventures, the now 15-year-old firm with offices in Palo Alto, Calif., and San Francisco, is taking the wraps off two new funds this...

    Toronto will trial automated shuttles from Local Motors in new pilot program – TechCrunch

    The city of Toronto is going to start operating autonomous shuttles on a trial basis, through an agreement with Local Motors that will see...

    Zoom to start first phase of E2E encryption rollout next week – TechCrunch

    Zoom will begin rolling out end-to-end encryption to users of its videoconferencing platform from next week, it said today. The platform, whose fortunes have been...

    OpenView Venture Partners raises $450M for sixth fund, its largest to date – TechCrunch

    This morning OpenView Venture Partners announced that it has closed $450 million for its new, sixth fund. The capital pool is its largest to...

    M1 Finance closes $45M Series C mere months after it raised its $33M Series B – TechCrunch

    The Chicago-based fintech has seen its AUM pass $2B after reaching $1.45B this summer Just months after it announced a $33 million Series B, Chicago-based...

    Lucid reveals the price of its base Air sedan — $77,400 minus $7,500 US tax credit – TechCrunch

    Electric car company Lucid finally revealed the price of its least expensive vehicle and it will start at $77,400. US buyers also qualify for...

    Databricks crossed $350M run rate in Q3, up from $200M one year ago – TechCrunch

    The data analytics company scaled rapidly to put itself on an obvious IPO path The Exchange regularly covers companies as they approach and crest the $100...

    Atlassian Smarts adds machine learning layer across the company’s platform of services – TechCrunch

    Atlassian has been offering collaboration tools, often favored by developers and IT for some time with such stalwarts as Jira for help desk tickets,...

    Spotify introduces a new music-and-spoken word format, open to all creators – TechCrunch

    Spotify today is launching a new feature that combines spoken word audio commentary with music tracks. The new format will allow Spotify to reproduce...