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    Shure’s SRH1540 headphones can upgrade your home setup with quality sound and all-day comfort – TechCrunch

    We’re going checking out a range of different headphones on TC this week and next as part of our ‘Headphone Week’ series, and today...

    Twitter hack probe leads to call for cybersecurity rules for social media giants – TechCrunch

    An investigation into this summer’s Twitter hack by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYSDFS) has ended with a stinging rebuke for...

    What the iPhone 12 tells us about the state of the smartphone industry in 2020 – TechCrunch

    The smartphone industry was in transition well before COVID-19 was a blip on anyone’s radar. More than 13 years after the launch of the...

    Google launches a suite of tech-powered tools for reporters, Journalist Studio – TechCrunch

    Google is putting A.I. and machine learning technologies into the hands of journalists. The company this morning announced a suite of new tools, Journalist...

    Getaround raises a $140 million Series E amid rebound in short-distance travel – TechCrunch

    Amid a rebound in short-distance travel, Getaround, a Silicon Valley car rental startup, has raised some new money to meet demand. The startup, which...

    Vivun announces $18M Series A to keep growing pre-sales platform – TechCrunch

    Vivun’s co-founder and CEO, Matt Darrow used to run pre-sales at Zuora and he saw that pre-sales team members had a lot of insight...

    Twentyeight Health is a telemedicine company expanding access to women’s health and reproductive care – TechCrunch

    New York’s Twentyeight Health is taking the wildly telemedicine services for women’s health popularized by companies like Nurx and bringing them to a patient population...

    Dataloop raises $11M Series A round for its AI data management platform – TechCrunch

    Dataloop, a Tel Aviv-based startup that specializes in helping businesses manage the entire data lifecycle for their AI projects, including helping them annotate their...

    Pitching tech to optimize building design for sustainability, Atlanta-based Cove.tool raises $5.7 million – TechCrunch

    Patrick Chopson and Sandeep Ahuja started cove.tool, an Atlanta-based company developing software to optimize building design for sustainability and cost, because of problems they’d...

    Augury taps $55M for tech that predicts machine faults from vibration, sound and temperature – TechCrunch

    On the heels of Amazon about to launch a new enterprise service to detect whether a machine is working well or not based on...

    Lead Edge Capital just closed on $950 million from a whopping 500 investors – TechCrunch

    Lead Edge Capital, a software-focused venture firm with one office in New York and another in California, was founded just 11 years ago. Yet...

    Latest Space Station crew docks in record time following successful launch – TechCrunch

    Typically, there’s a bit of a delay between when astronauts launch from Earth to the International Space Station, and when they actually dock with...

    Engageli comes out of stealth with $14.5M and a new approach to teaching by video remotely – TechCrunch

    Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet have become standard tools for teachers who have had to run lessons remotely since the start of the...

    Now Circulating on Social Media: 4 Election Falsehoods

    Falsehoods about election interference are swirling online, stoking calls for violence on Election Day. The rumors touch on everything from ballot boxes to how...

    Menlo Micro, a startup bringing semiconductor tech to the humble switch, is ready for its closeup – TechCrunch

    Sixteen years ago a group of material scientists and engineers at General Electric banded together to reinvent the circuit breaker. Now, Menlo Microsystems, the...

    Huawei plans to divest budget phone unit Honor: reports – TechCrunch

    Besieged by U.S. tech sanctions, Huawei may be looking to shake up its smartphone business that has taken a hit after losing core semiconductor...