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    The Tech That Might Help Cyclists and Cars Coexist Safely

    On the desolate streets of Manhattan during the bleak early days of the pandemic, Rosemary Sigelbaum found that riding a bicycle to work at...

    When Your Last $166 Vanishes: ‘Fast Fraud’ Surges on Payment Apps

    Charee Mobley, who teaches middle school in Fort Worth, Texas, had just $166 to get herself and her 17-year-old daughter through the last two...

    Facebook’s China Tactics Backfire – The New York Times

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.Instagram’s boss had a message this week...

    Twilio is buying customer data startup Segment for between $3B and $4B – TechCrunch

    Sources have told TechCrunch that Twilio intends to acquire customer data startup Segment for between $3 and $4 billion. Forbes broke the story on...

    Hands on with Telepath, the social network taking aim at abuse, fake news and, to some extent, ‘free speech’ – TechCrunch

    There’s no doubt that modern social networks have let us down. Filled with hate speech and abuse, moderation and anti-abuse tools were an afterthought...

    Pakistan Bans TikTok, Citing Morals. Others Cite Politics.

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan has become the latest country to ban TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media platform, in a move that government critics said...

    Venture capital gets less diverse in 2020 – TechCrunch

    Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free,...

    Public investors stay in love with tech, as Root and Affirm file to IPO – 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. Why are...

    Antitrust investigation dubs App Store a monopoly, Microsoft adopts ‘app fairness’ rules, pandemic boosts Q3 app revenues – 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...

    Netflix’s ‘Enola Holmes’ is thoroughly mediocre – TechCrunch

    There’s nothing excessively bad about “Enola Holmes,” a new film about Sherlock Holmes’ younger sister Enola. But there’s nothing particularly good, either. The film was...

    A prison video visitation service exposed private calls between inmates and their attorneys – TechCrunch

    Fearing the spread of coronavirus, jails and prisons remain on lockdown. Visitors are unable to see their loved ones serving time, forcing friends and...

    Apple Does Not Need to Return Fortnite to App Store, Judge Rules

    SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge ruled on Friday that Apple did not need to reinstate the popular video game Fortnite in its App...

    60-plus free agents – TechCrunch

    A lot has been made of the open memo that CEO Brian Armstrong published nearly two weekends ago, essentially barring political activism at work...

    Judge rules that Apple can ban Fortnite but can’t terminate Epic’s Unreal developer accounts – TechCrunch

    The California judge in the legal skirmish between Epic Games and Apple has denied Epic’s request that Apple be forced to reinstate...

    How can employers hire & comply with all this new H-1B craziness? – 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...

    Uber engineer explains why he spoke out against Prop 22 – TechCrunch

    Welcome back to Human Capital where we discuss the latest in labor, and diversity and inclusion in tech. This week’s eyebrow-raising moment came Wednesday when...