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    Working for social justice isn’t a ‘distraction’ for mission-focused companies – TechCrunch

    Eileen Burbidge Contributor Eileen Burbidge is a partner at Passion Capital, an early-stage technology venture fund based in London, and is also the UK Treasury's Special...

    The Spectrum Equity-backed video education platform Kajabi has already hit $60 million in ARR – TechCrunch

    Kajabi may not be an American household name, but users of the web hosting and video tech platform are now being seen in a...

    Google Maps gets improved Live View AR directions – TechCrunch

    Google today announced a few updates to Live View, the augmented reality walking directions in its Google Maps app that officially launched last...

    Teenage Engineering’s OB-4 ‘magic radio’ is a weird and beautiful wireless speaker – TechCrunch

    I’ve found a new object of desire which, once acquired, I would probably never use. It’s this OB-4 “magic radio” from Teenage Engineering, a...

    Bullpen Capital raises $130 million more to fund the far afield and misunderstood – TechCrunch

    Bullpen Capital, a now 10-year-old, venture fund in Menlo Park that focuses on what it calls post-seed investing — it backs startups that have...

    IonQ claims it has built the most powerful quantum computer yet – TechCrunch

    Trapped-ion quantum computing startup IonQ today announced the launch of its latest quantum computer, which features what IonQ calls “32 perfect qubits with low...

    Ethel’s Club founder is launching Somewhere Good, a social platform that centers people of color – TechCrunch

    Naj Austin, founder and CEO of subscription-based physical and digital community Ethel’s Club, is building Somewhere Good to be a one-stop shop for people...

    Pixie Labs raises $9.15M Series A round for its Kubernetes observability platform – TechCrunch

    Pixie, a startup that provides developers with tools to get observability into their Kubernetes-native applications, today announced that it has raised a $9.15 million...

    Ro makes the weight loss product Plenity commercially available to everyone in the U.S. – TechCrunch

    In what could be the first step in the development of a significant new line of business for the telemedicine prescription provider Ro, ...

    Facebook Groups to gain suite of new tools for managing discussions, surfacing public content – TechCrunch

    Facebook is introducing a suite of new features for Facebook Groups, the private social networking product now used by over 1.8 billion people every...

    With $18M in new funding, Braintrust says it’s creating a fairer model for freelancers – TechCrunch

    Braintrust, a network for freelance technical and design talent that launched over the summer, is announcing that it has raised $18 million in new...

    Twitter confirms some service flakiness today — now fixed – TechCrunch

    Twitter users around the world have reported some short partial outages today, with the platform not displaying certain tweets or not able to...

    Google now has three mid-range Pixel phones – TechCrunch

    The Pixel has always been a mixed bag. The first-generation product was announced roughly this time four years ago, with Google finally offering a...

    Microsoft enhances customer data platform as pandemic drives need for personalization – TechCrunch

    When Microsoft introduced its customer data platform last February the focus was on simply connecting silos of data to help customers get the data...

    News apps in the US and China use algorithms to drive engagement, discovery – TechCrunch

    Algorithms are reshaping many parts of our lives, including how news gets to us. Around the world, entrepreneurs make use of algorithms to program...

    Combining machine learning tools for medical imaging with genetic sequencing nets Sophia Genetics $110M – TechCrunch

    SOPHiA GENETICS, the shoutily and poorly capitalized named startup that’s combining machine learning tools for medical imaging and genetic sequencing to come up with...