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    Workplace Productivity: Are You Being Tracked?

    In lower-paying jobs, the monitoring is already ubiquitous: not just at Amazon, where the second-by-second measurements became notorious, but also for Kroger cashiers, UPS...

    Twilio gets hacked, teens ditch Facebook, and SpaceX takes South Korea to the moon – TechCrunch

    Hi again! Welcome back to Week in Review, the newsletter where we quickly recap the top stories from TechCrunch dot-com this week. Want it...

    After the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, online threats quickly turn into real-world violence – TechCrunch

    Threats of violence reached a fever pitch — reminiscent of the days leading up to the Capitol attack — following the news that the...

    Rivian Lost $1.7 Billion in the Second Quarter

    Rivian was once viewed as “the next Tesla,” an electric-vehicle maker poised to grow rapidly and unsettle century-old giants of the auto industry like...

    Why Issey Miyake Was Steve Jobs’s Favorite Designer

    Little wonder, really, that Issey Miyake was Steve Jobs’s favorite designer.The man behind Mr. Jobs’s personal uniform of black mock turtlenecks, who died on...

    Coinbase Reports 63% Drop in Revenue Amid Crypto Industry Slump

    When the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase went public in April 2021, it was a triumphant moment for the nascent crypto industry.But the company has endured...

    Crypto ‘Mixer’ Tornado Cash Is Blacklisted by the Treasury Department

    The Treasury Department on Monday prohibited Americans from using the cryptocurrency platform Tornado Cash, saying the service has helped criminals launder more than $7...

    Baidu to operate fully driverless commercial robotaxi in Wuhan and Chongqing – TechCrunch

    Chinese internet giant Baidu has secured permits to offer a fully driverless commercial robotaxi service, with no human driver present, in Chongqing and Wuhan...

    Amazon buys Roomba’s maker, Bolt vanishes, and YC slims down – TechCrunch

    Hello again! Welcome back to Week in Review, the newsletter where we quickly recap the top stories to cross TechCrunch dot-com over the past...

    A.I. Is Not Sentient. Why Do People Say It Is?

    Why Everyone Else BelievesIn the mid-1960s, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joseph Weizenbaum, built an automated psychotherapist he called Eliza. This...

    Twitter Rebuts Musk’s Fraud Claim in Dispute Over Fake Accounts

    Twitter has accused Elon Musk, in a lawsuit, of abandoning his planned acquisition of the company because stock market turbulence made the deal more...

    On Election Day, G.O.P. Raise Doubts about Arizona Elections

    Republican candidates and conservative media organizations seized on reports of voting issues in Arizona on Tuesday to re-up their case that the state’s elections...

    Is Bio-Designed Collagen the Next Step in Animal Protein Replacement?

    More than 90 percent of collagen and gelatin on the market comes from hogs and cattle, a byproduct of the slaughter industry. The goal...

    After Pixar Ouster, John Lasseter Returns With Apple and ‘Luck’

    LOS ANGELES — The most Pixar movie of the summer is not from Pixar. It’s from Apple TV+ and the lightning-rod filmmaker-executive who turned...

    The Word of the Year Is ‘Uncertainty’

    More than two years into Pandemic Times, technology is more popular, stronger and richer than it was before. Or is it?This year — and...

    Recreation.gov, the National Park Booking App, Leaves Users Feeling Lost in the Woods

    The public finds the system “very confusing,” said Linda Devlin, executive director of the Allegheny National Forest Visitors Bureau, one of the co-signers of...