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    India Bans 118 Chinese Apps as Indian Soldier Is Killed on Disputed Border

    SRINAGAR, Kashmir — India banned more Chinese phone apps on Wednesday as tensions continue to escalate along its disputed border with China, with one...

    CBP does not make it clear Americans can opt out of airport face scanning, watchdog says – TechCrunch

    A government watchdog has criticized U.S. border authorities for failing to properly disclose the agency’s use of facial recognition at airports, which included instructions...

    FCC dings company for $164K after its false broadband claims distorted national report – TechCrunch

    The FCC was deeply embarrassed last year when it was found that its rosy broadband deployment report was off by millions, owing to...

    Snapchat had a big August amid TikTok uncertainty – TechCrunch

    The continual uncertainty around TikTok’s future may have provided a big boost to Snapchat in August. Or maybe it was just the Disney eyes...

    Venture capital LPs are the missing link to solving Silicon Valley’s diversity problem – TechCrunch

    Pranavi Cheemakurti Contributor Pranavi is an investor and writer currently doing pre-seed and seed-stage B2B SaaS investing at Acceleprise Ventures and writing at publicbeta.substack.com. In the...

    Edtech startups find demand from an unlikely customer: Public schools – TechCrunch

    School district technology budgets are tight. But Kami CEO and founder Hengjie Wang wanted to make his company’s digital classroom product a go-to tool...

    Hypatos gets $11.8M for a deep learning approach to document processing – TechCrunch

    Process automation startup Hypatos has raised a €10 million (~$11.8M) seed round of funding from investors including Blackfin Tech, Grazia Equity, UVC Partners and...

    ‘The Mandalorian’ launches its second season on Oct. 30 – TechCrunch

    “The Mandalorian” is returning to Disney+ with new episodes starting on October 30. The Star Wars spinoff series (created by Jon Favreau) was the biggest...

    US cell carrier Assist Wireless exposed thousands of customer IDs – TechCrunch

    U.S. cell carrier Assist Wireless left tens of thousands of personal customer documents on its website by mistake. Assist provides free government-subsidized cell phones to...

    In ego battle, Lucid Motors claims to beat Tesla with 9.9 second quarter mile – TechCrunch

    Lucid Motors is set to unveil its production electric sedan next week and it’s clear the company is targeting Tesla . Over the...

    XRobotics is keeping the dream of pizza robots alive – TechCrunch

    Zume pulled the plug on its robotic pizza wing earlier this year. A lot goes into making a decision like that — particularly for...

    Twitch launches Watch Parties to all creators worldwide – TechCrunch

    Twitch is doubling down on making its site more than just a place for livestreaming gaming video. Last fall, the Amazon-owned company began testing...

    Dog detectors, Mars mappers and AI-scrambling sweaters – TechCrunch

    Research papers come out at far too rapid a rate for anyone to read them all, especially in the field of machine learning, which...

    To build responsibly, tech needs to do more than just hire chief ethics officers – TechCrunch

    Sarah Drinkwater Contributor Sarah Drinkwater works to fuel the responsible tech movement through her role as director at Omidyar Network. In the last couple of years, we’ve...

    Can we sponsor an H-1B university researcher for an EB-1B green card? – 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...

    Hear E-Prix Champion di Grassi on the future of electric motor sports (including scooters) – TechCrunch

    Lucas di Grassi is returning to TechCrunch’s stage, and we’re going to talk racing electric vehicles. Again. Because electric is the future of motoring...