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    Twitter Hack May Have Had Another Mastermind: A 16-Year-Old

    When authorities arrested Graham Ivan Clark, who they said was the “mastermind” of the recent Twitter hack that ensnared Kanye West, Bill Gates and...

    Jeff Lawson on API startups, picking a market and getting dissed by VCs – TechCrunch

    Last week TechCrunch sat down virtually with Jeff Lawson, the CEO and co-founder of Twilio as part of our long-running Extra Crunch Live series....

    Trump Spread Multiple Conspiracy Theories on Monday. Here Are Their Roots.

    In a wide-ranging interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Monday night, President Trump spread multiple conspiracy theories about the protests that have...

    Google’s AI-powered flood alerts now cover all of India and parts of Bangladesh – TechCrunch

    India, the world’s second most populated nation, sees more than 20% of the global flood-related fatalities each year as overrun riverbanks sweep tens of...

    Google Cloud lets businesses create their own text-to-speech voices – TechCrunch

    Google launched a few updates to its Contact Center AI product today, but the most interesting one is probably the beta of its...

    As it delists, Rocket Internet’s ill-fated experiment with public markets is over – TechCrunch

    It was all supposed to be so different. When Rocket Internet IPO’d in 2014 it was the largest tech company floatation in Europe for...

    Apple’s App War Needs Peace

    I asked for ideas on how Apple could improve the app store from Jacob Eiting, a founder of RevenueCat, which helps app makers design...

    Yes to Tech Optimism. And Pessimism.

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.I recently made a promise to myself,...

    Watch these 6 startups compete in Pitchers & Pitches tomorrow – TechCrunch

    What do you get when you combine six early-stage startup founders with a panel of top VCs and savvy TechCrunch editors? It’s Pitchers &...

    Your first sales hire should be a missionary, not a mercenary – TechCrunch

    Micah Smurthwaite Contributor Micah Smurthwaite is a partner at Next47 focusing on investments in enterprise software, infrastructure, cybersecurity and frontier technology companies. As the first sales hire...

    Four days left on early bird savings for TC Sessions: Mobility 2020 – TechCrunch

    Want to save $100 on your pass to TC Sessions: Mobility 2020? Silly question, right? Of course, you do. Here’s the thing. You have...

    To Play Poker in a Pandemic, Americans Flee the U.S.

    As a result of the shutdown, most international online poker sites stopped letting people from the United States use their sites.So, in August, when...

    Alexa can now pay for gas at over 11,500 Exxon and Mobil stations in the U.S. – TechCrunch

    In January, Amazon announced a new feature would allow Alexa users to pay for their gas at the pump using voice commands via Echo...

    India’s IT minister accuses Facebook of suppressing right-leaning pages – TechCrunch

    Ravi Shankar Prasad, India’s IT, and Law and Justice minister has accused Facebook India’s leadership team of suppressing the reach of pages that...

    Financial institutions using Plaid Exchange can share instant account activity – TechCrunch

    A few months ago, Plaid unveiled Plaid Exchange, a product that helps financial institutions build and maintain an API that other developers can use....

    Oral-B’s iO smart toothbrush is a big upgrade in just about every way – TechCrunch

    It can be easy to mock the very concept of a ‘smart toothbrush’ – what other device in our lives do we use daily...