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    Genomics startup Helix receives $33 million in NIH funding to scale COVID-19 testing – TechCrunch

    The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is revealing the first beneficiaries of its Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) program, and San Mateo-based Helix...

    Mammoth Biosciences’s CRISPR-based COVID-19 test receives NIH funding through RADx program – TechCrunch

    CRISPR tech startup Mammoth Biosciences is among the companies that revealed backing from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics...

    Australia now has a template for forcing Facebook and Google to pay for news – TechCrunch

    Australia is closing in on a legally binding framework to force adtech giants Facebook and Google pay media companies for monetizing their news...

    Delightree raises $3M to help franchise business owners simplify their operations – TechCrunch

    Owning one brick-and-mortar business seems complicated enough. But running multiple locations? For many owners, that’s a constant juggling act of phone calls, check lists...

    First US apps based on Google and Apple Exposure Notification System expected in ‘coming weeks’ – TechCrunch

    Google Vice President of Engineering Dave Burke provided an update about the Exposure Notifications System (ENS) that Google developed in partnership with Apple...

    Rocket Lab clear to launch again after first mission failure attributed to electrical fault – TechCrunch

    Rocket Lab has received clearance to launch from the FAA following the failure of its Electron rocket on July 4 and the loss...

    Florida teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind celebrity Twitter hack – TechCrunch

    Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren announced today that he has filed 30 felony charges against a 17-year-old resident of Tampa, Florida, who was described...

    Florida Teen Arrested in Twitter Hack

    OAKLAND, Calif. — A Florida teenager was arrested early Friday in connection with the recent high-profile hack of 130 Twitter accounts, including the accounts...

    The leading arguments for a Microsoft-TikTok tie-up

    Here they are, ranked by how much weight we put behind them:   Source link

    Trump wants to order TikTok owner ByteDance to sell US business – TechCrunch

    President Trump has plans to order China’s ByteDance, the owner of hit social video app TikTok, to divest from the company, according to...

    Cisco acquires Modcam to make Meraki smart camera portfolio even smarter – TechCrunch

    As the Internet of Things proliferates, security cameras are getting smarter. Today, these devices have machine learning capability that helps the camera automatically identify...

    Secret documents from US antitrust probe reveal big tech’s plot to control or crush the competition – TechCrunch

    Nearly 500 pages of evidence were made public during the House Judiciary’s marathon hearing this week on potential anti-competitive actions by Amazon, Facebook, Google...

    Big Tech’s Backlash Is Just Starting

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.Wednesday’s five-plus-hour congressional probing of the bosses...

    Grilled by Lawmakers, Big Tech Turns Up the Gaslight

    “I don’t know the specifics of that situation,” Mr. Bezos replied.At another point, Mr. Pichai, asked to explain whether it was anticompetitive for Google...

    Randonautica: What Is It and Are the Stories Real?

    The app led one person to a friendly dog in the desert and another to a field of wildflowers. One young woman, after making...

    It’s not an Apple Watch, it’s an Oppo Watch – TechCrunch

    Behold, the Opple Watch. Many have borrowed heavily from Apple’s wearable, but few, if any, have done so as brazenly as Oppo. Sure Fitbit...