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    MIT creates a soft-fingered robotic gripper than could eventually tie knots and sew stitches – TechCrunch

    MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has shared the results of a new project in which it built a two-fingered robotic gripper,...

    Analog Devices to acquire rival chipmaker Maxim Integrated for $21 billion – TechCrunch

    Analog Devices didn’t waste any time kicking off the week with a bang when it announced this morning it was acquiring rival chipmaker...

    UIPath reels in another $225M as valuation soars to $10.2B – TechCrunch

    Last year, Gartner found that Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is the fastest growing category in enterprise software. So perhaps it shouldn’t come as a...

    Rapid Huawei rip-out could cause outages and security risks, warns UK telco – TechCrunch

    The chief executive of UK incumbent telco BT has warned any government move to require a rapid rip-out of Huawei kit from existing...

    US threatens to restrict WeChat following TikTok backlash – TechCrunch

    Amid intense scrutiny over TikTok, WeChat, the essential tool for Chinese people’s day-to-day life, is also taking the heat from the U.S. White...

    Behold Vermont, From Above – The New York Times

    At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, with travel restrictions in place worldwide, we launched a new series — The World Through a Lens...

    Google makes education push in India – TechCrunch

    Google said on Monday that it has partnered with CBSE, a government body that oversees education in private and public schools in India,...

    Project Ubin, the Singaporean money authority’s blockchain initiative, moves closer to commercialization – TechCrunch

    The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and state investment firm Temasek announced today that Project Ubin, its blockchain-based multi-currency payments network, has proven its...

    Google to invest $10 billion in India – TechCrunch

    Google said on Monday that it plans to invest $10 billion in India in the next five to seven years as the search...

    Taylor Lorenz: TikTok Users Respond to Potential Ban

    Since Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News on Monday that the United States was considering banning TikTok over national security concerns, a...

    How May Google Fight an Antitrust Case? Look at This Little-Noticed Paper

    Google controls products that aid in every step of that process, including the different pieces of software for advertisers and publishers that run auctions...

    Tesla lowers the starting price of its Model Y electric SUV – TechCrunch

    Tesla has lowered the price of another vehicle. This time it’s the Model Y, an electric SUV the company started shipping in March. The...

    Microsoft spins out 5-year-old Chinese chatbot Xiaoice – TechCrunch

    Microsoft is shedding its empathetic chatbot Xiaoice into an independent entity, the U.S. software behemoth said (in Chinese) Monday, confirming an earlier report by...

    WeWork’s chairman says it expects to have positive cash flow in 2021 – TechCrunch

    After aggressive cost-cutting measures, including mass layoffs and selling several of its businesses, WeWork’s chairman expects the company to have positive cash flow...

    Are Uber and Lyft Drivers Well Paid? It Depends on the Study

    The most contested question in the gig economy may be how much workers earn, since their hourly wages can be widely uneven. Concerns about...

    Tech giants take stance on Beijing’s data control in Hong Kong – TechCrunch

    Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people...