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Gift Guide: 8 DIY and crafting gifts to help your friends make more stuff and learn new skills

Welcome to TechCrunch’s 2020 Holiday Gift Guide! Need help with gift ideas? We’re here to help! We’ll be rolling out gift guides from now through the end of December. You can find ou

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This is not a review of Apple’s new AirPod Max headphones

I’ve had Apple’s AirPod Max headphones for less than 24 hours, so there is no way I would attempt to write a review of any sort. But I do have some of those oh so popular these days “

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New Relic acquires Kubernetes observability platform Pixie Labs

Two months ago, Kubernetes observability platform Pixie Labs launched into general availability and announced a $9.15 million Series A funding round led by Benchmark, with participation from GV. Toda

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DoorDash, C3.ai skyrocket in public market debuts

Haters gonna hate, IPOs gonna pop.That’s the story today as richly valued DoorDash and C3.ai, two American technology unicorns, saw their values skyrocket after they began trading today.DoorDash

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Chrome adds new capabilities for developers, introduces new privacy rules for extension developers

At the Chrome Dev Summit, Google’s Chrome team today announced a number of new capabilities for developers, updated rules for extension developers, as well as new steps to improve the overall pe

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Coinbase’s backstory and future with ‘Kings of Crypto’ author Jeff John Roberts

No industry better epitomizes elite tech opinion as blockchain. Ignored for years in its infancy, the industry received intense interest from investors, engineers and the public five years ago, genera

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Ada Ventures closes first fund at $50M, investing in diverse founders tacking society’s problems

A year ago this week Ada Ventures — a UK/Europe focused VC with an ‘impact twist’ aiming to invest in diverse founders tacking societal problems — launched on stage at Techcrunch Disrupt. (You c

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AWS expands on SageMaker capabilities with end-to-end features for machine learning

Nearly three years after it was first launched, Amazon Web Services’ SageMaker platform has gotten a significant upgrade in the form of new features making it easier for developers to automate a

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Google opens its Fuchsia operating system to outside developers

For the longest time, Google’s new Fuchsia operating system remained a bit of a mystery — with little information in terms of the company’s plans for it, even as the team behind it

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Can AI help you binge books? BingeBooks is a new service to do … exactly that

The pandemic has been terrible for many industries, but the book industry has gotten a rare reprieve in an otherwise dismal past decade. Locked in homes and forced to socially distance from others, us

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Cloudflare is testing a Netlify competitor to host Jamstack sites

Cloudflare is working on a new product called Cloudflare Pages. The new product could compete directly with Netlify and Vercel, two cloud hosting companies that let you build and deploy sites using J

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Jeli.io announces $4M seed to build incident analysis platform

When one of AWS’s east coast data centers went down at the end of last month, it had an impact on countless companies relying on its services including Roku, Adobe and Shipt. When the incident w

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Equity Monday: Airbnb pricing, Sequoia makes money, and early-stage rounds

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest big new

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Why does TechCrunch cover so many early-stage funding rounds?

Funding-round stories are TechCrunch’s bread and butter.For early-stage companies, the fact that an investor has put thousands, millions (or billions) into an idea that will likely fail, and mig

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'I love you, Diego' – Pele pens emotional message for Argentine legend Maradona

"I love you, Diego," Pele has written on social media, a week after the death of his "great friend" Diego Maradona, a "genius who enchanted the world."In Brazil, it is

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'I love you, Diego' – Pele pens emotional message for Argentine legend Maradona

"I love you, Diego," Pele has written on social media, a week after the death of his "great friend" Diego Maradona, a "genius who enchanted the world."In Brazil, it is

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'I love you, Diego' – Pele pens emotional message for Maradona

Diego Maradona (L) and Pele pose after a football match at the Jardin du Palais Royal, Paris, France, November 25, 2020. /CFP "I love you, Diego," Pele has written on social media, a week afte