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Daily Crunch: Spotify and Ford make acquisitions

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.Welcome back to the Daily Crunch for Friday, June 18. Congratulation

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Putin and Biden: Strategic stability or a new Cold War?

Editor's note: Nikola Mikovic is a freelance journalist based in Serbia. He covers mostly Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian foreign policies, and writes for multiple web magazines. The article ref

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Meet the mobile therapy startup backed by Christian Angermayer’s re:Mind Capital

Mental health startup Ksana Health has received $2 million in seed funding led by re:Mind Capital, the mental health VC arm of Christian Angermayer and Apeiron Investment Group. It’s a move informed b

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How I Podcast: Left Handed Radio’s Anna Rubanova

The beauty of podcasting is that anyone can do it. It’s a rare medium that’s nearly as easy to make as it is to consume. And as such, no two people do it exactly the same way. There are a wealth of ha

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The rapid hard-tech emergence

When I joined the team at SOSV’s HAX, a venture program designed to help early-stage hardware founders, my friends in tech shook their heads. Hadn’t I learned yet that hardware is too hard? What they

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What makes the Chinese culture?

67. What makes the Chinese culture.mp300:00Editor's note: This 100-episode podcast explains how China works. Exploring Xi Jinping Thought and how the Chinese president'

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Are we overestimating the ransomware threat?

On Monday afternoon, the U.S. Justice Department said it has seized much of the cryptocurrency ransom that U.S. pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline paid last month to a Russian hacking collective call

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Apple’s new App Store Guidelines aim to crack down on fraud and scams

Apple today is releasing a new version of its App Store Review Guidelines, its lengthy document which dictates the rules which apps must abide by in order to be published to its App Store. Among the m

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Classic book on Song capital gets new life with republication

Dongjing Menghua Lu (Prosperous Record of Song Dynasty (960-1279) Capital Dongjing), a book first released nearly 1,000 years ago, was republished in May with explanatory notes.Written in 1147 by Meng

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Plan for NHS to collect patient data from GPs should be delayed over privacy fears, says Labour

The Opposition is calling for a public consultation and information campaign to allay privacy fears among medical professionals.

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Plan for NHS to collect patient data from GPs should be delayed over privacy fears, says Labour

The Opposition is calling for a public consultation and information campaign to allay privacy fears among medical professionals.

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Memorial of 1st CPC National Congress opens in Shanghai

02:05 A memorial dedicated to the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) opened in Shanghai on Thursday.More than 600 valuable objects related to

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Cairo Opera House wows audience with Verdi's world-famous opera Aida

The entrance of the Cairo Opera House was decorated like a passage to a shining ancient Egyptian temple, which leads to the open-air Fountain Theatre that staged Egypt's world-renowned opera Aida

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This one email explains Apple

An email has been going around the internet as a part of a release of documents related to Apple’s App Store based suit brought by Epic Games. I love this email for a lot of reasons, not the least of

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Belarusian protester fights extradition from Russia

Andrei Kazimirov left Belarus for Russia last September to sit out a crackdown on anti-government protests after he was detained over a rally in August and beaten while

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UK PM Boris Johnson’s Tories guilty of spamming voters

The governing party of the UK has been fined £10k by the national data protection watchdog for sending spam.The Information Commissioner’s (ICO) Office has sanctioned the Conservative Party foll

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Facebook doubles down on business tools with WhatsApp API updates, Login Connect for Messenger and more

WhatsApp now has more than 2 billion users globally, and by comparison its efforts to cultivate more business usage have been quite modest: just over 175 million people message with WhatsApp Business