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Daily Crunch: Stripe buys Y Combinator alum Bouncer for undisclosed sum

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.Wrapping the week here at Daily Crunch with a big thanks to Henry fo

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Republican lawmakers ask Pelosi to lift mask requirement

VCG A group of House Republicans has written to Speaker Nancy Pelosi asking her to lift the chamber's mask guidance following the updated U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recomm

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The gaming industry needs more than just coders

While the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on countless businesses across the globe, the $118 billion gaming industry not only survived, it thrived, with 55% of American consumers turnin

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Footage from Syria in 2018 among inaccurate videos circulating about Israel-Gaza conflict

Misleading videos shared by a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been viewed over 300,000 times.

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Short seller says Lemonade website bug exposed insurance customers’ account data

An activist short seller has written a letter to the chief executive of insurance giant Lemonade with details of an “accidentally discovered” security flaw that exposes customers’ ac

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President Xi expresses strong concerns about safety

Chinese President Xi Jinping visits a memorial dedicated to Zhang Zhongjing, a famous Chinese pharmacologist and physician of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), in Nanyang City, central China's He

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Surveillance footage unveils tragedy of Chengdu boy's death

Video footage show Lin on his way to the site he fell to death. /Sina WeiboThe death of a 16-year-old student at a high school in southwest China's Sichuan Province tou

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What has China learnt from its fight against poverty?

2-2-24 What has China learnt from its fight against poverty.mp300:00Editor's note: This 100-episode podcast explains how China works. Exploring Xi Jinping Thought and h

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China calls for restraint amid escalating Israeli-Palestinian tensions

Zhang Jun, China's permanent representative to the UN, speaks at a press briefing on the Security Council program of work for the month of May at the UN headquarters in

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Somalia rejects ex-Ghanaian President as AU envoy, blames Kenya again

Former Ghanaian President John Mahama /AFP Somalia has rejected the appointment of former Ghanaian President John Mahama as African Union's (AU) special envoy to help mediate its political imp

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For unicorns, how much does the route to going public really matter?

On a recent episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Natasha Mascarenhas and Alex Wilhelm invited Yext CFO Steve Cakebread and Latch CFO Garth Mitchell on to discuss when companies should g

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How China's people-centered approach works in fight against COVID-19

06:09 Abraham Lincoln, former U.S. president, once said in the Gettysburg Address, "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the e

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PM Johnson promises to 'level up' UK with post-pandemic plans in 'Queen's Speech'

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to tackle inequality and "level up" the country on Tuesday with a post-pandemic raft of laws presented by Queen Elizabeth

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GOP readies blitz against Democrats’ voting rights bill

Republicans are preparing to launch an all-out assault on sweeping voting rights legislation, forcing Democrats to take dozens of politically difficult votes during a c

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UNSC meeting on multilateralism gives global leadership a test

A post of United Nations Security Council high level virtual meeting on multilaterism. /Screenshot via twitter of Chinese Mission to UN Editor's note:Hannan Hussain is a foreign affairs commen

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New White House panel aims to separate science, politics

Eager to the turn the page on the Trump years, the Biden White House is launching an effort to unearth past problems with the politicization of science within governmen

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U.S. should address intl concerns over bio labs: Foreign Ministry

An aerial view of Fort Detrick, Maryland, U.S., March 25, 2007. /CFPChina refuted an accusation hyped by the U.S. saying the country had done research on the SARS coron