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Tumblr’s parent company is buying popular podcast app Pocket Casts

Pocket Casts will soon have a new home. Automattic, the parent company of Tumblr and WordPress.com, is buying the podcast app from a collective of public radio groups, including NPR and BBC Studios. A

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Viktor Orban accuses EU of 'legalized hooliganism' over LGBT+ action

Viktor Orban and the European Commission's Ursula von der Leyen, pictured here in February 2020. /Reuters Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has accused the European Commission of "legalize

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EU in legal action against Hungary and Poland for LGBT+ discrimination

03:16 The European Commission has launched legal action against Hungary and Poland for breaking EU law by discriminating against LGBT+ citizens.Hungary recently implemented what's been

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GSA blocks senator from reviewing documents used to approve Zoom for government use

The General Services Administration has denied a senator’s request to review documents Zoom submitted to have its software approved for use in the federal government.The denial was in response t

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How engineers fought the CAP theorem in the global war on latency

CockroachDB was intended to be a global database from the beginning. The founders of Cockroach Labs wanted to ensure that data written in one location would be viewable immediately in another location

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Facebook is shook, asks for removal of FTC Chair Khan from antitrust cases against it

Facebook has joined Amazon in a show of alarm at the sudden rise of antitrust hawk Lina Khan to the position of FTC Chair by asking that she be recused from all decisions relating to the company. The

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Cardless raises $40M to help more brands launch custom credit cards

Many consumers use their credit cards to rack up rewards to be used toward travel. But what if you’re a sports fan, and using your credit card could lead to a virtual conversation with a player on you

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A different Taliban in 2021 from the Taliban of 2001

AFP Editor's note: Andrew Korybko is a Moscow-based American political analyst. The article reflects the author's views and not necessarily those of CGTN.The Taliban of 2021 bear very little r

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Dovetail, the venture studio that has worked with startups like Afterpay, is raising a new fund

Dovetail co-founders Ash Fogelberg and Nick FrandsenBased in Sydney and Auckland, Dovetail is a full-service venture studio that works closely with founders who have a great idea, but may lack technic

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Daily Crunch: European Union demands $1B penalty from VW, BMW for hiding emissions

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.Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for July 9, 2021. We’ve made it to

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Art of the Party: The Land So Rich in Beauty

01:45 The nine-meter-long ink brush painting, “Jiangshan Ruci Duojiao” (The Land So Rich in Beauty), co-created by Chinese artists Guan Shanyue and Fu Baoshi in 1959.The painting was in

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1 napkin and 22 lines of code, or how NS1 rewrote the rules of internet infrastructure

It’s the most important primary layer in the modern tech stack for internet software, and its most intriguing evolution was written on a napkin in a New York City bar and translated to just shy of two

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Lightning strikes twice: Tampa Bay repeats as cup champion

The Rampa Bay Lightning celebrate with the Stanley Cup trophy after the 1-0 win over the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup Finals 4-1 at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida, U.S., July 7, 2021

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Demand Curve: 10 lies you’ve been told about marketing

The harsh truth: Some of the advice you read about marketing is incorrect.While not always intentionally misleading, you’re often absorbing content written by:Marketers without a breadth of expe

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r2c raises $27M to scale its security-focused code analysis service

This morning r2c, a startup building a SaaS service around the Semgrep open-source project, announced that it has closed a $27 million Series B. Felicis led the round, which the company said was a pre

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Twitter tests more attention-grabbing misinformation labels

Twitter is considering changes to the way it contextualizes misleading tweets that the company doesn’t believe are dangerous enough to be removed from the platform outright.The company announced

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Duolingo Director of engineering Karin Tsai talks opinionated development

Karin Tsai joined Duolingo in 2012 and is now the director of engineering. Yesterday, at TechCrunch’s City Spotlight: Pittsburgh, she spoke on the company’s extensive development process and unique cu