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Disney+ UX teardown: Wins, fails and fixes

Disney announced earlier this month that it’s going all-in on streaming media.As part of this new strategy, the company is undergoing a major reorganisation of its media and entertainment busine

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Google will let everyone migrate from Hangouts to Chat for free in 2021

Google’s strategy around its messaging apps is nothing if not messy right now (hello Hangouts, Meet, Chat, Duo and Co.), but it looks like things will get a bit easier come next year. We alread

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Zoom launches its events platform and marketplace, brings apps to your calls

Zoom is hosting its virtual Zoomtopia user conference this week. Given the attention the company has received as the de facto standard video meeting service since the start of the pandemic, it’s

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UK scientists called for 'circuit-breaker' lockdown three weeks ago

Commuters on London Bridge during the morning rush hour heading towards the financial district of the City of London. /AP/Matt Dunham The UK government has revealed its three-tier system and t

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The Otto Wilde Grill delivers the drama of delicious restaurant steak at home

Like many folks this year, I have been cooking a lot. Though I’ve always loved food and have had a deep and abiding interest for the art of cooking, I’ve definitely pushed myself to learn how to do a

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Trump's popularity in rural America remains strong

02:55 Trump signs and flags are a common sight across much of rural Michigan.The Michigan Farm Bureau has already given their endorsement to the incumbent president and that appears to

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Why Amazon and Panasonic are betting on this battery recycling startup

JB Straubel, the Tesla co-founder and former CTO, is often cast as the humble and pioneering engineer, the quiet one who toiled away in the background for 15 years on some of the company’s most

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Uber still sees micromobility and AVs in its future, and could push Prop 22 beyond California

Uber made headlines earlier this year when it offloaded Jump, the shared bike and scooter unit that once appeared to be a critical piece of its transportation. Despite

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Elon Musk says an update for its Starship spacecraft development program is coming in 3 weeks

SpaceX will provide an update about what’s happening with their Starship spacecraft in roughly three weeks, according to CEO and founder Elon Musk. Starship is a next-generation, fully reusable

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Twitter confirms some service flakiness today — now fixed

Twitter users around the world have reported some short partial outages today, with the platform not displaying certain tweets or not able to retrieve any at all.TC’s own geographically distrib

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New contact tracing app launches - your questions answered

An NHS coronavirus contact tracing app has launched across England and Wales.As of Thursday evening, it had been downloaded more than one million times by Android users, according to the Google Play

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Gillmor Gang: Watch Party

This Gillmor Gang episode is as much about what we didn’t talk about as what we did. In the run up to the recording session, we somehow suspected we’d talk about Apple’s virtual event on Tuesday. Then

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Global Business Daily: Deutsche Bank cuts, Tiffany suit, homeworking

"Coronavirus has further changed the demands placed on advisory services and the branch business."These are the words Philipp Gossow, chief operating officer Germany at Deutsche Bank AG, used to expl

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Benchmark’s Peter Fenton: ’10 to 20 years of innovation just got pulled forward’

Earlier today at TechCrunch Disrupt, venture capitalist Peter Fenton joined us to talk about a variety of issues. Among them, we discussed how he’s putting his stamp on Benchmark now that, 15

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Tune in today at 12pm PDT for an essential Disrupt 2020 Sneak Peak

Are you ready to experience a Disrupt event like no other? Thousands of attendees from around the world, an all-star lineup of tech icons, movers, shakers and unicorn makers. Opportunities around ever

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As COVID-19 era drags on, VCs look beyond Zoom calls for due diligence and sourcing

While the coronavirus has accelerated the dealmaking pace for many early-stage startups, activity has not come without adaptation.Remote investment struggles for investors were clear from the get go:

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The Rolling Stones rock London with landmark store

01:46 British rock group the Rolling Stones has opened what's claimed to be a world first – a permanent store selling the band's merchandise.It openedon Wednesday on London's fashionab