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Osaka, Zverev into U.S. Open last four

Japan's Naomi Osaka cruised into the U.S. Open's semi-finals on Tuesday as Alexander Zverev of Germany booked his spot overcoming a sluggish start in the last four of men's draw.Osaka, the tournam

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Osaka, Zverev into U.S. Open last four

Japan's Naomi Osaka cruised into the U.S. Open's semi-finals on Tuesday as Alexander Zverev of Germany booked his spot overcoming a sluggish start in the last four of men's draw.Osaka, the tournam

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How one VC firm wound up with no-code startups as part of its investing thesis

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Rea

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Equity Monday: What if no one gets to buy TikTok?

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 ne

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Stranded Banksy migrant rescue boat gets help in Mediterranean

01:17 The Italian coast guard has rescued 49 of the 219 people stranded on a rescue boat off the coast of Libya.The boat was funded by the British artist Banksy, and is still stranded

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Netflix’s ‘Emily’s Wonder Lab’ is smart, interactive science TV for kids

Netflix’s children’s programming library continues to grow, and its latest is one of its best original offerings yet – Emily’s Wonder Lab, a TV series hosted by engineer, space expe

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Figma CEO Dylan Field discusses fundraising, hiring and marketing in stealth mode

You’d be hard pressed to hang out with a designer and not hear the name Figma.The company behind the largely browser-based design tool has made a huge splash in the past few years, building a ma

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Find out how TechCrunch is taking Disrupt virtual this Friday

Talk about a pivot. The global pandemic rewrote the rules for in-person events, and it set us on a crash course to transform TechCrunch’s annual three-day Disrupt — a conference that draws more than 1

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Students go back to school in Scotland after five months

02:52 Students in Scotland have returned to school for the first time since March, when schools were forced to close because of the coronavirus pandemic.Only certain years returned on

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Bangkok holds first music festival since lockdown lifted

02:38 For anyone who knows Bangkok, there is one mode of transport that is synonymous with the bustling Thai capital.Three-wheeled tuk-tuk, with bright, colorful liveries, race through

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Special raises $2.26M to build a subscription platform for online creators

Special is a new startup offering online video creators a way to move beyond advertising for their income.The service was created by the team behind tech consulting and development firm Triple Tree So

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Cannabis VC Karan Wadhera on why the industry, which took a hit last year, is now quietly blazing

Early last year, excitement over the burgeoning cannabis industry was palpable in Silicon Valley, with a small number of venture firms writing their first checks to cannabis-related startups. Among th

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Biden eyes GOP supporters while Trump focuses on his base

In the four months since Joe Biden effectively won the Democratic presidential nomination, he has focused on consolidating the party’s divergent and often warring facti

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Sign up next week’s Pitchers and Pitches competition on 7/23

Can one minute really make a difference in your startup success? If we’re talking about your 60-second pitch (and we are), then heck yeah! A crisp, concise and compelling pitch opens doors to opportun

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Superstrata opens pre-orders on a pair of 3D printed bicycles

There’s one thing I can’t stop thinking about every time I look at the Superstrata: Just how quickly the thing would get stolen. That’s no knock against the bike itself — in fact, it’s probably a poin

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A tale of two hairdressers: Pandemic experiences from the UK and China

07:29 Hairdressers across the UK have opened their doors again, much to the relief of people whose roots are showing or those who are covering up do-it-yourself attempts.Hair salons ac

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Blavity has a big opportunity with Black millennials, despite struggling to fit the VC formula

Black Lives Matter may be the largest movement in U.S. history, according to four different polls cited recently by the New York Times that suggest anywhere from 15 million to 26 million people in the