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Netflix begins streaming in AV1 on Android

Netflix announced this week that it has started to stream titles in AV1 on Android in what could significantly help the two-year-old media codec gain wider adoption.The world’s biggest streaming gian

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Google and Facebook turn their backs on undersea cable to China

Google and Facebook seem to have resigned themselves to losing part of the longest and highest profile internet cable they have invested in to date. In a filing with the Federal Communications Commiss

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Nuro’s new delivery R2 bot gets the first driverless vehicle exemption from feds

Nuro, the autonomous delivery startup that raised $940 million in financing from Softbank Vision Fund last year, is the first company to receive a driverless exemption from the federal government.The

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YC-backed Goodcover launches into the fast-moving insurtech space

As the insuretech space fills up, a new entrant is joining the fight.Y Combinator -backed Goodcover is launching today to take on the likes of big insurance, as well as insurance startups like Lemonad

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Facebook’s use of Onavo spyware faces questions in EU antitrust probe — report

Facebook’s use of the Onavo spyware VPN app it acquired in 2013 — and used to inform its 2014 purchase of the then rival WhatsApp messaging platform — is on the radar of EuropeR

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Watch OneWeb launch 34 satellites for its broadband constellation live

One of the various companies looking to deploy a globe-spanning broadband internet satellite constellation is adding 34 satellites to its existing operations in space. OneWeb will launch that many sa

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Registration is now open for Disrupt SF 2020

Time to mark September 14-16 on your calendar for the startup extravaganza that is TechCrunch’s Disrupt San Francisco 2020. Registration for our flagship, 10,000-person event is officially open,

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Alphabet’s Loon and SoftBank’s HAPSMobile turn solar-powered drones into flying cell towers

Alphabet-owned Loon, the company that had been focused on delivering internet communications to remote areas via stratospheric balloons, has completed development work on a new payload for partner HAP

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Daily Crunch: LinkedIn is getting a new CEO

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe her

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Netskope hauls in another $340M investment on nearly $3B valuation

Netskope has always focused its particular flavor of security on the cloud, and as more workloads have moved there, it has certainly worked in its favor. Today the company announced a $340 million inv

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SpaceX “likely to spin out” and pursue an IPO for Starlink satellite internet business

SpaceX looks likely to take its burgeoning Starlink business and spin it out, seeking to bring that satellite internet project to public markets via an IPO. That’s according to SpaceX COO and P

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Reddit partners with Tagboard to bring its content to TV broadcasts

Reddit, a site that refers to itself as the “front page of the internet,” is today announcing a new deal that will see its posts and conversations extend beyond the web page. The company

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Pax Labs names a new CEO

Five and a half months after Bharat Vasan was removed as CEO, Pax Labs has finally announced a replacement. Michael Murphy will step into the leadership role, as both the CEO and President of the popu

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Japan's Hanyu eyes first Four Continents' championship

Yuzuru Hanyu in action during the senior men free Program of the ISU Figure Skating Grand Prix final at Palavela in Turin, Italy, December 7, 2019. /VCG Photo Two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru

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U.S. Fed official says interest rates appropriate despite uncertainty

A senior U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) official said on Wednesday that the current level of interest rates remains appropriate despite economic uncertainty and other headwinds."For right now, the way

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13 dead in traffic accident in Upper Egypt's Aswan

At least 13 people were killed and seven others injured on Thursday as a truck hit a passenger minibus on a desert highway in Upper Egypt's province of Aswan. "Once the accident took place, we sent 1

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NBA trade roundup: Miami Heat land Andre Iguodala via trade

Andrew Iguodala is traded by the Memphis Grizzlies to the Miami Heat. /VCG Photo Andre Iguodala, one of the most valuable targets on the NBA trade market, has found his destiny. The Memphis Gr