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Nike is making footwear to improve athletes’ efficiency for the Tokyo Olympics

All it takes to win a gold medal at the Olympics is the best performance on the day of the event. Champions may be made in countless training hours, but championships, finals and even world title-repr

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How Hoop hit #2 with its Tinder for Snapchat

Snapchat’s developer platform is blowing up as a gateway to teen social app users. Hoop is the latest Snap Kit blockbuster, rocketing to #2 on the overall App Store charts this month with its Ti

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SpaceX will now let you book a rocket launch online starting at $1 million

SpaceX has launched a new web-based booking tool for its rideshare Falcon 9 launches, a service it announced last year to expand its addressable market to include small satellite customers who don

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Daily Crunch: Spotify is acquiring The Ringer

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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YouTube to invest $100M in kids’ content that showcases character strengths, like compassion and curiosity

YouTube in September announced a $100 million fund to invest in new children’s video content, following its $170 million settlement with the FTC over children’s privacy law violations. The

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CrunchMatch simplifies networking @ TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2020

With just about 1 month until go-time, TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2020 (March 3 in Berkeley, Calif.) is going to be a true powerhouse event. Prepare to spend the day engaging with the leading innovato

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YouTube has seen soaring growth in South Korea

Earlier this week, Google released revenue figures for YouTube for the first time in the product’s history, revealing that the video service pulled in $15.1 billion in advertising revenues in 2019. G

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Uber issued permit to test self-driving vehicles on California public roads

Uber Advanced Technologies Group has been issued a permit that would allow the company to put its autonomous vehicles back on public roads in California nearly two years after the company scaled back

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European roundup: Liverpool kids shine, Dembele out for rest of season

Liverpool legend Alan Hansen once famously said 'You can't win anything with kids' in 1995. He may have to eat his words once again.Liverpool's youngest ever team defied the odds to progress into

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Gen Z fav photo editing app VSCO further expands into video

VSCO, the photo-sharing app that became a Gen Z meme, is expanding further into video. The company already supported video editing via its app, but users couldn’t publish and share the results o

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Ransomware suspected after CUNA, a credit union lobbyist, knocked offline

The Credit Union National Association, a major lobbyist and trade association for credit unions, is recovering after its systems were knocked offline earlier this week following a “cyber inciden

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Warriors' assistant coach Mike Brown to lead Nigeria in Olympics

Mike Brown, assistant coach of the Golden State Warriors, reacts in Game 3 of the NBA playoff series against the Houston Rockets at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, May 4, 2019. /VCG Photo

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New York Knicks fire president of basketball operations Steve Mills

Steve Mills, president of basketball operations of the NBA's New York Knicks reacts before the preseason game against the Brooklyn Nets at the Barclays Center in the Brooklyn, New York, October 3

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Travel industry faces unprecedented hardships amid virus outbreak

03:40 The service sector's contribution to China's GDP has increased by nearly 15 percent over the past two decades, but as coronavirus continues to sweep across the country, China's t

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China announces further relief policies to fight coronavirus

The Chinese government on Wednesday unveiled a series of relief policies, including tax breaks and low-interest loans, in a bid to encourage all-out production of necessary goods to fight the outb

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BOJ signals readiness to ease as virus impact sours outlook

Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Masazumi Wakatabe, speaks at a European Financial Forum event in Dublin, Ireland, February 13, 2019. /Reuters Photo The Bank of Japan stands ready to ramp up stim

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Foxtrot picks up $17 million to reimagine the convenience store

Amidst the staggering rise of on-demand delivery services, the convenience store has been left relatively untouched. Until very recently.Foxtrot, founded in 2013, is looking to reimagine the corner co