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Facebook pushes EU for dilute and fuzzy internet content rules

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is in Europe this week — attending a security conference in Germany over the weekend where he spoke about the kind of regulation he’d like applied to his

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NBA All-Star Game: For Kobe, for the way basketball should have been

Giannis Antetolounmpo (R) blocks a shot by LeBron James (L) in the NBA All-Star Game at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, February 16, 2020. /VCG Photo The 2020 NBA All-Star Weekend came

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Accurate and transparent information eliminates discrimination

03:57 Editor's Note: COVID-19 is creating many problems and uncertainties in China and around the world. Nicholas Rosellini, UN Resident Coordinator in China, shares his views with CGT

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Can we debate free will versus destiny in four pages?

The informal TechCrunch book club (which is now a whole week off schedule thanks to the news cycle — let’s see if we can catch up here shortly!) is now venturing into the very, very short story What’s

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German President Refutes Trump’s ‘America First’ Policy at Munich Conference

The leader made his remarks in the presence of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Secretary of Defence Mark Esper, Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi,

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PhotoSquared app exposed customer photos and shipping labels

Popular photo printing app PhotoSquared has exposed thousands of customer photos, addresses and orders details.At least 10,000 shipping labels were stored in a public Amazon Web Services (AWS) storage

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Catching up on China’s tech influence operations in America

It’s been a dizzying few weeks following all the China news emanating from Washington DC these days. While a “phase one” trade deal with China has been signed and appears to be moving forward as of a

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Former Krux and Salesforce execs raise $15M for their marketing data startup Habu

Marketing startup Habu is emerging from stealth today and announcing that it has already raised $15 million in Series A funding.The company comes out of super{set}, the startup studio created by Krux

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Moscow Confirms Intention to Retaliate If US Withdraws From Open Skies Treaty

Russia will be forced to take countermeasures if the United States withdraws from the Open Skies Treaty, the Foreign Ministry's Department for Nonproliferation and Arms

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Meet 500 Startups’ 26th batch of startups

Following TechCrunch’s coverage of 500 Startups’ 25th batch (and numbers 24, 23, 22, and 21, in case you wanted to go back in time), today we’re saying hello to the accelerator’

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Oxx, a new European VC dedicated to SaaS, raises $133M fund

Oxx, a relatively new European venture capital firm founded by Richard Anton and Mikael Johnsson, has raised $133 million to back “Europe’s most promising SaaS companies” at Series A and b

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Revolut uses ‘open banking’ to let you aggregate other bank account data within its app

Revolut, the European banking and money transfer app that now claims over 10 million customers, has partnered with open banking API provider TrueLayer to add bank account aggregation features to its a

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The Queen Reportedly Upset After Eldest Grandson Peter Phillips Splits From Wife

In her 2019 Christmas message, Queen Elizabeth II admitted that the past year was quite “bumpy”, following several scandals surrounding the Royal Family, including one

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UK public sector failing to be open about its use of AI, review finds

A report into the use of artificial intelligence by the UK’s public sector has warned that the government is failing to be open about automated decision-making technologies which have the potent

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Apple fined $27 million in France for throttling old iPhones without telling users

France’s competition watchdog DGCCRF announced earlier today that Apple will pay a $27.4 million (€25 million) fine due to an iOS update that capped performance of aging devices. The company will also

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'Competition With Cooperation or With Conflict': German MPs Weigh in on Post-Brexit EU-UK Trade Deal

In his keynote speech on Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson made it clear that London will not "undermine EU standards" while negotiating new post-Brexit trade deals

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Biden says he is 'not going anywhere' after poor showing in Iowa

Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden vowed on Wednesday to go on fighting for the Democratic presidential nomination despite what he called the “gut punch” he took in I