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Five excellent reasons to attend TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing & Fundraising

There’s no crying in baseball, and there are certainly no shortcuts in building a successful startup. But, thanks to TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing and Fundraising on July 8-9, you don’t have to reinv

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Startup Alley tickets are selling out in record numbers

Beware! There isn’t much time left to apply for Startup Alley. Take advantage of this opportunity before it’s too late.When you purchase a ticket for Startup Alley, you can opt into being

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EU’s COVID-19 ‘digital pass’ gateway system goes live

A technical system underpinning the European Union’s plan for a pan-EU ‘digital pass’ for verifying COVID-19 vaccination or test status across the region has gone live today, with a

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Europe’s cookie consent reckoning is coming

Cookie pop-ups getting you down? Complaints that the web is ‘unusable’ in Europe because of frustrating and confusing ‘data choices’ notifications that get in the way of what y

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6 investors and founders forecast hockey-stick growth for Edinburgh’s startup scene

Scotland is slowly but surely drawing attention in the UK’s startup space. In 2020, Scottish startups collectively raised £345 million, according to Tech Nation, and with nearly 2,500 startups,

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UK Urges EU to Show 'Common Sense' Over Northern Ireland Protocol Drama

After European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen made a saucy remark about ongoing tensions in Northern Ireland being caused by Brexit, and not the NI protocol,

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US Seeks ‘Equal Security’ for Israelis and Palestinians Amid Gaza's 'Grave' Humanitarian Situation

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken credited the “relentless, determined, but quiet diplomacy” of Joe Biden’s administration with brokering the unconditional ceasefire

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The Station: London scooter winners and Ford’s most important EV

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.Hello and welcome back to The Station, a we

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UK Defence Chief Claims 'Nosy' Russian Ships Circling Britain, Labels Moscow 'Number One Threat'

The UK Navy claimed in early December 2020 that Royal Navy warships had been monitoring a significant Russian presence close to the west coast of Scotland in Britain’s

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Hamas Warns Israel They Will Keep 'Hands on the Trigger' Despite Ceasefire

On Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Security Cabinet unanimously adopted an Egyptian initiative for a bilateral unconditional ceasefire between Israel and

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Apple Watch gets a motion-controlled cursor with ‘Assistive Touch’

Tapping the tiny screen of the Apple Watch with precision has certain level of fundamental difficulty, but for some people with disabilities it’s genuinely impossible. Apple has remedied this wi

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Proton, the privacy startup behind e2e encrypted ProtonMail, confirms passing 50M users

End-to-end encrypted email provider ProtonMail has officially confirmed it’s passed 50 million users globally as it turns seven years old.It’s a notable milestone for a services provider that in

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How can brutal U.S. cops be held accountable?

04:17 For a long time, it has not been uncommon to see examples of violent law enforcement by U.S. police, especially against African Americans. However, few police officers have been c

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UK Unionist Suspended By Labour in Backlash Over 'Dog Whistle Racism' Tweet Targeting Priti Patel

The assistant general secretary of Unite the Union, Howard Beckett, has found himself suspended from the UK Labour Party and fending off a barrage of criticism after wh

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Daily Crunch: Lemonade says website security flaw that exposed customer data is ‘by design’

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.I interrupt your regularly scheduled Daily Crunch to announce that y

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Worksome pulls $13M into its high skill freelancer talent platform

More money for the now very buzzy business of reshaping how people work: Worksome is announcing it recently closed a $13 million Series A funding round for its “freelance talent platform”

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Artist Drue Kataoka will auction her first NFT, with all proceeds going to Asian American causes

Drue Kataoka’s art has made it to collections in 30 countries and even the International Space Station. Now the artist, activist and current face of Clubhouse’s app icon is releasing her first NFT to