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Algae blooms harmful to aquaculture: UN global assessment

Potentially lethal marine algae blooms have not increased in number over the last three decades, but pose a serious threat to aquaculture, according to a UN global assessment released Tuesday.The ori

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Global sting: FBI-encrypted app tricks organized crime

A global sting involving an encrypted communications platform developed by the FBI has sparked raids and arrests around the world, delivering “an unprecedented blow” to

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Pledge 1% is asking VCs to help unlock billions in corporate philanthropy

The corporate philanthropy organization Pledge 1% has, since its launch in 2014, asked founders to donate 1% of their companies’ equity, product, or employees’ time starting on their first

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Daily Crunch: Fastly CDN outage briefly takes Twitch, Reddit and Pinterest offline

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.If you want to catch up on why the internet broke today, we have the

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As Monday.com targets $6B+ IPO valuation, Zoom and Salesforce commit $150M

Team management software company Monday.com dropped a new IPO filing today. The latest document — an F-1/A, because the company is based in Israel — provides what could be Monday.com’

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Sony’s best-in-class noise-cancelling earbuds finally get a pricey upgrade

It’s been two years since Sony raised the bar for wireless earbuds. Six months before Apple upped its own game with the AirPods Pro, the WF-1000XM3 set a new standard for sound and active noise cancel

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Whatfix nabs $90M to help workers onboard and get the most out of their IT stacks

“Digital transformation” has been on the mind of many an organization in the last year: the pandemic and the shift it’s brought to how we work are speeding up investments in new apps

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Blendoor data lets you know if companies are living up to diversity pledges

Many companies talk the talk when it comes to diversity, but it’s harder to know if a firm is actually going the extra mile to hire more qualified people from underrepresented groups, or if they

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Lifted raises $6.2M Series A round led by Fuel Ventures for its long-term social care platform

As people live longer and longer and have long-term health issues like cancer and dementia, caring for elderly relatives is becoming a huge societal and political issue. Right now this care is antiqua

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Hundreds arrested, murder plots thwarted and drugs seized after criminals duped into using app monitored by police

"Years' worth of evidence" has been assembled since officials began monitoring the ANOM app back in 2018.

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Apple’s new App Store Guidelines aim to crack down on fraud and scams

Apple today is releasing a new version of its App Store Review Guidelines, its lengthy document which dictates the rules which apps must abide by in order to be published to its App Store. Among the m

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Equity Monday: Jeff’s going to space, and everyone wants a piece of Flipkart

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 private

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Destruction of cultural heritage in war-torn Afghanistan

"A nation stays alive when its culture stays alive," reads a sign at the entrance of the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul.As an important node on the Silk Road, Afghanistan boasts a syncretic

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Sporting moments of the week (May 31-June 6)

Dutch long-distance runner Sifan Hassan poses after breaking the women's 10,000 meters world record, clocking 29 minutes 6.82 seconds in the Athletics Continental Tour meeting in Hengelo, the

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U.K. urges commitment to vaccinate the world by end of 2022

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will use the Group of Seven wealthy democracies’ summit next week to urge world leaders to commit to vaccinating the global populat

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Southgate: England will take the knee during European Championship

Players of England and Austria take the knee before the warm-up game at Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough, England, June 2, 2021. /CFP England's men's national football team will continue to

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Get thrifty, and your startup might just acquire a generation

Etsy, a marketplace for kitschy and creative DIY goods, acquired Depop, a hippy and thrifty marketplace for resale goods, for $1.625 billion this week. So, today we’ll discuss the tale of two marketpl