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Australia's Foreign Relations Bill to harm its national interest

U.S. President Donald Trump (R) welcomes Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison during a ceremony at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 20, 2019. /Xinhua Editor's note:Andr

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Steno raises $3.5 million led by First Round to become an extension of law offices

The global legal services industry was worth $849 billion dollars in 2017 and is expected to become a trillion dollar industry by the end of next year. Little wonder that Steno, an L.A.-based startup,

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Europe is going back to school despite recent virus surge

A mother and her three children scanned the school supplies in a Paris supermarket, plucking out multicolored fountain pens, crisp notebooks – and plenty of masks. Desp

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Bingie is an app for all your streaming recommendations and debates

If you’re overwhelmed trying to choose the next movie or TV show to watch on Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max or any other streaming service, Bingie could be the app for you.You may recall a prev

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With theaters opening back up, Atom Tickets launches its Snap mini app

Santa Monica, Calif.-based Atom Tickets, the ticketing and concessions buying app, is finally launching its branded ticket buying experience inside Snapchat. The new Movie Tickets by Atom joins a slew

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Mysterious gas being shot from centre of Milky Way

"We're still looking for the smoking gun, but it gets more complicated the more we learn about it," say the researchers.

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Report: Apple quietly acquired Israel’s Camerai, formerly Tipit, a specialist in AR and camera tech

Apple is well known for picking up smaller startups on the hush-hush to augment its business, and today news leaked out about the latest of these… nearly two years after the fact. Sometime betw

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Tune in today to discuss COVID-19’s impact on the startup world

We can’t help but wonder what the future of work will look like in the wake of this pandemic. That’s the timely topic of today’s interactive webinar, COVID-19’s Impact on the Startup World.The s

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Huge plankton bloom off UK coast visible from space

Scientists and researchers across the South-West have recorded incredible satellite images of a plankton bloom near the Isle of Scilly that was visible from space. /NASA Space Observatory Thou

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Equity Monday: A good time for ambitious startups to take on BigTech

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 big ne

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Liquid unicorns, accelerating transitions, and Gen Z’s venture impact

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter for your weekend enjoyment. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made fo

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Root AI raises $7.2M seed round to deploy its harvesting robot amid COVID-19-fueled demand

By all accounts, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of robotics and automation by months, if not years. The reasons are fairly clear — robotics don’t call in sick, nor are they disease

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Omaze raises $30M after expanding beyond celebrity campaigns

Omaze, the startup became famous for its celebrity-centric fundraisers, is announcing that it has raised $30 million in Series B funding.Some of the company’s best-known campaigns include opport

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'You're American, go home': Tensions rise at Canada-U.S. border

Family members from the U.S. and Canada meeting at the border between the countries in Peace Arch Park, Blaine, Wash, May 17, 2020. /AP As the pandemic continues to sweep the U.S., Canadians a

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iOS 14 redirects web links from News+ publishers directly to the Apple News app

Apple’s still-in-beta operating systems will automatically redirect News+ subscribers to the Apple News app when they click on links from a News+ publisher.In other words, if you click or tap o

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R&D Roundup: Supercomputer COVID-19 insights, ionic spiderwebs, the whiteness of AI

I see far more research articles than I could possibly write up. This column collects the most interesting of those papers and advances, along with notes on why they may prove important in the world o

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COVID-19: Mandatory mask policy imposed for U.S. House floor

Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. /Reuters Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, announced a mandatory mask policy on Wednesday that requires al