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We must end the era of adjunct surveillance

As consumers, most of us don’t mind providing companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter with our personal data, as long as we get access to the services and solutions we want to use. However, many p

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Spotify adds a centralized hub to learn more about songwriters

Royalties aside, songwriters are often unsung heroes of music making. Sure, some — like Carole King and Jimmy Webb — become well-known in their own right, but more often than not, names ar

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2020’s top 10 enterprise M&A deals totaled a staggering $165B

While 2020 won’t be remembered fondly by many of us for much of anything, it was a blockbuster year for enterprise MA with the top 10 deals totaling an astounding $165.2 billion.This is the thir

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Perigee snares $1.5M seed to secure HVAC and other infrastructure

It’s been an eventful fall for Perigee CEO and founder Mollie Breen. The former NSA employee participated in the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield in September, and she just closed her firs

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Gawq wants to burst your ‘echo chamber’ with its smarter news app

A new startup called Gawq wants to tackle the problem of fake news and the “echo chamber” problem created by social media, where our view of the world is shaped by manipulative algorithms

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Google expands languages push in India to serve non-English speakers

There are over 600 million internet users in India, but only a fraction of this population is fluent in English. Most online services and much of the content on the web currently, however, are availab

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Bitcoin passes $20k and reaches all-time high

After reaching a previous all-time high on November 30th, 2020 and December 1st, 2020, bitcoin is now trading well above $20,000 and has surpassed its previous peak price.Bitcoin’s value has rapidly

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Beijing slashes DPP's anti-China syndrome as it banned a children book

A page from the book, depicting a little boy is communicating with his dad by writing through a glass window. /CGTNA children's picture book "Waiting for Dad to Come Ho

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Paris authorities given $110,000 fine for 'appointing too many women'

City authorities in Paris are set to face a $110,000 fine after employing too many women to senior positions.France's public services ministry is imposing the fine after Paris city hall appointments

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Gmail is pretty broken right now, one day after a massive outage

While it doesn’t appear to be completely down like it was yesterday morning, we’re hearing many reports from Gmail users that the email service is having major issues right now. If your Gm

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Acclaimed British spy author John le Carre dies aged 89

John le Carre, the British writer best known for his Cold War espionage novels "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold", has died aged 89.Le Carre's literary agency, Cur

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Investors double down on tech stocks in massive DoorDash, Airbnb, C3.ai IPOs

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here.Maybe it is a stock market bubble, or a tech-stock bub

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Gift Guide: 9 security and privacy gifts to keep your friends and family safe

Welcome to TechCrunch’s 2020 Holiday Gift Guide! Need help with gift ideas? We’re here to help! We’ll be rolling out gift guides from now through the end of December. You can find ou

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2,000-year-old wooden slips discovered in east China

A batch of wooden slips dating back some 2,000 years to the Han Dynasty (202 BC-AD 220) have been unearthed in east China's Zhejiang Province, local authorities said Th

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'This ship has sailed': Judges reject 2 more cases from pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell

Conspiracy-minded pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell saw swift defeat in two cases Monday, with federal judges in Michigan and Georgia dismissing her efforts to overturn

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Safe harbor law locks Congress into accepting Biden's win

Other than Wisconsin, every state appears to have met a deadline in federal law that essentially means Congress has to accept the electoral votes that will be cast next

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Can AI help you binge books? BingeBooks is a new service to do … exactly that

The pandemic has been terrible for many industries, but the book industry has gotten a rare reprieve in an otherwise dismal past decade. Locked in homes and forced to socially distance from others, us