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Boox tablets are welcome options in the growing oversize e-reader niche

When it comes to e-paper devices, the Kindle is of course the first brand people think of, though I’ve done my best to spread the Kobo and reMarkable gospel as well. Chinese e-reader maker Boox

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LOVE unveils a modern video messaging app with a business model that puts users in control

A London-headquartered startup called LOVE, valued at $17 million following its pre-seed funding, aims to redefine how people stay in touch with close family and friends. The company is launching a me

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Daily Crunch: Internet watchdog Citizen Lab says iPhone spyware dodges Apple’s security measures

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.Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for August 24, 2021. Today’s news

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NoRedInk raises $50 million Series B to help students become better writers

“In order to become a better writer, read your written words out loud.”That’s one of the first, and best, writing tips I ever received. I always found the advice ironic because it required me to chang

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Daily Crunch: Virgin Orbit rockets to $3.2B valuation in SPAC merger

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.Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for August 23, 2021. We’ve got a s

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Twitter is testing a feature that puts users’ Revue newsletters on their profiles

This January, Twitter acquired the newsletter platform Revue, but until now its integration into Twitter has been minimal; sometimes when you write Twitter threads, you’ll be greeted with a R

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Daily Crunch: T-Mobile confirms ‘highly sophisticated cyberattack’ affecting 47M customer accounts

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.Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for August 18, 2021! Good news up

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Crypto world shows signs of being rather bullish

Welcome back to The Exchange. Today we’re doing something fun with crypto.Sure, we could write more about how insurtech valuations are under fresh pressure after Hippo’s Q2 earnings report

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Webiny nabs $3.5M seed to build serverless development framework on top of serverless CMS

Webiny, an early-stage startup that launched in 2019 with an open-source, serverless CMS, had also developed a framework to help build the CMS, and found that customers were also interested in that to

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Felicis Ventures grows along with its returns, gathering up $900 million across two new funds

Fifteen years ago, Aydin Senkut, a former Google exec, was an outsider in venture circles that didn’t take seriously his ambitions to become a top VC. Now, his firm, Felicis Ventures, is announc

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Bad mom focus of new novel An Everlasting Life

Writer Ai Wei's new novel An Everlasting Life was recently published in China.The novel describes an irresponsible mother, who was a sought-after star of Shaoxing Opera, one of the most popular Ch

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​Sci-fi writer wins China's top children's literature award

Sci-fi pioneer, scholar and writer Wu Yan won this year's National Outstanding Children's Literature Award for his latest work China Orbit and he told China.org.cn that he's happy that his

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Digital therapy program for fibromyalgia receives FDA breakthrough device designation

Swing Therapeutics, a digital therapeutics startup, has received an FDA breakthrough device designation for their 12 week smartphone-assisted fibromyalgia management program. This is the company’s fir

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More than 83 million smart devices, including baby monitors, at risk from hackers

Hackers could listen to and watch live audio and video feeds from smart cameras and baby monitors, due to a vulnerability being disclosed by Mandiant and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

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The Art of the Party: Ode to the Red Candle

02:01 Chinese artist Wen Lipeng created the oil painting “Ode to the Red Candle” in 1979 in memory of his father Wen Yiduo, a prominent Chinese poet and scholar.Wen Yid

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Daily Crunch: Israel-based stroke therapy tech startup BrainQ raises $40M

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.Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for August 16, 2021. While the wor

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The Nuro EC-1

Six years ago, I sat in the Google self-driving project’s Firefly vehicle — which I described, at the time, as a “little gumdrop on wheels” — and let it ferry me around a closed cour