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Google gobbling Fitbit is a major privacy risk, warns EU data protection advisor

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has intervened to raise concerns about Google’s plan to scoop up the health and activity data of millions of Fitbit users — at a time when the co

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Twitter adds a button so you can thread your shower thoughts

Hold that tweet — and add another one.Twitter is adding a new feature for mobile users to make it easier to link dispersed ‘shower thoughts’ together — and another thing style

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Codeacademy has already outlived many rivals — is that enough?

Codeacademy, the New York-based online interactive platform that offers coding classes in a wide variety of programming languages, is a little like background noise; it’s been operating reliably

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DeFiance: billion-dollar finance, million-dollar hacks, and very little value

Over the last year or so, much-to-most of the cryptocurrency world has pivoted from the failure of “fat tokens” and ICOs, and the faltering growth of “Layer 2” payments like Li

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China Focus: Schools start online courses as epidemic control postpones new semester

Millions of Chinese students are restricted to their homes due to a nationwide epidemic control mechanism started on Monday to provide online learning, as the new scho

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Commentary: Solidarity, not stigma, needed in anti-virus battle

As the battle against COVID-19 is at a critical stage, some outside noises have posed a threat of their own. Since the outbreak, China has introduced the unprecedented

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The 'Cold War' card cannot compensate for U.S. unilateralism

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before leaving the White House in Washington, DC, U.S., August. 2, 2019. /Xinhua Photo Editor's note: Tom Fowdy is a British political and inter

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‘Capitalism generates a lot of wealth depending on the situation’

Ben Tarnoff is a columnist at The Guardian, a co-founder of tech ethics magazine Logic and arguably one of the world’s top experts on the intersection of tech and socialism.But what I think you really

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PhotoSquared app exposed customer photos and shipping labels

Popular photo printing app PhotoSquared has exposed thousands of customer photos, addresses and orders details.At least 10,000 shipping labels were stored in a public Amazon Web Services (AWS) storage

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Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries.Last November, we surveyed 13 of

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The six strategic stages of seed fundraising in 2020

Seed fundraising is rarely easy, but it certainly used to be a lot less complicated than it is today. In a simpler world, a seed investor (or maybe two) would lead a round, which meant that they would

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Big meditation money, new VC funds, and how do you value Airbnb?

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.After having a good time with NEA’s Rick Yang last week, we thoug

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Barr swipes at Trump: Tweets make it ‘impossible’ to do job

Attorney General William Barr publicly swiped at President Donald Trump on Thursday, declaring the president’s tweets about Justice Department prosecutors and open case

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Philippines to cease joint exercises with U.S. after military pact termination: defense chief

MANILA, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Thursday that no more joint military exercises between the Philippines and the United States will be conducted once t

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Portfolio bloat: what’s happening to thousands of startups going nowhere fast

Earlier this week, much was made of the e-commerce business Brandless deciding to shutter its doors. Industry observers found its fate particularly interesting, given that Brandless had opened its sto

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Investment bank loss mars Thiam's final act at Credit Suisse

Tidjane Thiam, chief executive officer of Credit Suisse Group AG, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview in Zurich, Switzerland, February 13, 2020. /VCG Photo Credit Suisse posted its

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Understanding Airbnb’s new, stubborn lack of profits

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.This morning we’re exploring Airbnb’s march to the public markets. The