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How do several local news stations air virtually identical Amazon COVID-19 segments?

Simple: Amazon offers up the content free of charge. The company has been on the offensive in recent weeks, when it comes to how it’s handled the COVID-19 pandemic. Amazon’s offered all sorts of blog

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Preventing food waste nets Apeel $250 million from Singapore’s government, Oprah, and Katy Perry

Food waste and the pressures on the global food supply chain wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic have captured headlines around the world, and one small startup based in t

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Pots and pans protests break out as Spanish rail against restrictions

Demonstrators wrapped in flags bang pots and pans during a protest against the Spanish government's measures during the national lockdown. /Oscar Del Pozo/AFP Spain's two biggest cities have f

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Stagflation is looming if Trump pursues decoupling

U.S. President Donald Trump addressing a news conference at the White House in Washington D.C., March 13, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Huang Yongfu is an economic affairs commentator. After Ph

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Max Baucus: Honesty beneficial to U.S.-China relations

02:48 Max Baucus, former U.S. ambassador to China, and his wife Melodee Hanes wrapped up their mission in China three years ago. Sitting in their home in Belgrade, Montana, they have t

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This material can heal itself when cut

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Tokyo are showcasing a new composite material with self-healing properties that take cues from lizard tails and starfish arms. MWCNTs-PBS — a compos

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NuraLoop buds deliver excellent customized sound in a portable profile

I’ve been following the Nura story since the Australian startup brought an unfinished prototype of its first headphones to our offices four years back. When I finally had the opportunity to review the

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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

This morning, Snap joined a host of startup accelerators shifting its demo day online amid the COVID-19 quarantine. With its third class of startups, Yellow, Snap’s in-house startup accelerator

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Uber Eats grew like hell in Q1 but Uber still lost nearly $3B

Ahead of its earnings report today, shares of Uber rose around 11%, buoyed by a set of financial results and promises about the future from Lyft that were rated highly by investors. That optimism lap

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Equity Monday: Intel covets Moovit, two early stage rounds, and Uber’s earnings

Good morning and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a jumpstart for your week.Equity had a busy last few days, so to help you catch up: Friday’s episode was a lot of fun (Duolingo, Figm

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Chinese expert team wraps up Malaysia visit, pledges more cooperation in fighting COVID-19

A medical consultant expert team sent by the Chinese government wrapped up their two-week working visit to Malaysia on Sunday, during which they shared Chinese experiences in fighting the COVID-19 p

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Live tennis returns with exhibition event in Germany

Germany's tennis player Dustin Brown returns the ball during a pro-tennis tournament at a local base tennis academy in Germany, May 1, 2020. /AP An exhibition tennis event got underway near Ko

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There is money in design tools, but do designers have a target on their backs?

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.What a week. Are you still standing? Did you make it? If you are uprigh

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Google is shutting down Shoelace, the social app you’ve probably never heard of

You know that old saying, “you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone?” Sometimes that’s quite literally true. Take Shoelace, a social app introduced by Google’s Area 120 incubator last summer. Th

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Apple Watch designer reveals the device’s origins on its fifth birthday

In his two decades at Apple, Imran Chaudhri worked on many of the company’s most iconic product lines, including the iPhone, iPad and Mac. The designer left the company back in 2017 (landing on Micros

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Otter.ai’s newest feature offers live, interactive transcripts of your Zoom meetings

Real-time voice transcription service Otter.ai is adding new functionality that will aid home school students and work-from-home employees alike. The company today is introducing an integration with Z

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APD | Indonesia: quarantine violators locked in ‘haunted houses’

By APD writer AliceAuthorities of Sragen district in Indonesia’s Central Java province has decided to lock violators of a 14-day quarantine order in houses rumored as ‘