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Democrats set to clash at Las Vegas debate with Bloomberg in their sights

The Democrats storming Nevada in the lead up to Saturday's caucuses are set to first face off in Wednesday night's debate, a matchup in a more diverse early state than

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Online learning marketplace Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publisher Benesse

The internet has, for better or worse, become the default platform for people seeking information, and today one of the companies leveraging that to deliver educational content has raised some funding

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Bloomberg to go face to face against rivals after ad blitz

For Mike Bloomberg, the one-way conversation with Democratic voters is about to end.By spending more than $400 million of his own money and largely bypassing his oppone

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German ex-environment minister seeks to lead Merkel's party

A former German environment minister on Tuesday became the first prominent figure officially to declare his candidacy for the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel's c

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Alphabet takes the wind out of its Makani energy kites

Google today announced that it is calling it quits on its efforts to build and monetize its Makani wind energy kites. Makani, which was founded in 2006, came into Google/Alphabet seven years ago as a

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Who can beat Trump?

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a newspaper after being acquitted by the Senate in the East Room of the White House, U.S., February 6, 2020. /AP Photo Editor's note: Elizabeth Drew is a Wash

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Mickey Wright, golf great and early LPGA force, dies at 85

Mickey Wright, the golf great with a magnificent swing who won 13 majors among her 82 victories and gave the fledgling LPGA a crucial lift, died Monday of a heart attack. She was 85.She had been h

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Who can beat Trump?

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a newspaper after being acquitted by the Senate in the East Room of the White House, U.S., February 6, 2020. /AP Photo Editor's note: Elizabeth Drew is a Wash

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Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets

It’s suspiciously convenient that Facebook already fulfills most of the regulatory requirements it’s asking governments to lay on the rest of the tech industry. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerber

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With the development of generalized AI, what’s the meaning of a person?

For the next installment of the informal TechCrunch book club, we are reading the fourth story in Ted Chiang’s Exhalation. The goal of this book club is to expand our minds to new worlds, ideas, and v

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The urgency to understand China's Xinjiang narrative

Editor's Note: This article is last part of a series titled "See the difference between the two narratives on Xinjiang," which explores the differences between China and the West on China's Xinjia

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Is tech socialism really on the rise?

In Part 1 of my conversation with Ben Tarnoff, co-founder of leading tech ethics publication Logic, we covered the history and philosophy of 19th century Luddites and how that relates to what he descr

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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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NBA All-Star Weekend: Hornets' young men nail it for Team USA

Miles Bridges #0 of Team USA holds Most Valuable Player trophy after his team beat Team World 151-131 in the NBA Rising Stars game at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., February 14, 20

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UEFA bans Man City for next two seasons, defiant City to appeal to CAS

Manchester City win the Premier League champions with a 4-1 victory over Brighton in UK, May 12, 2019. /VCG Photo English Premier League champions Manchester City on Friday have been banned fr

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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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LinkedIn will sunset Sales Navigator for Gmail, formerly known as Rapportive, on March 20

It’s par for the course that major tech platforms will launch a lot of services, then sunset those that are less popular. But this week comes one that especially smarts (for me and some of my Te