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Xesto is a foot scanning app that simplifies shoe gifting

You wait ages for foot scanning startups to help with the tricky fit issue that troubles online shoe shopping and then two come along at once: Launching today in time for Black Friday sprees is Xesto

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Demystifying 'dual circulation' at the APEC China CEO Forum 2020

02:41 Some market players opine that China's "dual circulation" strategy isn't new as the country had been focusing on harnessing its domestic market for years now. While participants

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NCPA sets tone of optimism in upcoming musical calendar

On Nov 12, the China NCPA Orchestra announced its 2020-21 season at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, which features programs presenting music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Gustav Mah

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MacBook Air M1 review: The right Apple Silicon Mac for most

Reviewing hardware is an act of minutia. Occasionally something new or potentially earth-shattering comes along, but on the whole, it’s about chipping away. Documenting small, gradual changes designed

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4 racers finish 8.5 kilometers in wheelchairs in Changsha Marathon

Zhang Jian competes in Guangzhou Marathon in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, December 8, 2019. /CFPParticipants compete in a half-marathon event in Lhasa,

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EdgeQ raises $51 million to fuse AI compute and 5G within a single chip

5G. Edge. Open. Programmable. AI.No, it’s not bingo at your local silicon chip enthusiast meetup, and no, I am not trying to game Google’s search algorithms (well, maybe just a bit). Rather, it’s a co

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Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg will face Congress again, this time about the election

After giving in to the looming threat of subpoenas, two of tech’s most high profile CEOs will again be grilled by Congress.On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will host Twitter’s J

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German DIY ventilation system to be trialed in schools

02:07 Thousands of cases of COVID-19 have been reported in schools across Europe but could a DIY innovation costing just $235 help teachers and students to fight the virus in the class

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DoorDash IPO bets that the pandemic has accelerated change

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.DoorDash has become the go-to delivery choice for mill

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Why do we keep reading false reports about Xinjiang?

Editor's note: Jerry Grey is a China observer who has residency in China and bicycled across several provinces, including the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. He is a former London Metropolitan p

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Musk: 'Something extremely bogus going on' after he 'tests positive' and 'negative' for COVID

The billionaire chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX has repeatedly expressed scepticism about the pandemic.

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COVID-19 sweeps European football as players, coaches test positive, game canceled

"You have to keep endlessly reinventing yourself. We might lose players infected by COVID-19, or others who get hurt because we're playing too many matches. We're not m

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COVID-19 sweeps European football as players, coaches test positive, game canceled

"You have to keep endlessly reinventing yourself. We might lose players infected by COVID-19, or others who get hurt because we're playing too many matches. We're not m

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RIP Google Music, one of the company’s last examples of generosity

Google Music is dead, and with it one of the few remaining connections I have to the company that doesn’t feel like a gun to my head. The service, now merged haphazardly with YouTube Music, reca

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Dear Sophie: What does Biden’s win mean for tech immigration?

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.“Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge t

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Mirror founder Brynn Putnam on life with Lululemon — and whether or not she sold too soon

Brynn Putnam has a lot to feel great about. A Harvard grad and former professional ballet dancer who opened the first of what have become three high-intensity fitness studios in New York, she then lau

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Startup fundraising is the most tangible gender gap. How can we overcome it?

Year-in, year-out, the gender gap in venture capital investment continues to be a problem women founders face. While the gender gap in other areas (such as the number of women entering tech in general