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Meghan opens up on 'almost unsurvivable' online abuse

Meghan says she was told that "in 2019, I was the most trolled person in the entire world - male or female".

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How Roblox completely transformed its tech stack

Picture yourself in the role of CIO at Roblox in 2017.At that point, the gaming platform and publishing system that launched in 2005 was growing fast, but its underlying technology was aging, consisti

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Waymo and TuSimple autonomous trucking leaders on the difficulty of building a highway-safe AI

TuSimple and Waymo are in the lead in the emerging sector of autonomous trucking; TuSimple founder Xiaodi Hou and Waymo trucking head Boris Sofman had an in-depth discussion of their industry and th

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The Coffin Club: Giving people a choice over their funeral

04:08 A year ago, the UK the government launched an investigation into the funeral sector amid concern that prices had increased dramatically in the past 10 years.In 2018, a funeral co

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What micromobility is missing

AT TC Sessions: Mobility, we heard from Tortoise co-founder and president Dmitry Shevelenko, Elemental Excelerator director of Innovation, Mobility, Danielle Harris and Superpedestrian VP of Strategy

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I’m a software engineer at Uber and I’m voting against Prop 22

I’ve been a software engineer at Uber for two years, and I’ve also been a ride-hail driver. I regularly drove for Lyft in college, and while my day job involves writing code for the Uber Android app,

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Google teams up with Samsonite to launch a Jacquard smart fabric-enabled backpack

It has been over four years since Project Jacquard, Google’s smart fabric technology, made its debut at the I/O developer conference. Launched out of what was then Google’s ATAP unit, Ja

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Paired picks up $1M funding and launches its relationship app for couples

Paired, a new app for couples, is launching today and disclosing $1 million in funding. Backing the startup, which wants to support “happier and healthier” relationships, is Taavet Hinriku

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Google now has three mid-range Pixel phones

The Pixel has always been a mixed bag. The first-generation product was announced roughly this time four years ago, with Google finally offering a full-throated entry into the smartphone space after y

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Some users of NHS tracing app incorrectly given COVID-19 exposure alerts

Users get notifications that they have been near someone who tested positive, but when they click into the app it disappears.

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Emjoy picks up $3M to get more women tuned into sexual self-care

Barcelona-based Emjoy, an audio app for women that sells a narrative of sexual self-care and empowerment, has picked up $3 million in seed funding led by JME Ventures, with existing investor Nauta Cap

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Fashion-forward China: Advancing e-commerce with 'self-disruption'

Shanghai Fashion Week remains one of the most classic Chinese fashion events on the global stage. /CGTN While last year was characterized by cautious optimism in the fa

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Equity Monday: Palantir might have a very eventful hump day

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest big ne

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This Week in Apps: Redesigning the iOS 14 home screen, app makers form ‘fairness’ coalition, latest on TikTok ban

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all.The app industry is as hot as ever, with

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Want to hire and retain high-quality developers? Give them stimulating work

Software developers are some of the most in-demand workers on the planet. Not only that, they’re complex creatures with unique demands in terms of how they define job fulfillment. With demand for deve

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Rephrase.ai raises $1.5M to use synthetic media for personalized sales pitches

Bangalore-based Rephrase.ai has an ambitious vision for reshaping how movies and videos are made.CEO Ashray Malhotra laid it out for me yesterday, saying that his co-founder Nisheeth Lahoti “cam

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Ron Howard to make biopic of famed pianist Lang Lang

Oscar-winning director Ron Howard is billed to direct a biopic about the life and musical journey of Lang Lang, the world-famous Chinese pianist.AGC Studios said it will fully finance the currently un