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IFA’s executive director discusses why the tech show must go on

In June, the CTA announced that CES 2021 would go forward in-person. The event was set to have slipped under the wire — having narrowly avoided a COVID-19-related shutdown two years in a row. A month

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Banks aren’t as stupid as enterprise AI and fintech entrepreneurs think

Announcements like Selina Finance’s $53 million raise and another $64.7 million raise the next day for a different banking startup spark enterprise artificial intelligence and fintech evangelists to r

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Laura blasts Gulf Coast with wind, rain and wall of seawater

Hurricane Laura pounded the Gulf Coast with ferocious wind and torrential rain and unleashed a wall of seawater that could push 40 miles inland as the Category 4 storm

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The reMarkable 2 improves on the original in every way, but remains firmly in its niche

I’d been asking for something like the reMarkable for a long time before it showed up out of the blue a few years ago. The device was a real treat, but had a few problems and an eye-popping pric

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Deng Chao exclusive: Aspiring filmmakers should be heard seriously

02:25 Though a regular at the Beijing International Film Festival (BJIFF), which has been running for 10 years, Chinese actor and director Deng Chao is sitting on the j

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Amazon opens its first Amazon Fresh physical grocery store, in LA

The shift to online shopping has accelerated in the COVID-19 pandemic, but today Amazon made a bold move that underscores its belief that physical stores will remain a key component of how consumers s

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72-hour roll back to early bird pricing on Disrupt 2020 passes

In a nod to the show Parks and Recreation, it’s time to “treat yo self” — with an additional $100 discount on Disrupt 2020 passes. For the next 72-hours only, you can save an extra $100 and get your D

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A quick peek at Snowflake’s IPO filing

Snowflake filed to go public today joining a bushel of companies making their S-1 documents public today. TechCrunch has a longer digest of all the IPO filings coming soon, but we could not wait to g

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Zoom meetings hit by outage

Zoom says it’s having an outage. Perfect timing to help you avoid your Monday morning meeting.The video calling giant said it’s “received reports of users being unable to visit the

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Daily Crunch: Palantir docs show $579M net loss

We dive into Palantir’s finances, Apple fires back against Epic Games and Lambda School raises funding. This is your Daily Crunch for August 21, 2020.The big story: Pal

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The journey of a kids book startup that tackles topics like racism, cancer and divorce

Jelani Memory, an entrepreneur and father, had been wanting to write a kids book for years. While in the midst of raising a Series B round for his startup Circle Media, he started to feel burned out a

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Chamath Palihapitiya’s next big Hustle

Chamath Palihapitiya, the founder of Social Capital, does not do minority investing anymore. If he finds a startup he likes, he just buys it outright.The billionaire co-founded Social Capital in 2011,

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Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator was worth the wait

It’s been 14 years since the launch of Flight Simulator X, which long seemed like it would be the final release in the long-running series. When the company announced it would re-launch the fran

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"Still Asia's finest" -- Hong Kong police force in eyes of its expat officer

SuperintendentTimothy Worrall of Hong Kong's Marine Police gives an interview to Xinhua in Hong Kong, south China, Aug. 6, 2020. (Xinhua/Li Gang)-- The police force of Hong Kong was repeatedly given t

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Trump's testing official: 'Everything can be done has been done'

Brett Giroir. /AP Brett Giroir, White House official, claimed that the Trump administration has done "everything that they can do" to increase testing capacity, while the U.S. continues to see

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UK life insurers pay out $118m in three months over COVID-19 claims

The Association of British Insurers says that all life insurance claims related to coronavirus deaths had been accepted. /VCG UK insurance companies have already paid out $118 million in life

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Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 review

Samsung makes good smartwatches. The fact tends to get lost in discussions about a category that’s traditionally been so dominated by a single player. Things have shifted a bit of late, globally. Appl