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Daily Crunch: Jeff Bezos and 3 guests share Blue Origin’s first crewed flight

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for July 20, 2021. The markets hav

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Extra Crunch roundup: Seed-stage basics, SaaS marketing live chat, Zoom’s Five9 buy

A famous poem advises us not to compare ourselves with others, “for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.”The same holds true for startup fundraising; the size of

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Is the UK near herd immunity? Will COVID-19 be ended this way?

A man jumps on the dance floor shortly after the reopening, at The Piano Works in Farringdon, London, July 19, 2021. The country's nightclubs are reopening for the first time in 17 months as almo

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NewCampus wants to train the first-time managers within Southeast Asia’s tech giants

The tech boom in Southeast Asia isn’t just seeding a wave of new entrepreneurs building the next generation of unicorns, it’s also ushering young talent into the roles of first-time managers. And NewC

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Facebook onboards another 31 newsletter writers on Bulletin

Late last month, Facebook announced Bulletin, its newsletter platform. Unlike Substack, Medium and other competitors, Bulletin hand-picks its writers to curate a more controlled platform, with stars r

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Republicans responsible for spreading anti-vaccine hysteria

Visitors wear face masks on the boardwalk in Huntington Beach, California, U.S., July 1, 2020. /VCG Editor's note:Haider Rifaat is a features writer for OK! Pakistan, an international edition

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What's driving Mexico's third wave of COVID-19?

03:38 Mexico is experiencing a third wave of COVID-19 infections. As cases continue to climb, unvaccinated young people are being seen as the driving force behind the spread of the viru

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UNESCO removes DR Congo park from endangered list

A young bonobo in DR Congo. /VCG The Democratic Republic of Congo scored a key heritage victory on Monday, July 19, as UNESCO removed one of its nature reserves from a list of threatened sites

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Team China at Tokyo 2020: Young climbers chase medals at new event

Among the four newly-added sports to the Olympics: Skateboarding, surfing, sport climbing and karate, sport climbing is the one that Chinese athletes have high hopes to

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Team China at Tokyo 2020: Young climbers chase medals at new event

Among the four newly-added sports to the Olympics: Skateboarding, surfing, sport climbing and karate, sport climbing is the one that Chinese athletes have high hopes to

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Bielefeld survey highlights an emerging B2B, crypto, deep tech ecosystem

Welcome to the city survey of Bielefeld, Germany, part of our ongoing survey into European cities. If you’d like your city featured, just fill in this form and add your city name. Once we have e

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Eight selected to compete in weightlifting depart for Tokyo Olympics

Shi Zhiyong of China competes in the men's 69 kilogram final at the Rio Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 9, 2016. /CFP Team China will send eight athletes, including veterans and you

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Mom and lost toddler reunite

00:52 A mom and lost toddler have been reunited after the young boy got separated from his father as they traveled toward the U.S./Mexico border from Honduras. Check outThe China Repor

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Why is it so difficult to track down racist trolls and remove hateful messages on social media?

A Sky News analysis of racist posts after the Euro 2020 final shows possible links to a white supremacist and a primary school pupil in the UK, as well as numerous overseas accounts including an Azeri bodyguard and a company in Iran.

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Why is it so difficult to track down racist trolls and remove hateful messages on social media?

A Sky News analysis of racist posts after the Euro 2020 final shows possible links to a white supremacist and a primary school pupil in the UK, as well as numerous overseas accounts including an Azeri bodyguard and a company in Iran.

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China's women's tennis national team gears up for the Tokyo Olympics

04:17 China's women's tennis team is currently training behind closed doors in Rizhao, east China's Shandong Province. All five players who will go to the Tokyo Olympics are excited to

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Julia Ducournau becomes second woman ever to win Cannes' Palme d'Or

Ducournau picked up the award on Saturday evening. /AP *CLICK RIGHT TO SEE MORE IMAGES* U.S. film director Spike Lee prematurely announced Ducournau as the winner much earlier in the ni