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Daily Crunch: Lyft and Uber win legal victory

Uber and Lyft may not be pausing operations in California after all, Google releases new emergency alert tools and Airbnb bans all parties. This is your Daily Crunch for August 20, 2020.The big stor

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Border wall crowdfunding scheme leads to Trump ally Steve Bannon’s arrest

One of President Trump’s former top political advisors was arrested in connection with a crowdfunding scheme to build a U.S. border wall, according to charges unsealed by federal prosecutors Thu

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US Commerce Department updates rules to further limit Huawei’s chip access

The United States Department of Commerce this morning issued updates to a list of rules designed to restrict Huawei’s access to U.S.-based technology. The new restrictions follow a similar decree anno

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Cristiano Ronaldo drop hints on his Juventus future, Lecce relegated

Cristiano Ronaldo ponders his future ahead the clash between Juventus and Roma at Allianz Stadium, Turin, Italy, August 1, 2020. /VCG Almost 12 months after it started, the longest Serie A sea

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UK man one of three charged over Twitter hack

Three men have been charged by the authorities over the major Twitter breach earlier this month that hacked the accounts of high-profile U.S. figures to perpetrate a Bitcoin scam that netted at least

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Teenager from Bognor Regis one of three accused over Obama-Kardashian hack

A teenager from Bognor Regis is one of three people accused over the Twitter hack that saw the accounts of politicians and celebrities compromised.The US Department of Justice said Mason Sheppard, al

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CES cancels Las Vegas event, goes online-only

CES 2020 got in just under the wire, ahead of COVID-19 reaching true international pandemic levels. And until today, the show’s governing body, the CTA, was planning to keep its record unbroken. Today

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Brave Robot ice cream launches as the first brand from the Perfect Day-backed Urgent Company

The founders of the alternative dairy protein manufacturer, Perfect Day, have joined with a longtime product developer in the dairy industry to create a new sustainably focused consumer food company c

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Brief’s mobile news app aims to tackle information overload and media bias

Brief, a newly launched news aggregator founded by former Google engineers, aims to tackle a number of problems with today’s news cycle, including information overload, burnout, media bias, and algori

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Samsung will reveal the next Galaxy Note on August 5

Samsung’s next big Unpacked event is scheduled for August 5. As is the trend these days, the unveiling will be online-only, following in the footsteps of big virtual events from the likes of. Microsof

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Microsoft secretly seized domains used in COVID-19-themed email cyberattacks

A court has granted a bid by Microsoft to seize and take control of malicious web domains used in a large-scale cyberattack targeting victims in 62 countries with spoofed emails in an effort to defra

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Equity Monday: Scandal, one IPO, and the Indian startup market

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 week-starting primer, in which we go over th

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La Haus is bringing US tech services to Latin America’s real estate market

The alchemy for a successful startup can be hard to parse. Sometimes, it’s who you know. Sometimes it’s where you go to school. And sometimes it’s what you do. In the case of La Haus

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SiriusXM acquires Simplecast to double down on podcasts with distribution and analytics tools

Podcasting continues to see a strong trajectory in the world of streamed audio content, and today comes the latest development on that front. SiriusXM, owner of Pandora and backer of Soundcloud, said

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100 days later: Premier League returns after coronavirus exile

Workmen place signs outside the main entrance to the Etihad Stadium, home of Manchester City, to prepare for the resumed Premier League match with Arsenal, in Manchester, UK, June 16, 2020. /VCG

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Giant panda makes dramatic escape from enclosure at Copenhagen Zoo: report

The visiting Chinese giant pandas Xing Er and Mao Sun are seen at Copenhagen Zoo in Copenhagen, Denmark, April 10, 2020.(Photo by Anders Kongshaug/Xinhua) A startled caretaker at Copenhagen Zoo disco

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France's migrant workers struggling to send money home amid pandemic

There are believed to be 265,000 Senegalese migrants living in Europe, of whom nearly half are resident in France. /AP In France, payments sent abroad come largely from the West African and No