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China says enough reasons to conduct COVID-19 origins study in U.S.

China's Foreign Ministry Friday said there're enough reasons that an investigation into the origins of COVID-19 should be conducted in the U.S. after an anonymous U.S. official reportedly claimed the

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The DOJ and DHS subpoenaed Peloton over treadmill injury reporting

On Tuesday, Peloton announced the upcoming release of its entry-level Tread device. The news came ahead of a disappointing earnings report and after recalls of both of its treadmill products. Today, t

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Forbes jumps into hot media liquidity summer with a SPAC combo

What a busy week in the world of media liquidity.That’s a sentence you don’t get to write often. Regardless, news broke this week that Axel Springer is buying U.S. political journalism out

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Biden's 'America is back' is the sequel of Trump's 'America First'

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 25, 2021. /Getty Editor's note: Azhar Azam is a market business an

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Salad chain Sweetgreen buys kitchen robotics startup Spyce

Like so many other aspects of the robotics world, the pandemic has dramatically accelerated interest in the automated kitchen. After all, the food and restaurant industry was deemed essential amid glo

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Chinese envoy writes to WHO chief on COVID-19 origins-tracing

Chen Xu, permanent representative of China to the UN office at Geneva and other international organizations in Switzerland, on Tuesday wrote to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyes

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Extra Crunch roundup: Zūm CEO interview, Cisco’s M&A ethos, neoinsurance bad romance

It was once common practice for doctors to visit sick patients in their homes: In 1930, 40% of all consultations were house calls. By 1980, that figure was less than 1%.Today, urgent care centers occu

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Daily Crunch: Internet watchdog Citizen Lab says iPhone spyware dodges Apple’s security measures

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 August 24, 2021. Today’s news

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Daily Crunch: Virgin Orbit rockets to $3.2B valuation in SPAC merger

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 August 23, 2021. We’ve got a s

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China passes data protection law

China has passed a personal data protection law, state media Xinhua reports (via Reuters).The law, called the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), is set to take effect on November 1.It was pro

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Benny Chan's final film aims to burn brightly in US

Chinese action film Raging Fire opened on Friday in a limited theatrical release in North America.The film is being released by Well Go USA Entertainment with English subtitles in approximately 60 sel

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Daily Crunch: Salesforce rolls out initial post-acquisition Slack integrations

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 August 17, 2021. Today we have

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Atlas slugged

I watched a lot of skate videos growing up. At some point, failures became as important a fixture as perfectly executed tricks. The spills and the injuries could be downright gnarly (there’s a reason,

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The Nuro EC-1

Six years ago, I sat in the Google self-driving project’s Firefly vehicle — which I described, at the time, as a “little gumdrop on wheels” — and let it ferry me around a closed cour

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Takeovers and Twitter headaches

Hello friends!Lucas is still out for a few more days, so I’m filling in for him again on this week’s Week In Review. To recap: I’m Greg. I started at TC back when deciding who to put

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Chris Sacca’s Lowercarbon Capital has raised $800 million to “keep unf*cking the planet”

Lowercarbon Capital, a climate-tech focused fund founded by longtime investor Chris Sacca and his wife Crystal Sacca, has closed on $800 million in capital, Sacca announced today in a post on the firm

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Reddit is raising up to $700M in Series F funding

Earlier this year, Reddit raised $250 million, bringing the 16-year-old site up to around $800 million in total funding. Today, it announced plans for an even more massive windfall, with a Series F le