Tech
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471What do we do with the positives?
Here come the blood tests, and it’s about time. Serosurveys, to determine what percentage of populations have already contracted COVID-19. And, individually,...
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Tech for good during COVID-19: Pivots and partnerships to help people deal
Some of us have learned how to be uniquely scrappy during this pandemic. I’m talking socks as masks and chickpea water as...
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521Startups Weekly: Where social startups will get funding in the future
[Editor’s note: Want to get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that startups can use by email? Subscribe here.] While consumer...
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436Canalys finds PC demand surged in Q1, but shipments lagged due to supply issues
As workers moved from office to home and students moved to being educated online, demand for new PCs surged in Q1, but...
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Decrypted: Zoom’s security fallout, Crowdstrike’s new CTO, Bugcrowd raises $30M
Another week in quarantine. As the world adjusts to working from home under mandatory stay-at-home orders, hackers are keeping busy. Microsoft said...
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Tesla’s furlough calls begin with delivery and sales taking a hit
Tesla started Friday to furlough its sales and delivery workforce — with the least experienced employees bearing the brunt of the action...
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4083D-printed ‘bionic corals’ mimic a reef’s powers of photosynthesis
The mass die-off of coral reefs is a catastrophe of global proportions, but the sheer scale of their success as organisms has...
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Virgin’s VOX Space snags $35 million Space Force launch contract and prepares for final test flights
VOX Space, the Virgin space subsidiary dedicated to government launches, has scored a valuable new contract with the U.S. Space Force and...
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Coronavirus conspiracies like that bogus 5G claim are racing across the internet
As the U.S. and much of the world hunkers down to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, some virus-related conspiracy theories...
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427Apple and Google are launching a joint COVID-19 tracing tool for iOS and Android
Apple and Google’s engineering teams have banded together to create a decentralized contact tracing tool that will help individuals determine whether they...