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Disrupt Berlin 2019 opens in just one week
Synchronize your watches, dust off your passports and pack your bags, startuppers. Disrupt Berlin 2019 kicks off in just seven short days....
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Prolific wants to challenge Amazon’s Mechanical Turk in the online research space
Prolific, a U.K.-based startup that wants to make it easier to conduct online research, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding. The...
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Meet Europe’s top VCs at Disrupt Berlin
Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firms, from Sequoia to Benchmark to Accel, are investing more and more dollars overseas, as more globally-minded...
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In a first, Amazon launches a battery-powered portable Echo speaker in India
After launching nearly a dozen Echo speaker models in India in two years, Amazon said on Wednesday it is adding a new...
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440Carbon dioxide emissions are set to hit a record high this year (it’s not fine, but not hopeless)
Carbon dioxide emissions, one of the main contributors to the climate changes bringing extreme weather, rising oceans, and more frequent fires that...
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392AWS launches discounted spot capacity for its Fargate container platform
AWS today quietly brought spot capacity to Fargate, its serverless compute engine for containers that supports both the company’s Elastic Container Service...
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435Instagram still doesn’t age-check kids. That must change.
Instagram dodges child safety laws. By not asking users their age upon signup, it can feign ignorance about how old they are....
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459Gift Guide: TechCrunch writers recommend their favorite reads from 2019
2019 offered a blistering catalog of books to peruse, on top of the prodigious publishing schedules of the past few years (if...
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Verizon and AWS announce 5G Edge computing partnership
Just as Qualcomm was starting to highlight its 5G plans for the coming years, Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg hit the stage at...
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AWS announces new enterprise search tool powered by machine learning
Today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the company announced a new search tool called Kendra, which provides natural language search across...