Tech
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Facebook launches a climate change information center and commits to eliminating ‘scope 3’ emissions by 2030
Even as Facebook, the world’s largest social media platform, admits that climate change “is real” and that “the science is unambiguous and...
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Carbon Health and Color founders see power in bringing healthcare to the edge
When COVID-19 spread to the United States, the pandemic exposed two conflicting realities: a healthcare system that excels at high-cost, complex treatments...
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509N95 masks could soon be rechargeable instead of disposable
The pandemic has led to N95 masks quickly becoming one of the world’s most sought-after resources as essential workers burned through billions...
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The Black List’s Franklin Leonard on why picking winners doesn’t mean making losers
Tech and Hollywood don’t cross-pollinate that often, but when it comes to Franklin Leonard’s way of looking at things, maybe they should....
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Leaked memo excoriates Facebook’s ‘slapdash and haphazard’ response to global political manipulation
A former Facebook data scientist dropped a detailed, damning memo on her last day there, calling the social network out for what...
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Clinic Price Check has built a service to see if patients can save money by paying cash for procedures
Before launching Clinic Price Check, Joanne Rodrigues-Craig had been a stay-at-home mom with Masters degrees in population demographics, political science and applied...
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Extra Crunch Partner Perk: Discount on Dell XPS Laptop and Dell for Entrepreneurs Program
We’re excited to announce a new Partner Perk from Dell for Extra Crunch members. Starting today, annual and 2-year Extra Crunch members...
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Europe starts testing app interoperability service to power cross-border COVID-19 exposure alerts
The European Commission has begun testing backend infrastructure that’s needed to make national coronavirus contacts tracing apps interoperate across the bloc’s internal...
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Equity Monday: The TikTok mess, two funding rounds, and NVIDIA will buy ARM
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday,...
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Walmart expands drone delivery tests to Arkansas with new Zipline partnership
Walmart now has two tests for drone delivery running in the US. Early Monday morning the company announced a new drone delivery...