Disrupting a sector like Fintech does not happen by accident. It happens by design. Disruption is nearly always an act of intent. You see a valuable established market with dysfunction and you look to improve it. The genesis for disruption is often one unifying goal, and for technology companies, that […]
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Pixels, Palm readers and Pokémon problems
Hello friends! That’s what Lucas always starts off with, right? Lucas is out for a few weeks, so I’ll be handling Week In Review until he’s back. TL;DR on me: I’m Greg, and I’ve been with TechCrunch for a long, long time. I joined around the time Twitter found the […]
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CB Insights: global corporate venture capital-backed funding reached $79B across 2,099 deals in H1 2021, up from $74B in all of 2020; GV had most deals with 64 (Kia Kokalitcheva/Axios)
Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: CB Insights: global corporate venture capital-backed funding reached $79B across 2,099 deals in H1 2021, up from $74B in all of 2020; GV had most deals with 64 — With everything going up and to the right, it’s only fitting that corporate venture capital investments did […]
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History was made three times over on the last track day of the Olympics
History was made three times over on the last track day of the Olympics Kelsey Mitchell (Canada), Jason Kenny (Great Britain) and Jennifer Valente (USA) won historic gold medals on the last day of the Olympics. Read More
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Best Bike Storage Solutions: The Racks, Mounts & Containers You Need to Get Organized
Trying to organize your bikes and gear in a spare room, an awkward hallway, a wall in your office, or even an entire garage or basement? Unfortunately, bikes aren’t the easiest things to store. Thanks to wide handlebars (that seem to be trending wider and wider every year) and bulky […]
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Video: Sunday Saves #4
The best saves from the past two weeks.( Comments: 13 )
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Rings around a black hole from X-ray echoes off interstellar dust
An X-ray outburst from a binary black hole system creates spectacular “light echoes” as the radiation bounces off intervening dust clouds, shedding light on the hole’s activity and the nature of the smoke-like dust grains.
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On This Day in Space! Aug. 8, 1977: Salyut 5 space station burns up in the atmosphere
On Aug. 8, 1977, the Salyut 5 space station fell out of space and burned up in Earth’s atmosphere. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!
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Tips to Improve Your Sleep When Times are Tough
Sleep is a mystifying process of the human body that is far more than the closing of eyelids. Sleep is a state of unconsciousness produced by our body where the brain is at rest. Our quality of life has a deep impact on how we manage to sleep. After getting […]
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This Week in Apps: In-app events hit the App Store, TikTok tries Stories, Apple reveals new child safety plan
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using […]