Month: April 2021
Saying hello to TechCrunch’s newest podcast: Found
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. For this week’s deep dive, the Equity team sat down not with external investors or founders, but with two of our own. Yes,
Read MoreWATCH LIVE: White House COVID-19 response team holds briefing
The White House COVID-19 response team will give a update on the pandemic on Wednesday. Watch in the video player above. President Joe Biden said he’s bumping up his deadline by two weeks for states to make all adults in
Read MoreHundreds of migrants caught at US-Mexico border as video of young boy raises pressure on Biden administration – Fox News
Hundreds of migrants caught at US-Mexico border as video of young boy raises pressure on Biden administration Fox News Child abandoned near border seen on video asking Border Patrol for help Yahoo News Illegal immigrants convicted of child sex crimes caught at
Read MorePathlight, a performance management tool for customer-facing teams and the individuals in them, raises $25M
The longer we continue to work with either all or part of our teams in remote, out-of-physical-office environments, the more imperative it becomes for those teams to have some tools in place to keep the channels of communication and management
Read More‘Unusual blood clots’ should be listed as ‘very rare’ side effect of Oxford vaccine, EU regulator says
The European medicines regulator says that “unusual blood clots” should be listed as a “very rare” side-effect of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID vaccine.
Read MoreMinisters expected to lift more restrictions as virus rates continue to slide
Coronavirus cabinet will vote on raising number of people allowed to gather outdoors from 50 to 100, ease requirement for students to study in small groups
Read MoreHBO’s Exterminate All the Brutes Is a Radical Masterpiece About White Supremacy, Violence and the History of the West
“The very existence of this film is a miracle,” says its creator, Raoul Peck, in the final episode of Exterminate All the Brutes—and that might be an understatement. A four-part experimental documentary that takes on the unwieldy, bitterly contentious subject
Read MorePolestar “will have to question everything” in order to build the first climate-neutral EV
Polestar, the Swedish electric vehicle brand spun out of Volvo Car Group, set on Wednesday a “moonshot goal” of creating the first climate neutral car by 2030. But instead of getting there through more widely-practiced offsetting measures, such as planting
Read MoreHave a startup in Detroit? Apply to pitch at TechCrunch’s Detroit virtual meetup!
TechCrunch is coming to Detroit — virtually, at least. On April 15, TechCrunch is hosting a small online event with local venture capitalists, founders and those curious about the growing ecosystem. There will also be a small pitch-off event where
Read MoreAgeist Attacks Against President Biden Reinforce Outdated Stereotypes—and Hurt Younger People, Too
When President Joe Biden tripped on the stairs up to Air Force One on March 19, the incident immediately touched off a flurry of mockery. Fox News host Sean Hannity declared the President to be “frail.” “He didn’t know where
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