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You don’t need to wait until Black Friday to take advantage of some Black Friday robot vacuum deals. As many retailers have started their Black Friday deals early. And that includes a number of deals…

“The Vow” is a fascinating documentary, but we can’t quite recommend it whole-heartedly. As we discuss on the latest episode of the Original Content podcast, HBO’s new docuseries tells the story of NXIVM (pronounced nex-ee-um),…

If you’re in the market for a new phone, then now is the time to pick one up. Motorola has a number of great smartphones on sale for Black Friday and even ahead of Black…

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a…

Work-from-home policies appear to be killing the 2020 desktop industry despite overall PC gains and growth in the Chromebook market. That’s based on details in the latest Canalys report on the overall PC market. Specifically…

Amazon on Thursday announced a lawsuit against over a dozen bad actors, including online influencers and other businesses, who attempted to evade Amazon’s anti-counterfeiting measures by promoting luxury counterfeit products on social media sites, like…

TikTok is testing a new feature that allows users to raise funds for causes and charities they care about directly from their TikTok profiles. Those who are in the test group will find a new…

With an increasingly large percentage of sales being made at least partially online, the retail and cybersecurity sectors are going to be inseparably linked going into 2021. As people purchase more products online, they’re going…

Carbon Health has raised a $100 million Series C funding round, led by Dragoneer Investment Group and including participation from prior investors Brookfield Technology Partners, DCVC and Builders VC. This funding will be used to…

Slowly but surely Stadia is coming around with more and more stuff, and now that includes a profile page for you and every other player. This isn’t exactly something that is a complete and total…

Apple Music is targeting Gen Z users in its battle with Spotify. On Friday, Apple launched ten new Apple Music playlists focused on the music interests of Gen Z users — including one playlist that…

OxygenOS 11 is the latest big iteration of OnePlus’ custom UI based on Android. OxygenOS 11 is based on the latest big Android iteration, Android 11. The very first smartphone that shipped with this version…

Welcome back to Human Capital and congrats on making it through one of the hardest weeks of the longest year. Now that the Associated Press has called the election in favor of Joe Biden, it…

A former CFO of the state of California, Steve Westly is passionate about government. The onetime eBay exec and early Tesla board member has also been a proponent of clean energy for roughly 30 years,…

Razer now makes a laptop that is meant first and foremost, for productivity, though it still looks very much like the rest of the company’s laptops meant for gaming. Though it’s not a Razer Blade,…

Google and Walmart have a new challenge ahead of them as they race to expand the reach of their payments apps in India: They won’t be permitted to grow beyond a limit. National Payments Corporation…

[embedded content] The best way to appreciate the VAVA SSD Touch is to take a trip down memory lane. Remember Pen Drives? Those thumb-sized USB sticks became all the rage in Y2K for transferring files,…

You might have very good reason to be on a wine kick right now – along with plenty of the rest of the country – so it’s perhaps timely to take a look at the…