Category: Government

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India says law permits agencies to snoop on citizen’s devices – TechCrunch

The Indian government said on Tuesday that it is “empowered” to intercept, monitor, or decrypt any digital communication “generated, transmitted,…

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The man behind Bezos’ next lunar guidance system talks future tech – TechCrunch

Draper, the MIT spin-off engineering lab, is famed for developing the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (not Draper Esprit, I hasten…

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The House and Senate finally agree on something: Robocalls – TechCrunch

In these times of political strife, it’s nice that despite our differences we can still band together as a nation…

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Twitter makes its political ad ban official – TechCrunch

The ban on political ads announced by Twitter two weeks ago has come into effect, and the rules are surprisingly…

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Takeaways from Nvidia’s latest quarterly earnings – TechCrunch

Nvidia has been on a wild growth ride the past five years. Surfing a wave around AI deep learning and…

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Despite bans, Giphy still hosts self-harm, hate speech and child sex abuse content – TechCrunch

Image search engine Giphy bills itself as providing a “fun and safe way” to search and create animated GIFs. But…

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AWS confirms reports it will challenge JEDI contract award to Microsoft – TechCrunch

Surely just about everyone was surprised when the Department of Defense named Microsoft as the winner of the decade long,…

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Can America ever rebuild its neighborhoods and communities? – TechCrunch

We talk a lot about startup ecosystems around these parts, and for good reason. Strong ecosystems have great reservoirs of…

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Vape lung ‘breakthrough’ suggests lethal culprit in THC products could be vitamin E acetate – TechCrunch

Official word has come down from federal authorities on one potential cause of the mystery illness affecting vape users: Vitamin…

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I ran digital ads for a presidential campaign, and Twitter is right to ban them – TechCrunch

Aaron Bartnick Contributor Aaron Bartnick (@AaronBartnick) served as Digital Director for Congressman Seth Moulton’s presidential campaign. He is currently completing…