Month: December 2020
It’s holiday season for tech unicorns
Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here. Did you follow all of the unicorn news from the last couple of weeks? No? Here’s a list of headlines to catch you up, because this holiday…
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Original Content podcast: Hulu’s ‘Happiest Season’ casts fresh characters in a familiar story
“Happiest Season,” a new film on Hulu, feels like a traditional, Christmas-themed romantic comedy — with one important exception. The movie stars Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis as Abby and Harper, a lesbian couple who are visiting Harper’s parents for the holidays. As they drive back to Harper’s childhood home,…
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Tesla’s racially diverse workforce is led mostly by white men, internal report shows
Tesla’s top leadership positions skew white and male with just 4% of those roles going to Black employees, according to the company’s first diversity and inclusion report released Friday. The report shows that overall the company, which has factories in California, Nevada and New York, has a workforce that includes…
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ICYMI: We take a deep dive into macOS Big Sur
Although last week was a short one due to the holiday, we still spent time reviewing some new gadgets like the Akai MPC Live II controller and the Logitech Folio Touch iPad Keyboard. The former is a highly portable, all-in-one production device with… Source
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Apple is replacing unresponsive iPhone 11 screens for free iPhone 11
If your iPhone 11 screen has mysteriously stopped responding to your touches to some degree then Apple will replace the display free of charge, via a new replacement program launched by the company. As per the official support page, “a small percentage of iPhone 11 displays may stop responding to…
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This Week in Apps: The year’s best apps, 2020’s biggest downloads, the App Store’s newest hire
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $120 billion in consumer spending in 2019. People now spend three hours and 40 minutes per day…
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