Month: December 2019

Kavya NarayananDec 28, 2019 16:00:48 IST Year after year, we see sports, literature, startups, politics, business and religion take centre stage in the news, on television and on social media. Science, however, is limited to the confines of universities, companies and academia in India. Rarely does science and scientific endeavour get the centre-stage attention. Those keen to know more about
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Oculus Quest continues to sell out, backorders pushed to mid-February. VR technology has absolutely dominated the 2019 holiday season as numerous major retailers—both physical and online—continue to sell out of 64GB and 128GB Oculus Quest headsets.  At the time of this writing, Amazon, Best Buy, B&H, Gamestop, MicroCenter, NewEgg, and Walmart are all fresh out
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The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Remembering the startups we lost in 2019 This year’s batch doesn’t include any story quite as spectacular as last year’s big
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We believe the best A/V receiver on the market is the Anthem MRX 1120 — it will work with all the latest audio and video standards (and then some) and comes with neat wireless features, so it’s well-equipped for the ongoing 4K revolution. There are hundreds of A/V receivers available, with most offering support for
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Microsoft revolutionized the console first-person shooter when it published Halo: Combat Evolved back in 2001 on the original Xbox, and that commitment to the genre has continued to this day. The Xbox One includes a wide variety of shooters – first-person and otherwise – to enjoy, ranging from science-fiction epic adventures to gritty takes on
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tech2 News StaffDec 27, 2019 17:07:56 IST Russia has been successful in testing its alternative to the global internet — the Russian sovereign internet, also known as Runet. This proposal was signed into law by Russian President Vladimir Putin in May this year, which would expand the Russian government’s control over the internet within the country.
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In September 2019, President Emmanuel Macron was about to wrap up a speech on late-stage investment in France. According to a press briefing and some discussions with a source, everything that he was supposed to announce had been announced. But he dropped an unexpected number. “I’ll leave you with a goal: there should be 25
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Sophia Wood Contributor Sophia Wood is a principal at Magma Partners, a Latin America-focused seed-stage VC firm with offices in Latin America, Asia and the U.S. Sophia is also the co-founder of LatAm List, an English-language Latin American tech news source. More posts by this contributor Latin America roundup: Neobanks raise $205M+; Softbank backs VTEX
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It’s gotten to the point now where a handful of angel investors can put a space company on the map. But the same changes that have made the industry accessible have made it increasingly complex to track its trends. By default, all space startups are exciting, but companies vary widely in risk, capital intensity and
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Black Friday protesters in front of Amazon’s France headquarters in ClichyPhoto: STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN (Getty) “If we don’t get it, shut it down” is a staple call-and-response of worker protests for good reason. Even without a clear antecedent, the meaning is obvious to bosses: these are out demands. Meet them, or you may find the
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All manner of startups fail for all manner of reasons. But there’s one constant: this is an incredibly difficult business. Launching a successful company isn’t just a matter of drive and finding the right people (though both, clearly, are important). Doing well in this business requires the stars to align perfectly on a billion different
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