Burn the EARN IT Act: Jon Evans
I want to talk about malignant incompetence on the part of our elected officials, and this isn’t even about the pandemic. Rather, it’s about the spectacularly misguided, counterproductive, expensive, and overbearing approach to end-to-end encryption by the US…
China Roundup: Enterprise tech gets a lasting boost from coronavirus outbreak: Rita Liao
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. This week, a post from Sequoia Capital sounding the alarm of the coronavirus’s impact on …
Gates Foundation-backed program will soon be issuing home testing kits for COVID-19 in Seattle: Jonathan Shieber
A project funded by the Gates Foundation will soon begin issuing at-home testing kits for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, according to a report in the Seattle Times. The study, based on a nose-swab should be able to return results in up to two days and will …
Original Content podcast: ‘Love is Blind’ adds a touch of reality to a silly premise: Anthony Ha, Jordan Crook, Alexandra Ames
Even by the standards of romantic competition reality shows, “Love is Blind” has a doozy of a concept: A group of men and women “date” by talking in pods where they can only hear each other’s voices. In just a little over a week, they’re expected to start pro…
If we could see alternate realities, would we want to take a look?: Danny Crichton
Well, here we are. After many weeks (and a somewhat inconsistent publishing schedule), we have arrived at the final story of Ted Chiang’s Exhalation collection, number nine of nine. It has been a fun journey reading each of these speculative science fiction s…
How the information system industry became enterprise software: Aziz Gilani
Whenever I see a software business plan come across my desk or read an article on enterprise software, I can’t help but give Commander Riker a little due credit.
What is the purpose of belief in a world of innovation?: Danny Crichton
We are reading the penultimate short story in Ted Chiang’s collection Exhalation. Omphalos questions what it means to believe: in our world, in alternative worlds, and in ourselves. Given that beliefs are crucial to everything we do in innovation and science,…
Crypto wallet app ZenGo launches savings mode: Romain Dillet
ZenGo is expanding beyond the basic features of a cryptocurrency wallet — letting you hold, send and receive crypto assets. You can now set aside some of your crypto assets to earn interests. In other words, ZenGo now also acts like a savings account. The com…
The first SpaceX Dragon capsule is taking its final flight: Jonathan Shieber
Last night, SpaceX launched its first generation Dragon capsule on its twentieth — and final — resupply run to the International Space Station. The launch marks the Dragon’s last mission as the capsule makes way for SpaceX’s updated and improved Dragon 2 caps…
Startups Weekly: Remote-first SaaS products boom as workers stay home: Eric Eldon
Silicon Valley companies had already been going remote-first when the coronavirus became a global pandemic. This means there are lots of great software tools already on the market, that are seeing a huge amount of new usage now. And not just Zoom. Alex Wilhel…
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