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UK government says it will spend £250M to help carriers replace Huawei 5G tech by 2027, including around £50M in 2021 (Thomas Seal/Bloomberg)

Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: UK government says it will spend £250M to help carriers replace Huawei 5G tech by 2027, including around £50M in 2021& —& The U.K. will spend 250 million pounds ($333 million) to diversify its so...

Instead of yule log, watch this interactive dumpster fire because 2020

The holiday season is upon us and with that comes stress, anxiety and the airing of grievances. And this year is worse. Instead of watching a yule log smolder in a warm hearth, we’re all stuck in our homes watching the world burn. Try this interactiv...

Spaceflight does some weird things to astronauts’ bodies

Astronaut Scott Kelly famously lived and worked on the International Space Station for 340 days—the longest time an American has spent in space. His mission gave scientists some vital insight into what happens to the human body during long-duration...

Join us for a live Q&A with Sapphire’s Jai Das on Tuesday at 2 pm EST/11 am PST

Sure, we’re heading into a holiday weekend here in America, but that doesn’t mean that the good ship TechCrunch is going to slow down. We’re diving right back in next week with another installment in season two of Extra Crunch Live,...

Analysis of PS5 and Xbox Series X games, like Devil May Cry 5, CoD, and Dirt 5, shows PS5 narrowly outperforming Xbox despite Microsoft's "most powerful" claims (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Analysis of PS5 and Xbox Series X games, like Devil May Cry 5, CoD, and Dirt 5, shows PS5 narrowly outperforming Xbox despite Microsoft's “most powerful” claims& —& Microsoft has been proudly disc...

Cast.ai nabs $7.7M seed to remove barriers between public clouds

When you launch an application in the public cloud, you usually put everything on one provider, but what if you could choose the components based on cost and technology and have your database one place and your storage another? That’s what Cast...

Filing: Facebook will pay $300+ each to 1.57M Illinois residents who made claims following $650M facial recognition suit, a quarter of the 6M eligible residents (Peter Blumberg/Bloomberg)

Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg: Filing: Facebook will pay $300+ each to 1.57M Illinois residents who made claims following $650M facial recognition suit, a quarter of the 6M eligible residents& —& Facebook Inc. will be making payouts to...

Europe sets out the rules of the road for its data reuse plan

European Union lawmakers have laid out a major legislative proposal today to encourage the reuse of industrial data across the Single Market by creating a standardized framework of trusted tools and techniques to ensure what they describe as “s...

The Last of Us Is Getting a TV Show, Which Seems Redundant

HBO is turning the wildly popular game into a series.

Biden Must Repair—and Reinvigorate—Tech Diplomacy

The administration’s nomination of Antony Blinken is a good start. But mending the damage of the past four years will require a complete reorientation.

Coinbase says it will end margin trading immediately after revised guidance from the CFTC; the feature will be fully offline by the end of December (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Coinbase says it will end margin trading immediately after revised guidance from the CFTC; the feature will be fully offline by the end of December& —& Crypto exchange Coinbase plans to end all margin tradin...

DC AG says DoorDash settled over claims it misled users over allocating driver tips, will pay $2.5M, and ensure earned tips don't reduce base pay (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)

Lauren Feiner / CNBC: DC AG says DoorDash settled over claims it misled users over allocating driver tips, will pay $2.5M, and ensure earned tips don't reduce base pay& —& - DoorDash reached a $2.5 million settlement with the attorn...

AWS says it is experiencing an outage in a North American region that has been ongoing since at least 11:30am ET, affecting Roku, Flickr, Adobe, and others (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge: AWS says it is experiencing an outage in a North American region that has been ongoing since at least 11:30am ET, affecting Roku, Flickr, Adobe, and others& —& It's not just you& —& Amazon Web...

Interpol arrests three suspected members of Nigerian email scam group TMT and says the group's malware has infected 50K+ organizations in 150 countries (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Interpol arrests three suspected members of Nigerian email scam group TMT and says the group's malware has infected 50K+ organizations in 150 countries& —& The TMT group has infected more than 50,000 organiz...

Amazon expands IP Accelerator to Europe after US SMBs register 6,000 trademarks

As we head into the biggest shopping period of the year — which this year may well have an even stronger online component than usual because of COVID-19 — Amazon has launched its latest effort to combat the sale of counterfeit goods on i...