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5 work from home gifts for remote workers in 2023

November 1, 2023

Working from home has its pros and cons. You can drink coffee in your pajama bottoms, but you have to resist the ever-present allure of your bed. As TechCrunch’s brand marketer (who works from home), I juggle a lot of daily tasks and sadly, napping is never one of them. However, through trial and error, […]

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Apple iPhone shipments just had their best quarter in India

November 1, 2023

Apple just saw its highest-ever quarterly shipments in India in Q3. The numbers come as the country’s overall numbers remain flat. Between July and September, the Cupertino firm shipped more than 2.5 million iPhone units in India, analyst firm Counterpoint said on Wednesday. The record shipments marked a 34% year-on-year increase. The iPhone 14 accounts […]

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Grant Assistant wants to apply generative AI to grant proposals

November 1, 2023

Grants are the lifeblood of many organizations. But procuring them often turns out to be a time-consuming, labor-intensive process. Writing a proposal can take hundreds of hours, require the services of a specialized grant writer and cost thousands of dollars — narrowing the pool of potential applicants. Sean Carroll, the former chief of staff and […]

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Security researchers observed ‘deliberate’ takedown of notorious Mozi botnet

November 1, 2023

Security researchers say they have observed what they believe is a takedown of the notorious Mozi botnet that infiltrated more than a million Internet of Things devices worldwide. In research shared with TechCrunch ahead of publication on Tuesday, researchers at cybersecurity company ESET say that they witnessed the “sudden demise” of Mozi during an investigation […]

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Innovative new cell therapies could finally get at tough-to-target cancers

November 1, 2023
Over the past few years, the treatment of some hard-to-treat blood cancers has been revolutionized by therapies based on engineered T cells, which leverage the patient’s own immune system to destroy cancerous cells. But until recently researchers haven’t had much luck developing these T-cell therapies—called CAR T—for solid tumors, which make up the vast majority…

YouTube is now cracking down on ad-blockers globally

November 1, 2023

YouTube is now cracking down on ad-blocker usage globally, by showing warnings about breaking the platform’s terms of service. In some cases, the company is preventing users from viewing more videos unless they disable ad blocks. The video streaming platform started experimenting in June where it showed a message to users saying that the video […]

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Southeast Asia funding at its lowest level in six years

November 1, 2023

Every year, Temasek teams up with Bain & Company on the e-Conomy SEA report. It covers Southeast Asia’s digital economy and is published by Google. This year’s report, published today, underscores what many startups and investors already know—the region’s funding landscape is currently challenging to navigate. On the bright side, there’s still plenty of “dry […]

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Buy now, pay later platform Tabby nabs $200M in Series D funding at $1.5B valuation

November 1, 2023

The past year and a half have witnessed multiple startups facing valuation cuts as funding from VCs waned in an environment of rising interest rates. In this context, fintechs, especially buy now, pay later companies serving Western customers, including Affirm, Afterpay and Klarna, have encountered challenges in the public and private markets. Yet, Tabby, a […]

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