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Check out the top-notch founders and investors...
May 21, 2021
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In the past month, we’ve gotten a look at Poshmark’s early fundraising pitch deck with CEO Manish Chandra and Mayfield’s Navin Chaddha, heard where the biggest opportunities lie in the proptech space with Fifth Wall’s Brendan Wallace and Orchard’s Court Cunningham, and heard how to nail your pitch from Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire and Vise AI’s Samir Vasavada. The Extra Crunch Live party carries on into June, with new episodes connecting you with some of tech’s biggest names. For those……

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Disney’s ‘Descendants’ author dishes on new ‘High...
May 21, 2021
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toggle audio on and off change volume download audio WTOP’s Jason Fraley previews the ‘High School Musical’ novel (Part 1) She wrote the novels for the hit Disney villain series “The Descendants.” Now, author Melissa de la Cruz pens the novel “The Road Trip” set in between seasons of the Disney+ series “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.” “The book is what we’re calling a bridge novel,” de la Cruz told WTOP. “It’s a fun trip that takes…

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Nets hope to overcome Big Three’s lack...
May 21, 2021
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NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving came together as free agents in 2019. James Harden joined them after a trade in January. They gave the Brooklyn Nets offensive talent that is the envy of the NBA. They have won seven scoring titles and combined for more than 78 points per game this season. Their firepower is undeniable. It’s their chemistry that’s in question. Durant, Irving and Harden played together just eight times this season, only once…

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Secrets of England’s Champion Birdman
May 21, 2021
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Hang-gliding instructor Ron Freeman stands tentatively at the edge of a pier on England’s south coast, assessing the wind speed. It’s warm with a slight breeze, the perfect conditions for the day’s International Birdman rally. His mind, body, and glider (the Geordie Flyer) are ready. Now, all that stands between Freeman and the £10,000 prize is 100 meters (roughly 330 feet) of the English Channel. The International Birdman has been a stalwart of a smattering of British seaside summers……

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LinkedIn is the reason Apple made the...
May 21, 2021
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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was good fun not only because we had the whole team together to record, but also because we are still basking in the endless glory of our winning a Webby earlier this week. Frankly we are still shocked. But happy-shocked, like when you get a new toy and it is covered in static electricity. Anyhoo, we had a packed show with……

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Indonesian agritech platform TaniHub Group harvests a...
May 21, 2021
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TaniHub Group, an Indonesian startup that helps farmers get better prices and more customers for their crops, has raised a $65.5 million Series B. The funding was led by MDI Ventures, the investment arm of Telkom Group, one of Indonesia’s largest telecoms, with participation from Add Ventures, BRI Ventures, Flourish Ventures, Intudo Ventures, Openspace Ventures, Tenaya Capital, UOB Venture Management and Vertex Ventures. Openspace and Intudo are returning investors from TaniHub’s $10 million Series A, announced in May 2019…….

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Inhabiting 21st-century science fiction
May 21, 2021
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In March, literary heavyweights Kazuo Ishiguro and Neil Gaiman — a Nobel laureate, and the beloved author of “American Gods,” “Sandman,” and “Good Omens,” respectively — convened at an independent bookstore event to discuss genre and science fiction. They arrived at twin conclusions: one, that rigid genre distinctions between literary works promote an unproductive and false hierarchy of worth, and two, that the 21st century is a very tricky time to attempt to define “science fiction” at all. Gaiman……

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A Cooking Competition in the Pacific Islands...
May 20, 2021
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Judges on cooking competition shows tend to be culinary royalty. Rarely, though, are they actual royalty. When Princess Salote Mafile’o Pilolevu Tuita of the Kingdom of Tonga swept onto the stage during the season finale of Pacific Island Food Revolution, several of the contestants looked ready to faint. But participants in PIFR aren’t called “contestants.” Instead, host Robert Oliver refers to the competitors, hailing from the Pacific Islands of Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa, and the Kingdom of Tonga, as “food……

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Daily Crunch: Ford’s powerhouse F-150 Lightning pickup...
May 20, 2021
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To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. It’s Thursday, everyone, and the technology and startup worlds were a mixed bag today. We learned about the final death of Internet Explorer (RIP), new AR glasses from Snap, fresh cryptocurrency rules for the United States, and even took the time to look into all the pizza-robot startups. Hell, Ford even made the cut with its……

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Study: Culture influences mask wearing
May 20, 2021
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Around the world and within the U.S., the percentage of people wearing masks during the Covid-19 pandemic has varied enormously. What explains this? A new study co-authored by an MIT faculty member finds that a public sense of “collectivism” clearly predicts mask usage, adding a cultural and psychological perspective to the issue. The study uses a series of datasets about mask usage and public attitudes, along with well-established empirical indices of collectivism, to evaluate the impact of those cultural……

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The Ice Age Persists in the Upper...
May 20, 2021
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A black Ford pickup truck speeds past on the gravel road, kicking up a wave of dust. Tim Yager shakes his head slightly and gestures to the forested hill behind us. “Most people have no idea this is here,” he says with a smile. Yager, deputy manager for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge, is going to take me back in time. He leads the way along a backroad in this……

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Bain Capital Ventures raised $1.3 billion to...
May 20, 2021
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Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), the venture arm of the 37-year-old private equity firm Bain Capital, announced this morning that it has $1.3 billion more smackers to invest across two funds, a $950 million fund for seed and Series A deals and a $350 million fund for growth-stage opportunities. That amount is up slightly from late 2018, when the outfit announced $1 billion across two funds. While the outfit is backed by all the usual suspects, including endowments and pension……

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US Treasury calls for stricter cryptocurrency rules,...
May 20, 2021
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President Biden’s vision for an empowered, expanded IRS is poised to have a big impact on cryptocurrency trading. According to a new report from the U.S. Treasury Department, the administration wants to put new requirements in place that would make it easier for the government to see how money is moving around, including digital currencies. The report notes that cryptocurrencies pose a “significant detection problem” and are used regularly by top earners who wish to evade taxes. The proposed……

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Lessons from teaching about the pandemic in...
May 20, 2021
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Just a few months after the Covid-19 pandemic took hold, Alan Grossman was already mulling over an idea for a new class to help people make sense of the virus. As head of MIT’s Department of Biology, he was aware of the key role fundamental research would play in the coming months. From RNA viruses and genomic sequencing to antibodies and vaccines, MIT students and the general public would need reliable scientific information to understand the evolving situation —……

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Don’t tweet about $ASS
May 20, 2021
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I am not a smart man. Earlier today I tweeted about $ASS, a cryptocurrency named after a dog. In this case, Australian Shepherds. And after doing that obviously stupid thing, my Twitter feed became chock-full of ass-related imagery, memes, and $ASS coin stans breathing on me. It’s all very annoying as I run Tweetdeck on a work laptop which is now very, well, dicey a proposition given what I’m being sent. $ASS is short for Australian Safe Shepherd, by……

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