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Roblox CEO interview gets heated over child safety | TechCrunch

Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki joined The New York Times’ Hard Fork podcast to discuss the gaming platform’s new...

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company reportedly raising funding at a $20B valuation | TechCrunch

Elon Musk’s tunneling startup The Boring Company is in talks to raise a $4 billion funding round at...

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VLC crosses 7 billion downloads | TechCrunch

In our world of expensive streaming platforms, the very free and offline VLC media player, developed by the...

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Grand Theft Auto VI is delayed — again | TechCrunch

Grand Theft Auto VI, one of the most anticipated video games of all time, has been delayed, again...

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Travis Kalanick’s Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business | TechCrunch

Earlier this summer, Travis Kalanick’s Atoms announced a $1.7 billion funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. But even...

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Apple TV is raising its subscription prices again | TechCrunch

For the fourth time in four years, Apple TV is hiking its subscription prices.Now, Apple TV subscriptions will...

The image shows the icon of Bluesky, the new decentralized social network created by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.
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Bluesky adds an ‘algorithmic opt-out’ feature for those who don’t want to go viral | TechCrunch

After adding support for longer videos just yesterday, open social network Bluesky on Thursday introduced a new algorithmic...

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Apple is holding its iPhone launch event on September 9 | TechCrunch

Apple announced on Wednesday that its next launch event is taking place on September 9, with a “Surprise...

Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, speaks during the 2015 Fortune Global Forum in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015. The forum gathers Global 500 CEO's and innovators, builders, and technologists from some of the most dynamic, emerging companies all over the world to facilitate relationship building at the highest levels. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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a16z brings growth fund to $8.5B days after launching new $1.1B fund | TechCrunch

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has expanded its fifth growth fund to $8.5 billion. That means the firm...

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Meta’s AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com | TechCrunch

Sunday night, users of Meta’s AI assistant Muse started getting a strange error message when they tried to...