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Senior Writer , mostly covering UK & European tech, but with a keen interest in other stuff (e.g. open source). Contact: paul.sawers@TechCrunch.com.
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I will never stop seeing "Sky Sports" when I read about this company.
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Skyports, which builds takeoff and landing sites for flying taxis, gets investment from Singapore Technologies amid plans for a terminal in the city for airborne electric cabs trib.al/dayhFqI
Microsoft has paused a new policy that would prevent developers from monetizing open-source software. Here's a look at the different issues at play:
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5% of voters said they know "a great deal" about Tory leadership candidates Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman and Tom Tugendhat
That's compared with 6% who said they know "a great deal" about Tory MP Stewart Lewis
Stewart Lewis is a fictional MP. He doesn't exist
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Amazon Admits Giving Police Ring Footage Without Consent
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It is wild to me that some random guy on Twitter decided that the BA.2.75 variant was going to be known as "Centaurus" and it completely worked.
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This week we laid off most of the rest of our staff.
TL/DR: It's down to Brexit. Not Covid. Not the war in Ukraine. We've got the figures. We know our business. Brexit did this. 1/18
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Thread: For our family business, there's no doubt #Brexit will have an impact - the question is how bad it will be. Meanwhile, the chaos surrounding Brexit leaves us in limbo, unable to continue the expansion which has helped us create jobs and aid other firms. @fascinatorfun
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Boris Johnson: Yes, I met with Russian intelligence without officials present...but I didn't inhale.
(He really needs to study Clinton better. Perhaps a trip to Arkansas would help?)
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Adviser passes note telling him to stop talking. Watch to the end.
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A look at open source Airtable challenger , which just closed a seed round of funding for its no-code database platform:
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Amazon agrees to make unsubscribing from Prime easier after EU complains. Cancelling your subscription was a maze-like ordeal, pushing you through a purposefully complex process. Now will be 2-clicks away.
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After GitHub launched its AI-powered Copilot product last week, which is built on data from open source projects, is urging developers to ditch GitHub:
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Incredible that someone NOT tweeting can be news.
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After nine days, Elon Musk is on his longest stretch without posting on Twitter in nearly five years on.wsj.com/3NArF6g
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The UK plans to change its copyright laws to allow AI developers to conduct text and data mining for commercial use-cases. Part of the motivation here is to encourage companies to locate themselves in the UK, rather than elsewhere in Europe:
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So today is my first day at TechCrunch, where I'll be covering UK and European startups, as well as other areas of the global technology sphere. You can pitch me on: paul.sawers[at]techcrunch.com.
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This is more than a little misleading. A country can't simply "ban" these kinds of words, but it can instruct government workers to not use them in official communications. Which is what's going on here.
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English gaming terms like "esports" and pro-gamer" are now banned in France
France says that anglicisms may act as “a barrier to understanding” for those that don’t play games, with native translations taking over from English words
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Animated map shows the rise and fall of Blockbuster Video stores in the US from 1986 to 2019. Fascinating to view. Source: buff.ly/31np1fI
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Remember this picture every single time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970's via . The cities we admire made better choices regarding cars, and are still making them today. Better choices instead of excuses.
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On this day in 1995: Bill Gates sent an urgent memo to his executives
It was about the Internet.
He called it a “tidal wave”…
… “the most important
development since the PC.”
At the time, just 0.4% of the world’s population was using it.
And on TV, it was joke material:
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Can't think why Uber Eats would promote this tweet. Random.
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Once frenemies, Elastic and AWS are now besties
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There's no question that Musk is simply looking for a way out, the whole thing is looking like an entire waste of everyone's time.
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I also suspect that Musk is probably wondering whether he can really be arsed with all the distractions and hassle that owning Twitter would bring.
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🕵️🏻This was a fascinating (and a bit fucked up, like the world) piece to write. Because every one of us has fallen victim to the #manipulation and #deception that's simply prevalent in #UX today.
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Watching Elon try to openly recreate several decades of trust and safety work by tens of thousands of people from first principles is likely to give me a stroke.
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More Musk:
"If there are tweets that are wrong and bad, those should be either deleted or made invisible, and a suspension, a temporary suspension is appropriate but not a permanent ban.”
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From : America’s ultrafast delivery pioneer GoPuff burned through more than $500m in cash last year.
But the company spokesperson said they’re actually making average $4 profit on every order, except for…………...
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*🥁* Announcing... My new thing!
Today I'm launching , a newsletter focused on the UK's best early-stage startups. 🧵...
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When organizations reverse decisions after public outcry, the language they use is often peculiar. Here, CNCF is "clarifying" its message, and apologizing for the "confusion" it caused. Really, it's just reversing a decision.
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I took a look at some of the open source happenings at these past few months, including a new FOSS fund for independent project maintainers:
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Meta/Facebook is to open its second data center in Texas -- it's 17th in the U.S., and 21st in the world:
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OpenBB is like an open source version of Bloomberg Terminal. It launched today with $8.5M in seed funding from backers including and early Google investor Ram Shriram:
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Exclusive: Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate a nationwide campaign seeking to turn the public against TikTok.
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Amazon boasts about its efficiency, ease of use and speed, which means when it's inefficient, hard to use and slow, assume this is deliberate. Like, when it's giving you data it's collected on you: Amazon's relentless personal data foot-dragging buff.ly/3tLZ0Vw
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Uh-oh, the April Fools' Day pitches are coming in already.
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I don’t know how these people sleep at night.
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