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SoftBank takes a $690M stake in cloud-based Swedish CRM company Sinch – TechCrunch

On the heels of Facebook taking a big step into customer service with the acquisition of Kustomer for $1 billion,…

Amazon brings the Mac Mini to its cloud for Apple developers

The EC2 Mac instances use unmodified Mac Minis installed into racks on service sleds. You’ll also get full access to…

Air Force improves ‘human performance’ metrics in Special Warfare training

Rescuing hostages under enemy fire, jumping out of planes into “hot” combat zones, rappelling from helicopters down into rough seas or…

EV bus and truck maker The Lion Electric to take SPAC route to public markets – TechCrunch

Canadian electric truck and bus manufacturer The Lion Electric Company said Monday it plans to become a publicly traded company…

The ExoMy is a programmable $600 Mars rover you can build yourself

You can download everything you’ll need to make it work — including assembly instructions and software — through GitHub. The…

15 great tech gifts for everyone on your list

Black Friday started way back in October, with some of the best sales to come this weekend. Tech is going…

EU lawmakers to push audio-visual sector on geoblocking – TechCrunch

European Union lawmakers are considering whether current rules aimed at limiting the practice of geoblocking across the bloc should be…

Super Nintendo Land will open in Japan on February 4th, 2021

Super Nintendo World, the much anticipated “life-size, living video game” theme park will open on February 4th in Osaka, Universal…

Air Force arms classic B-1B bomber with hypersonic weapons

The U.S. Air Force’s decades-old, combat-tested B-1B Lancer aircraft has just taken a huge step toward developing an ability to…

Primer, the fintech helping merchants consolidate the payments stack, raises £14M Series A – TechCrunch

Primer, the U.K. fintech that wants to help merchants consolidate their payments stack and easily support new payment methods in…