Amazon convinces Apple to remove review analyzer Fakespot from the App Store

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Fakespot, an app that analyzes Amazon reviews to determine which are fake, is no longer available for iOS. Amazon successfully convinced Apple to remove it from the App Store after the company raised concerns that the application was providing misleading information and creating potential security vulnerabilities. The e-commerce giant has confirmed to Engadget that it … Read more

Native American activists urge Biden to hear them out on sacred lands

An aerial view of Arch Canyon in Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, which President Barack Obama wanted to protect in 2016.  President Donald Trump then greatly reduced the size of the planned monument.  His fate is still undecided, but activists want to put aside an even bigger pattern.

The Red Road to DC started last week in the coastal state of Lummi north of Seattle and ends on July 29th in Washington, DC, The cross-country caravan will arrive on Saturday at Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, a particularly sacred place for Native Americans. The predominant imagery on the colorful totem that is … Read more

Seattle-based Shape Therapeutics raises $112M to develop RNA-editing and gene therapies

Seattle-based Shape Therapeutics raises $112M to develop RNA-editing and gene therapies

Shape CEO Francois Vigneault. (Shape photo) Shape Therapeutics, a Seattle preclinical biotech company developing RNA editing and gene therapy technologies, has raised $ 112 million. The company’s RNA editing technologies come from the laboratory of co-founder Prashant Mali, a bio-engineer at the University of California, San Diego, who sits on Shape’s scientific advisory board. Shape … Read more

Stiller and Meara’s Upper West Side Home on the Market

Stiller and Meara’s Upper West Side Home on the Market

The longtime Upper West Side comedy team Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara’s home, an expanded cooperative where they raised their two children, wrote and collaborated on material, and entertained a variety of celebrities, is coming for the first time in more Markt market than half a century. According to Bruce Ehrmann, a real estate agent … Read more

Virgin Galactic president Mike Moses on what’s next for the company’s growing fleet – TechCrunch

Virgin Galactic president Mike Moses on what’s next for the company’s growing fleet – TechCrunch

Dieses letzte Wochenende zeigte den vielbeschworenen Start der ersten (nicht zahlenden) Passagiere von Virgin Galactic, mit Gründer und CEO Richard Branson. Nach den Feierlichkeiten hatte ich die Gelegenheit, mit dem Präsidenten des Unternehmens, Mike Moses, zu sprechen, der mit jedem Detail der Operation und den Plänen des Unternehmens für den Übergang von Test- zu kommerziellen … Read more

Tech Moves: Ex-Tableau sales chief Kelly Breslin Wright joins Gong; Slalom expands board; more

Tech Moves: Ex-Tableau sales chief Kelly Breslin Wright joins Gong; Slalom expands board; more

Kelly Breslin Wright. (Gong photo) – Former Tableau executive Kelly Breslin Wright has been named President and COO of Gong, an AI sales startup based in Palo Alto, California. Wright joined Gong’s board of directors in March. A former Tableau employee, Wright spent 12 years with the Seattle-based company leading sales. Before leaving in 2016, … Read more

Gap year student secures last open seat for Blue Origin’s first human spaceflight – TechCrunch

Gap year student secures last open seat for Blue Origin’s first human spaceflight – TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s greatest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3:00 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for July 15, 2021. Good news from the TechCrunch front: The agenda for our big disrupt conference in September is set. It’s going to be incredible, … Read more