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How one founder made the most of Y Combinator in a pandemic year – TechCrunch

How one founder made the most of Y Combinator in a pandemic year – TechCrunch

This week we welcome guest Hana Mohan to our Found Podcast. Hana is the co-founder and CEO of MagicBell, a new startup she co-founded with Josue Montano that recently completed the Y Combinator Winter 2021 cohort. MagicBell is a full-featured, plug-and-play notification inbox aimed at developers who want to add one to their own product … Read more

Harvard scientists create gene-editing tool that could rival CRISPR

Mariella Moon

Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biological Inspired Engineering at Harvard have developed a new gene editing tool that allows scientists to conduct millions of genetic experiments simultaneously. They call it the Retron Library Recombineering (RLR) technique, and it uses segments of bacterial DNA called retrons that can produce fragments of single-stranded DNA. When it … Read more

The best products we tested in April

The best products we tested in April

(CNN) —   We try no short of hundreds of products each month, whether that be new product launches or rediscovering an old faithful. And because we’re committed to exposing you to the best products out there, we decided to start curating roundups of our favorite things we test each month. From cozy sweaters and … Read more

Zillow Group responds to lawsuit filed by Real Estate Exchange, denies antitrust claims

Zillow Group responds to lawsuit filed by Real Estate Exchange, denies antitrust claims

(Bigstock photo) The news: Seattle-based Zillow Group responded to an antitrust lawsuit by Austin-based real estate startup Real Estate Exchange alleging anti-competitive behavior related to Zillow’s display of certain homes on its platform. In an opposition motion, Zillow claims that REX’s claims are selfish and that his motion “fails at every level and should be … Read more

90 people found in Houston home; police, federal investigators probing

Police officers are investigating the site of a people smuggling site that found more than 90 undocumented immigrants in a house on the 12200 block of Chessington Drive in Houston on Friday, April 30, 2021.  A Houston Police officer said the case is being processed by federal authorities.

The US Department of Homeland Security is investigating after more than 90 people were found in a house in southwest Houston that police called people smuggling. Deputy Police Commissioner Daryn Edwards said the police received a kidnapping call Thursday night and the homicide division worked all night to enter the house with a tactical team. … Read more

Emotional marketing and an e-mail titan walk into a bar – TechCrunch

Emotional marketing and an e-mail titan walk into a bar – TechCrunch

My mom gets to the point when she describes my beat to others. In her words, I cover companies like Uber before they become companies like Uber. And honestly? I can’t exactly contradict the description. The best feeling in tech journalism is telling a story about a startup before it becomes a household name. As … Read more

2022 Honda Civic adds wireless connections for CarPlay, Android Auto

Richard Lawler

This week, Honda unveiled the 11th iteration of its longest running model. In addition to a new look, there are also some notable technical differences in the 2022 Civic sedan. Further highlights of the revised model are changes to the driver assistant technology, which became standard in all equipment variants from model year 2019. The … Read more

India’s Covid-19 Crisis Shakes Modi’s Image of Strength

India’s Covid-19 Crisis Shakes Modi’s Image of Strength

NEW DELHI – His Covid-19 task force did not meet for months. His health minister reassured the public in March that India had reached the “final” of the pandemic. A few weeks earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi bragged to world leaders that his nation had triumphed over the coronavirus. India “saved mankind from a major … Read more