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The technewss Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics. The Soviet Union kicked off the Space Age when it propelled the world's first satellite into space from a desert steppe in Kazakhstan on October 4, 1957. The l

Coding class platform Codecademy has sold to Skillsoft for $525 million, in a mix of stock and cash, marking yet another instance of consolidation in the educational technology sector. The sale comes nearly a year after Codecademy raised a $40 million Series D and pivoted its consumer-focused produ

Pfizer’s COVID-19 antiviral pill will already have some competition in the US. As the Associated Press reports, the Food and Drug Administration has given emergency use authorization for Merck’s Molnupiravir pill. The treatment limits replication of SARS-CoV-2 by inserting “errors

""> The FDA has issued an emergency authorization for Pfizer’s antiviral pill Paxlovid, making it the first oral method for treating mild to moderate cases of COVID-19. The treatment is meant for high-risk people 12 and older who could progress to a more serious COVID infection. The best part

For the third time this month, AWS today suffered an outage in one of its data centers. This morning, a power outage in its US-EAST-1 region affected services like Slack, Asana, Epic Games and others. The issues started around 7:30 a.m. ET and the knock-on effect of these issues continues to plague

So your friend/sibling/neighbor just had a baby, or is having a baby soon. Huzzah! Now you’re trying to figure out what to get them for the holidays … and, well, it can get a bit overwhelming. There’s so much stuff for babies and new parents, all marketed in a way that makes it all se

To get a roundup of technewss's biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for December 21, 2021. This is my final Daily Crunch with you for the year. So, let me just say thanks for reading since I took

On-demand shuttle service and software company Via has confidentially filed to go public, the company said in a statement. The company has not yet determined how many shares will be offered or what the price range for the proposed offering will look like, as is typical for this sort of release. Via

As crazy as the NFT market has become, there's been an increasing range of other things to do with NFTs other than pimp images of apes and punks — even if they have become enormously valuable. We've seen the auction of apartments as NFTs, for instance. And now we'r

To get a roundup of technewss's biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Monday, December 20! Now deep into the second half of December, you'd think that we'd be down to spare news pickings

The technewss Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics. As the information domain becomes an increasingly active and consequential realm of state competition, two countries have gone all in. Both China and Russia have d

Welcome to technewss's 2021 Holiday Gift Guide! Need help with gift ideas? We've got lots of them. Looking for our other guides? Find them here! 2021 was largely defined by the great resignation, in which tens of millions of people left their jobs in pursuit of other opportunities. A sliv

To get a roundup of technewss's biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hiiii and welcome to Daily Crunch for December 17, 2021! As Alex noted in yesterday’s newsletter, I’m handling the daily recap today while he takes a

Welcome to technewss's 2021 Holiday Gift Guide! Need help with gift ideas? We've got lots of them. We're just starting to roll out this year's gift guides, so check back from now until the end of December for more!  If you can’t read a good book without stopping every few pa