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Microsoft says its online-only Build 2021 will take place from May 25 to May 27 (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet)

Microsoft says its online-only Build 2021 will take place from May 25 to May 27  —  Microsoft’s annual developer conference will be a virtual event again and is happening at…

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Lido, which has an estimated 80%+ market share in Ethereum liquid staking, raises $70M from Andreessen Horowitz; 76K wallets stake assets worth $10B+ on Lido (Anita Ramaswamy/TechCrunch)

Lido, which has an estimated 80%+ market share in Ethereum liquid staking, raises $70M from Andreessen Horowitz; 76K wallets stake assets worth $10B+ on Lido  —  The world’s most-used blockchain,…

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Twitter says it is testing a new style of displaying tweets that link to e-commerce product pages, after it was spotted by a Twitter for Android user in Qatar (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Twitter says it is testing a new style of displaying tweets that link to e-commerce product pages, after it was spotted by a Twitter for Android user in Qatar  — …

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Physical trading cards marketplace and custody service Alt raises a $75M Series B at a $325M+ valuation, says $70M+ worth of cards are stored in its vault (Greg Kumparak/TechCrunch)

Physical trading cards marketplace and custody service Alt raises a $75M Series B at a $325M+ valuation, says $70M+ worth of cards are stored in its vault  —  When we…

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Poland-based Nomagic, which makes pick-and-place warehouse robots, raises a $22M Series A led by Khosla Ventures, Almaz Capital, and European Investment Bank (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Poland-based Nomagic, which makes pick-and-place warehouse robots, raises a $22M Series A led by Khosla Ventures, Almaz Capital, and European Investment Bank  —  Robotics are playing a growing role in…

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Inside Engineered Arts, a UK-based company making humanoid robots for entertainment and education that can emote and respond to passersby with preset banter (James Vincent/The Verge)

Inside Engineered Arts, a UK-based company making humanoid robots for entertainment and education that can emote and respond to passersby with preset banter  —  Will Jackson, CEO of robotics company…

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Bilibili invests HK$960M in X.D. Network, which runs Chinese game distribution platform TapTap; mobile games accounted for 40% of Bilibili’s 2020 revenues (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)

Bilibili invests HK$960M in X.D. Network, which runs Chinese game distribution platform TapTap; mobile games accounted for 40% of Bilibili’s 2020 revenues  —  Competition in China’s gaming industry is getting…

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Ireland-based TransferMate, a B2B payments infrastructure company, raises $70M at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $130M (Will Goodbody/RTÉ)

Ireland-based TransferMate, a B2B payments infrastructure company, raises $70M at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $130M  —  Irish business to business payments infrastructure company, TransferMate, has secured…

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A TikTok moderator sues TikTok for unsafe work conditions that resulted in PTSD; her lawyer says TikTok stopped her from working a day after the suit was filed (Kieran Press-Reynolds/Insider)

A TikTok moderator sues TikTok for unsafe work conditions that resulted in PTSD; her lawyer says TikTok stopped her from working a day after the suit was filed  —  –…

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Chile-based Houm, which uses AI to help users find the optimal rental or sale price of a property based on similar properties nearby, raises a $35M Series A (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Chile-based Houm, which uses AI to help users find the optimal rental or sale price of a property based on similar properties nearby, raises a $35M Series A  —  Less…