GamesBeat Decides the game of the year
Nothing exemplifies the power of the human spirit through a tumultuous time like arguing about video games. And thankfully, GamesBeat is comprised of four heroes...
Samsung vice chairman Jay Y. Lee faces nine-year sentence in bribery case – TechCrunch
Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y. Lee faces a nine-year prison term in the bribery case that contributed to the downfall of former president Park...
Why 2020 was a pivotal, contradictory year for facial recognition
“The Clearview story really freaked a lot of people out—as it should,” says Jameson Spivack, a policy associate at Georgetown University’s Center on Privacy and...
New York licenses GMO Internet to issue the first JPY-pegged stablecoin – TechCrunch
The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has approved Tokyo-based GMO Internet to launch GYEN, the first stablecoin pegged to the Japanese yen. GMO...
Blue-collar games were great in 2020 because they’re about perseverance
Before writing about games, I had a lot of different jobs. I sorted packages at a FedEx facility, I built delivery pallets at a Kroger...
Tencent backs Chinese healthcare portal DXY in $500M round – TechCrunch
DXY, a 20-year-old online healthcare community for Chinese consumers and healthcare organizations like Pfizer, announced this week that it has raised $500 million in a...
The year deepfakes went mainstream
In 2018, Sam Cole, a reporter at Motherboard, discovered a new and disturbing corner of the internet. A Reddit user by the name of “deepfakes”...
Indian startups raised $9.3 billion in 2020 – TechCrunch
The coronavirus pandemic — and a handful of other factors — slowed dealmaking for startups in India this year. Compared to their record $14.5 billion...
How to build tech products for a diverse user base
We have seen article after article about the fact that tech companies struggle with diversity at all levels of hiring, leading to toxic cultures for...