TechCrunch editors share their top stories of 2020
As the year comes to a close, some of our editors share their top stories from 2020.
As the year comes to a close, some of our editors share their top stories from 2020.
Sony Pictures has sold “The Mitchells vs. The Machines,” an original animated family film from producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, to Netflix. At one point, Sony changed the name from “The Mitchells vs. The Machines” to “Connected,” but it has reverted back to its original title. Sony had planned to release the film theatrically […]
The very first production example of the 2021 Ram TRX is headed to auction, the company confirmed Thursday. The truck, in Launch Edition Anvil Gray, will cross the block at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale on March 26 to benefit the United Way for Southeastern Michigan’s 2-1-1 helpline. Being one of the 702 Launch Edition models makes it special already, but this particular example will come with a presentation box with a bound book custom-developed by the Ram Brand team.
Bernie was cold, and he wasn't about to pretend that we wasn't.
South Africa will pay $5.25 per dose for 1.5 million shots of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine from the Serum Institute of India (SII), a senior official said on Thursday, more than some wealthier countries are paying. Health department Deputy Director-General Anban Pillay told Reuters that SII's price was based on South Africa's status as an upper-middle-income country under a World Bank classification. The price is higher than the $3 a dose that South Africa and other countries on the continent are due to pay for the same vaccine under an African Union (AU) arrangement, and the 2.5 euros ($3.03) per dose European Union countries have agreed to pay.
After fog delayed the opening of play by nearly three hours, McIlroy was among the early starters and began on the back nine. Irishman McIlroy carded eight birdies to finish one shot ahead of England's Tyrrell Hatton, who recorded eagles on the par-five 10th and 18th. McIlroy has finished in the top five eight times at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club but is still in the hunt for his first title.
Spain's public prosecutor is investigating more than 200 cases of potential criminal mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic at nursing homes, where the virus spread almost unchecked during the devastating first wave. Nearly 43,000 care home residents died of COVID-19 or suspected infection during the March-May first wave of contagion, according to official data. The prosecutor's office said nearly half of its investigations related to homicide through a neglect of duty of care, while it was looking into 21 cases of deficiencies in medical treatment.
With Zinedine Zidane facing his third crisis in his second spell with Real Madrid, his players must once again fight for their coach on the pitch when they visit Alaves in La Liga on Saturday, smarting from a shock Cup defeat to tiny Alcoyano. The 2-1 extra-time defeat on Wednesday to the third division, semi-professional side followed a 2-1 loss to Athletic Bilbao in the Spanish Super Cup and left last year's La Liga champions with one win in their last five games in all competitions. Zidane, who knows the pressures of Real as well as anyone, did his best to play down the Alcoyano defeat and insisted it should not be classed as an embarrassment, vowing his side would not lose their heads as a result.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday that Russia can be held to account for what judges said were acts of torture and ill treatment carried out in the days after the August 2008 war between Russia and ex-Soviet Georgia. During five days of fighting, Russia pushed troops into Georgia in support of its allies in the separatist Georgian region of South Ossetia. The Strasbourg-based court ruled that Russia could be held responsible for three episodes that took place after the fighting was largely over.
After fog delayed the opening of play by nearly three hours, McIlroy was among the early starters and began on the back nine. Irishman McIlroy carded eight birdies to finish one shot ahead of England's Tyrrell Hatton, who recorded eagles on the par-five 10th and 18th. McIlroy has finished in the top five eight times at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club but is still in the hunt for his first title.
A Vatican court on Thursday convicted Angelo Caloia, a former head of the Vatican bank, on charges of embezzlement and money laundering and handed down an eight-year, 11-month jail sentence. Caloia, who was president of the bank between 1999 and 2009, is the highest ranking Vatican official to be convicted of a financial crime.
A Vatican court on Thursday convicted Angelo Caloia, a former head of the Vatican bank, on charges of embezzlement and money laundering and handed down an eight-year, 11-month jail sentence. Caloia, who was president of the bank between 1999 and 2009, is the highest ranking Vatican official to be convicted of a financial crime.
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President Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris ostensibly were the main attractions on Inauguration Day. But Amanda Gorman stole the show with her reading of uplifting poem “The Hill We Climb” and became an overnight media and internet star. The work by Gorman, 22, the youngest poet to read at a presidential inauguration, focused on […]
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Instead, Volkswagen is limiting our Mk 8 consumption to the high performance GTI and Golf R. If you do want a base Golf, VW says it’s produced enough model year 2021 Golfs at the Puebla, Mexico plant to sustain sales through the end of the year. If you want to wait for the Mk 8 GTI and Golf R, Volkswagen confirmed yet again that those models are on track for a 2022 model year launch.
Mixing movement with breath, the Chinese martial art of Tai Chi is helping COVID patients in Moscow recover from the virus. "I am certain that it is helpful. You just need to master these moves. I think all these eastern breathing techniques are for the better, they make you healthy. This is helpful and useful also on the aesthetic level - people have something to do except for just lying around watching the ceiling and everything else." Patients have been taking on the practice at the Krylatskoye Ice Palace, which has been converted into a temporary hospital. Alexander Aliev, a doctor and Tai Chi instructor: "We are using methods developed in fighting tuberculosis and other lung diseases here at the ice palace. We are using Tai Chi breathing exercises, which, along with health aids allows us to speed up the rehabilitation of the patients, to minimize the number of complications during the healing process and complications which might remain after." Russia reported 21,887 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday (January 21) taking the total to 3,655,839 since the pandemic began, making it the world's fourth-highest tally. Moscow will relax some restrictions from Friday (January 22), including fully reopening colleges and specialist education institutions.
YouTube is embracing the hashtag. The company has been quietly working on a new feature that allows users to better discover content using hashtags -- either by clicking on a hashtag on YouTube or by typing in a hashtag link directly. Before, these actions would return a mix of content related to the hashtag, but not only those videos where the hashtag had been directly used.
As many as 72 players are confined to their hotel rooms for two weeks and are unable to train for the Feb. 8-21 Grand Slam after some passengers on three charter flights ferrying them to Australia tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Badosa, 23, arrived in Melbourne after playing in Abu Dhabi earlier this month and was on her seventh day in quarantine when she said her test came back positive.
As the global agricultural industry stretches to meet expected population growth and food demand, and food security becomes more of a pressing issue with global warming, a startup out of South Africa is using artificial intelligence to help farmers manage their farms, trees, and fruits. Aerobotics is a South African startup that provides intelligent tools to the world’s agriculture industry.