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A look at Bring a Trailer, an auction site for classic cars that says it has 100K registered bidders, with $230M in sales in 2019, up 41% YoY (Robert C. Yeager/New York Times)

Robert C. Yeager / New York Times: A look at Bring a Trailer, an auction site for classic cars that says it has 100K registered bidders, with $230M in sales in 2019, up 41% YoY  —  Bring a Trailer has 100,000 registered bidders and listed 11,000 cars in a banner 2019, while the traditional auction

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A Super-Brain for an E-bike

There’s no better way of improving a project than logging data to make informed decisions on future improvements. When it came to [Brian]’s latest project, an electric bike, he wanted to get as much data as he could from the time he turned it on until the time he was finished riding. He turned to

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Pex, a royalty attribution startup that scans social networks for rightsholders' content, buys Dubset, which IDs tracks on DJ sets so artists can get paid (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Pex, a royalty attribution startup that scans social networks for rightsholders’ content, buys Dubset, which IDs tracks on DJ sets so artists can get paid  —  Social networks are in for a rude copyright awakening.  A new European Union law called Article 17 essentially eradicates safe harbor … Pex, a royalty

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While tech companies push remote work for their employees, gig workers receive little support amid COVID-19 outbreak and face income loss for self-quarantine (Sarah Emerson/OneZero )

Sarah Emerson / OneZero : While tech companies push remote work for their employees, gig workers receive little support amid COVID-19 outbreak and face income loss for self-quarantine  —  Amazon, Uber, and Lyft have sent memos asking workers to follow protocols that might not be feasible While tech companies push remote work for their employees, gig

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Kleiner Perkins closes its 19th fund, KP19, at $700M to focus on early stage investments, reveals 30 out of 34 KP18 investments were either seed or Series A (Natasha Mascarenhas/TechCrunch)

Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: Kleiner Perkins closes its 19th fund, KP19, at $700M to focus on early stage investments, reveals 30 out of 34 KP18 investments were either seed or Series A  —  After going “back to the future” with a $600 million fund last year, VC firm Kleiner Perkins is aiming for some “returns

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Sources: AT&T is discussing Google's dominance in the ad sector with DOJ officials as the government weighs whether to bring an antitrust action against Google (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: AT&T is discussing Google’s dominance in the ad sector with DOJ officials as the government weighs whether to bring an antitrust action against Google  —  Cooperation comes two years after AT&T was at loggerheads with DOJ over Time Warner acquisition Sources: AT&T is discussing Google's dominance in the ad sector with

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Apple announces free repairs for iPad Air models made from Mar. 2019-Oct. 2019 affected by the "blank screen issue" that leaves the display permanently disabled (Mikey Campbell/AppleInsider)

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: Apple announces free repairs for iPad Air models made from Mar. 2019-Oct. 2019 affected by the “blank screen issue” that leaves the display permanently disabled  —  Apple on Friday launched a repair service program for third-generation iPad Air models suffering from a so-called … Apple announces free repairs for iPad Air

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