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Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin sells 500,000 copies less than a month after launch

Publisher Xseed Games announced today that Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin has now sold over 500,000 copies on consoles and PC.Read More

Studio MDHR will delay Cuphead’s The Delicious Last Course DLC

Studio MDHR announced in a tweet that it has delayed the release of its Cuphead downloadable content, dubbed The Delicious Last Course.Read More

France starts collecting tax on tech giants

France is going forward with its plan to tax big tech companies. The government has sent out notices to tech giants, as reported by the Financial Times, Reuters and AFP. There could be retaliation tariffs on French goods in the U.S. For the past coup...

Sources: President-elect Biden is considering appointing former CFTC chairman Gary Gensler as Deputy Treasury Secretary (CNBC)

CNBC: Sources: President-elect Biden is considering appointing former CFTC chairman Gary Gensler as Deputy Treasury Secretary& —& President-elect Joe Biden is considering TIAA CEO Roger Ferguson to be his National Economic Council d...

As IBM shifts to hybrid cloud, reports have them laying off 10,000 in EU

As IBM makes a broad shift in strategy, Bloomberg reported this morning that the company would be cutting around 10,000 jobs in Europe. This comes on the heels of last month’s announcement that the organization will be spinning out its infrastr...

What will tomorrow’s tech look like? Ask someone who can’t see

Will Butler Contributor Share on Twitter Will Butler is a writer, producer and podcast host from California. Legally blind since age of 19, Will has written and produced numerous stories...

Comcast raising TV and Internet prices, including a big hike to hidden fees

Enlarge / Comcast Xfinity cable television installation truck parked on a street in front of a suburban home, San Ramon, California, May 17, 2018. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) (credit: Getty Images | Smith Collection | Gado) Comca...

Insurtech’s big year gets bigger as Metromile looks to go public

In the wake of insurtech unicorn Root’s IPO, it felt safe to say that the big transactions for the insurance technology startup space were done for the year. After all, 2020 had been a big one for the broad category, with insurtech marketplaces...

Amazon Web Services outage takes a portion of the internet down with it

Amazon Web Services is currently having an outage, taking a chunk of the internet down with it. Several AWS services were experiencing problems as of early Wednesday, according to its status page. That means any app, site or service that relies on A...

Slack’s stock climbs on possible Salesforce acquisition

News that Salesforce is interested in buying Slack, the popular workplace chat company, sent shares of the smaller firm sharply higher today. Slack shares are up just under 25% at the moment, according to Yahoo Finance data. Slack is worth $36.95 p...

Court filing: CFIUS extends the deadline for ByteDance to complete its sale of TikTok by seven days, until December 4 (David Yaffe-Bellany/Bloomberg)

David Yaffe-Bellany / Bloomberg: Court filing: CFIUS extends the deadline for ByteDance to complete its sale of TikTok by seven days, until December 4& —& The Trump administration has given the owner of TikTok another week to resolv...

UK government says it will spend £250M to help carriers replace Huawei 5G tech by 2027, including around £50M in 2021 (Thomas Seal/Bloomberg)

Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: UK government says it will spend £250M to help carriers replace Huawei 5G tech by 2027, including around £50M in 2021& —& The U.K. will spend 250 million pounds ($333 million) to diversify its so...

Instead of yule log, watch this interactive dumpster fire because 2020

The holiday season is upon us and with that comes stress, anxiety and the airing of grievances. And this year is worse. Instead of watching a yule log smolder in a warm hearth, we’re all stuck in our homes watching the world burn. Try this interactiv...

Spaceflight does some weird things to astronauts’ bodies

Astronaut Scott Kelly famously lived and worked on the International Space Station for 340 days—the longest time an American has spent in space. His mission gave scientists some vital insight into what happens to the human body during long-duration...

Join us for a live Q&A with Sapphire’s Jai Das on Tuesday at 2 pm EST/11 am PST

Sure, we’re heading into a holiday weekend here in America, but that doesn’t mean that the good ship TechCrunch is going to slow down. We’re diving right back in next week with another installment in season two of Extra Crunch Live,...