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TechCrunch editors share their top stories of 2020

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As the year comes to a close, some of our editors share their top stories from 2020.

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  • Asian stocks set for soft start, dollar mostly steady

    Asian stocks came under pressure on Tuesday as worries about U.S. stimulus and surging coronavirus infections led to a mixed Wall Street session, while the dollar consolidated overnight gains. The choppy trade reflected concerns about new strains of the deadly virus, along with uncertainty about the $1.9 trillion U.S. fiscal stimulus plan that has hit opposition from Republicans in Congress. Those factors tempered earlier optimism stoked by the roll-out of vaccines and anticipation that new U.S. stimulus would give the world economy a much-needed fiscal shot in the arm.

  • House Managers Delivers Article Of Impeachment To Senate, Setting Stage For Another Trial Of Donald Trump

    A delegation of House members delivered an article of impeachment against Donald Trump to the U.S. Senate tonight, a ceremony that triggers a process for a trial on charges that the former president incited the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. News networks and some of the broadcasters carried the walk to the Senate chamber, […]

  • Gravitas Picks Up Dakota Gorman’s Directorial Debut ‘All About Sex’; ‘Whose Child’ Rounds Out Cast; Greenwich Acquires ‘Super Frenchie’ Docu – Film Briefs

    Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights All About Sex, the first directorial feature for up-and-comer Dakota Gorman, who wrote the comedy, which is loosely based on her own experiences battling depression and the general anxieties that accompany aging youth. Gorman also stars alongside Natalee Linez, Emma Deckers, Dillon Lane, Matt Angel and Chris Costanzo. […]

  • Top global traders work to ease seafarer crisis due to coronavirus

    Over 300 leading companies said on Tuesday they would work together to help hundreds of thousands of merchant sailors stuck on ships for many months due to COVID-19 in a crisis that risks creating more dangers at sea. About 90% of world trade is transported by sea, and coronavirus restrictions in many jurisdictions are affecting supply chains. In December the U.N. General Assembly urged all countries to designate seafarers and other maritime personnel as key workers.

  • Nissan flips the switch on electric reboot in China

    Nissan Motor is accelerating the rollout of electric vehicles in China under its main brand and its local, no-frills Venucia marque as it overhauls its strategy in the world's biggest auto market, four sources told Reuters. Besides the focus on green vehicles, the plan involves using more locally made parts and technologies to reduce costs and help the struggling Japanese carmaker compete better with lower-cost Chinese firms and major global rivals, the sources said. The China strategy is a key pillar of Nissan's turnaround, which involves focusing on producing profitable cars for China, Japan and the United States, rather than chasing all-out global growth as it did under disgraced former boss Carlos Ghosn.

  • 'I never want to take it off': Nordstrom shoppers are loving this 'amazingly soft' cardigan

    "I’d wear it everyday if I could."

  • Britain to help other countries track down coronavirus variants

    Britain will share its genomic sequencing capabilities with other countries to help quicker identify new variants of the coronavirus in places with less ability to do so, its health ministry said on Tuesday. New variants of the coronavirus have alarmed scientists, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned the prospect of a "vaccine-busting" variant could mean that lockdown measures are needed for longer and new travel restrictions are introduced. Britain said it had carried out more than half the SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences submitted to a global database, and would launch a New Variant Assessment Platform which could be used for coronavirus variants and also future pandemics.

  • US Foods Announces Pricing of Upsized Private Offering of $900 Million of Senior Unsecured Notes

    US Foods Holding Corp. (NYSE: USFD) today announced the pricing of a private offering (the "Offering") of $900 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.750% senior unsecured notes due 2029 (the "Notes") by its direct, wholly-owned subsidiary, US Foods, Inc. ("US Foods"). The initial offering price to investors will be 100% of the principal amount thereof. The offering is expected to close on February 4, 2021, subject to customary closing conditions. The size of the Offering was increased by approximately $300 million aggregate principal amount subsequent to the initial announcement of the Offering.

  • The Vigil: Adam Goodes dances in the spirit of Indigenous warriors at Sydney festival's 26 January reflection

    The Vigil: Adam Goodes dances in the spirit of Indigenous warriors at Sydney festival's 26 January reflection. The AFL great paid tribute to his mother, a member of the stolen generations, at the festival’s annual dusk-til-dawn meditation on Australia’s colonial history

  • Supermarkets ‘put plastic equivalent to 90 Eiffel Towers on sale last year’

    The study, which was conducted in partnership with the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), found 2019 saw a dip of 1.6 per cent on 2018’s plastic waste total. Greenpeace accused major names of “treading water” in their efforts to stem the flow of plastic waste. The report found 1.58 billion plastic “bags for life” were issued across the top brands, dwarfing the number of single-use carrier bags, which fell by 33 per cent to 525 million compared to 2018.

  • Facebook News launches in the UK, its first market outside of the US for the curated news portal

    As the United Kingdom prepares to sharpen its focus on how it regulates big tech companies, Facebook is taking a big step up in the role it plays in presenting media to the U.K. public, and into how it works with the country's media industry. Today it is launching Facebook News in the U.K., Facebook's first market outside of the U.S. for its dedicated, curated news portal -- accessed like the U.S. version through a tab in the Android or iOS app menu. The portal will launch with content from hundreds of local and national media organizations including Channel 4 News, Daily Mail Group, DC Thomson, Financial Times, Sky News and Telegraph Media Group.

  • Can A Former President Be Impeached? The Precedent For Trump's Senate Trial

    Republicans argue that Donald Trump cannot be impeached because he's no longer in office. Democrats call that "a constitutional get-out-of-jail-free card."

  • Johnson to rule on plans for quarantine hotels to protect against new strains

    The Best Western hotel chain said it was waiting for the Government ‘green light’

  • Human rights group urges New York to ban police use of facial recognition

    Human rights group urges New York to ban police use of facial recognitionThe technology has repeatedly come up short in tests for racial bias and has been restricted in other major cities across the US

  • Wuhan doctor: China authorities stopped me sounding alarm on Covid

    Wuhan doctor: China authorities stopped me sounding alarm on Covid. Medic at heart of original outbreak tells BBC documentary staff were not allowed to wear masks despite concern about human transmission

  • Friar crushed by cart: bone analysis hints at causes of medieval deaths

    Friar crushed by cart: bone analysis hints at causes of medieval deaths. Research from three Cambridge grave sites suggests poor people were at greatest risk of injury

  • Facebook News launches in UK following deals with publishers

    Facebook News launches in UK following deals with publishers. Stories from the Guardian, Daily Mail, Economist and more will appear in a dedicated feed

  • Deloitte predicts pandemic will cost Europe’s top clubs around two billion euros

    The finance firm’s annual Football Money League shows that the top 20 revenue-generating clubs lost around 1.1bn euros (£975million) during 2019-20.

  • Raw lifts the lid on triathlon regrets - but backs this year's stars for Tokyo glory

    Candid Vanessa Raw admits she had ‘unfinished business’ as the golden girl of British Triathlon.

  • Hollyoaks' Theresa considers leaving with Seth

    Will she go?