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station dot com code tech news welcome to tech crunch daily news a round up of the

top tech news of the day.

Tech Crunch launches a major new initiative,

Amazon tests a smart shopping cart,

and ICE backs down from its controversial student visa rule change. Here's your daily crunch for July 14th, 2020.

The big story is, back in June, we published a story with the rather grandiose headline,

How We're Rebuilding the VC industry.

It was in effect announcing the Tech Crunch list,

which has been a month's long project

to bring more transparency to who actually writes first checks.

To read a list of the 11 VCs who got the most enthusiastic recommendations from founders

and browse the full list, an extra crunch membership is required.

In Tech Giants, Amazon is testing Dashcart, a smart grocery shopping cart that sees what you buy.

The cart which will identify and charge you for items placed inside its basket

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