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Monday, January 13, 2020 • By Anthony Ha

Happy Monday

Sleep devices were all over this year’s CES, India investigates Flipkart and Netflix receives an impressive 24 Oscar nominations. Here’s your Daily Crunch for January 13, 2020.

CES was a snoozefest

Brian Heater used a terrible pun headline for his exploration of a booming category in tech: namely, sleep.

At this year’s just-wrapped Consumer Electronics Show, sleep seemed to be everywhere, with devices falling into three broad categories — those designed to simply track sleep, those designed to train the brain into sleeping better and those designed to change the sleep environment. (Extra Crunch membership required.)

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CES was a snoozefest image

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Goldilocks Principle: Verify your customers with just the right amount of friction

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India orders investigation into alleged anti-competitive practices by Amazon and Walmart’s Flipkart

India’s local antitrust body highlighted a variety of issues (including the arrangements between smartphone vendors and e-commerce platforms to sell certain handsets exclusively online, as well as e-commerce firms supposedly giving preferential treatment to certain sellers) and said these allegations merit an investigation.

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Netflix gets the most Oscar nods of any studio, with ‘Irishman’ and ‘Marriage Story’ nominated for Best Picture

“The Irishman” received 10 nominations, including Best Picture, Director (Martin Scorsese), Actor in a Supporting Role (Al Pacino and Joe Pesci), Adapted Screenplay (Steven Zaillian) and Visual Effects. But Todd Phillips’ “Joker” (a movie I hated) was the most-nominated film of the year.

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Netflix gets the most Oscar nods of any studio, with ‘Irishman’ and ‘Marriage Story’ nominated for Best Picture image

Cookie consent tools are being used to undermine EU privacy rules, study suggests

Most cookie consent pop-ups served to internet users in the European Union are probably flouting regional privacy laws, according to a new study by researchers at MIT, UCL and Aarhus University.

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Jolt raises $14.1M for its ‘pay-monthly’ business school

With Jolt, students only take (and pay for) the classes they need to build their own diploma. If they don’t want to complete the full program, they don’t have to. And the classes can also be paused.

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Jolt raises $14.1M for its ‘pay-monthly’ business school image

A billion medical images are exposed online, as doctors ignore warnings

Hundreds of hospitals, medical offices and imaging centers are running insecure storage systems, allowing anyone with an internet connection and free-to-download software to access over 1 billion medical images across the world.

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This week's TechCrunch podcasts

The latest episode of Equity looks at the struggles of SoftBank-backed startups, while Original Content reviews the Netflix action movie “6 Underground.”

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