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Welcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Today I’m looking at a recent acquisition that shows the drive toward more resilient APIs. Also this week, a recent round that adds nuance to the market for substance abuse therapy startups. — Anna Resilient APIs Creating and distributing APIs might soon be easier: Speakeasy, an early-stage startup, is working on it.…

Secret sprawl, where companies store authentication credentials and similar sensitive data across multiple locations, is a real and growing problem for any company wanting to avert a security breach. Companies might have hundreds of secrets — such as API keys, passwords or database access tokens — spread across their infrastructure, making it difficult to keep tabs on what is stored where, who has access to it, and whether any of this data has inadvertently found its way into the public realm. By way of example, back…

The Vivaldi Workspaces feature is a breath of fresh air for users needing to get their tab game organized. Screenshot by Jack Wallen/ZDNET In the resulting popup, give the new Workspace a name and click Create. That will automatically switch to the new Workspace, where you can open all the tabs you need that are relevant to the category.Also: How to easily see your open Chrome tabs on other computersContinue creating as many workspaces as needed. The Vivaldi Workspaces feature is a breath of fresh…

That’s no moon… EA has revealed the minimum and recommended requirements for the upcoming Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Unsurprisingly, you’ll need some reasonable meat on your PC’s bones in order to… what the hey? What the gosh darn dickens!? According to this, you’re going to need 144GB set aside for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Why? To put this into perspective, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (the new one) wants 125GB of digital territory. The original Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (the new one) wants 175GB of space,…

Last week, SZA released the cover of her second album, SOS. A photo of her perched on a long diving board in the middle of the ocean, it turned into a global news story, reported everywhere from the website of the National Hockey League, which approved of the St Louis Blues jersey she was wearing, to the Daily Mail, which reacted very much as you might expect the Daily Mail to react when a Black artist appears in a photo apparently modelled on a paparazzo shot of Diana, Princess of Wales, taken days before her death.The…

An international team of researchers has found that an acceleration in movement of a deep landslide beneath the city of Bukavu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is due to city sprawl, not natural forces. In their study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the group analyzed satellite imagery and aerial photographs of the city taken over many years to learn more about the movement of the land beneath the city. …

Good evening. I’m Karen Kaplan, and it’s Tuesday, Nov. 1. Here’s the latest on what’s happening with the coronavirus in California and beyond.Take a close look at the graph below: The X axis across the bottom indicates the percentage of households in a particular neighborhood that are overcrowded, meaning they house more than one person per room (excluding bathrooms). The Y axis along the left side measures the number of COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 residents.Each blue dot on the graph represents a…

CASTLE ROCK — When the first houses go up in the Dawson Trails neighborhood in Castle Rock in a couple of years, it will mark the beginning of the end of metro Denver’s decades-long southward migration. This fast-growing town in the heart of Douglas County has no plans to annex any land farther south for development, meaning that what lies between Monument and Castle Rock today — vast expanses of open space and natural landscape along with a few dispersed ranchettes — should remain that way for future generations. In…

Cledara, a software management platform that gives companies greater control and insights into their SaaS subscriptions, has raised $20 million in a series A round of funding. Founded out of London in 2018, Cledara is setting out to help companies of all sizes deal with so-called SaaS sprawl, with some companies subscribing to as many as 200 distinct online services through the browser. While this is testament to the benefits of the SaaS business model and the broader cloud movement, it can also…