Henry Pickavet

Henry Pickavet

Editorial Director

Henry Pickavet is the Editorial Director at TechCrunch.

Prior to joining TechCrunch, Henry had a hand in a number of online and print publications, including InternetNews.com as chief copy editor and Government Technology Magazine as managing editor. He also did a stint in Sydney as group editor of RBI Australia’s manufacturing group, which is when he also developed an affinity (a love, really) for cricket.

He has a bachelor’s in English from California State University, Chico, and a master’s in Liberal Studies from the New School for Social Research in New York.

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Fashionably AI

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Hear about the challenges of using tech for good at Disrupt SF

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Ellen Pao memoir adaptation among 7 new Shonda Rhimes projects for Netflix

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When Shonda Rhimes left ABC last August for Netflix, both she and the studio kept a tight lid on their plans. We could only imagine where the twists and turns that her future stories would take us. We

Code2040’s Karla Monterroso on desegregating the tech industry

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Welcome back to CTRL+T, the TechCrunch podcast that connects the tech to the human. On this episode, we talk about the beta release of Apple’s latest mobile operating system and some of the issues w

Original Content podcast: ‘Queer Eye’ season two is even more of a tearjerker

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Uber’s unrelenting desire to be everything

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Welcome back to CTRL+T, the TechCrunch podcast where Megan Rose Dickey and I talk about stories from the week that we either found interesting or hated and had more to say about. This week we talked a

CTRL+T podcast: That time we talked about Apple, Kanye West and slavery

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Welcome back to CTRL+T, the TechCrunch podcast where Megan Rose Dickey and I talk about the stories we want to talk about and figure out what they mean in relation to life. This week is Apple’s

Uber’s plan to fly you around

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Watch every panel from TC Sessions: Robotics

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Here are all the robots we saw at TC Sessions: Robotics

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Robots are coming. Are they overlords or friendly companions designed to help us perform the mundane tasks of our respective days? Perhaps it’s both. Whatever the purpose, they’re no longer part o

The 2017 TechCrunch Include Progress Report

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This is the second annual TechCrunch Include Progress Report. Covering diversity and inclusion in the tech industry cannot be done in a vacuum. As aspects of identity are intersectional, so too should

White House statement

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Here is the full statement from the White House about the blocked Broadcom-Qualcomm merger: Upon review of a recommendation from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and considerat

Data on a street corner

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This week on CTRL+T, Megan Rose Dickey and I got into MoviePass’s tracking drama and the way the local world works – media-style. We’re joined in the studio by Eric Eldon, co-founder

Reuters says the price is a cool billion

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JUST IN: Amazon has agreed to acquire https://t.co/C3cz9IFjqe for more than $1 billion – source $AMZN pic.twitter.com/7o3jAlRvVk — Reuters Tech News (@ReutersTech) February 27, 2018

A ‘Black Panther’ moment

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This week we’re bringing you a special edition of CTRL+T, the podcast that examines TechCrunch stories through a cultural lens. You might have heard that Marvel released a film called Black Pant

CTRL+T podcast: From Tide Pods to the blockchain

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CTRL+T podcast: As long as it tastes like chicken, folds my clothes for cheap and doesn’t run me over

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Wait, what? Yeah, this week a company called SuperMeat announced that it raised $3 million to create chicken in a lab. It requires real chicken cells, Petrie dishes probably and some patience. The ben

The identity politics of emoji

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Welcome back to CTRL+T, TechCrunch’s latest weekly podcast in which Megan Rose Dickey and I pick the stories we thought were interesting enough to talk to you about. This week we wondered if cell ph

Welcome to CTRL+T, TechCrunch’s podcast about tech and culture

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Episode 3 of ‘Bubbleproof’ sets out to disrupt venture

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Silicon Valley doings are easy to make fun of, which is what the mockumentary web series Bubbleproof is trying to do. The series follows Michael Fertik and David Cowan in their pursuit of a new ventur
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