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Pancake aims to make customers flip for its virtual home design platform

Pancake brought in a $350,000 seed round to develop its home design platform that leverages furniture you already have in your home with a designer’s fresh eye on your space.Maria Jose Castro and Robe

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Now that summer is forever, here are 6 books on climate change to sharpen your intuitions and models

The climate is finally hitting a climax. Decades of discussions and reports by scientists have yielded pathbreaking works by writers like Elizabeth Kolbert, and today, climate fiction and non-fiction

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U.S. reconstruction effort in Afghanistan: Success or failure?

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), an independent U.S.watchdog created in 2008, has concluded that while two decades of rebuilding efforts in Afghanistan has "yi

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HKSAR LegCo: Reformed, trustworthy and assisting national objectives

A session underway at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, China, January 16, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Grenville Cross is a senior counsel and law professor and wa

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US lab reports it is on the cusp of major nuclear fusion breakthrough

An experiment conducted earlier this month saw a small pellet of hydrogen isotopes heated to produce "more than 10 quadrillion watts of fusion power for 100 trillionths of a second", according to the US National Ignition Facility.

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Here’s what the inevitable friendly neighborhood robot invasion looks like

In early 2021, a Nuro autonomous delivery vehicle pulled to a halt at a four-way stop in its hometown of Mountain View, California to let a user cross. This seemingly humdrum moment quickly looked lik

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American politicization has ruined the WHO's credibility

Editor's note: CGTN's First Voice provides instant commentary on breaking stories. The daily column clarifies emerging issues and better defines the news agenda, offeri

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American politicization has ruined the WHO's credibility

Editor's note: CGTN's First Voice provides instant commentary on breaking stories. The daily column clarifies emerging issues and better defines the news agenda, offeri

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Analysis: Andrew Cuomo's fall serves as a warning for other governors whose flaws are magnified in the Covid spotlight

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's fall from grace -- unthinkable a year ago -- serves as a warning for other governors caught in a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic: The crisis ha

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Discovery of coronavirus cases earlier than Wuhan outbreak

Scientists from various countries have found the existence of the novel coronavirus earlier than the first reported cases in China amid international efforts to piece together the puzzle of the COVID

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Aduhelm approval sparks HHS watchdog review of FDA’s accelerated approval pathway

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General will review the FDA’s accelerated approval pathway, the office announced Wednesday. This sweeping review comes just tw

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Tailor Brands raises $50M, aims to be one-stop shop for small businesses to launch

Tailor Brands, a startup that automates parts of the branding and marketing process for small businesses, announced Thursday it has raised $50 million in Series C funding.GoDaddy led the round as a st

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Cardless raises $40M to help more brands launch custom credit cards

Many consumers use their credit cards to rack up rewards to be used toward travel. But what if you’re a sports fan, and using your credit card could lead to a virtual conversation with a player on you

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Extra Crunch roundup: Inside Sprinklr’s IPO filing, how digital transformation is reshaping markets

Despite a recent history of uneven cash flow and moderate growth, SaaS customer experience management platform Sprinklr has filed to go public.In today’s edition of The Exchange, Alex Wilhelm po

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Ambassador: China eyes deeper friendship with Egypt in new era

Chinese Ambassador to Egypt Liao Liqiang (1st L, Center) and Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed (2nd L, Center) attend a ceremony to mark the arrival of the first batch of Chinese Sinovac vaccin

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Once a buzzword, digital transformation is reshaping markets

The notion of digital transformation evolved from a buzzword joke to a critical and accelerating fact during the COVID-19 pandemic. The changes wrought by a global shift to remote work and schooling a

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Pragmatism and compromise necessary to safeguarding Korean peace

President Moon Jae-in of the Republic of Korea (ROK) waves from the steps of his plane as he leaves for the U.S. at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, south of Seoul, May 19, 2021. /AFP Editor's note