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Adobe tests an AI recommendation tool for headlines and images

Team members at Adobe have built a new way to use artificial intelligence to automatically personalize a blog for different visitors.This tool was built as part of the Adobe Sneaks program, where empl

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China to honor Korean War veterans with medals

China will bestow memorial medals upon Chinese People's Volunteer Army veterans in the 1950-53 Korean War to mark the 70th anniversary of their participation. The meda

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Original Content podcast: ‘The Politician’ returns for an entertaining but pointless Season 2

When “The Politician” debuted on Netflix last year, it divided the hosts of the Original Content podcast. After season two, we were more united: The show is not good.To be clear, “Th

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U.S. firms change words to address racial justice

(Scroll left or right on the pictures to see more)The Black Live Matters protests across the U.S. are calling for efforts to change our language using standards.The Associated Press

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China Focus: Public, officials denounce U.S. signing of bill on Xinjiang

The public and officials of various ethnicities in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have denounced and expressed firm opposition to the signing of th

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Who’s writing first checks into startups?

Over the past two decades, the venture capital industry has exploded beyond anyone’s wildest imaginations.What began as a sleepy industry in Boston and Menlo Park has now expanded to dozens of cities

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Colin Kaepernick joins Medium board of directors and inks partnership publishing deal

The online publishing platform Medium said that it has added former San Francisco 49ers quarterback and civil rights advocate Colin Kaepernick to its board of directors.The company also said it had in

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Commentary: Solidarity in fighting coronavirus brings China, Africa closer

In face of the deadly coronavirus that has been raging across the world for months, China and Africa have been supporting and helping each other all the time as real go

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Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Impact entertainment “accelerator” inks deal with Netflix

Imagine Impact, the entertainment accelerator launched by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard to try and bring Silicon Valley style mentorship and project development techniques to Hollywood, has inked a deve

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Daily Crunch: WhatsApp launches payments

WhatsApp is adding support for in-app payments, Apple is upgrading the MacBook Pro and Mac Pro desktop and we argue about the future of startup hubs.Here’s your Daily Crunch for June 15, 2020.1

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China to strengthen online literature regulation

China's National Press and Publication Administration has released a document, requiring strengthened regulation of online literature publishing. Online literature pub

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3 perspectives on the future of SF and NYC as startup hubs

It has been an incredibly tough period for everyone the past few months as the global COVID-19 pandemic has wiped out whole industries from the economic map.While tech has been among the most resilien

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Byta, the private music sharing service for pre-releases and more, raises seed round

Byta, the music sharing service for pre-releases and other use-cases where there is a need to share sound files privately, has picked up around $1.4 million in seed funding.The round was led by the Ca

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APD | Secretary Locsin and Filipino-Chinese leaders hail Philippines-China’s 45 years of diplomatic ties

By APD writer Melo M. AcuñaPhilippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin, Jr said he had the privilege to see the People’s Republic of China on instructions of then Pr

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Hollywood starts engine with concerns in face of green light for reproduction

Photo taken on March 20, 2020 shows the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California, the United States.(Photo by Qian Weizhong/Xinhua) "We've seen many times in the past how people want and need

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BBC releases first beta of its Beeb voice assistant to UK Windows Insider members

Back in August 2019, the BBC made some waves with the news that it was developing a voice assistant called Beeb, an English language “Alexa” of its own that could interact with and control

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Interview: More global cooperation needed in post-pandemic world order, says economics commentator

The COVID-19 pandemic may lead to a new world order, in which more global efforts need to be strengthened to prevent more catastrophes, a commentator with news daily the Financial Times has said.