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Writer pens a $5M seed round for its AI style guide that flags bias and tone

Anyone who writes online or in a word processor has likely gotten used to the inevitable squiggly line denoting a misspelled word or clumsy phrase. But what if you use a word that’s loaded, a ph

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List names top Chinese online literature for 2019

The list of Top Chinese Online Literary Works in 2019 was released yesterday in Shenzhen. After three rounds of assessments and online voting by 1.79 million readers, 19 works and projects made the li

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Collective, a back office platform that caters to ‘businesses of one,’ just landed a hefty seed round

Americans and other global citizens are increasingly self-employed, thanks to great software, the need for flexibility, and because skilled services especially can pay fairly well, among other reasons

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Grammarly launches new features to improve your business writing

Grammarly, the popular spelling and grammar checker, is launching a few new features for its paying users today that go beyond some of its traditional tools to help its users make their overall writin

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China to make sci-fi films for the new era

One of the highlights of the China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival 2020 was the science fiction forum on Sept. 26. The participants agreed that China needs to create sci-fi works for

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Conan O’Brien on how to embrace an ever-changing media landscape

“Like most of the best things in my life,” Conan O’Brien explains, with a wry smile, “the success of the podcast was a complete surprise.” The answer is a typically self-effacing one from the comedian

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Ron Howard and Brian Grazer say that their accelerator can help diversify Hollywood

Impact Creative Systems (formerly Imagine Impact) is bringing a startup accelerator-style approach to finding fresh creative talent, and it announced this morning that, with funding from venture capit

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Impact, a YC-style accelerator for the entertainment industry, spins out from Imagine Entertainment with backing from Benchmark

Hollywood has been better known for making films and TV shows about the tech industry than it has been for being a part of it, but today a new enterprise is launching, backed by a major Silicon Valley

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The Black List’s Franklin Leonard on why picking winners doesn’t mean making losers

Tech and Hollywood don’t cross-pollinate that often, but when it comes to Franklin Leonard’s way of looking at things, maybe they should.Leonard is best known as the creator of the Black L

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The words of women

A new anthology compiles the stories of China's female writers to amplify their voices, Yang Yang reports. [Photo provided to China Daily] When Zhang Li was around 6 years old in the 1970s, she

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London VCs launch joint initiative to expand funding opportunities for underrepresented founders

A group of UK-based VCs have come together to create a new virtual pitching event designed to address the problems with the current startup ecosystem which can lead to inequalities and ‘warm intros’ m

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Original Content podcast: ‘Teenage Bounty Hunters’ is more interested in relationships than bounty hunting

“Teenage Bounty Hunters” has one of the most memorable — if not entirely appealing — titles of any new show on Netflix .As we explain on the latest episode of the Original Content podcast,

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Dorian raises $3.1M for its no-code, interactive storytelling platform

With Dorian, co-founder and CEO Julia Palatovska said she’s hoping to empower fiction writers and other storytellers to create their own games.The startup is announcing that it has raised $3.15

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Fishy business - what does it mean when fish escape a farm?

This week an escape of nearly 50,000 salmon from an off-shore Scottish fish farm grabbed the attention of headline writers - but was it as rare an event as it appeared to be?CGTN Europe spoke to the

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Re-inventing French drama for the post-lockdown stage

02:01 The creative sector in France has been especially hard-hit by the effects of the pandemic, with live theater, music, dance and circus performances all canceled.As theaters remain

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Novel approaches to annual book fair

The COVID-19 pandemic might have significantly impacted the operations of the recently concluded 2020 Shanghai Book Fair, but organizers and visitors alike showed no lack of enthusiasm for the annual

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A requiem for The Creamery

Editor’s note: Ryan Lawler is a writer and editor based in Philadelphia. After working as a journalist for publications like TechCrunch and Gigaom, he currently leads content strategy for Samsun