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NCPA to present online concerts for housebound audience

From the quartet of Beethoven to the serenade of Mozart, a series of classical music performances will be staged online by China's National Center for the Performing Ar

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Is this the right time to withhold funding from WHO?

Editor's Note:Cheng Dawei is a professor at the School of Economics at China's Renmin University. The article reflects the author's opinion, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.When a country en

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Liverpool Biennial 2020 postponed until next year due to COVID-19

The Liverpool Biennial 2020 is postponed until next year. /Liverpool Biennial The Liverpool Biennial, Britain's largest festival of contemporary visual art, is the latest victim of the COVID-1

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'Don't forget us!' Europe's museums respond to virus

European museums closed because of coronavirus have been quick to reach out to audiences in imaginative ways during an almost continent-wide lockdown. /VCG Online guided tours, podcasts and wo

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Feature: Italy's month-long coronavirus lockdown full of new precedents,signs of resilience

A month into its national coronavirus lockdown, Italy has seen five decrees from Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, 80 new ordinances from civil protection figures, and changes in the way Italians live

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$75M weed giant Caliva ditches Eaze, launches delivery

It’s a brutal time for marijuana startups. I’m hearing some are raising at 1/5th of their 2019 valuation amidst rampant competition, tall taxes, and slow legalization. The struggles for ma

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Report: Apple’s iOS 14 contains code that would let you sample apps before download

Apple has under development a feature that would allow iOS users to interact with a third-party app, even if the app wasn’t yet installed on your device, according to a report from 9to5Mac. The

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Android gets a built-in Braille keyboard

Android has received a wealth of accessibility features over the last couple years, but one that has been left to third party developers is a way for blind users to type using braille. That changes to

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Microsoft says video calls in Teams grew 1,000% in March

With the COVID-19 pandemic making work from home the default for those companies that are able to do so, it’s no surprise that we are seeing a massive rise in the usage of video chat tools like

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MIT develops privacy-preserving COVID-19 contact tracing inspired by Apple’s ‘Find My’ feature

One of the efforts that’s been proposed to contain the spread of COVID-19 is a contact trace and track program, that would allow health officials to keep better tabs on individuals who have been

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ClimateView raises $2.5 million for its toolkit to visualize climate mitigation plans

ClimateView, a Swedish software development company working on monitoring and visualization tools for greenhouse gas emissions, said it has raised $2.5 million in its latest round of financing.While t

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Russia mulls inviting students, unemployed, convicts to help with harvest

A harvester works at a soya farm near Russia's Birobidzhan on Oct. 19, 2018. (Xinhua/Zhang Ruoxuan) Russia needs an additional 23,000 people to collect this year's crops, as it faces a shortage of fo

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Most stay-at-home Chinese learn new skills amid outbreak: survey

Over 94 percent of 2,003 respondents have learned a new skill as a lengthy stay at home owing to the coronavirus outbreak granted them more free time, according to a new survey conducted by China

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Calls for 'China repatriations' based on a flawed concept of justice

People take a rest at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., the United States, April 8, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note:Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and

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COVID-19: Seychelles declares a 21-day lockdown

Seychelles President Danny Faure poses for a photo with the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative for Seychelles Dr Teniin Gakuruh after their meeting on COVID-19 , 10 March, 2020. /Phot

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France is officially working on ‘Stop Covid’ contact-tracing app

France’s health minister Olivier Véran and digital minister Cédric O have officially announced that the French government is working on a smartphone app to slow the spread of coronavirus. The governme

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Instacart adds new features aimed at opening more delivery windows

Instacart today is rolling out new ordering options aimed at unlocking more delivery windows amid a surge of demand for its online grocery service due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The company is introduc