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Across China: Expats in Beijing join hands to defend "second hometown" against virus

Holding an electronic thermometer, 56-year-old Syed Zulfiqar Hussain Abbasi from Pakistan, carefully tests the body temperature of each person who enters a compound in

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China Focus: Stay-at-home economy ramps up sales of electronic devices

Sales of electronic devices from handheld tablets to large-screen displays have ramped up as Chinese are advised to work from home and students restricted at home in a

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Hitachi Vantara acquires what’s left of Containership

Hitachi Vantara, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi that focuses on building hardware and software to help companies manage their data, today announced that it has acquired the assets of Container

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All the startups threatened by iOS 14’s new features

Fitness, wallpaper, and lost item-finding startups could have a big new competitor baked into everyone’s iPhones. Leaks of the code from iOS 14 that Apple is expected to reveal in June signal se

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XYZ Reality secures £5M to bring a hologram headset to the construction industry

Augmented Reality technology did not, it turned out, light the touch paper on a booming new industry. What we got instead was a few cute applications on smartphones and devices like Microsoft’s Holol

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Agriculture, cameras, tire changes and drive-throughs: Here are our robotics pitch-off winners

We tried something new at last week’s TC Sessions: Robotics + AI. For the first time ever, we incorporated a pitch-off into the event. With a site as embedded in the startup world, it made sense to fi

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NASA employee tests positive for coronavirus

Physical access to NASA's Ames Research Centre has been restricted - and many staff are being told to work remotely

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Credit Sesame launches a digital banking service focused on improving credit scores

Credit Sesame is getting into digital banking. The credit and loans company, first launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2010, has since grown to 15 million registered users and, in 2016, achieved profita

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Graphite brings unicorn product background to growth marketing

Graphite is part of a new wave of growth marketing consultancies launched by former product leaders at successful startups. With a specialization in SEO, and a client list that has included Masterclas

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The 'London patient': Second person cured of HIV reveals identity

Adam Castillejo, 40, explains why he chose to go public a year after being cured of the virus.

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Commentary: Institutional strength: China's key to beating novel coronavirus

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday visited Wuhan, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak, to inspect the epidemic prevention and control work, as the number of new coronavirus cases has dropped

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Two patients test positive for COVID-19 in Cyprus

Cyprus Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou attends a press conference following the first two confirmed coronavirus cases in Nicosia, Cyprus March 9, 2020. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou Cyprus o

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TFLiving, with $4.8M in seed funding, wants to be the Uber for amenities

TFLiving, looking to bring amenities to residential and commercial spaces, has today announced the close of a $4.8 million seed financing led by Camber Creek. Courtside Ventures, and other strategic i

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Amazon is now selling its cashierless store technology to other retailers

Amazon on Monday announced it will now offer its cashierless store technology, called “Just Walk Out,” to other retailers. The technology uses a combination of cameras, sensors, computer v

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Uptrust raises new money to fight mass incarceration with technology

While most technology companies are building up a surveillance state to serve political powers and private profiteering, Uptrust is using some of those same tools to make it easier to move people out

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Google’s Vint Cerf voices support for common criteria for political ad targeting

Google VP Vint Cerf has voiced support for a single set of standards for Internet platforms to apply around political advertising.Speaking to the UK parliament’s Democracy and Digital Technolo

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Calmer You fills in the gaps in meditation apps for anxiety sufferers

Meditation and mindfulness apps are booming. The top 10 apps pulled in $195 million in 2019, up 52% from the year before. Now, top meditation app Headspace’s former head of research, Nick Begley