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IOC Executive Board approves Paris 2024 venue proposal

The International Olympic Committee Executive Board on Wednesday approved Paris 2024's proposal of assigning Place de la Concorde for urban sports and Teahupo'o site in Tahiti for surfing events. Th

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Robinhood blames record trade volume & itself for outages

It wasn’t the leap year, a coding blip, or a hack that caused Robinhood’s massive outages yesterday and today that left customers unable to trade stocks. Instead, the co-CEOs write that &#

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Spotlight: "Super Tuesday" primaries on track to shape 2020 Democratic race

A voter fills in his ballot at a polling station during the Virginia primary in Arlington, Virginia, the United States, March 3, 2020. (Xinhua/Liu Jie) The Democratic primaries are drawing nationwi

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Peng Liyuan thanks Sri Lankan students for backing China's anti-coronavirus fight

Children learn traditional Chinese painting during a training class held at the China Cultural Center in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 16, 2018. (Xinhua/Tang Lu) BEIJING, M

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UN Libya envoy Ghassan Salame resigns, cites health reasons

Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya. /United Nations The UN envoy forLibya, Ghassan Salame, has resigned from his positi

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Google pitches free trials of its enterprise G Suite conferencing tools as part of a coronavirus response

Google said in a blog post that it would roll out free access to advanced Hangouts Meet video-conferencing capabilities to all G Suite and G Suite for Education customers globally as the company pitc

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Robinhood will offer “case-by-case” compensation for its outage on the day markets gained $1.1 trillion

Robinhood, the popular trading app with a purported 10-million-strong user base and a $7.6 billion valuation, said it will offer compensation for yesterday’s outage on a case-by-case basis, acco

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Chinese First Lady sent appreciation letter to students in Sri Lanka

Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, sent a letter to the students of Devi Balika Vidyalayain, Sri Lanka, thanking them for their support during the outbr

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Polish team not to play CEV Champions League match in Italy

The Polish team Jastrzebski Wegiel informed on Monday that they won't go to Italy for the quarterfinal match of the men's volleyball CEV Champions League due to concerns over the novel coronavirus e

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Across China: Watchers of ski community keep virus out of 2022 Winter Olympic venue

"Crouching inside a police vehicle on a snow-covered mountain, six police in Chongli, the ski competition venue of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, stayed on duty ove

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Robinhood suffers prolonged outage on the day the Dow enjoyed its single biggest point gain

Robinhood, the startup with a stock trading app valued upwards of at least $7.6 billion, suffered one of its worst outages on one of the busiest trading days of the year.As the Dow Jones Industrial Av

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Member of Iranian Council advising Supreme Leader Khamenei dies from COVID-19

Seyed Mohammad Mir-Mohammadi, a member of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Expediency Discernment Council, died of COVID-19 on Monday, Sputnik reported citing the Tasnim

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Greece blocks asylum applications for one month amid border tensions

Migrants wait on the Turkey-Greece border buffer zone, at Pazarkule, in Edirne district. Ozan Kose/AFP Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has blocked any new asylum applications to the c

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Cyan Banister leaves Founders Fund for Long Journey Ventures

Cyan Banister is leaving Founders Fund to become a member of a new early-stage investment and operations-focused firm called Long Journey Ventures.The move, first reported by Axios, brings Banister ba

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Nvidia will hold GTC developer event online only over coronavirus fears

Nvidia has canceled the in-person portion of its GPU Technology Conference, which would have brought more than 10,000 people to San Jose three weeks from now. The company cited “growing concern

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New AngelList dataset sheds light on the signaling risks of seed-stage investments

One of the big, on-going debates in VC and founder circles concerns whether to accept money from top-tier, later-stage venture capitalists during a seed round. Even as their funds reach monstrous size

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British experts urge gov't to do more to contain COVID-19 spread

As confirmed cases of COVID-19 have risen to 20 in Britain, public health experts are concerned about an inadequate government response to curb the spread of the novel