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California’s self-driving car reports are public. Here’s what they don’t mean.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles released its annual cache of autonomous vehicle testing and disengagements data that, depending how one chooses to interpret the data, shows either stunning

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Gates Foundation CEO says China's efforts against coronavirus help save lives around the world

China's efforts to identify potential treatments and vaccines for COVID-19 have contributed to a global response to the virus in ways that could save lives around the world, said Mark Suzman, CEO of

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APD | COVID-19 may have little impact on world economy

By APD writer HussainWorld Health Organization (WHO) mission director Bruce Aylward, who headed up an international expert mission to China, told reporters in Geneva th

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Across China: Tibetan nurse's New Year wish

Qoikyi Dorlma, 30, celebrated a special Tibetan New Year, which fell on Feb. 24, in Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak. As a nurse from Haidong cit

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My battle with coronavirus: A single male nurse's "love story"

Sun Dianpeng, 25, wrote "Happy Valentine's Day" in Chinese on the back of his protective suit on Feb. 14. "There are no single girls in the wards. It won't work," one

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Vice President Mike Pence will lead the US response to the COVID-19 outbreak

In an early-evening press conference, President Donald Trump tapped Vice President Mike Pence to lead the U.S. response to the COVID-19 outbreak that has spread through Europe, Asia and Latin America

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Over 750,000 South Koreans Sign Petition to Impeach President Over Coronavirus Outbreak

More than 750,000 South Korean citizens have signed a petition calling for the impeachment of President Moon Jae-in over his handling of the coronavirus outbreak.The pe

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Outdoor Voices founder Tyler Haney says adios altogether to the company amid layoffs

Last week, the Business of Fashion broke the news that cofounder and CEO Tyler Haney was stepping down from her role as CEO of the activewear label, citing slowing growth for the company and reporting

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As Block exits, Salesforce forecasts it will surpass $20B in revenue in FY2021

When Keith Block joined Salesforce from Oracle in 2013, the CRM giant was already a successful SaaS vendor on a billion dollar quarterly revenue cadence. When the co-CEO announced he was stepping do

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China Jan. smartphone shipments drop 38.9%, 5G smartphones stand out

Shipments of smartphones in China dropped 38.9 percent in January year-on-year to 20.81 million units due to the COVID-19, official data showed Wednesday.Domestic brands took the lion's share with

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Coronavirus fears pull U.S. chip index into a correction

Wall Street's main semiconductor benchmark tumbled into correction territory on Tuesday in its deepest four-day rout since the financial crisis, as the coronavirus spread further around the world

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Reporter's diary: UAE suspends all flights to and from Iran

Perhaps it was simply the act of putting the orange cones around the plane's wing as the seat belt signs went off, or the way the ground-crew member dropped them down lazily onto the rain-soaked runw

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UN chief mourns death of Egypt's Mubarak

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday wrote to offer condolences to the government of Egypt and to the family of former President Hosni Mubarak, following t

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Indian capital chief minister demands curfew, army deployment to contain violence

New Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Wednesday that curfew should be imposed and army called in to contain violence in the Indian capital that has claimed

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Utah kids sent China's Xi Jinping letters, and he wrote back

04:17 Fourth graders in a Chinese-language immersion program in Utah recently got a letter from a very important person.Last month, some students at Cascade Elementary School in Orem,

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Salesforce grabs Vlocity for $1.33B, a startup with $1B valuation

It’s been a big news day for Salesforce . It announced that Co-CEO Keith Block would be stepping down, and that it had acquired Vlocity for $1.33 billion in an all-cash deal.It’s no coinci

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HP offers its investors billions in shareholder returns to avoid a Xerox tie-up

To ward off a hostile takeover bid by Xerox, which is a much smaller company, HP (not to be confused with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a separate public company) is promising its investors billions and