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'Detective Chinatown 3' assembles cast of Asian megastars

Director Chen Sicheng and his cast in "Detective Chinatown 3" pose for a new year greeting photo on stage at an unusual banquet press conference held in Beijing, Jan. 14, 2020. [Photo courtesy of

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Trump's former national security adviser Flynn seeks to drop guilty plea

Michael Flynn, U.S. President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, is asking a federal court to let him withdraw his guilty plea on charges of lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigatio

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"Pirate" hijacking China-Czech friendship

Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic. Editor's note: David Lee is a Beijing-based consultant and author who focuses on energy, health, international politics and international devel

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Questions of racism linger as Harry, Meghan step back

Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, leave after visiting Canada House in London, after their recent stay in Canada, January 7, 2020. American actress Meghan Markle married P

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Democrats add last-minute evidence to Trump impeachment case before Senate trial

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Tuesday they would include new evidence when they send formal impeachment charges against President Donald Trump

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GaN chargers are still worth getting excited about

Listen. Chargers aren’t sexy. You know it. I know. Charger companies know it, regardless of what they tell you in their pitch deck. Honestly, you’d be hard-pressed to think of too many electronic acce

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Is Instacart’s wider rollout of Pickup an attempt to sidestep labor laws?

Earlier today, Instacart more widely rolled out its Pickup product, which enables customers to retrieve groceries directly from stores. The move comes just a day after Instacart shoppers unveiled thei

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Google acquires AppSheet to bring no-code development to Google Cloud

Google announced today that it is buying AppSheet, an 8 year-old no-code mobile application building platform. The company had raised over $17 million on a $60 million valuation, according to PitchBoo

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Reading Ted Chiang’s ‘The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate’

What would we do if we could visit our own pasts or futures? Are we more likely to change our timelines, or will our timelines actually project themselves back on to us more forcefully?This is the fir

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Equinix is acquiring bare metal cloud provider Packet

Equinix announced today that is acquiring bare metal cloud provider Packet. The New York City startup that had raised over $36 million on a $100 million valuation, according to Pitchbook data.Equinix

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Google parent company Alphabet expected to reach $1tn value soon

Another tech behemoth is poised to join the club of Silicon Valley giants valued at more than $1tn. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, reached a value of $993bn on Mond

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U.S. Senator Cory Booker quits presidential race

U.S. Senator Cory Booker dropped out of the 2020 presidential race on Monday, acknowledging that he has failed to build the support needed to win the Democratic nomination. "It's with a full heart t

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Trump: Timing of threat from Soleimani 'doesn't really matter'

President Donald Trump fueled controversy on Monday over his decision to kill Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani by saying “it doesn’t really matter” whether Soleimani

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Great Britain Summons Iran's Ambassador Over Tehran's Envoy Arrest

Earlier, an Iranian government spokesman said that the British ambassador's actions were "completely" unacceptable after media reported that the envoy was arrested at a

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Tehran Dismisses Trump's 'Support' Tweet, Says Iranians Will Remember He Killed Soleimani

It comes after US President Trump published a tweet of support for Iranian protesters in the Persian language. On Sunday, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said tha

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Atrium lays off lawyers, explains pivot to legal tech

$75 million-funded legal services startup Atrium doesn’t want to be the next company to implode as the tech industry tightens its belt and businesses chase margins instead of growth via unsustai

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Visa is acquiring Plaid for $5.3 billion, 2x its final private valuation

Visa announced today that it is buying financial services API startup Plaid for $5.3 billion. Plaid develops financial services APIs. It is akin to what Stripe does for payments, but instead of facili