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Neo4j 4.0 graph database platform brings unlimited scaling

Neo4j,the premiere graph database development platform, announced the release of version 4.0 today, which features unlimited scaling among other updates.Graph databases are growing increasingly import

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Emerge raises $20M to take its digital freight marketplace for truckers up a gear

Trucking is currently the most popular mode of transporting freight in the US, accounting for around $12.5 billion of the $17 billion freight market, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statisti

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Nomagic, a startup out of Poland, picks up $8.6M for its pick-and-place warehouse robots

Factories and warehouses have been two of the biggest markets for robots in the last several years, with machines taking on mundane, if limited, processes to speed up work and free up humans to do oth

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In defense of cosmopolitanism

Editor's Note: Andres Velascoisa former presidential candidate and finance minister of Chile, dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The artic

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MIT’s RFocus technology could turn your walls into antennas

RFocus asks a simple question: What if instead of just antennas and transmitters on access points and mobile devices, we put the things just about everywhere? You know, just totally slather the walls

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Trump bashes Democratic rivals during pre-Super Bowl show

President Donald Trump used a Super Bowl pregame interview to rail against Democrats, accusing them of hatred and offering schoolyard insults about his potential 2020 r

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War in Syria turns city to ghost town

Destruction is seen in Maarat al-Numan, the second-largest city in Idlib Province in northwestern Syria, on Jan. 30, 2020. (Xinhua/Maher) Marking an important victory against the rebel groups, the Syr

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Elon Musk just dropped an EDM track on SoundCloud

Friday typically brings a bunch of new music releases, but this Friday’s new drops includes a new track from an unlikely source – Elon Musk . The SpaceX and Tesla CEO said earlier this week he

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Italian town where Kobe Bryant grew up mourns the loss of NBA legend

Italy has been deeply saddened by the passing of basketball star Kobe Bryant, who spent many years as a child in the north of the country.He moved to Italy at six years old when his father Joe played

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GOP lacks votes to block Bolton, other impeachment witnesses

President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is shifting to questions from senators, a pivotal juncture as Republicans lack the votes to block witnesses and face a potent

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Lyft confirms 90 layoffs as it targets profitability

Shares of popular American ride-hailing giant Lyft are off 3% today in regular trading after the New York Times reported that the company would cut some staff. TechCrunch confirmed with the company t

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TikTok has a ketamine problem

The video-sharing social media platform has banned some drug hashtags, but content promoting #ket has received millions of views.

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HeyMama, a premium social network for working moms, raises $2 million

As we spend more and more time on our phones, working busier and busier jobs, and leading more and more overwhelming lives, personal connection with others is harder and harder to come by. HeyMama wan

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Magnitude 7.7 earthquake in the Caribbean Sea, northwest of Jamaica

A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake has struck south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).It was centered 117 kilometers (73 miles) northwest of Lucea,

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Chicago’s ActiveCampaign raises $100M for an all-in-one marketing and sales automation platform

Marketing and sales automation — tools that leverage the advances and data of our digital age to better identify and then interact with customers — is big business, with the whole market e

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NPR reporter barred from Pompeo trip after interview dispute

The U.S. State Department removed a National Public Radio reporter from the press pool for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's upcoming foreign trip, days after Pompeo angrily responded to another NPR j

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Practice Fusion, backed by top VCs before selling in 2018, pushed doctors to prescribe opioids in kickback scheme

Practice Fusion, a medical records startup that attracted more than $150 million from VCs, including at Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, and Artis Ventures, has received no shortage of negative press c