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Gogoro’s Eeyo 1s e-bike goes on sale in France, its first European market

Gogoro announced today that its Eeyo 1s is now available for sale in France, the smart electric bike’s first European market. Another model, the Eeyo 1, will launch over the next few months in F

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San Francisco startup promotes reusable food packaging

02:50 Three hundred million tons of plastic waste is produced every year.That's almost equivalent to the weight of the entire human population. And with the pandemic, food deliveries,

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SoftBank will bring Bear’s serving robots to Japan, amid restaurant labor shortages

SoftBank has been quite bullish on Bear Robotics this year, beginning with leadership in a $32 million Series A back in January. It’s easy to see why the investment firm believes that this is the bre

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How lethal is COVID-19 compared to cancer, flu and other death causes?

At its worst, COVID-19 killed almost twice as many Europeans per day as cancer – but the latest figures show the fatality rate is back down below accidental death and slightly above pneumonia and dia

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U.S. pork exports to China surge led by Brazil's JBS, China's WH Group

U.S. pork exports to China have surged beyond pre-trade war levels, led by higher shipments from Brazil's JBS SA and China's WH Group Ltd, according to Panjiva, the research unit of SP Global Mark

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U.S. stocks post third week loss, dragged down by tech shares retreat

U.S. stocks fell again on Friday as technology shares extended their retreat, while all three major U.S. indexes posted a third straight week of declines.It was the Nasdaq's first such weekly stre

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Making sense of 3 edtech extension rounds

While venture capitalists are pouring funding into edtech startups, the surge of interest isn’t coming without pressure.Edtech companies are searching for new ways to tap into a booming market.

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Elon Musk says Starship SN8 prototype will have a nosecone and attempt a 60,000-foot return flight

Elon Musk has shared some details about future testing of Starship, the SpaceX launch vehicle currently being developed by the company at its Boca Chica, Texas facility. Recently, SpaceX has completed

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Unicorn layoffs prompt more startups to consider acqui-hiring

Alex Zajaczkowski was just months into her role at Toast, a restaurant point-of-sale software company, when she was let go during COVID-19 layoffs. Toast, last valued at $5 billion, cut 50% of its sta

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Brands that hyper-personalize will win the next decade

When people reach out to customer service, they’re seeking more than a solution to their immediate problem. They want empathy and understanding. What they’re often met with is a queue.Nothing frustrat

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Expert: Beijing can play to its strength as a service free trade zone

00:56 Chinese President Xi Jinping said Friday that Beijing would be supported in building a national integrated demonstration zone for expanding opening-up in the service sector."We w

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A large waistline or excess belly fat increases the risk from prostate cancer

Total body fat percentage or a high BMI appear to have no influence on the risk of dying.

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China's Sichuan heightens flood emergency response

Southwest China's Sichuan Province on Monday upgraded its flood-control response to Level II, the second-highest rung in the four-tier emergency response system for fl

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China to continue to work with Pakistan in fighting COVID-19: spokesperson

China will continue to work with Pakistan to fight COVID-19 and expand cooperation on assistance with medical supplies, experience exchanges, traditional Chinese medicine and vaccine development,

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The all-electric Lucid Air gets an estimated EPA range of 517 miles

Lucid Motors said Tuesday that its upcoming all-electric luxury sedan can travel 517 miles on a single charge — a range that, if validated by the U.S. EPA, blows past every other EV on the road today

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SpaceX takes a big hop forward in Starship development

Max Q is a weekly newsletter all about space. Sign up here to receive it weekly on Sundays in your inbox.It wasn’t the busiest week in space tech news – much like a lot of the industry, it feels

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Moft is back with a clever laptop sleeve that converts into a stand

Moft is a clever company that makes clever products. For a while there, I was sporting their laptop stand. It was a head-turner when I used to unfold it during meetings — back when we used to do those