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Livongo stock jumps over 10 percent on revised earnings guidance, pointing to digital health boom

Livongo Health’s stock jumped over ten percent on a day that saw most exchanges tumble after a day of crazy volatility.The digital diagnostics and therapeutics company is benefiting from booming

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Spot & Tango, with $4.2 million in seed funding, launches UnKibble

Spot Tango, the D2C pet food brand, has today announced the launch of a new line of pet food called UnKibble. Alongside the announcement of the launch, the company has also closed on a $4.2 million se

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Oral antiviral shows promising early results against COVID-19, says new study

Early testing in cultured human lung and airway cells suggests that a broad-spectrum oral antiviral drug could aid the fight against COVID-19, according to a new study

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DeepMind’s Agent57 AI agent can best human players across a suite of 57 Atari games

Development of artificial intelligence agents tends to frequently be measured by their performance in games, but there’s a good reason for that: Games tend to offer a wide proficiency curve, in

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With team training facilities closed, NBA players get creative at home

As part of the NBA's latest measures against the COVID-19 pandemic, the league shut down all team training facilities to staff and players starting Friday

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With team training facilities closed, NBA players get creative at home

As part of the NBA's latest measures against the COVID-19 pandemic, the league shut down all team training facilities to staff and players starting Friday

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Speedinvest’s new €190 million seed-stage fund is ‘investing on conviction’

Speedinvest, a seed-stage VC headquartered in Vienna with offices in London, Berlin, Munich and San Francisco, recently disclosed a new €190 million fund that brings the firm’s total assets under mana

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Paul McKenna: How a meeting with a hypnotist changed my life

07:14 One man who has made a living out of teaching people how to use their minds in a positive way, is Britain's best-selling non-fiction author Paul McKenna.A hypnotist, behavioral t

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Four Chinese boxers book berth for 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Four Chinese boxers were successful in securing spots for the summer Olympics after winning their respective bouts at the Asia/Oceania Qualifiers in Jordan's capital Amman on Sunday.One of the fir

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First dwarf planet in solar system named after Chinese mythical figure

The largest unnamed planet in the solar system has recently been named after the Chinese water god Gonggong by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). This is the first and only dwarf planet in t

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AIIB donates 1 million dollars to help China fight COVID-19

Overseas shipments of medical supplies donated by AIIB are being delivered to Wuhan and Beijing in batches, February 24, 2020. /AIIB The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is contribu

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AIIB donates 1 mln USD worth of medical supplies to help China contain epidemic

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) said Monday that it is contributing 1 million U.S. dollars worth of medical supplies to help China's battle against the novel coronavirus epidemic. Th

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U.S. stocks fall as tech shares slide

VCG U.S. stocks finished Thursday's session lower as major tech shares pulled back, weighing on the market.The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 128.05 points, or 0.44 percent, to 29,219.9

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Sea-rail freight train service resumes operation in central China

A sea-rail freight train carrying 35 containers left the Putian Station of Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan Province Wednesday, heading for east China's Qingdao Port. This is the first se

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Noom competitor OurPath rebrands as Second Nature, raises $10M Series A

Back in 2018 OurPath emerged as a startup in the UK tackling the problem of diabetes. The company helped customers tackle the disease, and raised a $3m round of funding by combining advice from health

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Solar powered plane which could be airborne for a year completes first flight

The PHASA-35 has been designed and launched within two years and could detect forest fires and be used for maritime surveillance.

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Chinese charter flight to bring medical supplies from Indonesia

Xiamen Airlines has dispatched a charter flight from eastern China's Fuzhou to Indonesia's Jakarta to bring home medical supplies for the novel coronavirus control. Ac