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Google Cloud launches its Business Application Platform based on Apigee and AppSheet

Unlike some of its competitors, Google Cloud has recently started emphasizing how its large lineup of different services can be combined to solve common business problems. Instead of trying to sell i

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Diffblue launches a free community edition of its automated Java unit testing tool

Diffblue, a spin-out from Oxford University, uses machine learning to help developers automatically create unit tests for their Java code. Since few developers enjoy writing unit tests to ensure that

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Future Science Prize: Researchers in Greater China awarded millions

futureprize.orgThe laureates of Future Science Prize 2020 were announced on Sunday in Beijing.The three prizes are worth one million U.S. dollars each.Some prominent sc

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How one VC firm wound up with no-code startups as part of its investing thesis

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Rea

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Nolan presents mind-boggling 'Tenet' to Chinese audiences

Christopher Nolan and his crew appeared via a midnight video link on Thursday at the premiere of his latest and long-awaited spy sci-fi blockbuster Tenet to help resolve the time-bending puzzle he cre

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DoD reaffirms Microsoft has won JEDI cloud contract, but Amazon legal complaints still pending

We have seen a lot of action this week as the DoD tries to finally determine the final winner of the $10 billion, decade long DoD JEDI cloud contract. Today, the DoD released a statement that after re

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India’s Zomato raises $62 million from Temasek

Indian food delivery startup Zomato has raised $62 million from Temasek, resuming a financing round that it originally expected to close in January this year.Singapore’s state investment arm Te

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Venture capital LPs are the missing link to solving Silicon Valley’s diversity problem

In the last few months, we’ve seen much of Silicon Valley finally start to acknowledge generations of systemic racial inequity and take actionable steps to empower and support underrepresented people

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Klaxoon teases new interactive meeting product for video calls

French startup Klaxoon is currently testing a new product called Board. The company expects to launch Board at some point during the second half of September. Board is a new visual interface that conn

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The startup world needs a ‘Black Minds Matter’ awakening

I was recently part of an open forum about being Black in America, as well as in the startup space.A white founder asked, “What can I do as the founder of a very early-stage startup?” The group gave v

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The 5G version of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S7 starts at $850 and arrives September 18

2020 was going to be the year 5G went truly mainstream. Things obviously haven’t gone according to plan these past several months, but this is undoubtedly the year Samsung went all-in on the next gene

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Owl Ventures’ new pair of funds gives edtech a $585 million boost

Edtech just keeps on booming.Today, Owl Ventures, a San Francisco-based education technology fund whose portfolio includes Byju’s, Labster, Masterclass and Quizlet, announced that it has closed a pair

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In The Spotlight: The departure of Shinzo Abe

Shinzo Abe announced his resignation four days after he became the longest-serving prime minister in a single stint in Japanese history. His departure followed weeks-long speculations about his he

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Elon Musk demonstrates Neuralink’s tech live using pigs with surgically-implanted brain monitoring devices

Elon Musk -founded Neuralink has made headlines over the past many years around it efforts to develop a new kind of interface between the human brain and computing devices. On Friday, the company prov

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Paralytic artist finds hope painting bottles

In the early morning, Sun Zhicheng sits in front of the table in her studio and gets ready to start her work for the day.She twists off the pigment lid with her teeth, dries the interior of a finger-s

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Alexa von Tobel: Eliminating risk is the key to building a startup during an economic downturn

Launching a company, even in the best of times, is one of the most challenging exercises a person can go through. In an economic recession, it can seem downright impossible. But founders across the co

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harbor, an emergency preparedness platform, picks up $5 million in seed funding

Billion dollar natural disasters are on the rise in the United States, according to CNBC. Even as I write, a hurricane is making landfall in Louisiana while wild fires rage in northern California. And