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Kuwaiti investment company commits up to $100 million to Startup Battlefield alum Pure Harvest

Pure Harvest Smart Farms, a startup developing technology-enhanced greenhouses for agricultural developments across the Middle East, has received a commitment of up to $100 million from Wafra, Kuwait&

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Parachutes guide China's rocket debris safely to earth

China has been testing high-tech parachutes to control rocket debris and make space launches safer, according to the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).During the March 9 launch of

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California uses 3D printing technology for supplies

03:28 As hospitals across the United States brace for a surge in patients stricken with the coronavirus, several facilities are already experiencing shortages in essential medical supp

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COVID-19 Frontline: China shares treatment experience with U.S.

Editor's Note: The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 12. As of April 4, about 200 countries and regions have confirmed over 1,000,000 cases, with more than 50,0

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Ethiopia's number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rises to 38

ADDIS ABABA, April 4 (Xinhua) -- The Ethiopia Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) on Saturday reported three new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total cases in the east African country to 38.

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Chinese, Irish experts share anti-virus experience by video call

Health officials and experts from China's Hubei Province on Friday held a video conference with their Irish counterparts to share their experience in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, said the

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Oil jump lifts Wall Street as jobless claims data surges

U.S. stocks rallied on Thursday as hopes for a truce in the price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia and a cut in oil output drove gains, taking some sting out of a shocking jump in Americans filing

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ARCH Venture Partners raises $1.46 billion across two funds for biotech investing

Against a backdrop where the life-or-death consequences of biotechnology innovation are becoming increasingly apparent as the world races to develop vaccines and therapies to treat COVID-19, life scie

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'India's strategy' in face of coronavirus pandemic

04:45 With COVID-19 posing a rising threat to India, how does the country react with limited medical rescue capacity and resources? What has been done to stem economic fallout? And aft

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SaaS growth appears to slow as churn concerns rise

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Yesterday we explored what the SaaS world thinks about churn. A cohort of SaaS exe

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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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Euro zone factory activity crashed in March as coronavirus spread

A container ship travels along the Elbe to the container port on March 31, 2020 in Hamburg, Germany. /VCG Euro zone manufacturing activity collapsed last month as breaks in global supply chain

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OrbitFab secures National Science Foundation funding to propel its satellite refueling tech to space

On-orbit satellite refueling technology is closer than ever to a practical reality, which could help immensely with the cost and sustainability of orbital businesses. Startup OrbitFab, a 2019 TechCrun

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VR workplace training startup Strivr lands $30 million Series B

Virtual reality has been two years away from mainstream adoption for the past six years. In that time, huge companies have made big VR bets only to walk away, countless VR startups have faded or flare

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Palo Alto Networks to acquire CloudGenix for $420M

Palo Alto Networks announced today that it has an agreement in place to acquire CloudGenix for $420 million.CloudGenix delivers a software-defined wide area network (SD

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Cuba's Interferon alfa-2b works in treating COVID-19 in China

CGTN Among the drugs used for COVID-19 is a particularly promising Cuban compound called "Interferon alfa-2b," which has been successfully administered to Chinese patients.In Cuba, where preca

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Leading VCs discuss how COVID-19 has impacted the world of digital health

In December 2019, Extra Crunch spoke to a group of investors leading the charge in health tech to discuss where they saw the most opportunity in the space leading into 2020.At the time, respondents hi