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Beijing film festival online screenings to open with "Marriage Story"

The online movie screenings of the Beijing International Film Festival are set to open with Oscar-winning American drama film "Marriage Story" on Friday, according to

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OpenAI’s new experiments in music generation create an uncanny valley Elvis

AI-generated music is a fascinating new field, and deep-pocketed research outfit OpenAI has hit new heights in it, creating recreations of songs in the style of Elvis, 2Pac, and others. The results a

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Andreessen Horowitz just closed its second crypto fund

Two years ago, the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) took the wraps off a dedicated crypto fund from a subset of its limited partners, who’d provided the firm with $300 million in capital commi

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Cloud Foundry renews its focus on developer experience as it looks beyond the enterprise

The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) just went through a major leadership change, with executive director Abby Kearns stepping down after five years (and becoming a CTO at Puppet) and the CFF’s CT

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Early stage investor The Fund expands beyond NYC with new partners in LA and London

The Fund, an early-stage investment firm with a memorably straightforward name, is looking beyond New York City as it starts investing its second fund.Founders Jenny Fielding (who’s also managi

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Xi extends greetings to working people nationwide ahead of Int'l Labor Day

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday replied to a letter from the staff of a large private service company, extending greetings to them and other working people ac

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U.S. Navy extends investigation into virus-stricken aircraft carrier

The U.S. Navy on Wednesday said that it would carry out a broader review into the spread of the coronavirus aboard an aircraft carrier, a move likely to delay a decision on the future of the ship's f

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Beijing embraces mandatory garbage sorting

Starting Friday, Beijing will join a club of Chinese cities to carry out mandatory garbage sorting in new efforts to protect the environment. With the city's newly revised household waste regulation

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Meet EventBot, a new Android malware that steals banking passwords and two-factor codes

Security researchers are sounding the alarm over a newly discovered Android malware that targets banking apps and cryptocurrency wallets.The malware, which researchers at security firm Cybereason re

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Beijing 2022 holds live-stream interviews to recruit about 60 new employees

The Beijing Organising Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will add new blood as it plans to recruit about 60 employees through online interview

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Wuhan lab director rejects COVID-19 conspiracy theory: Reuters

Claims that the novel coronavirus came from China's National Biosafety Laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) were groundless and contradict all available

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Next level: China's Nasdaq-style ChiNext board embraces reform for new bellwethers

ChiNext, China's Nasdaq-style board of growth enterprises, will replace its approval-based initial public offering (IPO) system with a registration-based one to better

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China lab rejects COVID-19 conspiracy, virus origin still unknown

Claims that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan have no basis in fact, the head of the lab told Reuters, adding that there were still no conclusive answer

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Domestic abuse rises amid lockdown in Mexico

Almost 1,000 women were murdered in Mexico in the first three months of this year, according to government data, showing a spike in violence that combined with coronavirus lockdown measures, advocate

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Qoala raises $13.5M to grow its insurance platform in Indonesia

Online lending firms might be beginning to feel the heat of the coronavirus pandemic in Southeast Asia, but investors’ faith in digital insurance startups remains unflinching in the region.Jakarta-bas

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Global Business Daily: UK loans, Uber Medics, 5G connections

"These new bounceback loans carefully target that extraordinary level of state support at those who need it most… and the £50,000 cap balances the risk to the taxpayer with the need to support our sm

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Josh Constine leaves TechCrunch for VC fund SignalFire

How do you leave the place that made you? You figure out what it made you for. TechCrunch made me a part of the startup ecosystem I love. Now it’s time to put that love into action to help a new