In the Book "Geng Si Bian," written by Lu Can in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), there is a story about curing diseases with licorice.One morning, the imperial physician
OpenAI has already made some big changes to Codex, the AI-powered coding assistant the company announced last month. The system now accepts commands in plain English and outputs live, working code, le
Upscribe founder and CEO Dileepan Siva watched the retail industry make a massive shift to subscription e-commerce for physical products over the past decade, and decided to get in it himself in 2019.
Chinese officials inspect the shipment of the Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines at Harare International Airport on March 16, 2021 in Harare, Zimbabwe. (Photo by Tafadzwa Ufumeli / Getty Images via C
A nurse shows a vial of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare, capital of Zimbabwe, July 8, 2021. (Photo by Shaun Jusa/Xinhua) China's commitment and endeavor
A comparison between Chinese Olympic sprinter Su Bingtian and an event in a 23-year-old sci-fi novel written by famous author Wang Jinkang has gone viral online after the latter seemed to portray Su’s
The annual China NCPA August Chorus Festival is set to take place from August 3 to 21 at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing.The highlight of this year's festival are choruses f
Last summer, in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, Best Buy committed to “do better” when it came to supporting communities of color. As part of the retail giant’s self-proclaimed mission to bet
Walter Isaacson, the biographer who chronicled the lives of Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin and Leonardo da Vinci, is turning his attention to the life and career of Elon Musk. The Tesla CEO announced t
Less than six months after raising $55 million in a Series C round of funding, SMB 401(k) provider Human Interest today announced it has raised $200 million in a round that propels it to unicorn statu
South African insurtech platform Naked has raised $11 million in a Naspers-led round. Existing investors, Yellowwoods and Hollard, also participated in the funding round.This comes barely two weeks af
Amazon has become a lynchpin in the e-commerce machine over the years in part because it’s a site we consumers can visit to buy just about anything we want — sold either by Amazon or its 5
Substack announced last week that it acquired Letter, a platform that encourages written dialogue and debate. The financials of the deal weren’t disclosed, but this acquisition follows Substack&
Founded in 2017, Arizona-based Aira didn’t waste any time proving out its technology. We’ve written about the company’s wireless charging a few times over the years, including the “FreePower” technolo
Shares of Square are up this morning after the company announced its second-quarter earnings and that it will buy Afterpay, an Australian buy now, pay later (BNPL) player in a $29 billion deal. As Tec
Activision Blizzard - the company behind Call Of Duty, World Of Warcraft and other popular games - allegedly fosters a "frat boy" culture, according to the lawsuit, saying that men working there have harassed women with jokes about rape.
A new biography about Britain's former prime minister Winston Churchill, Churchill: Walking with Destiny, was recently published in China by Beijing-based CITIC Press Group, and has achieved 9.1 p
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