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Fall semester begins with sweeping anti-virus measures

Posting one-meter distance signs, putting up infrared thermometers, and setting up temporary observation zones, schools in China are ramping up anti-virus measures while welcoming the fall semester st

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BreezoMeter, which powers air quality in Apple’s Weather app, launches Wildfire Tracker

BreezoMeter has been on a mission to make environmental health hazards accessible to as many people as possible. Through its air quality index (AQI) calculations, the Israel-based company can now iden

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A16Z leads investment in Firemaps, a marketplace for home hardening against wildfires

Wildfires are burning in countries all around the world. California is dealing with some of the worst wildfires in its history (a superlative that I use essentially every year now) with the Caldor fir

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War and want: How conflict drives poverty

03:25 According to the World Bank, living below the extreme poverty line means surviving on less than $1.90 a day. But poverty means much more than a lack of income and resources. It in

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Greece erects 40-km border fence to deter potential Afghan migrants

The fence on the border area between Greece and Turkey in Poros Village, Evros region, Greece, June 18, 2021. /Getty Greece said on Friday it had completed a 40-kilometer fence on its border w

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Ultrahuman raises $17.5M, touting a wearable blood glucose tracker

Fitness platform Ultrahuman has officially announced a $17.5 million Series B fund raise, with investment coming from early stage fund Alpha Wave Incubation, Steadview Capital, Nexus Venture Partners,

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Why regulators love Nuro’s self-driving delivery vehicles

Nuro’s delivery autonomous vehicles (AVs) don’t have a human driver on board. The company’s founders Dave Ferguson (president) and Jiajun Zhu’s (CEO) vision of a driverless del

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My big jump: Sukhinder Singh Cassidy’s CEO journey

After listening to others pitch me a few different job opportunities while still at Google in 2008, it became clear to me that I would make a better decision if I could fully explore the larger landsc

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Discriminatory U.S. visa policy targets Chinese students

/VCG Editor's note: Haider Rifaat is a features writer for OK! Pakistan, the international edition of OK! Magazine. He is also a writer for Arabian Moda and Flanelle ma

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Shanghai's Pudong aims to become a center of global resources

While talking about free trade zones, you may think of industries like finance and technology. But hidden in Shanghai free trade zone in Pudong is a storage space set u

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Ford F-150 hybrid: The 2021 rumble before the Lightning EV strikes

Full-size pickup trucks are the meat of the U.S. automotive business; it’s a red-hot category with the Ford F-150 leading the pack in sales and the Chevrolet Silverado and Ram pickups fast follo

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Changsha Malanshan V Zone helps foster innovation

05:25 While most industrial zones around China focus on manufacturing, the city of Changsha has taken a different path by building a video cultural and creative industr

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Southern Europe ablaze as wildfires sweep across continent

People stand back and look at a forest fire in the town of Fabrezan, France. /Idriss Bigou-Gilles/AFP Europe's fire services are facing another extremely challenging summer.A dry winter, stron

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Noetic Cyber emerges from stealth with $15M led by Energy Impact Partners

Noetic Cyber, a cloud-based continuous cyber asset management and controls platform, has launched from stealth with a Series A funding round of $15 million led by Energy Impact Partners.The round was

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China's effort to conserve Asian elephants pays off

15:26 The unusual march of a herd of wild Asian elephants, deviating from their traditional migration route in southwest China's Yunnan Province, has captured unprecede

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How does enclave economy model benefit villages in Zhejiang?

Picturesque landscapes aren't the attraction for investment in the six villages of Dayun Town, part of Zhejiang's Jiashan County.Financed by a village collective and op

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Tianjin trades over 8.5m tonnes of carbon emissions allowances in H1

A coal-burning power plant. /CFP North China's Tianjin Municipality has seen transactions for a total of 8.56 million tonnes of carbon emissions allowances in the first