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New Twitter client Brizzly+ lets you ‘edit’ and auto-delete your tweets

Brizzly, the name associated with a long-gone Twitter client, and later, a goofy project highlighting our addiction to social media, is coming back. And this time, it’s focused on serving the ne

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FM Commissioner's office urges US to stop undermining HK's prosperity under pretext of human rights

The Office of the Commissioner of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Thursday urged the United States to stop undermining Hong Kong's prosperity an

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Unitary, an EF alumnus, raises £1.3M seed for its content moderation AI

Unitary, a startup that’s developing AI to automate content moderation for “harmful content” so that humans don’t have to, has picked up £1.35 million in funding. The company i

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NBA suspends 2019-20 season 'until further notice' over coronavirus

The NBA suspended its 2019-20 season until further notice after a Utah Jazz player tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday. Neither the league nor the team confirmed the positive test, but

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Atletico's granite chin holds in front of Liverpool's Anfield magic

Alvaro Morata of Atletico Madrid celebrates after scoring the team's third goal in the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 second-leg game against Liverpool at Anfield in Liverpool, England, March

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Americans snap to attention on virus as big events canceled

A basketball tournament, with no fans. A St. Patrick’s Day, with no parades. College campuses, with no students. Corporate headquarters, with barren cubicles.The nation

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Assembled raises $3.1M led by Stripe to build ‘the operating system for support teams’

CRM software accounts for one-quarter of all enterprise IT spend. But ironically, while a lot of money is spent on platforms like Salesforce or SAP to manage incoming calls and outgoing marketing and

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Thailand reports six new cases of COVID-19

Thailand's Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday reported six new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total in the country to 59, with 34 cases having fully recovered, 24

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SpotOn taps $50M to take on Square and more in payments and financial services for SMBs

Small and medium enterprises make up the vast majority of businesses globally, and today a startup building merchant services to help them operate is announcing a growth round to address that opportun

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Plane crash kills 5 people in remote northern Australia

Five people have died after their light aircraft crashed into sand dunes, in the Australian State of Queensland's Cape York Peninsula on Wednesday. According to police the twin-engine Cessna 404 Tita

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Healthy lifestyle can give skin 'golden glow', study suggests

Becoming fitter, avoiding stress and sleeping longer as part of a balanced and healthy lifestyle may give skin an improved tone.

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Leaving babies to 'cry it out' will not impact child development - study

The study by the University of Warwick, found that there were no adverse impacts of leaving infants to cry by themselves.

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Kenyan expert hails China's bold interventions to curb spread of COVID-19

China's robust interventions that have contributed to the reduction of COVID-19 cases in the country should be emulated across the globe, a Kenyan infectious disease expert said on Tuesday. Rodney A

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New York State to send National Guard to containment area in COVID-19 hotspot

Tourists with masks are pictured at Times Square in New York City, the United States, March 7, 2020. (Xinhua/Li Muzi) National Guard troops will be sent to help clean surfaces and deliver food in the

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Italy under quarantine must learn from China

Teatro alla Scala opera house in Milan, Italy, February 28, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Alex Chan is a doctoral researcher in diplomacy at Peking University. He graduated in China studies fro

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Mike Hudack, former CTO of Deliveroo and now an ex-VC, has joined Monzo as Chief Product Officer

Mike Hudack, the former CTO of Deliveroo and most recently a founding partner at London venture capital firm Blossom Capital, has quietly joined joined Monzo as the challenger bank’s new Chief P

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‘Exorcist’ actor Max von Sydow dies at age 90

Max von Sydow, the self-described “shy boy”-turned-actor known to art-house audiences through his work with Swedish director Ingmar Bergman and later to moviegoers ever