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Daily Crunch: Waymo raises $2.5B

Alphabet’s self-driving car company raises its first outside investment, Robinhood goes down and Pixel phones get new gesture controls. Here’s your Daily Crunch for March 3, 2020.1. Waymo

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Applications are open for the latest Disney accelerator program

The Walt Disney Company is now accepting applications for its 2020 Disney Accelerator, the company said today.The accelerator accepts ten growth-stage startups for a three-month mentorship program tha

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Leap Finance raises $5.5M to democratize financing for foreign-bound Indian students

Tens of thousands of Indians move to the United States to pursue higher education each year. But like many others who have arrived from a foreign land, they can’t secure education loans or personal lo

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German performance artist Ulay dies at 76

The performance artist Frank Uwe Laysiepen, also known as 'Ulay,' died Monday morning in Ljubljana, Slovenia, aged 76. He had been suffering from lymphatic cancer.Ulay

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Sensel raises a $28M Series A to bring pressure sensing tech to more mobile devices

I was honestly a surprised to find out from Sensel that the company is only just recently raising its Series A. The Sunnyvale-based hardware startup has been around since 2013, bringing its first prod

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Datastax acquires The Last Pickle

Data management company Datastax, one of the largest contributors to the Apache Cassandra project, today announced that it has acquired The Last Pickle (and no, I don’t know what’s up wit

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Honeywell says it will soon launch the world’s most powerful quantum computer

“The best-kept secret in quantum computing.” That’s what Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) CEO Ilyas Khan called Honeywell‘s efforts in building the world’s most powerfu

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Major ports, shipping routes resume strong business in northeast China

03:40 Port performance is usually seen as the indicator of economic conditions. Although the transport industry has been seriously affected by the coronavirus outbreak, the overall res

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Putin to meet Erdogan in Moscow on Thursday: Kremlin

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on the current situation in Idlib, saying that it would become clear after the meeting between Putin and Erdogan.

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Former GE chairman and CEO Jack Welch dies at 84

File photo shows Jack Welch speaking at a GMC forum in Guangzhou, China, on Sept. 13, 2011. (Photo by Yuan Hongwei/Xinhua) Jack Welch, who worked as chairman and CEO of GE from 1981 to 2001, lifted

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Cyan Banister leaves Founders Fund for Long Journey Ventures

Cyan Banister is leaving Founders Fund to become a member of a new early-stage investment and operations-focused firm called Long Journey Ventures.The move, first reported by Axios, brings Banister ba

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FX launches on Hulu, offering over 40 shows and originals

FX content is coming to Hulu. The company announced today the launch of a new FX hub on the streaming service that includes over 40 FX Networks TV shows, new original linear series, and other FX origi

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China's non-drug measures against COVID-19 highly effective: expert

Liang Wannian (L), head of the Chinese expert panel on outbreak response and disposal, in an exclusive interview with CCTV on Sunday. /CCTV China's non-pharmaceutical interventions, or social

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Hong Kong reports new confirmed case of COVID-19, 96 in total

Hong Kong on Sunday reported one confirmed case of COVID-19, which was related to a Buddhist worship hall that had been suspected of multiple infections. The new confi

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Interview: China calls for fair election of WIPO director general

China has called for creating a fair environment for all the candidates of the upcoming election of the director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). China has nominated Wa

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Collaborative rare-disease 'hackathon' paves way to cure common ills

Medical researchers are hoping to find a cure to help Michael Pirovolakis, who has an extremely rare degenerative condition. Pirovolakis family Conquering disease costs money, and the fight ag

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3M ramps up production to support China's coronavirus relief efforts

01:04 3M, the global personal protective equipment (PPE) producer, has ramped up respirator production to support China's coronavirus relief efforts. The company will continue its supp