Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has promised to strengthen legal safeguards for public health at the annual assembly of the National People's Congress (NPC), the country's top legislature."We will impr
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SCO Secretary-General Vladimir Norov at the SCO Secretariat, Beijing, May 28, 2020. /Photo via SCOLAR Network The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) chief on Thursday stressed on the need
Shortly after its use exploded in the post-office world of COVID-19, Zoom was banned by a variety of private and public actors, including SpaceX and the government of Taiwan. Critics allege its data s
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"We will improve mechanisms for direct reporting and early warning of infectious diseases, and ensure the prompt, open, and transparent release of epidemic information", Premier Li Keqiangpromised
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Kentik, the company once known as CloudHelix, today announced that it has raised a $23.5 million growth funding round led by Vistara Capital Partners, with existing investors August Capital, Third Poi
Max Muncy of the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrates after hitting a solo home run during the sixth inning in the game against the Toronto Blue Jays at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California, Augus
Sony has taken aim at the suddenly enormous market of people who want to self-produce high-quality video with a minimum of setup. Its ZV-1 mutates the versatile RX100 series into a selfie video machin
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American actress Lori Loughlin on Friday accepted potential prison time by pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud in connection with her role in a sprawling college admissions scandal.Lough
06:09 Editor's note: COVID-19 has not stopped China's determination to eradicate poverty in 2020. Ensuring food security has played a crucial part in the poverty alleviation progress.
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00:40 A team of quantum physicists from a UAE-based research lab has developed a rapid laser test to detect COVID-19 patients, which can reduce the testing time to a few seconds with a
Run The World, a year-old startup that’s based in Mountain View, Calif., and has small teams both in China and Taiwan, just nabbed $10.8 million in Series A funding co-led by earlier backer Andreessen
One of the biggest technology takeaways of the last couple of months has been that organizations need confident, wide-ranging digital strategies to stay afloat, and Facebook — in its wider bid t