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China strengthens legal safeguards for public health

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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Tech talent is flocking to smaller cities, but investors aren’t

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week’s show took a break from regularly scheduled programmi

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SCO taps into Alibaba for a digital future amid COVID-19 pandemic

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

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The secret to trustworthy data strategy

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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Join GGV’s Hans Tung and Jeff Richards for a live Q&A: June 4 at 3:30 pm EDT/12:30 pm PDT

What does a global mindset look like in a world where most of us no longer travel? And what does it mean to be local when everyone is connected?Those are the first questions we had in mind when we rea

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Lawmakers call for an overhaul of the disease control system

"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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Extra Crunch Live: Join Initialized’s Alexis Ohanian and Garry Tan for a live Q&A on Tuesday at 2pm EDT/11am PDT

Extra Crunch Live is on fire, and the hits keep rolling! Next week, we’ll sit down with Initialized’s Alexis Ohanian and Garry Tan. You can catch the chat live on Tuesday, June 2 at 2 p.m.

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Kentik raises $23.5M for its network intelligence platform

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

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MLB's Los Angeles Dodgers to cut salaries to avoid layoffs

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

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Sony’s ZV-1 compact camera zooms in on vloggers

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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Extra Crunch Live: Join Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg for a live Q&A today at 2pm EDT/11am PDT

As the leader of a publicly traded corporation with 135,000 employees, Verizon Communications CEO Hans Vestberg has a unique perspective on the state of the world.When he appears today on Extra Crunch

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Lori Loughlin pleads guilty via Zoom in admissions scandal

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

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An end to hunger

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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Minecraft Dungeons has charm and potential, but needs lot more time in the furnace

Minecraft is one of the most popular games on the planet, so it’s natural that Microsoft, after buying creator Mojang some years back, would attempt to apply the genre’s playful, blocky a

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UAE-based quantum physicists develop rapid COVID-19 laser test

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

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Virtual events startup Run The World just nabbed $10.8 million from a16z and Founders Fund

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

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Facebook’s Workplace, now with 5M paying users, adds drop-in video Rooms and more

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