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Suing your way to the stars

Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review!I’m back from a very fun and rehabilitative couple weeks away from my phone, my Twitter account and the news cycle. That said, I actually really

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Partial closure of Ningbo port: A butterfly effect?

Containers sit stacked next to gantry cranes as trucks operate at the Ningbo-Zhoushan Port in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, east China, October 31, 2018. /Getty Editor's n

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When it comes to diversity in hiring, businesses are their own worst enemy

Over the past year, companies have continued to make ambitious pledges to address bias and systemic racism in the hiring process. But the track record of previous corporate diversity efforts is shaky

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Rutter comes out of stealth with $1.5M in funding for its e-commerce API

Rutter, a remote-first company, is developing a unified e-commerce API that enables companies to connect with data across any platform.On Friday the company announced it was emerging from stealth with

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Google says geofence warrants make up one-quarter of all US demands

For the first time, Google has published the number of geofence warrants it’s historically received from U.S. authorities, providing a rare glimpse into how frequently these controversial warran

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COVID-19 origins: Where are the blood samples from the early epidemic?

Blood samples. /CFPThe blood samples collected during the early phase of the COVID-19 outbreak in China have been kept in the Wuhan Blood Center in case of medical disp

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Baidu unveils 1st fully autonomous robocar prototype

Chinese internet search giant Baidu Inc. unveiled on Wednesday its first L5 self-driving robocar prototype with no steering wheel, and an upgraded autonomous driving se

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Mealworm farming company Beta Hatch raises $10M

Last time I was in Hong Kong, a startup gave me a jar of mealworms as a snack. They were crunchy and a bit odd looking (as one might expect from a jar full of baked larvae). They really didn’t offer m

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Afghanistan: Retrospective analysis and future forecast

The sudden fall of the U.S.-backed government in Kabul and its replacement with an interim administration partially comprised of Taliban representatives shocked many ob

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China is taking a significant step in tackling climate change

On August 9, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a special report. It emphasizes that without "immediate, rapid, and large-scale" reductions in gr

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Afghanistan: Retrospective analysis and future forecast

The sudden fall of the U.S.-backed government in Kabul and its replacement with an interim administration partially comprised of Taliban representatives shocked many ob

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China is taking a significant step in tackling climate change

On August 9, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a special report. It emphasizes that without "immediate, rapid, and large-scale" reductions in gr

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Yik Yak returns from the dead

After meeting an ignominious end in 2017, the anonymous gossip app once popular with college students lives again. Yik Yak returned to the iOS App Store on Monday (sorry, Android users) under new owne

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How Nuro became the robotic face of Domino’s

Pandemic pizza was definitely a thing.U.S. consumers forked out a record-breaking $14 billion to have pizza delivered to their doors in 2020, and nearly half of that total was spent with just one bran

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Baffle lands $20M Series B to simplify data-centric encryption

California-based Baffle, a startup that aims to prevent data breaches by keeping data encrypted from production through processing, has raised $20 million in Series B funding.Baffle was founded in 201

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'Breaking Through' leads China's highly-anticipated sports films

Though the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics have just ended, there are plenty of Chinese sports films on the horizon promising to keep the athletic spirit alive. One of the most anticipated productions is B

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BizBeat 197: Where was the real 'ground zero' for COVID-19?

04:56 Why was the positive rate in a study of COVID-19 antibody test higher in blood samples collected in America back in 2019 and early 2020, compared with that in Hub