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Deepfake video app Avatarify, which process on-phone, plans digital watermark for videos

Making deepfake videos used to be hard. Now all you need is a smartphone. Avatarify, a startup that allows people to make deepfake videos directly on their phone rather than in the cloud, is soaring u

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Bird, Lime and VeoRide selected for NYC e-scooter pilot

Lime, Bird and VeoRide have scored coveted permits to New York City’s first e-scooter pilot. The New York City Department of Transportation, which originally released a request for proposals in

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Large-scale CO2 removal startup Carbo Culture raises $6.2M Seed led by True Ventures

Carbo Culture — a startup that has scaled an industrial process to create large-scale CO2 removal using woody waste from agriculture and forests — has raised $6.2 million in seed a financing round led

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ZeroAvia’s hydrogen fuel cell plane ambitions clouded by technical challenges

When ZeroAvia’s six-seater aircraft completed an eight-minute flight from Cranfield Airfield in the U.K. last September, the company claimed a “major breakthrough” with the first-ever hydrogen fuel ce

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Homebound aims to help solve Austin’s housing shortage problem

The sheer volume of people migrating to Austin from all over the country, but particularly from the San Francisco Bay Area, has been making headlines for a while now.One result of this continued migra

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Biden should cut corporate taxes, not raise them

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with a bipartisan group of members of Congress in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 12, 2021. /Getty Editor's

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NZ to launch world's first climate change rules for financial firms

Fresh produce is seen growing on commercial market gardens on the Bombay Hills in Auckland, New Zealand, July 17, 2019. /CFP New Zealand has become the first country to introduce a law that wi

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Messaging app Wire raises $21 million

Wire, the end-to-end encrypted messaging app and service, has raised a $21 million Series B funding round led by UVC Partners. As the company said a couple of years ago, the company is focusing on the

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The 'axis of evil' vs. the 'axis of integrity'

U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn leaves after a Senate Republican luncheon at Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., March 24, 2021. /Getty Editor's note:Andrew Koryb

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Japan's Fukushima solution egregious, but still backed by U.S.

Editor's note:CGTN's First Voice provides instant commentary on breaking stories. The daily column clarifies emerging issues and better defines the news agenda, offering a Chinese perspective on t

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Japan to start releasing Fukushima water into sea in 2 years

Japan’s government decided Tuesday to start releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean in two years — an option

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China's response to proposed U.S. Senate 'Strategic Competition Act'

The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee is preparing to discuss on a bipartisan bill on Wednesday that aims to counter China’s global influence and allocate more than $1 billion to strengthen U.S

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Grab a group discount and take your team to TC Sessions: Mobility 2021

Mobility mavens, June 9 will be here before you know it, and that means it’s time to get your strategy ducks in a row for TC Sessions: Mobility 2021. You want to make the most of your time at this one

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Temasek and BlackRock form Decarbonization Partners with $600 million to create a zero-emission economy

The $9 trillion financial management firm Blackrock is collaborating with the $313 billion Singapore investment firm Temasek to back companies developing technologies and services to help create a zer

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Biden must fix the future, not the past

Editor's Note:Dani Rodrik, professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the author of"Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane Worl

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Trump and Gaetz camps deny CNN report on spurned Mar-a-Lago meeting

A CNN report that said embattled Rep. Matt Gaetz was denied a meeting with former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort is fake news, according to the congres

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Battery Resourcers raises $20M to commercialize its recycling-plus-manufacturing operations

As a greater share of the transportation market becomes electrified, companies have started to grapple with how to dispose of the thousands of tons of used electric vehicle batteries that are expected