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Tech growth fund Highland Europe raises €700M to ‘double-down’, strengthens team

Highland Europe — the tech growth fund best known for backing high profile late-stage startups like GetYourGuide, Huel, WeTransfer, Wolt and Zwift — has closed its fourth fund, raising €700M in a comp

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Underground observatory to show scientists what lies beneath the Earth's surface

The compound in Glasgow is home to 12 boreholes which are between 16 to 199 metres deep.

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Underground observatory to show scientists what lies beneath the Earth's surface

The compound in Glasgow is home to 12 boreholes which are between 16 to 199 metres deep.

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Japanese director focuses lens on China

A documentary about the impact of the pandemic in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, has catapulted a Japanese filmmaker to fame on Chinese social media platforms.Ryo Takeuchi, who has lived in Chi

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Portugal's Christmas easing, Russia's cases high: COVID-19 bulletin

00:19 TOP HEADLINES- Portugal is to ease restrictions over the Christmas period to allow people to visit family and friends but measures will be reinforced in time for New Year's Eve,

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Human Capital: Google’s labor stumbles

Welcome back to Human Capital, a weekly newsletter that looks at the latest in diversity and inclusion in tech, as well as labor. This week, Google made headlines a couple of times for its workplace i

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It’s holiday season for tech unicorns

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here.Did you follow all of the unicorn news from the last c

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Environment conservation: China to end solid waste imports

A staff member checks on the power-generating devices of a waste-to-energy plant in Bazhou, north China's Hebei Province, Jan. 9, 2020. /Xinhua Once the world's biggest recipient of overseas t

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Can Joe Biden's America be trusted?

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden addresses an event to name his economic team at the Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware, December 1, 2020. /Getty Editor's note: Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is a profes

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Quarantine or testing of air travelers not needed - EU health bodies

Many passengers currently face quarantine on arrival in a different country. /AP European health bodies have called for EU countries to drop their quarantine rules and systematic testing of a

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Why Slack and Salesforce execs think they’re better together

When Salesforce bought Slack earlier this week for $27.7 billion, it was in some ways the end of a startup fairytale. Slack was the living embodiment of the Silicon Valley startup success fantasy. It

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Up Next China: China puts climate at heart of next Five-Year Plan

04:02 Editor's note: "Up Next China" is a series focusing on how the next Five-Year Plan will change the country – from innovation and technological self-reliance, heal

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UN chief urges solidarity to fight COVID-19, climate change, poverty

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres briefs reporters during a press conference on the G20 summit at the United Nations in New York, November 20, 2020. /Getty UN Secretary-General Antonio Gut

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UK promises to cut emissions by more than two thirds by 2030

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the UK is "taking the lead with an ambitious new target to reduce our emissions".

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Henry picks up cash to be a Lambda School for Latin America

Latin America’s startup scene has attracted troves of venture investment, lifting highly-valued companies such as Rappi and NuBank into behemoth businesses. Now that the spotlight has arrived, those s

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VSCO acquires mobile app Trash to expand into AI-powered video editing

VSCO, the popular photo and video editing app, today announced it has acquired AI-powered video editing app Trash, as the company pushes further into the video market. The deal will see Trash’s

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Twitter now supports hardware security keys for iPhones and Android

Twitter said Wednesday that accounts protected with a hardware security key can now log in from their iPhone or Android device.The social media giant rolled out support for hardware security keys in 2