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Reporter's Diary: My close encounters with Taliban members in Kabul

Saturday was the seventh day since Taliban fighters took control of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul. Residents of Kabul are still trying to get used to Taliban's presence on the city's roads. They ar

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'Lab leak' allegation aims to curb China's development: Experts

Testing nucleic acid samples at a novel coronavirus detection lab in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, February 22, 2020. /Xinhua The Western media's constant attack on China and wild all

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Self-driving tech stumbles forward as accidents under probe

Tesla's Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday that the electric car maker was working on improving the much-awaited update to its self-driving software "as fast as p

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U.S. House breaks stalemate to advance bipartisan infrastructure bill

Democrats-held House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to advance a bipartisan 1-trillion-dollar infrastructure bill and approve a 3.5-trillion-dollar budget resolution, breaking the stalemate due

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Linktree partners with PayPal to allow users globally to accept direct payments

Linktree, the popular “link in bio” service with more than 16 million users, is partnering with PayPal to expand its recently launched “Commerce Links” tools for direct payment on Linktree globally. T

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NBA All-Star Chris Paul joins digital media startup Greenfly’s growth round

Greenfly’s latest funding round has a new face: Phoenix Suns point guard Chris Paul joined as a strategic investor and partner in the company, which developed digital media flow management software.Pa

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Microsoft will bring cloud gaming to Xbox consoles this holiday season

Microsoft is moving into the next phase of its plan to bring Xbox Cloud Gaming to as many devices as possible, and it’s one of the most important steps yet. Starting this holiday season, Xbox Ga

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Civil liberties groups demand government bans facial recognition cameras

Police and Home Office are accused of bypassing parliament over guidance allowing officers, local councils and enforcement agencies to use facial recognition across England and Wales in defiance of court rulings against invasive filming.

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ICON lands $207M Series B to construct more 3D-printed homes after seeing 400% YoY revenue growth

Creating single-family homes for the homeless using 3D printing robotics. Developing construction systems to create infrastructure and habitats on the moon, and eventually Mars, with NASA. Delivering

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Shipt’s new feature pairs members with their favorite, 5-star shoppers

Target’s same-day delivery service Shipt is launching a new feature that will pair customers with their favorite shoppers on future orders. This “Preferred Shoppers” feature will be

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Man arrested as Nice-Marseille fan violence damages French football

The Ligue 1 game between Nice and Marseille turnned violent in the second half after fans invaded the pitch following a bottle-throwing incident at the Allianz Riviera stadium in Nice, southern F

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SoBanHang gets $1.5M to help small Vietnamese stores sell online for the first time

A few months ago, brothers Hai Nam Bui and Hai Long Bui were developing a bookkeeping app for small retailers in Vietnam. Called SoBanHang (or “sales book”), it would help businesses that usually rely

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GM says it will seek reimbursement from LG Chem for $1B Chevy Bolt recall losses

American automaker General Motors expanded its recall of Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles on Friday due to fire risks from battery manufacturing defects. The automaker said it would seek reimbursement

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UK government and police servers 'vulnerable to new Microsoft email hack'

Microsoft has been criticised by a former employee for its "knowingly awful" messaging to customers to update their Exchange email systems since the vulnerabilities were discovered earlier this year.

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Shelf.io closes huge $52.5M Series B after posting 4x ARR growth in the last year

Covering public companies can be a bit of a drag. They grow some modest amount each year, and their constituent analysts pester them with questions about gross margin expansion and sales rep efficienc

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Is China a new moderator world power?

VCG Editor's note:Alessandro Golombiewski Teixeira is a national thousand talent distinguished professor of public policy at the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, an

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Get your pitch-off on with our Disrupt Startup Alley companies on upcoming episodes of Extra Crunch Live

Disrupt is right around the corner, and this year the show is packed to the brim with incredible panels and conversations, an absolutely stacked Startup Battlefield cohort of companies launching on ou