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Patchwork Health raises £3.5M to fix the staff scheduling disaster inside stressed hospitals

The tyranny of the Excel spreadsheet continues, and especially in rostering staff. Nowhere is this more acutely felt in today’s COVID-pressured hospital wards, which are now depleted not just by the d

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Biased coverage of Chinese athletes at the Olympics is simply disgraceful

Editor's note: Hamzah Rifaat Hussain is a former visiting fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington D.C. and serves as assistant researcher at the Islamabad Policy Res

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Biased coverage of Chinese athletes at the Olympics is simply disgraceful

Editor's note: Hamzah Rifaat Hussain is a former visiting fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington D.C. and serves as assistant researcher at the Islamabad Policy Res

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Climate science report 'critical for success' of COP26: UN

Nearly 200 nations started online negotiations Monday to validate a United Nations (UN) science report that will anchor autumn summits charged with preventing climate catastrophe on a planetary scale

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Cassie the bipedal robot runs a 5K

You may well recognize Cassie as the basis of Agility Robotics’ delivery bot, Digit. If you’ve been following the tech’s progression at all, however, you no doubt know that it started life as the ostr

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Same-day delivery apps need more than speed to survive post-pandemic

We have entered a whole new era of e-commerce centered on speed and convenience. Business leaders are being forced to prioritize delivery capabilities and push for more accelerated delivery services.“

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Instagram now supports 60-second videos on Reels, its TikTok clone

Haven’t you heard that Instagram is no longer a photo-sharing app? Today, Instagram announced that users can now upload 60-second videos on Reels, the platform’s TikTok competitor.This upd

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Sony’s ZV-E10 brings interchangeable lenses to its vlogging camera series

Sony has launched its first vlogging-specific mirrorless camera, the ZV-E10, that borrows a number of features from ZV-1 compact vlogging model. At the same time, it’s roughly based on the A5000

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Crypto infra startup Fireblocks raises $310M, triples valuation to $2.2B

Fireblocks, an infrastructure provider for digital assets, has raised $310 million in a Series D round of funding that tripled the company’s valuation to $2.2 billion in just over five months.Sequoia

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Discord rolls out threads, side conversations that auto-archive

After announcing that threads were on the way earlier this year, Discord is now introducing the long-requested way to make conversations in bustling servers more comprehensible.Starting today, any ser

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Here’s Nothing’s $99 Ear (1) buds

It’s been just over five months since Carl Pei first told the world about Nothing. Perhaps it’s just the way time moves these days or maybe it’s the fact that the company has trickled out information

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RapidSOS learned that the best product design is sometimes no product design

Sometimes, the best missions are the hardest to fund.For the founders of RapidSOS, improving the quality of emergency response by adding useful data, like location, to 911 calls was an inspiring objec

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No-code Bubble raises $100M to make technical co-founders obsolete

Among Silicon Valley circles, a fun parlor game is to ask to what extent world GDP levels are held back by a lack of computer science and technical training. How many startups could be built if hundre

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iRocket to begin rocket engine testing at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center

Reusable rocket startup iRocket has entered into a new partnership with NASA in its quest to reach commercialization in just two years.The partnership will give iRocket access to testing facilities an

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Tesla’s solar and energy storage business rakes in $810M, finally exceeds cost of revenue

Tesla’s primary source of revenue comes from the sale of its electric vehicles, but its latest quarterly earnings report showed growth in its energy storage and solar business.The demand picture

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Moovit integrates Lime electric scooters, bikes, mopeds into transit planning app

Shared electric micromobility company Lime announced a partnership to integrate its electric scooters, bikes and mopeds into the Moovit trip planning app. As of next week, Lime’s vehicles will b

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Tesla shrugs off chip shortage to post $1bn quarterly profit for first time

The electric car maker enjoyed better than expected results despite the impact of global supply chain challenges - and the provision of $176m for a likely performance-based payout to boss Elon Musk.