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Meet the maritime rescue team flying to save lives

03:02 China has come a long way when it comes to saving people whose lives are at risk. For rescue operations at sea, the country dispatches helicopter teams along its

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Palantir glitch allegedly granted some FBI staff unauthorized access to a crypto hacker’s data

Peter Thiel’s AI company Palantir, whose clients have included the CIA and US immigration agency ICE, is back in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. A new report claims a glitch in its secr

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Vietnam after-school learning startup Marathon raises $1.5M pre-seed round

Marathon Education was created after its founders realized after-school education in Vietnam hadn’t evolved much since they were kids. Some of the most popular tuition centers in big cities teach hund

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Stewart Butterfield and Bret Taylor are coming to Disrupt

When Salesforce acquired Slack at the end of last year for almost $28 billion, the deal seemed on its face to make sense, given that the coronavirus pandemic accelerated already growing demand for too

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Hackers leak security footage of abuse inside Iran's notorious Evin prison

The surveillance video shows inmates fighting, being hit by guards and dragged along the floor, and in one scene smashing a bathroom mirror in an attempt to use the glass to self-harm.

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First COVID-19 death in U.S. occurred in early January 2020: CDC

Newly-released U.S. death records show that the first deaths related to COVID-19 in the country dated back to January 2020, weeks earlier than previously officially rep

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First COVID-19 death in U.S. occurred in early January 2020: CDC

A local hospital in Houston, Texas, has to treat patients in hallways and corridors as the emergency rooms are being overwhelmed due to the sharp increase in Delta variant cases, August 18, 2021.

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Syrian women rebuild lives by making accessories

Syrian businesswoman Rama Khalil at her house in Damascus, Syria. /CGTN After a decade-long war in Syria, life has changed for Syrian women whose sufferings continue unabated due to a never-en

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Migrant smugglers in Turkey see booming business with more Afghans

Turkey is facing a new wave of immigration from Afghanistan. /CGTN Migrant smugglers might see a booming demand in face of thousands of Afghans trying to flee the Taliban as the group has take

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Africa's COVID-19 deaths hit 185,706 as infections continue to rise

FILE PHOTO: A security guard opens the door for a customer exiting Awolowo glass house in Lagos, Nigeria, on Monday, March 29, 2021. (Adetona Omokanye/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Africa's numb

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Dear Sophie: Tips on EB-1A and EB-2 NIW?

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.“Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge t

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Cuttlefish memory stays sharper than humans as they get older

Research indicates that episodic memory does not decline with age in cuttlefish, which is very different to what we see in humans as they get older.

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Aurora Propulsion Technologies will be sending up space junk removal tech on Rocket Lab’s Electron later this year

Aurora Propulsion Technologies, a Finnish company that develops thrusters and de-orbiting modules for small satellites, will be sending its technology to space for the first time. The company has sign

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International community calls for 'safe and orderly departure' of foreign nationals and Afghans

More than 60 members of the international community called for the "safe and orderly departure" from Afghanistan of foreign nationals and Afghans on Sunday, hours after

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Why fintechs are buying up legacy financial services companies

Oh, how the tables have turned.It used to be that if you were a fintech startup or, for lack of a better term, a digitally native financial services business, you might be eyeing an acquisition from a

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Swiftarc Ventures launches beauty fund aimed at women-led startups

Swiftarc Ventures announced its $10 million Swiftarc Beauty Fund to support female founders leading the next wave of beauty and wellness brands.Swiftarc started in 2019 and this is its fourth fund, Si

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BREAKING: Haiti hit by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake

A 7.2 magnitudeearthquake struck Haiti at around 8:30 a.m. local time on Saturday, according to the American Seismological Center. Significant damage has already been reported from the quake, whos