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China's hybrid double-cropping rice yields over 1.6 tons, hitting new record

A hybrid double-cropping rice paddy field yielded over 1.6 tons per mu (about 0.067 hectares) in two growing seasons in one year, hitting a new record, according to CMG

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7 Deadly Sins Committed by the U.S. in Afghanistan

U.S. soldiers stand guard at the site of a car bombing in Nangarhar Province, E Afghanistan, January 5, 2015. /Xinhua In 2001, the Bush administration launched the Afghanistan War against Osam

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Space tech helps Chinese farmers fish for fortune in ponds

Space lotuses are in blossom in Xiaogan City, central China's Hubei Province, June 7, 2020. /CFPA sea of white lotus, grown from space-bred seeds, is blooming under ear

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Silicon Valley should fight its stigma against military work

Political debate at work was not encouraged when I was training to be a doctor at the LAC+USC Medical Center in the early 2000s.On the 13th-floor jail ward, we had a professional duty to care for drun

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What’s after low-code? And, why should you go public?

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by what the weekday Exchange column digs into, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in

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Extra Crunch roundup: Think like a VC, CockroachDB EC-1, handle your stock options

Ants and camels are famously resilient, but when it was time to select a name for a startup that offers open-source, cloud-based distributed database architecture, you can imagine why “Cockroach

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To end cyberterrorism, the government should extend a hand to the private sector

It is said that the best way to lose the next war is to keep fighting the last one. The citadels of the medieval ages were an effective defense until gunpowder and cannons changed siege warfare foreve

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4 proven approaches to CX strategy that make customers feel loved

Customers have been “experiencing” business since the ancient Romans browsed the Forum for produce, pottery and leather goods. But digitization has radically recalibrated the buyer-seller

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One cent at a time: The decline of the U.S. dollar

VCG Editor's note: Bobby Naderi is a London-based journalist, guest contributor in print, radio and television, and documentary filmmaker. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not n

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One cent at a time: The decline of the U.S. dollar

VCG Editor's note: Bobby Naderi is a London-based journalist, guest contributor in print, radio and television, and documentary filmmaker. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not n

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Uganda commemorates World Malaria Day amid COVID-19 pandemic

VCG As the world commemorated World Malaria Day on Sunday, dozens of riders in Uganda, including young and old, rode over 30 km to raise awareness against the disease.The commemorations were h

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WhizzCo helps publishers maximize their content recommendation revenue

Israeli startup WhizzCo says it’s time for publishers to adopt the programmatic, auction-based approach when it comes to the ads in content recommendation widgets like Outbrain and Taboola.After

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Bitcoin hits record before landmark Coinbase listing on Nasdaq

A representation of virtual currency Bitcoin is seen in front of a stock graph in this illustration taken March 15, 2021. /Reuters Bitcoin hit a record of $62,741 on Tuesday, extending its 202

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Asia stocks spooked by spike in yields, oil sell-off

Asian share markets eased on Friday as a spike in global bond yields soured sentiment toward richly priced tech stocks, while a stampede out of crowded positions in crude oil caused the sharpest setb

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Neobroker Bitpanda raises $170M at a $1.2B valuation to take its trading platform beyond crypto

One of the bigger startups in Europe operating a trading platform for cryptocurrency has closed a big round of funding on the heels of very rapid growth and plans to open its platform to a wider strea

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Asian stocks bounce as bond market calms

Pedestrians walk past an electronic stock board outside a securities firm in Tokyo, Japan, February 17, 2021. /CFP Asian shares firmed on Monday as some semblance of calm returned to bond mark

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2021 balance sheet: Flood of global monetary liquidity hard to rein in

The world's major central banks adopted unprecedented monetary stimulus measures in 2020 in response to the impact of COVID-19. /CFP Editor's note: Guan Tao is the chief economist of BOC Inter