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Haus raises $4.5 million to replace your wine club membership

Millennials are tired of being drunk, but are locked into a culture that puts alcohol at the center of professional events and outside-of-work gatherings. Twenty-somethings in New York and San Francis

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NBA highlights on Jan. 29: Emotional Irving leads Nets past Pistons

Kyrie Irving #11 of the Brooklyn Nets looks on during the NBA game against the Detroit Pistons at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, January 29, 2020. It's only been a few days, not nearly

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Huawei is not the scapegoat to hurt 'special U.S.-UK relationship'

U.S. President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (L) as they take part in a session on reforming the United Nations at U.N. Headquarters in New York, U.S., S

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UN says offices in Geneva, Vienna targeted by cyber attack last year

The United Nations European headquarters is pictured early evening in Geneva, Switzerland, December 10, 2019. /Reuters Photo The United Nations said on Wednesday that its offices in Geneva and

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All eyes are on the next liquidity event when it comes to space startups

At the FAA’s 23rd Annual Commercial Commercial Space Transportation Conference in Washington, DC on Wednesday, a panel dedicated to the topic of trends in VC around space startups touched on pub

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Fire may have destroyed Museum of Chinese American Life in New York

02:09 Tens of thousands of artifacts telling the story of the Chinese migration to the U.S. may have been lost in a devastating fire. Flames roared through New York City's museum docum

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Lyft confirms 90 layoffs as it targets profitability

Shares of popular American ride-hailing giant Lyft are off 3% today in regular trading after the New York Times reported that the company would cut some staff. TechCrunch confirmed with the company t

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Starbucks store sales grow 3 pct in China in fiscal 2020 first quarter

A Starbucks logo is pictured in Manhattan, New York, the United States. (Xinhua/Li Muzi) U.S. top coffee chain Starbucks Corporation said Tuesday that its business in China is growing steadily as i

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Study of YouTube comments finds evidence of radicalization effect

Research presented at the ACM FAT 2020 conference in Barcelona today supports the notion that YouTube’s platform is playing a role in radicalizing users via exposure to far-right ideologies.The

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Free Agency wants to give every tech worker a career and salary boost

Labor markets, particularly those in the tech industry, are incredibly lopsided against employees. Companies screen, interview, and negotiate with thousands of candidates per year, while employees may

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Flipboard expands into local news

Flipboard, the personalized news aggregation app used by 145 million users per month, is today launching a new feature aimed at bringing local news coverage to 23 cities across the U.S. and Canada, in

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Pecan.ai launches with $11M Series A to automate machine learning

Pecan.ai, a startup that wants to help business analysts build machine learning models in an automated fashion, emerged from stealth today and announced an $11 million Series A.The round was led by De

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Citymapper plots route to sale amid bid interest

The urban transport app has been approached by some of the world’s biggest tech companies, Sky News learns.

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Frontify raises $22.3M to help businesses manage how their brands and logos get used

The rise of design tools like Canva and the vast expanse of digital spaces where a company’s name can appear these days have created a challenge for organisations: how best to make sure that wha

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Magic mushroom compound gives anti-anxiety effect that lasts years

The psychedelic compound reduced anxiety and depression in cancer patients, as well as improved their attitudes toward death.

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Trump’s travel ban could extend to Africa’s top tech country, Nigeria

The Trump administration is poised to add several African countries to a U.S. travel ban list, including Africa’s top tech hub, Nigeria.Politico first reported the White House is considering Tan

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Xinhua Photos of the Day (Jan. 28)

BEIJING, Jan. 28, 2020 (Xinhua) -- The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua.Photo taken on Jan. 27, 2020 shows a press confe