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General Catalyst pushes further into Europe/Israel, hiring Chris Bischoff for London office

Until now General Catalyst has been better known as a US VC which makes occasional forays into European territory. But that changes with the news today that Chris Bischoff, an experienced London-based

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Human activity threatens species survival: study

Human activities such as farming and construction are threatening the survival of scores of wild species by forcing them to travel more to avoid mankind's impact, research showed Monday.According to

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SquadCast adds video podcast recording

Remote video podcasting is surprisingly still something of a Wild West these days. Given the massive sums of money currently being pumped into the category — not to mention the fact that pretty

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GameStop, other Reddit-favored stocks plunge as trading frenzy fizzles

Reddit logo displayed on a phone screen and GameStop logo in the background are seen in this illustration photo taken in Poland, February 1, 2021. /Reuters GameStop Corp. shares more than halv

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GameStop’s stocks tumble following frenzy

02:17 GameStop’s wild ride on Wall Street has continued into February with its shares falling more than 25 percent on Monday. This comes after buzz on social media sparked a rally that

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Villages in SW China step up monitoring against wild elephant invasion

01:14 Local authorities in Jiangcheng County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, have strengthened monitoring and early warning mechanisms to prevent wild elephants fro

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Melvin Capital loses 53% in January due to GameStop drama

Interior view of a GameStop store in the Queens borough of New York City on January 28, 2021. /VCG Melvin Capital, the hedge fund at the center of the GameStop drama, lost 53 percent in Januar

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Regulators take notice as Reddit stock onslaught continues

Exterior view of a GameStop video game retailer in the Queens borough of New York City, U.S. on January 28, 2021. /VCG The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday said its regu

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Daily Crunch: Robinhood raises $1B

Robinhood caps a wild week for new funding, Coinbase is going public and Johnson Johnson reveals new vaccine trial data. This is your Daily Crunch for January 29, 2021.The big story: Robinhood raises

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World's first cheetah smart park established in Namibia

The world's first cheetah smart park equipped with new technology to monitor animals and assets of Namibia's Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) has been established, a statement said. /Xinhua The

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Virologist who co-discovers Ebola says world has entered pandemic-era

02:21 "We are now entering the age of pandemics," said virologist Peter Piot who is among one of the discoverers of the Ebola virus and now serves as a special advisor to the President

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Bats living in Cambodia in 2010 carried 'nearly identical' pathogen to COVID-19 virus, scientists discover

Scientists say the discovery could be crucial in finding where the disease started and to prevent further pandemics.

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Oscar and Emmy-winning actress Cloris Leachman dies at 94

Actress Cloris Leachman gestures to honoree Mel Brooks in the audience during the American Film Institute's 41st Lifetime Achievement Award Gala in Los Angeles, the United States, June 6, 2013. /

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WallStreetBets goes dark

After a wild day for public markets driven by Reddit traders commandeering stocks and combatting hedge fund short sellers, the community at r/wallstreetbets no longer has a home on Discord and its Red

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Will this time be any different for Twitter?

As Twitter seems to buy its way into competing with Clubhouse and Substack, one wonders whether the beleaguered social media company is finally ready to move past its truly awful track record of seizi

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Will this time be any different for Twitter?

As Twitter seems to buy its way into competing with Clubhouse and Substack, one wonders whether the beleaguered social media company is finally ready to move past its truly awful track record of seizi

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Talent Hack raises $4.7M for its B2C fitness platform, Spaces

It’s been a wild 12 months for fitness platforms, as the world’s population has struggled to adapt to workouts outside of the gym. From Lululemon’s massive Mirror acquisition to companies like Apple a