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Smart lock maker Latch teams with real estate firm to go public via SPAC

This week, Latch becomes the latest company to join the SPAC parade. Founded in 2014, the New York-based company came out of stealth two years later, launching a smart lock system. Though, like many c

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Masks that choked our oceans: abandoned masks threaten environment

Masks and other garbage polluting the Adriatic Sea, July 31, 2020. /CFP Editor's note: According to the latest report released by the marine conservation organization OceansAsia in December 20

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Namibia to proceed with planned auction of 170 elephants

African Elephants at a water hole, Etosha NP, Namibia. (Photo by: David Tipling/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The Namibian government on Friday said it is going ahead with plans to

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Fintech startups and unicorns had a stellar Q4 2020

The fourth quarter of 2020 was as busy as you imagined, with super late-stage startups reaching new valuation thresholds at a record pace, and total venture capital funding in the United States record

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Mystery of butterfly flight finally cracked by scientists

The "fascinating" and "elegant" mechanism "is far more advanced than we imagined" said one of the scientists behind the findings.

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Changbai Mountains Nature Reserve releases wildlife footage

00:40 Changbai Mountains Nature Reserve administration recently released footage of wildlife activities in the region from last year.The camera captured a group of wild

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Facebook and Instagram’s AI-generated image captions now offer far more details

Every picture posted to Facebook and Instagram gets a caption generated by an image analysis AI, and that AI just got a lot smarter. The improved system should be a treat for visually impaired users,

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'Elves of the Yangtze River' show up in central China

A school of Yangtze finless porpoises chased each other leisurely in Yichang City, central China's Hubei Province on Sunday. They jumped up from the river, showing off

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UK’s Bloom & Wild raises $102M to seed its flower delivery service across Europe

Bloom Wild, a London-based startup that takes an updated and online approach to the very traditional business of ordering and delivering flowers, has seen business blossom in the last year. And today,

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Israel studies new forest home for endangered mountain gazelle

Israel is one of the last places in the world where endangered mountain gazelle roams in the wild but, as development shrinks their natural savannah habitat, ecologists are studying if they can also

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Bird flu outbreaks reported in Europe, Japan, India

A government worker wrings a bird's neck in Nandurbar District, Maharashtra, India, February 20, 2006. /Getty With less than 15 days into 2021, a pall of new health scare is hanging over Japa

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Endangered male seahorse giving birth to 100 babies captured on video

00:27 The moment a male hippocampus whitei, also known as a White's Seahorse, gave birth to around 100 offspring has been caught on camera at Sea Life Sydney Aquarium.The babies of thi

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World lost California-sized forest in over a decade: WWF

The world has lost more than 43 million hectares of forest – the size of California – along the tropics and subtropics in over a decade, adversely impacting local communities and global efforts to

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These 5 VCs have high hopes for cannabis in 2021

Cannabis has always been essential to some. While it had seemed to start last year in a bit of a correction, demand for it during the pandemic (and its widespread designation as an essential business)

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Will Biden succeed in rebuilding bridges in Latin America?

/VCG Joe Biden's extensive experience working with Latin America has given rise to expectations that he will pay far greater attention to the region than the man he is replacing as United Stat

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Bitcoin suddenly plunges 20% - wiping $10,000 off the value of a single coin

The volatility prompts warnings from analysts that investors should take care when putting money in cryptocurrencies.

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Scientists surprised to discover dwarf giraffes in Namibia and Uganda

Being tall is the giraffe's competitive advantage, giving it the pick of leaves from the tallest trees, so scientists were stunned to find two giraffe dwarves on different sides of Africa. "It's fasc