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Annual Space Symposium event postponed due to coronavirus

The 36th annual Space Symposium event, which was set to take place between March 30 and April 2 this year, has officially been postponed in light of the current coronavirus pandemic. There isn’t

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Doing deals through Zoom? These investors have some tips

Investors are turning to remote-only meetings to combat COVID-19, which was officially declared a pandemic yesterday.The novel coronavirus is already spreading via community contact in the Bay Area; a

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AWS launches Bottlerocket, a Linux-based OS for container hosting

AWS has launched its own open-source operating system for running containers on both virtual machines and bare metal hosts. Bottlerocket, as the new OS is called, is basically a stripped-down Linux di

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COVID-19: Portugal's president self-isolates amid infection fear

Portugal's president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. /CARLOS COSTA / AFP Portugal's president has self-isolated after meeting a group of students from a school that has since been closed after a pupi

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Saudi Arabia suspends schools, universities over COVID-19

Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday that schools and universities in the kingdom are suspended in a bid to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. The decision, to be e

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China adjusts undergraduate programs settings to boost urgently needed, emerging majors

China has approved the establishment of 1,672 undergraduate programs in colleges and universities, including preventive medicine and cyberspace security, to support th

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Asia's 50 Best Restaurants awards 2020, originally scheduled for Japan, will be streamed live online

On February 25, the organizer of "Asia's 50 Best Restaurants" and the government of Japan's Saga Prefecture jointly decided to cancel the offline awards ceremony and re

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Google cancels Cloud Next because of coronavirus

Google today announced that it is canceling the physical part of Cloud Next, its cloud-focused event and its largest annual conference by far with around 30,000 attendees, over concerns around the cur

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The companies that will shape the upcoming multiverse era of social media

Throughout this series on the rise of multiverse virtual worlds, I have outlined the collision of gaming and social media into a new multiverse era of social media within virtual worlds due to technol

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What virtual worlds in the coming multiverse era will look like

Gaming and social media are on a collision course, the result of which will be mainstream popularity of virtual worlds primarily driven by user-generated content (UGC) and anchored in small groups and

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Games already are social networks

Video games are only getting more popular.Roughly 2.5 billion people around the world played games last year, double the number of players in 2013. Gaming is a $149 billion industry, growing 7% year o

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Blockchain security startup CoolBitX raises $16.75M Series B

CoolBitX, a blockchain security startup based in Taiwan, announced today it has raised a $16.75 million Series B led by returning investor SBI Holdings, a Japanese financial group.Korean cryptocurrenc

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East China court holds online judicial auction amid epidemic

A court in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, held an online judicial auction for a house on China's e-commerce platform Taobao to avoid large gatherings amid the

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A team of Imagineers will discuss Disney’s tech breakthroughs at TC Sessions: Robotics + AI, March 3 at UC Berkeley

With TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2020 a little over a week away, you likely thought we were finished with our big announcements. Understandably. We have top executives from Amazon and Toyota Research,

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Created to help employees figure out health benefits, HealthJoy raises $30 million

HealthJoy, a platform designed to make it easier for employees to use their healthcare benefits, has raised $30 million in Series C funding led by Health Velocity Capital. Returning investors also par

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NASA seeks Moon rover concepts from industry

NASA is looking for input from industry – including vehicle makers and tech companies not necessarily already in the space business – as to what future lunar rovers should look like. This is part of i

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Chinese museums bring exhibitions online

Many museums in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality have provided digital exhibitions amid the country's fight against the new coronavirus. The Chongqing China Th