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Wall Street closes down on tech slide, rising jobless claims

The New York Stock Exchange, New York, U.S. /CFP Stocks on Wall Street closed lower on Thursday as investors shifted out of big technology names, while an unexpected rise in weekly U.S. jobles

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Aeye becomes latest lidar company to go public via SPAC

Aeye, a lidar startup that developed its technology for use in autonomous vehicles as well as to support advanced driver assistance systems in passenger cars, is going public through a merger with CF

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'Once-in-a-lifetime moment' as one of UK's rarest types of bees discovered

The insect used to be widespread throughout the country, but its numbers have declined by 80% over the last century.

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UK set to ease nationwide lockdown after progress in COVID-19 battle

UK's Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to outline details of the easing on February 22. /AP Plans are being drawn up to ease England's third national lockdown after progress in its figh

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Figure skating star Kamila Valieva shares excitement on Beijing 2022

Russian figure skating prodigy Kamila Valieva revealed her goal for the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics in a recent exclusive interview with the Olympic Channel.One of the most promising champion

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EV charging stations, biofuels, the hydrogen transition and chemicals are pillars of Shell’s climate plan

Royal Dutch Shell Group, one of the largest publicly traded oil producers in the world, just laid out its plan for how the company will survive in a zero-emission, climate conscious world.It’s a

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Tesla announces $1.5 billion bitcoin bet, makes payments pledge

Tesla Inc. said on Monday it had invested around $1.5 billion in bitcoin and expected to begin accepting payment for its cars and other products with it in the near future, prompting a more than 10 p

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Shortage of PS5 and Xbox consoles drives calls for scalping to be criminalised

Douglas Chapman MP has brought a private member's bill forward in the House of Commons to criminalise game console scalping.

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Sunak 'considering Amazon tax' to claw back pandemic borrowing

Amazon's profits soared by 51% to nearly £20bn in 2020 but it only had a tax turnover ratio of 0.37%.

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Iran urges the U.S. to return to nuclear deal

FILE PHOTO: Iran flag. /VCG Iranian foreign minister appealed to the United States to act swiftly to return to the nuclear accord, pointing out that legislation passed by parliament forces the

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China willing to share market opportunities with Eurasian countries

China is willing to share market opportunities with Eurasian nations, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in a meeting with diplomatic envoys from these countries on Tuesday.In

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Chinese premier holds symposium with foreign experts in China

Premier Li Keqiang on Friday afternoon held a symposium with representatives of foreign experts working in China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing ahead of the Spring Festival, or the Chines

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Language-learning service Babbel adds live classes, games and more

Babbel, the Berlin-based language-learning platform, today announced that it is now going well beyond its core app-based learning service and is introducing live classes.Capped at six students, these

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Study finds close relatives to coronavirus in samples collected 2010

A scientist at Chulalongkorn University samples bats in a research laboratory in Thailand, September 12, 2020. /CFP Cambodian scientists have found "close relatives" of the pathogen, SARS-CoV-

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Pentagon warns Taliban not meeting commitments on violence, terrorism

U.S. troops patrol at an Afghan National Army base in Logar Province, Afghanistan, August 7, 2018. /Xinhua The Biden administration believes it is hard to see a way forward for a negotiated se

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Smartphone sales slowed decline in Q4, with a big assist from Apple

New numbers from Canalys show a slowing in the major smartphone decline we saw for 2020. The past year was, of course, a major blow to an industry already suffering a slide. Hope that the arrival of 5

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UK’s competition watchdog still eyeing Facebook’s Giphy buy

The UK’s competition regulator will make a decision on whether or not Facebook’s purchase of Giphy has a ‘realistic prospect’ of substantially lessening competition by March 25