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Commentary: COVID-19 vaccine should be global public good

A virtual global vaccine summit was held Thursday with participating world leaders calling for international efforts to ensure the availability of COVID-19 vaccines to anyone in need anywhere in the

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Face coverings to be mandatory on public transport in England as UK COVID-19 deaths hit 39,904

Face coverings will be compulsory on public transport in England from June 15 to help contain the transmission of the novel coronavirus, British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said Thursday. Cha

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Searchable.ai nabs additional $4M seed to continue building AI-driven search

Searchable.ai is an early-stage startup in the alpha phase of testing its initial product, but it has an idea compelling enough to attract investment, even during a pandemic. Today the company announc

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WHO warns over 100,000 daily new cases reported in the past 5 days

Gravediggers bury the body of a person who died from the coronavirus disease in Sao Francisco Xavier cemetery, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 29, 2020. /Reuters More than 100,000 cases of COVI

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India battles new wave of crop-munching locusts

From deploying drones and fire trucks to banging utensils and blaring loud music, India is experimenting with ways to battle a new wave of locust attacks that have alarmed farmer

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UK COVID-19 deaths hit 39,728 as another 359 patients die

Another 359 COVID-19 patients have died in Britain as of Tuesday afternoon, bringing the total coronavirus-related death toll in the country to 39,728, the Department

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Urban fox evolution 'suggests how dogs became domesticated'

Dogs may have been subject to some of the same environmental factors that foxes encounter before they became domesticated.

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UK COVID-19 deaths hit 39,369 as another 324 patients die

Another 324 COVID-19 patients have died in Britain as of Monday afternoon, bringing the total coronavirus-related death toll in the country to 39,369, the Department o

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Danggeun Market, the South Korean secondhand marketplace app, raises $33 million Series C

Danggeun Market, the startup behind Karrot, South Korea’s largest neighborhood marketplace and networking app, announced today that that it has raised a $33 million Series C. The round was led by Good

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Commentary: China determined to further open up despite COVID-19 epidemic

At this critical juncture when the COVID-19 epidemic is still ravaging the globe, China is opening its door wider to the world instead of trying to close it. China on Monday announced it will bu

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UK COVID-19 deaths rise to 38,489 as another 113 patients die

Another 113 COVID-19 patients have died in Britain as of Saturday afternoon, bringing the total coronavirus-related death toll in the country to 38,489, British Secretary of State for Housing, Com

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Digital extra-territorial reach exceeds U.S. grasp

An automatic container dock operates in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. /Xinhua Editor's note: Daryl Guppy is an international financial technical analysis expert.He has provided week

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Google makes sharing Plus Codes easier in a push to simply addressing system globally

Two years ago, Google unveiled Plus Codes, a digital addressing system to help billions of people navigate to places that don’t have clear addresses. The company said today it is making it easier for

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Plex launches a co-watching experience for its on-demand library and users’ personal media

Virtual viewing parties that let people watch video together remotely have become a popular way to stay connected with friends and family amid the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier today, Hulu announced t

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Italy’s Commerce Layer raises $6M led by Benchmark for its headless e-commerce platform

In the world of commerce, the last few months have underscored the fact that every retailer, brand and entity that sells or distributes something needs to have a digital strategy. Today, one of the st

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EQT acquires freemium graphics and stock photo marketplace, Freepik

Freepik, a Malaga-Spain based website which offers a curated freemium marketplace of vector graphics and stock photos fed by a community of contributing designers and photographers, is being acquired

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Moscow says visit to U.S.-funded disease lab in Georgia should not involve third party

Russian experts' visit to the U.S.-financed Richard G. Lugar Center for Public Health Research in Georgia should not involve a third party, the Russian Foreign Ministr