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Playbook, which aims to be the ‘Dropbox for designers,’ raises $4M in round led by Founders Fund

When Jessica Ko was head of design at Google and then Opendoor, she realized that her teams spent about 90% of their time digging around Dropbox looking for assets.In many cases, they’d find older ver

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Palantir glitch allegedly granted some FBI staff unauthorized access to a crypto hacker’s data

Peter Thiel’s AI company Palantir, whose clients have included the CIA and US immigration agency ICE, is back in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. A new report claims a glitch in its secr

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War and want: How conflict drives poverty

03:25 According to the World Bank, living below the extreme poverty line means surviving on less than $1.90 a day. But poverty means much more than a lack of income and resources. It in

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Afghanistan: postmortem and preview

The biggest fallacy outside inFor Americans, the Afghan mission was doomed from the start. It was a fool's errand to treat Afghanistan as a political laboratory. The co

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Afghanistan: postmortem and preview

The biggest fallacy outside inFor Americans, the Afghan mission was doomed from the start. It was a fool's errand to treat Afghanistan as a political laboratory. The co

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A week into Taliban rule in Kabul, we talk to locals

Editor's note: On the 7th day of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, Mohammad Amini and his brother went to the streets of Kabul to speak with residents and Taliban members. The following first-person ac

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Fan violence rears its ugly head as Nice, Marseille game abandoned

Punches are exchanged in an ugly brawl involving players and fans during the Ligue 1 game between Nice and Marseille at the Allianz Riviera stadium in Nice, France, August 22, 2021. /CFP The m

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Tesla Bots may be the latest in a long line of Elon Musk claims that haven't come to fruition

The billionaire has a track record of making outrageous claims and predictions that have not come to fruition.

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Chinese mainland urges Japan to be 'prudent' over Taiwan question

An official of the Chinese mainland on Friday urged Japan to be "prudent with its words and actions" over the Taiwan question and stop making wrong remarks or taking wr

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Samsung’s refined Galaxy Fold

Samsung wasn’t quite ready to declare the Galaxy Note dead. Not just yet. When we put the question to the company again after this month’s Unpacked event, a rep told us:Samsung is constantly evaluatin

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Su Bingtian: Scientific training plays a key role in my success

Su Bingtian of China celebrates after finishing men's 100m semifinal at 9.83 seconds in the Tokyo Olympics at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan, August 1, 2021. /CFPC

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A mathematician walks into a bar (of disinformation)

Disinformation, misinformation, infotainment, algowars — if the debates over the future of media the past few decades have meant anything, they’ve at least left a pungent imprint on the English langua

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Let’s make a deal: A crash course on corporate development

Wash, rinse, repeat: A startup is founded, first product ships, customers engage, and then a larger company’s corporate development team sends a blind email requesting to “connect and compare notes.”I

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Why is Embiid signing a huge contract extension with the 76ers now?

Joel Embiid (#21) of the Philadelphia 76ers looks on in Game 6 of the NBA Eastern Conference semifinals against the Atlanta Hawks at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., June 18, 2021. /CF

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China urges Japan to rethink 'security talks' with Taiwan's DPP

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying on Thursday urged Japan to stop interfering in China's internal affairs and rethink plans for "security talks" betwee

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RepairSmith raises $42M Series B to bring auto repair to customers’ doorsteps

Needing to get your car fixed is like having a toothache: It’s painful, hard to ignore and likely means someone messing around under the hood. RepairSmith, launched in 2019, wants to make that process

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APD | The US debacle in Afghanistan

Author: Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan, Sinologist (ex-Diplomat), Editor, Analyst, Non-Resident Fellow of CCG (Center for China and Globalization), National University o