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Fast food trash accounts for '88% of world's coastline litter'

A diver swims through plastic off the coast in Bali, Indonesia. /CFP Fast-food and beverage packaging has been identified as the primary source of plastic litter accumulating along the world's

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Synctera raises $33M Series A to pair fintechs with banks

Synctera, which aims to serve as a matchmaker for community banks and fintechs, has raised $33 million in a Series A round of funding led by Fin VC.The raise comes just

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Okay, the GPT-3 hype seems pretty reasonable

This morning TechCrunch covered an interesting round for Copy.ai, a startup that employs GPT-3 to help other companies with their writing projects. GPT-3, or Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3, is a

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Genesis raises $45M to expand its fintech-focussed low-code platform to more verticals

Low-code and no-code tools have been a huge hit with enterprises keen to give their operations more of a tech boost, but often lack the resources to handle more complex integrations. Today, one of the

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From startups to Starbucks: The embedded API opportunity

Stripe recently made headlines with its entrance into the banking world with Stripe Treasury. The news follows Google’s banking and payments announcement along with IPO bound companies such as Airbnb,

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Trump lost but is far from gone

Editor's note: Johannes Drooghaag is an analyst and strategist for cybersecurity in the Netherlands and author of "The Human Element in Cyber Security." The article reflects the author's opinions

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Google’s new logos are bad

Google really whiffed with the new logos for its “reimagination” of G Suite as Google Workspace, replacing icons that are familiar, recognizable, and in Gmail’s case iconic if you w

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McDonald's, Burger King: No toxic PFASs in food wrappers in China

A McDonald's restaurant in China. /CFP The China franchise of McDonald's and Burger King stated on Monday that there are no toxic PFAS substances in food wrappers in China after their overseas

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Discover China: South China islanders guard whales' "dining hall"

As the tide was still on the ebb at 6 a.m. on Weizhou Island in south China, Chen Mo, a marine biologist, got up, donned a wetsuit and grabbed his sampling tools, rush

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Healthy food more valued on New Year's dinner table

Visitors view the Spring Festival dishes made of polymer clay during an exhibition at Laishaoqi Gallery in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, Jan. 25, 2019.(Xinhua/Ge Yinian) Chinese N

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Woman makes dress out of more than 10,000 Starburst candy wrappers

Thiswoman’sdresssureisonesweetfashionstatement.EmilySeilhamer,ofElizabethtown,Pennsylvania,madethecolorfuldressentirelyoutofStarburstcandywrappers.Shesaidsheuse