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Smart cookie! AI helps Google staff develop recipes for hybrid pastry

Why have cupcakes when you can try cakies? /CFP Recipe development is an art, but what happens when a data scientist takes on an ambitious baking project? Here's a hint: hybrid bakes.The world

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Divisions among Gulf nations are easy to start but difficult to end

Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (L) is welcomed by Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman (R) ahead of the 41st Summit of Gulf Cooperation Council in Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia,

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Dollar nears multi-year lows after Democrats take control of Senate

U.S. dollars and other world currencies lie in a charity receptacle at Pearson international airport in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 13, 2018. /Reuters The dollar languished near its lowest

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Indonesian robo-advisor app Bibit raises $30 million led by Sequoia Capital India

Bibit, a robo-advisor app that wants to make investing more accessible in Indonesia, has raised $30 million from Sequoia Capital India. Returning investors East Ventures, EV Growth, AC Ventures and 50

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Coral Vita cultivates $2M seed to take its reef restoration mission global

Coral reefs all over the world are struggling to survive, with millions of people and billions of dollars in business that rely on them at risk — on top of the fundamental tragedy of losing such a cru

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China to further increase soil fertility to secure food supply

Combine harvesters work in a field in Hulunbuir, northeastern China's Inner Mongolia on August 26, 2008. The combine harvests and returns the crop stalks to the land to

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Agile, science-based legislation key to Chinese food security

Editor's note: Barry He is a London-based freelance columnist. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.Food self-sufficiency a

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Japan stocks lead Asian shares higher as U.S. stimulus fuels rally

Asian shares rose on Tuesday, with Japanese stocks hitting a 30-year high, as investor risk was encouraged by a Brexit trade deal and hopes a long-awaited U.S. pandemic relief package will be expa

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NE China's Chagan Lake embraces winter fishing amid pandemic

02:31 It's winter fishing season at Chagan Lake in northeastern China's Jilin Province, the first since coronavirus prevention and control became the norm. Every year,

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EU-UK trade talks slog on past another Brexit deadline

Problems increased Monday for the attempt to secure a trade deal between the European Union and the United Kingdom before a Brexit transition period ends on New Year's

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Solid fundamentals for Chinese yuan likely to be extended into 2021

Editor's Note: Jimmy Zhu is chief strategist at Fullerton Research. The article reflects the author's opinion, and not necessarily the views of CGTN. Domestic economic conditions in China and a we

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EU-UK trade talks floundering over fish as cutoff day nears

Deep into a crucial weekend of negotiations, a breakthrough on fishing rights remained elusive for the European Union and Britain, leaving both without a trade agreemen

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Can you IPO sneakers? Also, this is the last Exchange roundup of the year

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Wan

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Fed vows to continue bond-buying until it sees 'substantial' progress

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday vowed to continue bond-buying until "substantial" economic progress is made in inflation and the labor market.In a statement at the conclusion of its two-day polic

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Japan Inc shakes off initial COVID-19 gloom but resurgence hits capex

Japanese business sentiment improved at the fastest pace in nearly two decades in the October-December period, a key central bank survey showed, a welcome sign for the economy as it emerges from t

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EU leaders must hold the green line

Editor's note: Pascal Lamy is a former director-general of the World Trade Organization and EU trade commissioner. Enrico Letta is a former prime minister of Italy. Laurence Tubiana, a former Fren

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U.S. sanctions against Chinese officials signify rank propaganda

People wave the Chinese national flag and the flag of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region at a pier in Tsim Sha Tsui of Hong Kong, south China, August 8, 2019. /Xinhua Editor's note:Ha