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U.S. seeks to reassure allies after secret documents leak

Top U.S. diplomat Antony Blinken and defense chief Lloyd Austin spoke with their Ukrainian counterparts on Tuesday as Washington seeks to reassure its allies after doze

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Nine cyber attacks on UK's transport sector missed by mandatory reporting laws

The thresholds set for the mandatory reporting of cyber incidents across the energy, transport, health, water, and digital infrastructure sectors are so high that few if any incidents are actually being reported to government.

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Swarmia raises $8M Seed to help software development teams deal with data

Swarmia, a B2B SaaS company for software development teams dealing with data, has raised a €5.7 M Seed round and a previously unannounced 1M€ pre-seed round, taking its raise to €6.7M ($8M). The Seed

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HRW manufactures Xinjiang hysteria with financial capital

A flower grower weighs rose petals used for making rose sauce at a village in Hotan, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, June 6, 2018. /Xinhua Editor's note:Bobby Naderi is a L

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Private equity, a SPAC and an IPO walk into a bar

The first quarter of 2021 was a busy season for technology exits. Coming off a hot period in the final quarter of 2020, it was no surprise that tech upstarts pursued liquidity through a variety of mec

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ChargerHelp raises $2.75M to keep EV chargers working

The coming wave of electric vehicles will require more than thousands of charging stations. In addition to being installed, they also need to work — and today, that isn’t happening.If a station

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Amid growing challenges, Biden to hold 1st news conference

President Joe Biden held off on holding his first news conference so he could use it to celebrate passage of a defining legislative achievement, his giant COVID-19 reli

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Secrets of 'world's first computer' finally revealed after 2,000 years

02:20 UK-based scientists say they have taken a huge stride towards solving the mysterious workings of what has been called the "world's first computer."Researchers at University Colle

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Spain agrees on labor reform that will recognize delivery platform riders as employees

Spain’s government has reached an agreement with trade unions and business associations over labor reforms that will see delivery platform couriers recognized as employees, it said today.Once su

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Facebook targets emerging markets with the launch of Instagram Lite, an Android app that takes up just 2MB, in 170 countries

Growth for Facebook is coming from the developing world, and so the social network today made another key move to cater better to consumers in those countries. After nearly three years in the planning

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U.S. arrests wife of Mexican drug kingpin 'El Chapo' on drug charges

Emma Coronel Aispuro (C), wife of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, leaves federal court in New York, U.S., February 12, 2019. /AP The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was arres

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SolarWinds hackers access Microsoft source code, the company says

A Microsoft logo is seen in Los Angeles, California, U.S., November 7, 2017. /Reuters The hacking group behind U.S. software company SolarWinds compromise was able to break into Microsoft and

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Economic, tech development can't be separated from military potential

Chinese soldiers learn pottery at Tianjin National Defense Education Association Military-Civilian Integration Entrepreneurship Training Base. /ecns.cn Editor's note: Keith Lamb is a Universit

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Flexible expressions could lift 3D-generated faces out of the uncanny valley

3D-rendered faces are a big part of any major movie or game now, but the task of capturing and animated them in a natural way can be a tough one. Disney Research is working on ways to smooth out this

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Nigeria’s Kuda raises $10M to be the mobile-first challenger bank for Africa

The African continent is currently one of the fastest-growing regions when it comes to mobile growth, and financial technology companies that are building services to meet that rapidly-expanding marke

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Crypto-driven marketplace Zora raises $2M to build a sustainable creator economy

Dee Goens and Jacob Horne have both the exact and precisely opposite background that you’d expect to see from two people building a way for creators to build a sustainable economy for their followers

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U.S. Supreme Court vacancy may help Democrats in November

The passing of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the power vacuum it left on the court is set to become one of the most historic political fights in mo