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CryptoPunks creator inks representation deal with major Hollywood talent agency

One of Hollywood’s biggest talent agencies is getting into the NFT game.Larva Labs, the creator of CryptoPunks, just signed with United Talent Agency (UTA) in a representation deal that will bri

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Elektra Health funnels new $3.75M round into helping women navigate menopause

Every woman will go through menopause some time during her life, but like many other femtech topics, this one is still not talked about as much as it should be.Enter Elektra Health, a women’s health t

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Immersive show 'Spectacle' debuts in Dali

Spectacle, an immersive, futuristic and experimental theatrical drama, premiered in Dali, Yunnan province, on June 19. The show is a unique blend of drama, music, visuals, arts and games.The dazzling

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Nixie’s drone-based water sampling could save cities time and money

Regularly testing waterways and reservoirs is a never-ending responsibility for utility companies and municipal safety authorities, and generally — as you might expect — involves either a boat or at l

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Immersive show 'Spectacle' debuts in Dali

Spectacle, an immersive, futuristic and experimental theatrical drama, premiered in Dali, Yunnan province, on June 19. The show is a unique blend of drama, music, visuals, arts and games.The dazzling

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Memory.ai, the startup behind time-tracking app Timely, raises $14M to build more AI-based productivity apps

Time is your most valuable asset — as the saying goes — and today a startup called Memory.ai, which is building AI-based productivity tools to help you with your own time management, is an

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Gillmor Gang: FreeCoin

The current rave about newsletters and so-called or social audio is just the latest version of the story of podcasting. Take the idea that podcasting is experiencing a new wave of popularity and scaff

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Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal resembles Trumpian tendencies

Kandahar Air Field, a NATO-led coalition forces' military base, in Daman district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan, April 15, 2021. /Xinhua Editor's note: Thomas O. Falk is a London-based pol

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Discord is launching new Clubhouse-like channels for audio events

Everyone is scrambling to build a Clubhouse clone right now, but for Discord it makes perfect sense.With everyone stuck at home searching for safe ways to rekindle their social lives over the last yea

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Google Area 120’s ThreadIt is bite-size video for team collaborations

The team at Google’s Area 120 in-house incubator says the idea for ThreadIt came well before COVID-19 made remote work a necessity for large swaths of the globe. Of course, the pandemic certainly acce

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Trumpism is not going anywhere

Editor's note: Thomas O. Falk is a London-based political analyst and commentator. He holds an MA in International Relations from the University of Birmingham and specializes in U.S. affairs. The

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The concept of 'Global Britain' is admirable but flawed

Flags of EU and the UK are seen outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain, January 7. 2019. /Xinhua Editor's note:Thomas O. Falk is a London-based political analyst and commentator.

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Cyberpunk 2077: A retro-futuristic fantasy with huge potential – if you can ignore the Cyberjank

Practically speaking, it’s nearly impossible to offer a real review of Cyberpunk 2077, the long-awaited follow-up to The Witcher 3 from developer CD Projekt Red. In the first place, it’s s

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How not to flex online: Why Chinese internet mocks humblebraggers

Internet users in China discover a more subtle way to flaunt privilege. /VCGConsider the following statement: "My husband bought me a pink Lamborghini …" The correct wa

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Five success factors for behavioral health startups

Telehealth, or remote, tech-enabled healthcare, has existed for years in primary medical care through companies like Teladoc (NYSE: TDOC), Doctors on Demand and MDLIVE.In recent years, the application

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Data from Dutch public broadcaster shows the value of ditching creepy ads

For anyone interested in the contested question of how much ‘value’ — or, well, how little — publishers derive from the privacy-hostile practice of tracking web users to behavi

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Kibbo wants to remake the trailer park so #vanlife can be a life and not a lifestyle

Colin O’Donnell was already rethinking the notion of what makes cities and communities function even before the COVID-19 epidemic swept through the U.S. and revealed some of the cracks in centur