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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative backs Indian education startup Eruditus in $113 million fundraise

Mumbai-based Eruditus, which works with top universities globally to offer more than 100 executive-level courses to students in over 80 nations, said on Monday it has raised $113 million in a new fina

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Young people in France fear for future jobs amid COVID-19

02:36 Medhi Benmira is 20-year-old and lives just outside the capital of France, Paris.He used to be a temporary worker and lost one job due to the pandemic but managed to find a new r

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Kenya says floriculture sector to fully recover in 2021

Kenyan flowers on display at an international trade show. /Kenya Flower Council Kenya's floriculture sector will fully recover from the negative effects of COVID-19 pandemic in the middle of 2

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Hear from Lyft, Cruise, Nuro and Aurora about the road ahead for driverless vehicles

Autonomous vehicles have yet to become mainstream, but companies like Lyft, Cruise, Nuro and Aurora are still fighting the good fight. The AV space has always faced its share of regulatory and devel

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Samsung will reportedly test remote work program as South Korea copes with new COVID-19 cases

Samsung Electronics will reportedly begin trialing a work-from-home program for some employees next month as South Korea as the country deals with its largest increase in COVID-19 cases since March.

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Trump could act unilaterally to avoid U.S. airline layoffs, White House says

President Donald Trump is weighing executive action to avoid massive layoffs at U.S. airlines if Congress fails to agree a fresh coronavirus stimulus package, White Hou

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White House announces $1B investment for AI and quantum computing hubs

Building out its previous commitment, the White House is announcing a $1 billion investment into two of tech’s most promising frontiers, AI and quantum computing.Last year, the Trump administrat

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American Airlines to slash 19,000 jobs in October without aid

American Airlines passenger planes on the tarmac at Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida. /VCG Photo American Airlines plans to cut its workforce by 19,000 due to the impact of the CO

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American Airlines to cut 19,000 jobs in October without aid

American Airlines said on Tuesday its workforce will shrink by 40,000, including 19,000 involuntary cuts, in October as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to weigh on air travel, unless the government e

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XYZ Robotics raises $17M for its pick-and-place logistics robots

COVID-19 is proving to be a massive driver for robotics investments — and for good reason. Robots don’t call in sick, and they’re far less likely to be disease vectors than their human counterparts. C

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Instacart workers are demanding disaster relief amid CA wildfires

Gig Workers Collective, a gig worker-activist group led by Instacart shoppers, is asking Instacart to provide disaster relief to workers impacted by natural disasters. The demands come at a time when

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Eden intros SaaS tools in a bid to become a more comprehensive office management platform

Eden, the office management platform founded by Joe du Bey, is today announcing the launch of several new enterprise software features. The company, which offers a marketplace for office managers to p

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Meet the anti-antitrust startup club

When Congress called in tech CEOs to testify a few weeks ago, it felt like a defining moment. Hundreds of startups have become unicorns, with the largest worth more than $1 trillion (or perhaps $2 tri

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Bletchley Park, birth-place of the computer, faces uncertain future after pandemic hits income

Bletchley Park is an English country house that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. It built the world’s first programmable digital electronic comput

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Which Latin American countries are fighting COVID-19 most effectively?

On August 13, 2020, the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil dispatched troops to disinfect major tourist attractions ahead of their reopening. /CFP Latin America has assumed the undesirable mantl

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Daily Crunch: Palantir docs show $579M net loss

We dive into Palantir’s finances, Apple fires back against Epic Games and Lambda School raises funding. This is your Daily Crunch for August 21, 2020.The big story: Pal

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Spotlight: Rise in U.S. weekly jobless claims casts shadow on labor market recovery

The number of initial jobless claims in the United States rose back above the 1 million mark last week, casting shadow on the recovery of a labor market ravaged by the