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COVID-19: Thailand's school dropout rate soars

Education has become unaffordable for many families in Bangkok, Thailand, given the impact of the virus, as new groups are suddenly living in poverty. /CGTN Ten-year-old Phumeakkawut is like m

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UK housing boom may derail post-Brexit trade dreams

History suggests Britain's house price surge could threaten hopes of post-Brexit export-powered growth, if finance minister Rishi Sunak uses the housing market to fuel

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After selling Bread last year for over $500M, this founder just raised millions for his new fintech startup

When Daniel Simon sold Bread, a consumer purchase finance and payments startup he’d co-founded, to Alliance Data Systems for over $500 million late last year, he quickly set his sights on building ano

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Wagmo raises $12.5 million to offer pet insurance (and a lot more)

The pet care industry has boomed over the past several years. From Chewy’s IPO to the various veterinarian startups that have sprung up, VC money (and consumer cash) is flowing into the space.Wa

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FabricNano raises $12.5M to help scale its cell-free fossil fuel alternative technology

It’s not often that you hear DNA described as a wafer – but that’s the analogy that Grant Aarons, the founder of FabricNano, a cell-free biomanufacturing company uses to describe his company’s major p

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Malaysia rushing to vaccinate foreign migrant workers

Some Selangor companies are willing to buy COVID-19 vaccines for their staff and encourage them to get vaccinations, June 30, Selangor, Malaysia. /CGTN The vaccination center, in a gleaming ne

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Nodes & Links raises $11M to — maybe — save billions on the big projects the world needs now

Nodes Links is a scheduling platform for large-scale infrastructure projects which works out when the nuts and bolts for the bridge (for example) should be delivered, and in what order. Unsurprisingly

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Rocket startup Gilmour Space raises $46M Series C to take its small launch vehicle to orbit

Australian rocket launch startup Gilmour Space Technologies is betting that bigger isn’t always better. The company has developed a small launch vehicle it calls Eris, a 25-meter (82 foot) rocket that

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5 policies Washington should enact to end the climate crisis and joblessness

The importance of the U.S. startup ecosystem was made crystal clear during the pandemic: Many of us came to rely on new technologies that had been developed over the past decade, including revolutiona

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Duolingo filed to go public

Duolingo, a Pittsburgh-based language learning business last valued at $2.4 billion, has officially filed to go public.The 400-person company, which we explored in great detail in our EC-1, was co-fou

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Britain could face food shortages due to lorry driver crisis

Britain could face gaps on supermarket shelves this summer and an "unimaginable" collapse of supply chains after the pandemic and Brexit led to a shortage of more than

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You’re a carmaker, drink-taker, automator

The other week at TC Sessions: Mobility, I spoke to a trio of executives at top automotive companies about why they’re all so bullish about robotics. There are the obvious implications, of course. Aut

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Hamburger-flipping robotics company Miso introduces an automated beverage dispenser

How do you follow up a burger-flipping robot? If you’re Miso Robotics (which you likely are, if you’ve created a burger-flipping robot), the answer is simple: beverages. The robotics startup continues

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Toyota Research Institute shows how its robotics work with difficult surfaces in the home

Following this morning’s announcement that Hyundai has closed its acquisition of Boston Dynamics, another automotive company has posted some robotics news. The Toyota Research Institute announcement i

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Porsche to make high-performance batteries in joint venture with Customcells

Luxury sports car manufacturer Porsche AG is going into the battery business. The automaker said Monday it plans to open a new factory that will produce high-performance cells through a joint venture

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Investors say Eindhoven poised to become Netherlands’ No. 2 tech hub

Eindhoven might not immediately spring to mind as a high-tech hub, but the Netherlands city is keen to position itself as a center for deep tech in Europe.The Technical University of Eindhoven, High T

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eqtble, a platform that uses data analytics to create healthier workplaces, raises $2.7M seed

The eqtble founders (from l to r): Ethan Veres, Gabe Horwitz and Joseph Ifiegbu. (Image: eqtble)“People are the backbone of any organization. People are more important than the product. Without people