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Apple News partners with NBCUniversal to share exclusive Olympics content

It’s hard to keep up with the Olympics any year, let alone when they’re taking place in a time zone that’s 13 hours ahead of you (if you’re on the U.S. East Coast). Apple News

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South African payments startup Yoco raises $83M Series C backed by Dragoneer

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute heavily to the economic success of many countries, particularly those in the developing world. They are the backbone of most economies: Globally, SMEs re

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Weightlifter Hou Zhihui wins second gold for Team China in Tokyo 2020

Hou Zhihui of China celebrates after winning the gold medal in women's weightlifting 49-kilogram final in the Tokyo Olympics, July 24, 2021. /CFP Hou Zhihui claimed the gold medal at the Tokyo

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Biden stumps for McAuliffe in early test of political clout

President Joe Biden led the kind of campaign rally on Friday that was impossible last year because of the pandemic, speaking before nearly 3,000 people in support of a

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Moving fast and breaking things cost us our privacy and security

Over the years, I’ve had a front-row seat to the future of technology.In my role at Y Combinator as director of admissions, I saw hundreds of startup pitches. Many shared a particular attribute: They

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Capitol attack committee chair vows to investigate Trump: ‘Nothing is off limits’

Congressman Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the new House select committee to scrutinize the Capitol attack, says he will investigate Donald Trump as part of his inqui

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Taliban says it 'favors political settlement' to Afghan conflict

00:42 The Taliban's supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada on Sunday said the group "strenuously favors" a political settlement to the conflict in Afghanistan.The announcement comes as re

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Athletes test COVID-19 positive days before start of Tokyo Olympics

The opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games is due to take place on Friday. /AP A rising number of athletes and staff involved in the delayed Tokyo Olympic Games are being forced to self-i

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Butlr Technologies, developing anonymous people sensors, inks $7.9M seed round

A new $7.9 million seed round boosts Butlr Technologies’ ability to apply its real-time people-sensing technology beyond commercial real estate and retail uses to monitor falls and other movements for

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YC-backed Deskimo, an on-demand coworking space app, launches in Singapore and Hong Kong

Arcc, a coworking space in Singapore available for bookings on DeskimoPart of Y Combinator’s current batch, Deskimo wants to make finding coworking spaces easier. Its on-demand booking app is currentl

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Next Gen Foods to launch its plant-based chicken in the U.S. after raising a $20M seed extension from investors like GGV

Singapore-based Next Gen Foods will bring its plant-based chicken alternative to the United States after raising a $20 million seed extension. Investors included GGV Capital, agriculture and food tech

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WebOps platform Pantheon raises $100M from SoftBank Vision Fund

WebOps SaaS platform Pantheon, which started out as a Drupal and WordPress hosting service many years ago, today announced that it has raised a $100 million Series E round solely funded by the Softban

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France’s Macron tries to slow delta variant, boost vaccines

Is France’s summer over already?Just three days ago, the country threw open its nightclubs for the first time in 16 months, completing a protracted national effort at r

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Uygur residents refute accusations of 'genocide' in Xinjiang

02:09 Uygur residents in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have refuted accusations of the so-called "genocide" against Muslim minorities there, saying

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r2c raises $27M to scale its security-focused code analysis service

This morning r2c, a startup building a SaaS service around the Semgrep open-source project, announced that it has closed a $27 million Series B. Felicis led the round, which the company said was a pre

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Opioid addiction treatment apps found sharing sensitive data with third parties

Several widely used opioid treatment recovery apps are accessing and sharing sensitive user data with third parties, a new investigation has found.As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to r

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Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto speaks on Duolingo’s IPO and luring venture capital to the Steel City

https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/30/pittsburghs-locomation-puts-a-convoy-twist-on-autonomous-trucking/Pittsburgh is known as the Steel City, but these days, the city is turning to startups rather than s