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'Boiling' ice floe appears in China's 'coldest town'

01:02 Bone-chilled sub-zero temperatures have turned a river in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province into a magical-looking wonder scene with ice floes "boiling" in

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Expert: China, Japan and the ROK are speeding up FTA negotiations

01:44 China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK), the regional triangle is geographically close and culturally linked, with complicated rivalries over history and territorial claims.

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Is the China-U.S. trade war driving China's 'sci-tech independence'?

Since the world learned the phrase from the fifth plenary session of the 19th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, the concurring assessment is that the Ch

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India-U.S. 'enemy of my enemy' military pact not destined to endure

India and the U.S. have made a premeditated choice to sign a military agreement dubbed the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA) to share high-end military te

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India-U.S. 'enemy of my enemy' military pact not destined to endure

India and the U.S. have made a premeditated choice to sign a military agreement dubbed the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA) to share high-end military te

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Gillmor Gang: Unsuppressed

Not just the future of civilization is up for grabs this November. In this age of mobile social computing, we’re figuring out how to vote, entertain, teach, learn, and commit to meaningful change. Tha

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The CPC's fifth plenum and China's 14th Five-Year Plan 2021-2025

04:30 I'm Robert Lawrence Kuhn and here's what I'm watching: The fifth plenum of the 19th Communist Party of China Central Committee, its agenda and impact.Foreigners w

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Political strategist turned tech investor Bradley Tusk on SPACs as a tool for VCs

Bradley Tusk has become known in recent years for being involved in what’s about to get hot, from his early days advising Uber, to writing one of the first checks to the insurance startup Lemon

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Trump says ‘nobody gets hacked’ but forgot his hotel chain was hacked — twice

According to President Trump speaking at a campaign event in Tucson, Arizona, on Monday, “nobody gets hacked.” You don’t need someone who covers security day in and day out to call b

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Whisper announces $35M Series B to change hearing aids with AI and subscription model

A few years ago, Whisper president and co-founder Andrew Song was talking to his grandfather about his hearing aids. Even though he spent thousands of dollars on a medical device designed to improve h

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2020 IPO report card: Are tech’s newest public companies meeting expectations?

As the American election looms and the IPO cycle slows some, it’s a good time to review how well the public offerings we have seen thus far have performed.The Exchange explores startups, markets

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France extends multi-billion-dollar COVID-19 furlough scheme

France's furlough scheme will be extended for hotels, cafes and restaurants. /AFP The French government has announced its temporary unemployment scheme, through which the state pays all an emp

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Media roundup: Google to cut big checks for news publishers, Substack continues to draw top creators, more

Welcome back to Extra Crunch’s Media Roundup, where I round up the stories that entrepreneurs in the content and advertising business should be thinking about — trends, larger platform shifts, as well

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Instagram’s Threads app now lets you message everyone, like its Direct app once did

Last year, Instagram announced it was ending support for its standalone mobile messaging app known as Direct, which had allowed users to quickly create and share messages with friends. Shortly thereaf

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Air quality monitoring service Airly raises $2 million as fires, pollution force consumers to take note

As smoke from fires chokes the skies Western U.S. and pollution chokes much of the world, air quality has become yet another issue for civilization to address.Industrialization and natural disasters w

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With a Warby Parker playbook, SISU raises funding from Greycroft to face-off against cosmetic clinics

With so many people getting ‘botox’ and ‘filler’ treatments to their faces these days (or are they, during the pandemic?), it’s probably no wonder that Venture Capital has deci

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China is poised to overtake U.S. to be No. 1 film market

The Chinese film market looks to surpass North America this year due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on ticket sales and helped in part by the war epic The Eight Hundred, which recently became