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Trump 'apoplectic' over Johnson giving green light to Huawei

The US disagrees with Boris Johnson's decision to allow Huawei to help develop 5G infrastructure in the UK.

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Advocating reform, activist investor Elliott Management takes a $2.5B stake in SoftBank

The activist investment firm Elliott Management has steadily amassed a $2.5 billion stake in the headline-grabbing, Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank even as a series of missteps battered the

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Women are the secret ingredient in Latin America’s outsized returns

Read the first part of this article, “Latin America takes the global lead in VC directed to female co-founders,” on TechCrunch.Latin America lags when it comes to female investorsInteresti

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Google and Facebook turn their backs on undersea cable to China

Google and Facebook seem to have resigned themselves to losing part of the longest and highest profile internet cable they have invested in to date. In a filing with the Federal Communications Commiss

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OptimoRoute raises $6.5M Series A to help businesses better plan their routes

Route planning sounds like it’s a problem for big logistics companies like Amazon, FedEx and UPS, but in reality, it’s something every small business with more than a few mobile employees

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What to expect from Samsung’s S20 event

Next Tuesday, Samsung kicks off smartphone season with its Unpacked event in San Francisco. One of two tentpole events for the company, the big show brings with it the latest edition of the company’s

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Tinder to add new features including tools to filter matches, text and photo prompts

In December, dating app Bumble announced new tools to filter match by more than just age and distance. Now, it seems Tinder is poised to do the same. Tinder parent company Match Group this week announ

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Nuro’s new delivery R2 bot gets the first driverless vehicle exemption from feds

Nuro, the autonomous delivery startup that raised $940 million in financing from Softbank Vision Fund last year, is the first company to receive a driverless exemption from the federal government.The

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Why Astra built a space startup and rocket factory in Silicon Valley

There’s a new launch startup in the mix called Astra, which has been operating in semi-stealth mode for the past three years, building its rockets just a stone’s throw from the heart of st

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Facebook’s use of Onavo spyware faces questions in EU antitrust probe — report

Facebook’s use of the Onavo spyware VPN app it acquired in 2013 — and used to inform its 2014 purchase of the then rival WhatsApp messaging platform — is on the radar of EuropeR

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Alphabet’s Loon and SoftBank’s HAPSMobile turn solar-powered drones into flying cell towers

Alphabet-owned Loon, the company that had been focused on delivering internet communications to remote areas via stratospheric balloons, has completed development work on a new payload for partner HAP

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Netskope hauls in another $340M investment on nearly $3B valuation

Netskope has always focused its particular flavor of security on the cloud, and as more workloads have moved there, it has certainly worked in its favor. Today the company announced a $340 million inv

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7-Eleven is the next retailer to test cashierless stores

7-Eleven is the latest retailer to test the “cashierless” store concept, following Amazon’s big push into the market with its Amazon Go convenience stores that use technology, instea

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Yarn made from human skin could be used as stitches

A team of scientists has created a textile from biomaterial which can seamlessly integrate with hosts' bodies.

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China cracks 1,116 fraud cases related to novel coronavirus

Public security authorities across China have cracked 1,116 fraud cases related to the pneumonia epidemic caused by the novel coronavirus, according to the Ministry of

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How optimistic should we be about containing coronavirus?

02:30 While the number of people infected with the novel coronavirus continues to climb, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Prof. Michael Levitt sees a glimmer of hope."In something like a

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In fight against coronavirus, reputed journals offer free access

As the confirmed cases and deaths caused by novel coronavirus spirals, reputed journals have opened access to research works to help researchers come up with a treatment for the infection.More tha