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Coordinating sectors key to achieving China's carbon neutrality goal

China aims to peak carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions before 2030. /CFPAchieving China's carbon peak goal and carbon neutral vision is a huge challenge, and requires arduou

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EV automaker Rivian partners with Samsung SDI in battery cell supply deal

Rivian, the Amazon-backed EV manufacturer aiming to bring an electric pickup to market later this year, has partnered with Samsung SDI as its battery cell supplier, the company said Monday.The two com

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Cruise strikes deal to launch robotaxi service in Dubai

Cruise has expanded its robotaxi ambitions beyond San Francisco. The autonomous vehicle subsidiary of GM that also has backing from SoftBank Vision Fund, Microsoft and Honda, has struck a deal to laun

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Saudi Aramco in $12.4 bln oil pipeline deal with EIG-led group

Branded oil tanks at Saudi Aramco oil facility in Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia, October 12, 2019. /Reuters Energy giant Saudi Aramco said it has struck a $12.4-billion deal to sell a minority stake in

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SoftBank Vision Fund 2 invests $160M in media localization provider Iyuno-SDI Group

Iyuno-SDI Group, a provider of translated subtitles and other media localization services, announced today it has raised $160 million in funding from SoftBank Vision 2. The company said this makes the

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U.S. to resume diplomatic ties with Palestine

The U.S. will resume diplomatic ties with Palestine severed under the Trump administration, the new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, told the UN Security Council Thursd

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Indian fantasy sports app Dream11’s parent firm raises $400 million

Dream Sports, the parent firm of fantasy sports app Dream11, has secured $400 million in a new financing round as the Mumbai-headquartered firm builds what it calls an “end-to-end sports tech company”

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Digitail, an app vets and their customers, raises $2.5M Seed round led by byFounders

Digitail, a cloud service for veterinary surgeries and customers, has raised $2.5M in a Seed round led by byFounders and Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), joined by Partech and a series of angels

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Epic Games buys photogrammetry software maker Capturing Reality

Epic Games is quickly becoming a more dominant force in gaming infrastructure MA after a string of recent purchases made to bulk up their Unreal Engine developer suite. Today, the company announced th

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U.S. strategic competition 'should not preclude working with China'

The White House released the Interim National Security Strategic Guidance on Wednesday, reiterating that "strategic competition does not, and should not, preclude working with China when it is in our

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Coupang may raise up to $3.6 billion in its IPO, at a potential valuation of $51 billion

According to an amended S-1 filing, South Korean e-commerce leader Coupang expects to price its initial public offering between $27 to $30 per share, potentially raising up to $3.6 billion. After the

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Trudeau set to meet Biden virtually on Tuesday

FILE PHOTO: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walks to a news conference in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 20, 2018. /VCG Photo Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to hold

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Databricks brings its lakehouse to Google Cloud

Databricks and Google Cloud today announced a new partnership that will bring to Databricks customers a deep integration with Google’s BigQuery platform and Google Kubernetes Engine. This will a

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The largest snow art in Finland, made of footsteps

Thousands of footsteps made this geometric artwork in the snow in the town of Espoo, outside of Helsinki, Finland. The artwork, the vision or IT consultant Janne Pyykkö, was made by a team of 12 v

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SuperAnnotate, a computer vision platform, partners with with open-source to spread visual ML

SuperAnnotate, a NoCode computer vision platform, is partnering with OpenCV, a non-profit organization that has built a large collection of open-source computer vision algorithms. The move means start

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People on U.S.-Mexico border debate future of border wall

03:05 On his first day in office, US President Joe Biden signed an executive order to halt construction of the U.S.-Mexicoborder wall.Thewallwas a controversial campaign promise by for

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Where will Myanmar politics go?

29:40 Myanmar’s military detained government leaders, including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint, over accusations of fraud in last year’s elections. A one-yea