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UK PM Boris Johnson’s Tories guilty of spamming voters

The governing party of the UK has been fined £10k by the national data protection watchdog for sending spam.The Information Commissioner’s (ICO) Office has sanctioned the Conservative Party foll

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A tale of two COVIDs

Medical personnel in personal protective equipment (PPE) conducting COVID-19 tests in Sydney, Australia. / AP Editor's note:Daryl Guppy is an international financial technical analysis expert

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Faction raises $4.3M to deploy 3-wheeled EVs for driverless delivery

Faction Technology founder and CEO Ain McKendrick didn’t have the $1 billion or the time that a typical automotive program might need to design and manufacture an EV that could be used for drive

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Xi Jinping holds phone talks with Azerbaijani president

China sees Azerbaijan as an important partner in Belt and Road development, President Xi Jinping said Wednesday, urging more efforts to deepen cooperation.Xi made the r

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Ditto raises $1.5 million to help teams collaborate on copy

Even as remote software uptake has boomed during the pandemic, certain workflows have gotten prioritized for specialized toolsets while other team members have been left piecemealing their productivit

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Belvo, LatAm’s answer to Plaid, raises $43M to scale its API for financial services

Belvo, a Latin American startup which has built an open finance API platform, announced today it has raised $43 million in a Series A round of funding.A mix of Silicon Valley and Latin American-based

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UK may require NHS workers to take COVID-19 vaccine

The British government may require National Health Service workers to be inoculated against COVID-19 — a contentious proposal that was immediately criticized by opposit

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A romantic moment for a sunbird couple

Photos taken on Thursday show a sunbird couple passionately in love in Enshi City of central China's Hubei Province. The birds were flying around each other, chasing an

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China condemns false statement on Xinjiang by LA Times

The Los Angeles Times published an editorial on the so-called "genocide" and "forced labor" in Xinjiang and advocated boycotting Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games on Friday.A spokesperson of the C

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Athletes to recognize health risks before attending Tokyo Olympics

Logo of the Tokyo Olympics. /CFP Athletes attending the coming Tokyo Olympics will need to sign a waiver in which they acknowledge that they may face health risks or death caused by coronaviru

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Heron struggles to swallow slippery loach in central China

For over 20 minutes, a young night heron held a pond loach between its bills, struggling to gobble the prey down in Jingzhou City of central China's Hubei Province on T

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South Africa starts jabs for elderly as virus surge looms

Spry and gray-haired, many dressed in their Sunday best or colorful African prints — and all sporting masks — dozens of South Africans aged 60 and over gathered at a go

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Tesla has installed 200,000 Powerwalls around the world so far

Tesla has installed its 200,000th Powerwall, the company’s home battery storage product, the company said in a tweet on Wednesday. Tesla’s CFO Zachary Kirkhorn told investors during a firs

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Belarus dissident arrested after Ryanair plane forced to land in Minsk

Ryanair Boeing 737-8AS (flight number FR4978) at Minsk International Airport after being diverted from its Lithuania-bound flightpath. /AFP A prominent opponent of Belarus's president was arre

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Climate risk platform Cervest raises $30M Series A led by Draper Esprit

Cervest – a startup with a platform that claims to quantify climate risk across multiple decades and threats down to the asset level – has raised a $30 million Series A round led by Draper

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Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck can power your home in an outage

The power of a pickup truck is not all about torque, horsepower, towing and hauling. Ford’s newest electric F-150 Lightning, which was unveiled Wednesday, is trying to change the meaning of truck powe

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China: U.S. call for boycott against Beijing Winter Olympics a 'farce'

China is strongly dissatisfied with and firmly opposed to certain people in the U.S. attempting to interrupt, impede and sabotage the preparations and hosting of the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022 o