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Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap

An estimated 41 million Americans say they need life insurance but have yet to purchase coverage. Despite this awareness among consumers, the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association estimate

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European Super League — football matters, money matters too

02:39 A few days ago, 12 of Europe's biggest clubs announced that they will create a new league, called European Super League. It immediately sparked an outcry from fans, players and UE

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China's CanSino to offer COVID-19 vaccines to COVAX

Products of CanSinoBIO. /CFP China's CanSino Biologics Inc has proposed supplying "tens of millions of doses" of its single-dose COVID-19 vaccine to the global vaccine-sharing scheme known as

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Russian factory making life like faces for robots

00:53 Take a look inside this Russian factory that uses 3D printing and hyper-realistic artificial skin to develop more realistic robots. Check out The China Report, our new weekly new

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Italy fines Facebook 7M euros over data protection

Italy's antitrust regulator announced Wednesday a new fine of 7 million euros (about $8.45 million) against Facebook for misleading conduct on data protection.According to the Italian Competition Aut

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Mexico to lower virus alert level in many states

Mexico is reducing its COVID-19 alert level in about half of the country’s states amid a drop in infections and hospitalizations in many places, including the capital.M

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Argentina's first nationally-produced COVID-19 test

03:04 Argentina has produced its first nationwide COVID-19 test. The test uses a blood sample and measures antibodies in just minutes to confirm if someone has the virus. It's produced

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Elon Musk dunks on Facebook and recommends Signal in wake of U.S. Capitol insurrection attempt

Elon Musk, the tech billionaire set to likely soon become the world’s richest man, and one of the most influential voices in the world of tech entrepreneurship, continued his recent trend of cr

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Chinese phone maker Vivo launches smartphone in Kenya

Photo courtesy: VIVO Mobile SA - Twitter Chinese phone maker, Vivo on Tuesday launched the V20 smartphone in the Kenyan market amid rising demand for affordable high-quality mobile devices amo

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UK university develops 5-minute test for COVID-19

FILE PHOTO: People walk near a COVID-19 testing center in Liverpool, Britain, on Nov. 6, 2020. (Photo by Jon Super/Xinhua) Scientists at the University of Birmingham said Tuesday that they hav

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Painting with gemstones

Feng Ji's "Jardin de Giverny "necklace fetches $2.6 million at a Hong Kong auction. The designer is known for her signature style of floating gemstones. [Photo provided to China Daily] A Chines

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UK space launch startup Orbex raises $24 million for its reusable rockets

UK-based Orbex has raised a new $24 million funding round, led by BGF and Octopus Ventures, and including participation from existing investors High-Tech Gründerfonds, Heartcore Capital, and Elecnor

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China says U.S. should stop abusing the concept of national security

China on Friday strongly opposed the United States to unprovoked oppression of its companies and asked America to stop abusing the concept of national security after the Trump administration added

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Boost ROI with intent data and personalized multichannel marketing campaigns

Coronavirus is causing large and small businesses to drastically cut marketing budgets. In Forrester’s self-described “most optimistic scenario,” the analysts project a 28% drop in U.S. marketing spen

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AWS launches Trainium, its new custom ML training chip

At its annual re:Invent developer conference, AWS today announced the launch of AWS Trainium, the company’s next-gen custom chip dedicated to training machine learning models. The company promi

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Moderna to apply for authorization of COVID-19 vaccine in U.S., EU

Moderna Inc said it will apply for U.S. and European emergency authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine on Monday based on full results from a late-stage study that showed 94.1% efficacy with no serious

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The Trump administration will add SMIC, China’s largest chipmaker, to its defense blacklist: report

SMIC, one of largest chip makers in the world, is among several companies that the Department of Defense plans to designate as being owned or controlled by the Chinese military, reports Reuters. Earli