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Layer gets $5.6M to make joint working on spreadsheets less hassle

Layer is not trying to replace Excel or Google Sheets. Instead the Berlin-based productivity startup wants to make life easier for those whose job entails wrangling massive spreadsheets and managing d

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Exit poll show Poland’s Duda leading in presidential runoff

A late exit poll in Poland’s presidential runoff Sunday showed the conservative, populist incumbent, Andrzej Duda, leading against the liberal, pro-Europe mayor of Wars

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Poland faces momentous choice in tight presidential runoff

Voters in Poland on Sunday will decide a tight runoff election between populist incumbent President Andrzej Duda and his liberal pro-European Union challenger, Warsaw M

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Biden campaign releases a flurry of digital DIY projects and virtual banners. Yes, there are Zoom backgrounds

2020 is a nightmare year by most metrics, and it’s also a worst-case-scenario emerging out of a best-case-scenario for Joe Biden . After trailing in early primary states, Biden came crashing bac

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Why Washington cautioning the Gulf lacks merit or credibility

The U.S. Capitol building in Washington DC, the United States, April 28, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Hamzah Rifaat Hussain is a former visiting fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington, and

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Britain and U.S. start post-Brexit trade talks

An aerial view shows cars that were offloaded from ships at Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) in Wilmington, California, on April 26, 2020. /VCG Britain begins post-Brexit trade talks with

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U.S. politicians in a COVID-19 fantasy bereft of science

Editor's note: The following article is taken from the Chinese-language opinion column "The Real Point."Despite the increasing number of conclusions reached by scientists across the world that the

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Self-driving car engineer Anthony Levandowski files motion to force Uber into arbitration

Anthony Levandowski, the star self-driving car engineer who was at the center of a trade secrets lawsuit, has filed a motion to compel Uber into arbitration in the hopes that his former employee wil

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COVID-19 Global Roundup: Governments in the Americas under fire

Editor's note: This is the 23rd article in the COVID-19 Global Roundup series. Here is the previous one: When will coronavirus end? United States Capitol Building /AFP The new coronavirus is n

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Afghan president to go ahead with inauguration despite rival's offer

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani will go ahead with his inauguration on Monday, a top aide said, despite an offer by his main political rival challenging him for the job t

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Amazon wants to depose president and secretary of Defense as part of JEDI protest

Today, AWS made public its Motion to Supplement the Record in its protest of the JEDI contract decision. As part of that process, the company has announced it wants to depose President Trump and Secr

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Iraqi cleric Sadr tells followers to clear sit-ins after PM appointed

Populist Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr urged his followers on Sunday to help security forces clear roads blocked during months of sit-in protests, calling for “day-to-da

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Brexit finally arrives Friday: A momentous yet quiet moment

Friday will mark a truly historic moment, but almost nothing will happen.A few Union Jack flags will be lowered from European Union buildings in Brussels, more will be

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McConnell-proposed timeframe for Trump impeachment trial opposed by Democrats

Democrats arguing their case against President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial called on the Senate on Tuesday to reject a timeframe proposed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell giving e

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EU chief warns UK must compromise to get Brexit trade deal

The president of the European Commission warned Britain on Wednesday that it won’t get the “highest quality access” to the European Union’s market after Brexit unless i

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Trump warns Iran of 'major retaliation,' threatens sanctions on Iraq

US President Donald Trump threatened "major retaliation" Sunday if Iran avenges the killing of a key military commander and he warned of massive economic sanctions agai