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Spanish airfield used as EU hub for arriving Afghan refugees

00:59 "Espana! Espana! Vamos!" These were cries heard at Afghanistan's Kabul airport as the latest military plane carrying evacuees left for Spain. Thousands of people have been trying

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COVID: Britain reports 38,281 infections, 140 more deaths

The United Kingdom has recorded 38,281 new COVID cases and 140 more coronavirus-related deaths in the latest 24-hour period, government data shows. /Xinhua The United Kingdom has recorded 38,2

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Update: At least 10 people killed in Kabul airport explosion

Photo taken with mobile phone shows smoke rises near the blast site at an airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 26, 2021. /Xinhua At least 10 people were killed and many others injured after a

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AI voice, synthetic speech company LOVO gets $4.5M pre-series A funding

“Voice skins” have become a very popular feature for AI-based voice assistants, to help personalize some of the more anodyne aspects of helpful, yet also kind of bland and robotic, speaking voices you

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BreezoMeter, which powers air quality in Apple’s Weather app, launches Wildfire Tracker

BreezoMeter has been on a mission to make environmental health hazards accessible to as many people as possible. Through its air quality index (AQI) calculations, the Israel-based company can now iden

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Lordstown Motors taps former Icahn exec as CEO to put its EV truck ambitions back on track

Lordstown Motors has hired Daniel A. Ninivaggi, a longtime automotive executive and former head of Carl C. Icahn’s holding company, as CEO and a board member. The appointment follows months of t

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Taliban and resistance force hold first direct talks to avoid conflict

Officials from anti-Taliban forces National Resistance Front (NRF) and the Taliban hold their first direct talks, Charikar, the capital Parwan province, August 25, 2021. /Local media Officials

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Why my dream is to migrate to Afghanistan: A lesson in imperial migration

By carrying this ideological baggage of empire, it is no wonder that the laboring class now resents the multicultural society thrust upon them. Liberals, on the other h

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Why my dream is to migrate to Afghanistan: A lesson in imperial migration

By carrying this ideological baggage of empire, it is no wonder that the laboring class now resents the multicultural society thrust upon them. Liberals, on the other h

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Kanye wants to sell you a $200 music gadget

Kanye (or “Ye,” as it were) is going all out in the promotion of his upcoming tenth studio album, “Donda” (named for his late-mother, Donda West). In July, there was a massive listening pa

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Hulu launches support for HDR on select original content

For the first time, Hulu has started adding support for HDR viewing, years after some of its competitors. The gradual rollout of HDR support began on August 19, Hulu told TechCrunch, and should be ava

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Mindset, an artist-driven mental wellness audio platform, raises $8.7M from Scooter Braun’s TQ Ventures and others

Mindset, a platform featuring personal story collections from recording artists, announced today that it raised $8.7 million in seed funding.As co-founders of the K-pop-focused podcast production comp

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OnlyFans’ policy change is a tale as old as the internet

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.For our Wednesday show this week, Natasha and Alex and Danny had collea

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Wild tortoise's 'horrifying' attack on baby bird never seen before, say experts

The attack on the baby bird was seen on Fregate Island in the Seychelles and researchers think this new hunting behaviour has been driven by the unusual combination of a tree-nesting tern colony and a resident giant tortoise population in the area.

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OnlyFans scraps new policy banning 'sexually explicit' content

The adult content site's U-turn follows last week's announcement that it would ban images and videos showing "sexually explicit conduct".

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MaxAB gets an extra $15M, acquires YC-backed Moroccan startup WaystoCap

Last month, MaxAB, the Egyptian B2B e-commerce platform that serves food and grocery retailers, raised one of the largest Series A on the continent, to the tune of $40 million. Today, it has raised a

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Self-driving tech stumbles forward as accidents under probe

Tesla's Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday that the electric car maker was working on improving the much-awaited update to its self-driving software "as fast as p