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Chinese smartphone makers poised to challenge Google's app store

Editor's note: Matteo Giovannini is a finance professional at ICBC in Beijing and a member of the China Task Force at the Italian Ministry of Economic Development. The article reflects the author'

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NASA's Mars 2020 rover goes coast-to-coast to prepare for launch

NASA's next Mars rover has arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for its launch to the Red Planet this July, according to a release of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on Wednesday. T

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Will Apple, Facebook or Microsoft be the future of augmented reality?

Apple is seen by some as critical to the future of augmented reality, despite limited traction for ARKit so far and its absence from smartglasses (again, so far). Yet Facebook, Microsoft and others ar

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FAO to strengthen South-South, triangular cooperation to accelerate agri-food systems transformation

Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Qu Dongyu on Wednesday said the organization will further leverage the full potential of South-South and triangular cooperation to

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Anniversary Sale: Get 1 year of Extra Crunch for $99

Last February we launched Extra Crunch, and today we’re celebrating its one-year anniversary. As a token of appreciation to our readers, we’re offering a limited-time deal for annual Extra Crunch memb

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UK prisoner tested for Covid-19 named

A man who was extradited from Thailand to the UK on drugs charges is being tested for the novel coronavirus, Covid-19. Rumble is being held at Bullingdon prison near Oxford, after his arrest in T

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China to take measures to prevent COVID-19 infection on campus

China will take measures to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in colleges and universities, an education official said Wednesday. Wang Dengfeng, a

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New infections of novel coronavirus drop for 8th consecutive day outside Hubei

China's new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus pneumonia outside Hubei Province, where the epicenter city of Wuhan is located, has been dropping for eight consecutiv

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China beat Chinese Taipei 5-0 in Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament

Players of China celebrate after scoring against Chinese Taipei in the AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Sydney, Australia, February 10, 2020. /VCG Photo China's women's national fo

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Man Utd seek permission for 'safe standing' at Old Trafford

The Old Trafford Stadium prior to a Premier League match between Manchester United and Burnley, Manchester, UK, January 22, 2020. /VCG Photo Manchester United have applied for rail seating to

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Chicago high school students take a sip of Chinese culture

It took a while for Larry Cowley to build his paper lantern craft. It is not the first time for the 10th grader at Wendell Phillips Academy High School on the south side of Chicago to try his hands

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Philippine VFA Agreement Explained as Duterte Moves to Terminate Military Pact With the US

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte had earlier vowed to end the existing agreement between his country and the United States. The pact outlined the rules of the Ameri

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Sprint/T-Mobile merger gets federal judge approval

The U.S. mobile landscape is on track to look a whole lot different. A hotly contested $26 billion deal between T-Mobile and Sprint just got the go ahead from a U.S. district court judge. The merger w

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FTC to examine every acquisition by Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft in 2010-2019 over antitrust issues

Companies like Apple, Amazon and Google do not always disclose every acquisition they make, especially when the companies in question are little fish in the tech big po

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Adebayor completes move to Paraguayan side Olimpia

FILE PHOTO: Emmanuel Adebayor of Istanbul Basaksehir during the UEFA Europa League Third Round Qualifier: Second Leg metch between Burnley and Istanbul Basaksehir at Turf Moor on August 16, 2018

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Free streaming service Tubi claims 25M monthly users as of December

Free streaming service Tubi is growing. The company announced today it reached 25 million monthly active users as of December, up from the 20 million it reported in mid-2019. In addition, it claims us

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Solid rocket fuel startup Adranos raises $1 million to scale up manufacturing

Indiana-based rocket fuel startup Adranos has raised $1 million, after closing an oversubscribed round led by Archibald Cox Jr., chairman of private investment firm Sextant Group. The funding will be