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Latin America takes the global lead in VC directed to female co-founders

When Flavia Deutsch and Paula Crespi were raising a groundbreaking $1.7 million seed round for their parenting startup in Brazil, they had to turn away male investors.“The men were already writing us

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Pew: 30% of U.S. adults have used online dating; 12% found a committed relationships from it

Dating app usage in the U.S. is on the rise, but so are the issues it brings. According to a new Pew Research Center report on online dating, out today, 30% of U.S. adults have at some point used a da

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15 Tickets Left to TechCrunch Winter Party Tomorrow

On February 7, aka this Friday, the Bay Area startup community will descend on Galvanize to celebrate everything great and small about tech startups at the 3rd Annual TechCrunch Winter Party.Lucky for

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Netflix’s horrible autoplay previews can be turned off

Listen, this week sucks. Last week pretty much sucked, too. Honestly, it’s probably time to just scrap this stupid jerk of a year and give 2021 a go. (Spoiler: that one will suck, too). But you take y

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NASA seeks Moon rover concepts from industry

NASA is looking for input from industry – including vehicle makers and tech companies not necessarily already in the space business – as to what future lunar rovers should look like. This is part of i

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Nuro’s new delivery R2 bot gets the first driverless vehicle exemption from feds

Nuro, the autonomous delivery startup that raised $940 million in financing from Softbank Vision Fund last year, is the first company to receive a driverless exemption from the federal government.The

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Datree announces $8M Series A as it joins Y Combinator

Datree, the early-stage startup building a DevOps policy engine on GitHub, announced an $8 million Series A today. It also announced it has joined the Y Combinator Winter 20 cohort.Blumberg and TLV Pa

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Why Astra built a space startup and rocket factory in Silicon Valley

There’s a new launch startup in the mix called Astra, which has been operating in semi-stealth mode for the past three years, building its rockets just a stone’s throw from the heart of st

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China asks businesses to orderly resume operation

Chinese authorities Thursday asked businesses outside Hubei Province to orderly resume operation while continuing to fight the novel coronavirus outbreak. This will pr

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Elon Musk's song hits SoundCloud top 10

The electronic dance song titled 'Don't Doubt ur Vibe' has been listened to more than 2.6 million times.

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At least 41 people killed in 2 avalanches in eastern Turkey

The death toll in two avalanches in eastern Turkey reached 41 on Thursday, semi-official Anadolu Agency reported. The high number of causalities came on Wednesday afte

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U.S. judge: Claim against Ronaldo belongs in arbitration

A legal fight by soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo against a Nevada woman who wants more than the 375,000 U.S. dollars she received in a rape case hush-money settlement in 2010 should be decided by an

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OPEC's 60th anniversary to be marked in Iraq: media report

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will hold a meeting in Baghdad in September to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the organization's founda

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Trump hosts Venezuelan opposition leader at White House

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido waves as President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 202

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Indonesia's 'chickenization' program aimed at building character

Children as young as 10 years old are required to raise chickens and care for plants. /CGTN Photo It's a misty morning in Bandung, West Java and Ujang is getting his son, Adyaksha, ready for s

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Makeshift hospitals start to accept patients in China's Wuhan

The first makeshift hospital converted from an exhibition center in epidemic-hit Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, began accepting patients Wednesday.

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US backs Cyprus amid tensions with Turkey over gas drilling

The U.S. backs energy-based partnerships in the eastern Mediterranean that bolster political cooperation and prosperity and is urging against “provocative actions" that