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Noise-canceling headphones that pair big sound with sweet silence

I never thought I’d need a pair of serious noise-canceling headphones. I don’t mind hours of droning white noise on international flights and generally don’t like feeling like my head’s been locked in

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Kahoot drops $50M on Drops to add language learning to its gamified education stable

After raising $215 million from SoftBank to double down on the surge of interest in online learning, Kahoot has made an acquisition to expand the scope of subjects that it covers. The popular startup,

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Brexit’s data compliance burden could cost UK firms up to £1.6BN, says think tank

An analysis of the total cost to UK businesses if the country fails to gain an adequacy agreement from the European Commission once it leaves the bloc at the end of the year — creating barriers

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Digital marketing firms file UK competition complaint against Google’s Privacy Sandbox

Google’s push to phase out third party tracking cookies — aka its ‘Privacy Sandbox’ initiative — is facing a competition challenge in Europe. A coalition of digital mark

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Saving the planet, the G20 way

A coal-fired power plant and a BP refinery beside a wind generator in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. /AP Editor's note:Stephen Ndegwa is a Nairobi-based communications expert, lecturer-scholar at the

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Distinctive China: Oriental brush outlines Chinese civilization charm

03:51 The origin of the writing brush in China can be traced back to the Neolithic age.This time-honored tool is widely used in Chinese calligraphy and painting.Togethe

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Exclusive: Chile can recover economy in five months

02:24 The South American nation of Chile certainly has its work cut out, given then existing social inequality that bubbled to the surface in November 2019. At the time, violent protes

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EU, U.S. should engage with China instead of confronting it over RCEP

Editor's Note:Ken Moak taught economic theory, public policy and globalization at the university level for 33 years. He co-authored the book "China's Economic Rise and Its Global Impact" in 2015.

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Neatsy wants to reduce sneaker returns with 3D foot scans

U.S.-based startup Neatsy AI is using the iPhone’s depth-sensing FaceID selfie camera as a foot scanner to capture 3D models for predicting a comfortable sneaker fit.Its app, currently soft laun

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Will the law catch up with Trump?

Donald Trump has never made a secret of the fact that he doesn't like losing.So, few were surprised by his refusal to acknowledge defeat in the recent presidential election. After all, this is a man

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Lime touts a 2020 turnaround and 2021 profitability

Micromobility company Lime says it has moved beyond the financial hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching a milestone that seemed unthinkable earlier this year.In short, the company is now

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Inside Affirm’s IPO filing: a look at its economics, profits and revenue concentration

Last night Affirm filed to go public, herding yet another unicorn into the end-of-year IPO corral. The consumer installment lending service joins DoorDash and Airbnb in filing recently, as a number of

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Instagram revamps its mobile messaging app Threads

Instagram is continuing to develop its standalone messaging app, Threads. Last month, the company modified the app to make it possible for users to message everyone, instead of just “close frie

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What China’s fintech market can teach the world

If you want to know what the future of finance looks like, head east, where it’s already been laid down in China. Digital payments through mobile phones are ubiquitous, and there is incredible innovat

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Bitcoin is rallying

Just in case you hadn’t heard, or are annoyed that folks aren’t writing about it: Bitcoin is rallying, up around 16% in the last week to a value of a little more than $18,000 as of this m

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Tapping into digital nomadism and ‘deep work’ trends, Skimlinks founder raises $1.5M for Flown

We already knew there was a big trend towards remote working, and this has only been drastically accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, the distractions of daily life can easily impin

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Twitter’s new Stories feature ‘Fleets’ is struggling under the load

Twitter’s new Stories feature, “Fleets,” appears to be struggling under the load. Launched this morning to Twitter’s global user base, Fleets appear at the top of the Twitter