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Marie-Antoinette and lover's censored letters deciphered

Love letters between the ill-fated French queen Marie-Antoinette and her lover, which contain key passages rendered illegible by censor marks, have been deciphered usin

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NetApp to acquire Spot (formerly Spotinst) to gain cloud infrastructure management tools

When Spotinst rebranded to Spot in March, it seemed big changes were afoot for the startup, which originally helped companies find and manage cheap infrastructure known as spot instances (hence its or

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What the last 2 months of fundraising tells us about the future

For many startups looking to secure funds, the fundraising marketplace has been a bit of a roller coaster. While there are signs that should make founders feel very optimistic (more on that here), it’

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Across China: "Uncle Dwarf" stands tall pursuing booklover's dream

Wu Xuejun at the cultural center in Ganchengzi Village in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. (Xinhua) As the sun descends below the horizon and the light

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Pitch deck teardown: The making of Atlassian’s 2015 roadshow presentation

In 2015, Atlassian was preparing to go public, but it was not your typical company in so many ways. For starters, it was founded in Australia, it had two co-founder co-CEOs, and it offered collaborati

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A service that detects ‘China apps’ goes viral in India

The app’s name says it all: Remove China Apps.Developed by a self-proclaimed “Indian startup” named OneTouch AppLabs, Remove China Apps crossed 1 million downloads within 10 days of

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With rare candor, employees protest Facebook's Trump policy

Facebook employees are using Twitter and Facebook's internal communications tools to register their frustration over CEO Mark Zuckerberg's decision to leave up posts by President Donald Trump that

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Salesforce names Vlocity founder David Schmaier CEO of new Salesforce Industries division

When Salesforce announced it was acquiring Vlocity for $1.33 billion in February, it was a deal that made sense for both companies. Today, the company announced that the deal has closed and Vlocity CE

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Tech cos. respond to George Floyd’s death, ensuing protests and systematic racism

On Sunday, a fourth night of protests erupted around the country, spurred on by the May 25 death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police. The movement is a response to wide-ranging and

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The case for clear masks, visors, and face shields

The pandemic has made wearing face masks in public an essential part of our lives, as governments encourage or make their use mandatory to prevent the spread of the virus. And face masks are likely t

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Daily Crunch: Trump takes aim at social media companies

President Trump follows through on his threat to challenge the legal protections enjoyed by social media and internet companies, Magic Leap’s CEO is stepping down and China sees its biggest auto

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Cisco to acquire internet monitoring solution ThousandEyes

When Cisco bought AppDynamics in 2017 for $3.7 billion just before the IPO, the company sent a clear signal it wanted to move beyond its pure network hardware roots into the software monitoring side o

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Talent show highlights young musicians

The talent show We Are Blazing, where young music groups including idol groups R1SE, SNH48, Black ACE and indie rock group Penicillion compete onstage will be aired on Tencent's video platform on

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HK national security legislation will thwart color revolution attempts

04:47 Editor's note: China's legislature approved the proposal for enacting national security legislation in Hong Kong on the last day of China's 2020 National People's Congress sessio

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Onboarding employees and maintaining culture in a remote work environment 

It all happened so fast.In a matter of weeks, companies everywhere shut down offices and went fully remote — with employees working from home and connecting over video and email instead of in-pe

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After Twitter fact-check, Trump threatens to regulate or close down social media platforms

Once again, Trump has doubled down. Following the addition of a fact-checking warning label added to his tweet about mail-in ballots, Trump took to the platform yet again to denounce it. In what may b

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Improving China's talent recruitment, key to boosting development

Graduate students enter the venue before the Columbia University Commencement ceremony in New York, the United States, May 22, 2019. /Xinhua Editor's note: Wang Huiyao is President of the Cent