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APD | Disaster officials still maintain Alert Level 4; Chinese Ambassador Huang visits Taal Volcano evacuees

By APD writer Melo M. AcuñaMANILA, Jan. 19 (APD) – With still 70,413 persons temporarily sheltered in 300 evacuation centers, mostly public elementary and high schools,

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The last radio station

North of Silicon Valley, protected by the Point Reyes National Seashore, is the only operational ship-to-shore maritime radio station. Bearing the call sign KPH, the Point Reyes Station is the last of

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One man's handiwork rewrites the prospects of a small Slovenian town

In the real world, the vast majority of the people are earning money through hard and persistent work for years and years.Some are more successful at it than the rest of us. Their life is full of lon

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The paradox of 2020 VC is that the largest funds are doing the smallest rounds

I talked yesterday about how VCs are just tired these days. Too many deals, too little time per deal, and constant hyper-competition with other VCs for the same equity.VCs are just tiredOne founder fr

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BT and Vodafone to lobby PM in support of Huawei

The companies plan to warn the PM of the risks of banning Huawei from the 5G network, Sky News learns.

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Chinese president calls on China, Myanmar to write new chapter for millennium-old fraternal ties

Chinese President Xi Jinping said he looks forward to renewing China's "pauk-phaw" (fraternal) ties with Myanmar in a signed articled published Thursday on Myanmese ne

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Crowdfunded hardware startups are breathing fresh life into music making

I love music. Seriously, it’s one of the few things that brings solace in this cold, lonely world. Want to go deep on Joni Mitchell, William Onyeabor or Pablo Casals? I’m game. Yes, I worked at multip

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Questions of racism linger as Harry, Meghan step back

Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, leave after visiting Canada House in London, after their recent stay in Canada, January 7, 2020. American actress Meghan Markle married P

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Revealing characters

A character-forming display of elegance and style has seen Wu Dichen, 29, garner more than 1 million fans as her soft smile belies the depth of her expertise and her exquisite style.Wu has won over nu

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Atrium lays off lawyers, explains pivot to legal tech

$75 million-funded legal services startup Atrium doesn’t want to be the next company to implode as the tech industry tightens its belt and businesses chase margins instead of growth via unsustai

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Another former Kleiner partner launches a fund; this time it’s Lynn Chou O’Keefe with Define Ventures

Kleiner is known for many things. Among them, increasing, the growing number of people who’ve logged time at the firm, then struck out on their own to start hang their own shingles.The latest am

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Queen gathers royals for crisis meeting with Prince Harry

Queen Elizabeth II and other senior British royals were gathering for a meeting Monday with Prince Harry in an attempt to solve the crisis triggered by his bombshell an

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MI5 chief shrugs off US warnings about Huawei

Sir Andrew Parker's comments come despite Washington officials repeatedly threatening to "reassess" the intelligence relationship.

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After delays, noise-adapting NuraLoop earbuds are coming soon and sound great

A few buffet mistakes aside, NuraLoop were the biggest disappointment of my 2019 CES. When the headphones showed up at the show as dummy units, it hurt my heart a little. The original Nuraphones made

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India’s top court rules indefinite internet shutdown in Kashmir unwarranted and amounts to abuse of power

India’s top court ruled on Friday that the indefinite shutdown of the internet in Kashmir was unwarranted and demonstrated “abuse of power” by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi -led governm

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Chinese court rules AI-generated article is entitled to copyright

The ability to create is one of the natural endowments that distinguish human beings from other creatures. And undoubtedly, any form of art, literature, music, photography or writing created by hu

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Met museum marks 150th anniversary with story-sharing project

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) in New York City has launched a project to collect and share personal stories related to the museum to mark its 150th anniversa