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Japan city uses tsunami lessons for COVID-19 vaccinations

Tamio Hayashi, 77, doubted he could ever navigate the internet systems set up to register for COVID-19 vaccines across most of Japan.He hated the idea of using the "tro

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Terry McAuliffe is the face of the Democratic Party, circa 2021?

Ask anyone: The Democratic Party is growing more diverse, younger, more liberal and averse to the establishment.Except that in the single biggest contest of 2021 (and t

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Another 7,540 coronavirus cases recorded in the UK

more than one million people booked a COVID-19 vaccine through the NHS website on Tuesday - a record high. /Xinhua The UK has recorded another7,540 cases of COVID-19, meaning that 41,889 diagn

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Role model statues on display at community center

A statue of Guo Liang, a role model Party member, is unveiled at the exhibition. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] The National Art Museum of China launched a public education program in 2017 w

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Lifted raises $6.2M Series A round led by Fuel Ventures for its long-term social care platform

As people live longer and longer and have long-term health issues like cancer and dementia, caring for elderly relatives is becoming a huge societal and political issue. Right now this care is antiqua

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4 women in engineering discuss harassment, isolation and perseverence

Women engineers often face workplace and career challenges that their male colleagues don’t because they remain a minority in the profession: Depending on how you count, women make up just 13% t

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Pinterest adds a Shopping List feature to round up your saved products

Pinterest has long positioned itself a source for inspiration that could ultimately lead to online purchases. And over the years, it has worked on features to better connect consumers with the product

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Dating apps are going to offer perks for users who get a coronavirus vaccine

The move is to appeal to the under 30s, but early evidence shows that many young people are already keen to get their jabs.

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China approves Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in children

The Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine, known as CoronaVac. /CFPChina has approved emergency use of Sinovac Biotech's COVID-19 vaccine in children aged between 3 and 17, company

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Get thrifty, and your startup might just acquire a generation

Etsy, a marketplace for kitschy and creative DIY goods, acquired Depop, a hippy and thrifty marketplace for resale goods, for $1.625 billion this week. So, today we’ll discuss the tale of two marketpl

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Offering free childcare and beer, Biden makes renewed push for July 4 vaccination goal

With just over a month left for the White House to reach its goal of having 70 percent of Americans either fully or partially vaccinated by the July 4 holiday, Presiden

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TikTok called out for lack of ads transparency and for failing to police political payola

TikTok announced a ban on political advertising all the way back in 2019. So you’d be forgiven for thinking the ugly problem of democracy-denting political disinformation doesn’t apply ins

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Tinder tested group video chat ahead of Match’s move into social discovery with Hyperconnect deal

As dating app Tinder and its parent company Match explore the future of personal connection through apps, it’s interesting to see what sort of ideas it tested but later discarded. One such exper

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What can we learn from President Xi Jinping's childhood?

Children across the country received greetings from Chinese President Xi Jinping on the occasion of International Children's Day on Tuesday.In a reply letter dated May

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Etsy is acquiring UK-based social selling site Depop for $1.625B in a mostly-cash deal

Very big news today coming out of Europe in the world of e-commerce. Etsy, the New York-based marketplace where crafty creators and those interested in their styles can discover and buy those goods, t

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Millennia-old clothing back in vogue

Young customers driving demand for textile-based products used for thousands of yearsInternet-savvy young people, or Generation Z consumers, who often share their hobbies with others, are driving the

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Singing with pride to prosperity

02:55 Editor's Note: People of the Nu ethnic minority group in a mountaintop village in southwest China's Yunnan Province came out of extreme poverty by developing cult