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Filmmaker Ann Hui wins lifetime honor in Venice

Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui received a lifetime award while bringing her new film "Love after Love," an adaptation of Eileen Chang's novella, to screen at the ongoing Venice Film Festival running b

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Voice assistants don’t work for kids: The problem with speech recognition in the classroom

Before the pandemic, more than 40% of new internet users were children. Estimates now suggest that children’s screen time has surged by 60% or more with children 12 and under spending upward of five h

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Snapchat’s new Lens celebrates tomorrow’s NFL kickoff

Snap and the NFL recently announced a multi-year extension to their content partnership. Now, with the season starting tomorrow, they’re revealing more details about what kinds of content fans

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England tightens virus rules as cases mount

People wearing protective face masks are seen arriving at Waterloo station, the busiest train station in the UK, during the morning rush hour, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in

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9 proptech investors talk co-living, home offices and other pandemic trends

The real estate industry — like so many other sectors — was forced to adapt this year.Now, investors are ready to pour capital into the startups they believe are best-positioned in this new era, from

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Do Ventures launches $50 million fund for Vietnamese startups, backed by Naver, Vertex and other notable LPs

Vy Le and Dzung Nguyen, the founders and general partners of Do Ventures, an investment firm focused on early-stage Vietnamese startupsNew investment firm Do Ventures announced today the first closing

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Forum focuses on emerging curators

Over the past three decades, contemporary Chinese art has grown into a global phenomenon, with more and more Chinese talents taking center stage at major art festivals, exhibitions and auctions worldw

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Health experts fear COVID-19 surge with U.S. holiday

Click right to read more Click right to read more Click right to read more Labor Day weekend in the U.S. is a holiday when friends and families celebrate the end of summ

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Catching Bob Dylan at the Today Art Museum on a Beijing weekend

The name sounded a little flat, even pedantic. Today Art Museum is located in the Pingguo community in the heart of the central business district just off Baiziwan road.From outside, the entrance to t

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COVID-19 impact on treatment for chronic illness revealed

A blood glucose test is used to check the level of glucose (sugar) in the blood of a pregnant woman in a hospital in Santiago, Chile. /AFP The COVID-19 health crisis has caused massive disrupt

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One step closer to classical music: A young orchestra's exploration

Musicians from Xi'an Symphony Orchestra (XSO) performing at Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. /CFPSome might say that classical mu

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Tinder’s interactive video event, “Swipe Night,” will launch in international markets this month

Tinder’s “Swipe Night” is going global. The dating app announced today that its interactive video series will be available in Asia and other international markets starting on September 12,

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Social or solo? What social engagement looks like for young Chinese

Among 2,532 respondents, only 69 believe they don't have any problem involving in real world people-to-people interactions. 97% of the respondents said they once tried

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Startups Weekly: With Asana, JFrog, Palantir, Snowflake, Sumo and Unity, we’re in peak season for tech IPOs

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here.Pandemic numbers are looking better, it’s still

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A faster, easier, cheaper way of going public

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This is the fourth episode of the week, pushing our p

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Executives: China needs to train more film talents

At a workshop during the ongoing Beijing International Film Festival (BJIFF), film executives agreed more talents and professionals should be trained and cultivated for film industrialization in China

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Piano man, 60, hits the high notes online

When Yang Su's piano rendition of Moscow Nights was posted by a friend on short video platform Douyin in November 2017, nobody expected that it would restart the 60-year-old man's musical care