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Xi sends condolences over passing of former IOC president Rogge

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday sent a message of condolence to International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bachover the passing of former IOC preside

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TikTok’s new Creator Marketplace API lets influencer marketing companies tap into first-party data

TikTok is making it easier for brands and agencies to work with the influencers using its service. The company is rolling out a new “TikTok Creator Marketplace API,” which allows marketing

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Foreign investors have a bigger role to play in growing Latin America’s startup ecosystem

There has been significant hype around Latin America’s startup success. For good reason, too: Startups have raised $9.3 billion in just the first half of 2021, almost double the amount in all of 2020,

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Instagram will require users to provide their birthday

Instagram will begin prodding users to share their birthday with the service, if they haven’t already done so. The company today announced it will now start popping up a notification that asks y

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Move fast and break Facebook: A bull case for antitrust enforcement

This is the second post in a series on the Facebook monopoly. The first post explored how the U.S. Federal Trade Commission should define the Facebook monopoly. I am inspired by Cloudflare’s recent po

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On the future of walls, or The Wall

Space may be the endless frontier, but here on Earth, we define space in the modern sense as something enclosed. Walls, fences and barriers enclose space, define it and make it legible. In fact, the s

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China ramps up rectification of harmful, irrational fan behavior

CFPThe Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) published a notice on Friday decreeing all cyberspace authorities across the country to intensify efforts to regulate on

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Vibrant Xinjiang: The desert vineyards of Turpan

04:28 The city of Turpan in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is also known by its Chinese nickname "Huo Zhou," literally meaning "a place as hot as fire," due to it

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The stars are aligning for federal IT open source software adoption

In recent years, the private sector has been spurning proprietary software in favor of open source software and development approaches. For good reason: The open source avenue saves money and developm

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Documentary records memories of China's veterans

Director Song Kunru's new documentary film, Remembering 1950, pieces together the memories of 26 Chinese military veterans. In the documentary, the veterans, now mostly over 80 years old, share th

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U.S. approves Pfizer, booster jab inequality: COVID-19 Daily Bulletin

TOP HEADLINES• The U.S. drug regulator has granted full approval to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. While the German-made inoculation has been in use in the U.S. since December after being given emergen

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South Africa opens jabs to all adults to accelerate campaign

FILE PIC: Faced with slowing numbers of people getting COVID-19 vaccinations, South Africa has opened eligibility to all adults to step up the volume of inoculations as it battles a surge in the

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SiriusXM launches ‘TikTok Radio,’ a music channel featuring viral hits hosted by TikTok stars

If viral TikTok songs like Dr. Dog’s “Where’d All the Time Go?” or Bo Burnham’s “Bezos I” weren’t already stuck in your head on loop, now they could be.

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Deed pulls your employer’s charity and volunteer program into Slack to keep it front of mind

If your employer does any sort of charity donation matching, the system powering it might be… not great. Maybe it’s got an ancient interface; maybe it’s stuffed behind the VPN at some weird URL that t

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U.S. daily COVID-19 cases could exceed 200,000 in coming weeks, warns NIH director

U.S. COVID-19 cases could break 200,000 a day as the latest surge of the virus driven by the Delta variant is "going very steeply upward with no signs of having peaked

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U.S. daily COVID-19 cases could exceed 200,000 in coming weeks, warns NIH director

U.S. COVID-19 cases could break 200,000 a day as the latest surge of the virus driven by the Delta variant is "going very steeply upward with no signs of having peaked

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Cuttlefish memory stays sharper than humans as they get older

Research indicates that episodic memory does not decline with age in cuttlefish, which is very different to what we see in humans as they get older.