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China's box office sales set new record, as Spring Festival sales soar

People are seen watching a film at a cinema in Beijing, China, February 12, 2021. /CFPChina's box office set a new record, generating over 3.8 billion yuan ($588 millio

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Timing of next Virgin Galactic flight still up in the air

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Unity being released from the carrier mothership, VMS Eve for second successful glide flight in New Mexico, June 25, 2020. /AP Virgin Galactic on Friday put off

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China's mission to Mars: Seeking the origins of life

04:17 China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft is one step closer to exploring Mars – it's safely orbiting the "Red Planet" and preparations are being made to send the lander to th

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Trump impeachment trial video: Police beg help, senators flee

01:51 Prosecutors unveiled chilling new security video in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial Wednesday, showing the mob of rioters breaking into the Capitol, smashing windows and doors a

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How will investors value MetroMile and Oscar Health?

Last night, MetroMile and SPAC INSU Acquisition Corp. II completed their combination, putting the per-mile auto insurance startup up for regular trading today for the first time.In the wake of last ye

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Prevent the next food crisis now

A farmer puts sorted rice seeds into a sack in Mekarsari village in Indonesia. /Getty Editor's note: Mark Lowcock is the United Nations under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and eme

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The U.S. should change its course on China policy

VCG Editor's note:Sun Chenghao is an assistant research professor at the Institute of American Studies, under the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations based in Beijing. The

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COVID-19 smell test developed to help combat spread of coronavirus

02:30 The SARS-CoV-2 virus, we now know, appears to replicate easily in people's nasal passages.Studies have found that 50 to 90 percent of those who test positive have lost their sens

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Struggling to sleep? The moon may be to blame

New research ties the phase of the moon to our circadian rhythms, even among people who live in urban settings.

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Vaccine 'queue-jumpers' ignite debate in Austria

02:00 The question of who should have priority for COVID-19 vaccinations and particularly what should happen with "leftover" doses has provoked sharp debate in Austria, after several l

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Battling algorithmic bias at TC Sessions: Justice

At TC Sessions: Justice on March 3, we’re going to dive head-first into data discrimination, algorithmic bias and how to ensure a more just future, as technology companies rely more on automated

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Iran: Biden won't have infinite time to rejoin nuclear deal

Iran warned the Biden administration on Tuesday that it will not have an indefinite time period to rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.Iran als

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Unpacking Chamath Palihapitiya’s SPAC deals for Latch and Sunlight Financial

This morning, investor and SPAC raconteur Chamath Palihapitiya announced two new blank-check deals involving Latch and Sunlight Financial.Latch, an enterprise SaaS company that makes keyless entry sys

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Two dead, eight injured in gas pipeline explosion in NE China

Two people were killed and eight others injured after a natural gas pipe exploded on Monday in Dalian, a port city in northeast China's Liaoning Province, local authori

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German virus death toll tops 50,000 even as infections sink

The death toll from the coronavirus in Germany has passed 50,000, a number that has risen swiftly over recent weeks even as infection figures are finally declining.The

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End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business

At Battery, a central part of our consumer investing practice involves tracking the evolution of where and how consumers find and purchase goods and services. From our annual Battery Marketplace Index

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Czech artists offer performances behind closed windows amid pandemic

Artists from contemporary circus company Cirk La Putyka put on a performance inside a closed bar in Prague, Czech Republic, January 21, 2021. /VCG Passers-by at streets can watch the pe