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Xinhua Photos of the Day (Special Edition)

MOUNT QOMOLANGMA BASE CAMP, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Complicated climate on Mount Qomolangma offers diverse scenery here. This is a special edition of Aperture24 with splendid video and photos capturing the

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Ousted vaccine chief predicts 'darkest winter' if virus response lags

An ousted U.S. health official will warn Congress on Thursday that Americans face their "darkest winter" in decades if the country fails to deploy a coordinated response against the coronavirus pa

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Here’s how your Uber ride will change, starting May 18

Uber is rolling out a series of changes to its ride-hailing and on-demand food delivery apps, beginning Monday, as cities and states lift stay-at-home orders prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic.The cha

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Smart glass manufacturer Click Materials inks major deal to challenge $1 billion-backed View Inc.

Click Materials, a Vancouver-based developer of “smart glass” has inked a major partnership with one fo the largest manufacturers of windows for the home, Cardinal Glass, as it looks to ch

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AngelList wants to improve comparing VC fund performance with new metrics and calculator

There is immense opacity in the venture capital industry, and that has made comparing venture funds notoriously difficult.Traditional benchmarks calculated by groups like Cambridge Associates bucket V

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COVID-19 Global Roundup: Conspiracy and fake news a test for big tech

Editor's note:This is the 60th article in the COVID-19 Global Roundup series. Here is theprevious one. A screen shot from the video titled 'Plandemic: The Hidden Agenda Behind COVID-19'. Rece

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Ex-Tesla product exec raises $10 million for his mission to upgrade the lowly fuse box

Arch Rao closed the $10.1 million financing round for Span, his company pitching homeowners on an upgrade to the fuse box, in the middle of February.The company had already seen what was happening in

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Dates of FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 set

The FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 is set to take place from August 25 to September 10, 2023, FIBA announced on Monday. The FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 will see the

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Longtime VC Todd Chaffee of IVP says late-stage scene is now ‘M&A world’

Todd Chaffee has long been one of the most senior members of the late-stage venture firm Institutional Venture Partners. Chaffee joined IVP in 2000 after logging six years at Visa, and went on to lead

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Hear how to build a sales team at Disrupt SF 2020

We live in a time when old playbooks about how to build a company are suddenly out the window. Some VCs are questioning whether it’s even worth having a true sales team for early stage startups

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Trump says U.S. coronavirus task force to continue "indefinitely" with possible personnel changes

U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the White House Coronavirus Task Force will continue "indefinitely" with possible personnel changes, one day after offi

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AR is the answer to plummeting retail sales during lockdown

As countries around the world face prolonged lockdown to prevent the further spread of COVID-19, retailers are among the hardest hit. Many have closed all their brick-and-mortar stores, resulting in f

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Kairn is a new task manager focused on speed

Meet Kairn, a new startup coming out of stealth today with a sneak peek of what the company has been working on. As Wunderlist shuts down, Kairn wants to prove that there’s still room for an innovativ

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White House Coronavirus Task Force Could Wind Down by Memorial Day - Pence

Vice President Mike Pence said the White House Coronavirus Task Force could be disbanded by Memorial Day, or as early as the next three weeks, as the US economy reopens

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RWDC Industries is a new startup hoping to become a bioplastics giant in Athens, Ga.

Daniel Carraway spent his entire career working in paper and bioplastics.The serial entrepreneur began his career at International Paper working in their research division before founding two previous

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Firefox gets a better password manager and picture-in-picture support

Mozilla today launched version 76 of its Firefox browser, and with that, it’s launching a couple of new features that you’ll likely notice if you’re already using the open-source br

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U.S. Treasury blasts records with $3 trillion borrowing need in Q2

An empty street in New York, U.S. /VCG The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday said it plans to borrow nearly three trillion U.S. dollars in the second quarter of 2020 – more than five times la