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Is Washington prepared for a geopolitical ‘tech race’?

When Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan sat down with Chinese officials in Anchorage, Alaska for the first high-level bilateral summit of the new administrat

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People who've had COVID get 'enhanced' protection against variants from one vaccine dose - study

Among those who received a COVID jab but were not infected in the past, the immune response may be insufficient, say scientists.

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CPC leadership: Make use of limited window to stabilise economy

A view of Lujiazui Finance District, Shanghai, China. /CFPThe Political Bureau meeting of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Friday, chaired by Chi

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Click Studios asks customers to stop tweeting about its Passwordstate data breach

Australian security software house Click Studios has told customers not to post emails sent by the company about its data breach, which allowed malicious hackers to push a malicious update to its flag

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Blue Origin will start selling tickets for New Shepard space tourism flights on May 5

Blue Origin seems very close to flying paying customers on its New Shepard sub-orbital rocket, having conducted a dress rehearsal of astronaut loading and unloading on its latest mission. Today, it al

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India's mistakes are a warning to the rest

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What are the two prominent challenges in the CPC?

1-2-8 What are the two prominent challenges in the CPC.mp300:00Editor's note: This 100-episode podcast explains how China works. Exploring Xi Jinping Thought and how th

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DigitalOcean says customer billing data accessed in data breach

DigitalOcean has emailed customers warning of a data breach involving customers’ billing data, TechCrunch has learned.The cloud infrastructure giant told customers in an email on Wednesday, obta

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Dear Sophie: What’s the latest on DACA?

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.“Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge t

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Materials Zone raises $6M for its materials discovery platform

Materials Zone, a Tel Aviv-based startup that uses AI to speed up materials research, today announced that it has raised a $6 million seed funding round led by Insight Partners, with participation fro

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Russia-U.S. relations hit the bottom with vague way out from deadlock

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Passwordstate users warned to ‘reset all passwords’ after attackers plant malicious update

Click Studios, the Australian software house that develops the enterprise password manager Passwordstate, has warned customers to reset passwords across their organizations after a cyberattack on the

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Jill Biden to visit Navajo Nation, once floored by COVID-19

Jill Biden, the first lady of the United States, is traveling to the country’s largest Native American reservation, the Navajo Nation, which was hit hard by the corona

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Window Snyder’s new startup Thistle Technologies raises $2.5M seed to secure IoT devices

The Internet of Things has a security problem. The past decade has seen wave after wave of new internet-connected devices, from sensors through to webcams and smart home tech, often manufactured in bu

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Dear Sophie: How can I get my startup off the ground and visit the US?

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.“Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge t

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Tyltgo’s same-day delivery platform lets small businesses compete with Amazon

Tyltgo wants to make it easier for restaurants and small businesses to compete with same-day delivery services offered by the likes of Amazon and HelloFresh. The Canadian company, which recently raise

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The IPO market is sending us mixed messages

If you only stayed up to date with the Coinbase direct listing this week, you’re forgiven. It was, after all, one heck of a flotation.But underneath the cryptocurrency exchange’s public de