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UK scientists develop urine test to detect womb cancer

Researchers from Manchester University develop a test to detect womb cancer using urine samples. /CFP British scientists announced on Friday they had developed a test to detect womb cancer usi

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Asia leads research in game changing salt-based batteries

Battery chargers developed by Immotor for electric motorcycles in Shenzhen, China. /Getty Editor's note:Barry He is a London-based freelance columnist. The article reflects the author's opinio

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UK's Boris Johnson wishes global Chinese community a happy new year

01:16 UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has sent his "best wishes to everyone celebrating Chinese New Year this weekend," and said during the Year of the Ox, both countries will "win our

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Base Operations raises $2.2 million to modernize physical enterprise security

Typically when we talk about tech and security, the mind naturally jumps to cybersecurity. But equally important, especially for global companies with large, multinational organizations, is physical s

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Top 100 subscription apps grew 34% to $13B in 2020, share of total spend remained the same

Apps saw record downloads and consumer spending in 2020, globally reaching somewhere around $111 billion to $112 billion, according to various estimates. But a growing part of that spend was subscript

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BizBeat Ep. 37: It's time to end the blame game

02:46 For the longest time, China has been a convenient scapegoat for the spread of the COVID-19 virus.We saw examples of this, from the use of racist phrases when referring to the vir

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All the COVID virus in the world could fit in a can of coke, says mathematician

British expert says his work shows just how much hardship and loss of life is being caused by miniscule viral particles.

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Collective launches a SaaS marketplace for freelancer teams

Freelancers who work well together in teams are the target for Collective, a French startup that’s launching a software-as-a-service marketplace today. (Not to be confused with Collective, a US-

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'Vital step' taken in finding a cure for Parkinson's disease

Although treatments exist to alleviate some symptoms, the disease is degenerative and there is no cure.

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Countries must ramp up climate pledges by 80 percent to hit key Paris target, study finds

The pledges countries made to reduce emissions as part of the 2015 Paris agreement are woefully inadequate, and the world must nearly double its greenhouse gas-cutting

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Spotify confirms it’s (finally) testing a lyrics feature in the U.S.

Spotify this morning confirmed it’s testing a new, synced lyrics feature in the U.S. market, following a report from Engadget. Though the streaming music service today offers live lyrics in a nu

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Pilot in Kobe Bryant crash was disoriented in clouds: NTSB

The file photo taken on Dec. 18, 2017 shows Kobe Bryant speaking during his jersey retirement press conference in Los Angeles, the United States. Retired NBA star Kobe Bryant was one of five peop

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China film industry braces for uncertain season

03:21 Seeing a movie with the whole family during the Spring Festival is a beloved pastime in China, with domestic movies catering directly to the holiday spirit. It wa

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Target Global leads $150M round for Amazon Marketplace consolidator Branded

There’s been a profusion of startups emerging in the last year around the concept of rolling up smaller e-commerce businesses — operations that mainly sell and distribute their products on

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Tech It Out: Huawei's homegrown Android rival explained

05:23 Huawei debuted its latest flagship smartphones, the Mate 40 series, last October. It came only a month after the latest round of U.S. sanctions took effect.Over the course of thr

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Live updates: Global infections surpass 106 million

SUMMARYConfirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide have exceeded 106 million, with over 2.3 million deaths and more than 59 million recoveries, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University.Here

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Evaluate vaccines based upon science not prejudice

A health worker takes selfie after receiving a dose of China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine during mass vaccination program for health workers as the main priority group in Jakarta, Indonesia, Februa