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Live updates: Global COVID-19 cases exceed 72 million

Confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide have exceeded 72 million, with over 1.6 million fatalities and more than 47 million recoveries, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University.Here is the lates

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Is China to blame for global circulation of COVID-19?

Medics from north China's Tianjin Municipality wave goodbye before their departure in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 17, 2020. /Xinhua Since COVID-19 broke out, China has been at

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World leaders pledge to increase efforts in fighting global warming

European Council President Charles Michel listens as French President Emmanuel Macron appears on a screen to deliver a speech during the Climate Ambition Summit 2020 video conference meeting to m

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Italy set for highest death toll in Europe: COVID-19 daily bulletin

TOP HEADLINESItaly could soon reclaim a record that nobody wants- the most coronavirus deaths in Europe - after another 761 COVID-19 victims on Friday, bringing its official total to 63,387, just 216

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Pentagon plans to cut most of its support to CIA's counterterrorism missions

In a surprising move, the Pentagon has told the Central Intelligence Agency that it plans to end the majority of the military support it provides to the agency's counte

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Turing nabs $32M more for an AI-based platform to source and manage engineers remotely

As remote work continues to solidify its place as a critical aspect of how businesses exist these days, a startup that has built a platform to help companies source and bring on one specific category

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Aira takes key investment to build its fantastic smartphone wireless charging pad into vehicles

Aira is the company behind one of the most exciting wireless power innovations, and now this technology could be headed into vehicles. The wireless power company just announced a strategic investment

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Solactive, a German fintech, takes a $60.4M growth investment from Summit Partners

German fintech Solactive, a technology-enabled provider of indices and index solutions to the global financial services industry, has taken a $60.4m / €50 million minority investment from growth inves

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Ava expands its AI captioning to desktop and web apps, and raises $4.5M to scale

The worldwide shift to virtual workplaces has been a blessing and a curse to people with hearing impairments. Having office chatter occur in text rather than speech is more accessible, but virtual mee

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New vaccine to curb mutated poliovirus shows encouraging results

A new vaccine shows promising results to stamp out a mutated strain of poliovirus responsible for causing sporadic outbreaks across Africa and Asia, researchers have said after conducting a trial

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COVID-19: The hurdles of vaccine distribution

Click arrows to read more. Click to read more. Click to read more. Canada is now the second country to approve emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.After a two-m

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China's e-bike output surges 33.4 percent in first 10 months

China's output of electric bicycles reached 25.48 million during the first 10 months of the year, a year-on-year increase of 33.4 percent, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

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Snap announces $3.5M fund directed toward AR Lens creation

Snap today announced a new 2021 fund of $3.5 million that will be directed toward supporting Snapchat Lens creators and developers who are using the company’s Lens Studio tool to explore the us

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WHO launches global campaign to help 100 smokers quit habit

VCG Image The World Health Organization on Tuesday launched a year-long global campaign to support at least 100 million people quit tobacco smoking.Themed "Commit to Quit", the campaign aims t

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Parrot Software has $1.2 million to grow its restaurant point-of-sale and management service in Mexico

The two founders of Parrot Software, Roberto Cebrián and David Villarreal, first met in high school in Monterrey, Mexico. In the eleven years since , both have pursued successful careers in the tech i

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SAP latest enterprise software giant to offer low code workflow

Low code workflow has become all the rage among enterprise tech giants and SAP joined the group of companies offering simplified workflow creation today when it announced SAP Cloud Platform Workflow

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China leads in global intellectual property development

A participant wears a pair of VR glasses at the 12th China International Patent Fair held in Dalian, November 11, 2020. /CFPThe patent office in China received the high