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Plants with links to the Dragon Boat Festival

Putting or hanging Chinese mugwort on the door was a common traditional practice on Duanwu. /VCGDuanwu, more commonly known as the Dragon Boat Festival, is renowned for

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Chinese EU Mission stresses non-interference in HK affairs

A spokesperson for the Chinese Mission to the European Union (EU) said that China expresses strong dissatisfaction with and firm opposition to European countries' interference in Hong Kong affairs.He

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Not every SPAC is pure garbage

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Wan

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Daily Crunch: Police search 2 Twitter offices in India after politician receives warning label

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.Welcome back to Daily Crunch. It’s Monday, May 24, and all I can thi

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Obama Was a ‘Parasite’ Who Oversaw 'Pilfering of Talent, Resources’ From Dems, Claims New Book

“Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Donald Trump” is a new book by political journalist for The Atlantic Edward-Isaac Dovere, which will be

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Daily Crunch: Stripe buys Y Combinator alum Bouncer for undisclosed sum

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.Wrapping the week here at Daily Crunch with a big thanks to Henry fo

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QuikNode is building a blockchain developer cloud platform to compete with AWS

As hot as the blockchain space appears to be these days, it’s still far from simple to get a decentralized application reliably up and running. The NFT boom and rising cryptocurrency prices have

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Tech companies predict the (economic) future

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Bencic sets up Adelaide final against Swiatek with epic win over Gauff

Poland's Iga Swiatek (L) and Switzerland's Belinda Bencic. /CFP Second seed Belinda Bencic battled for almost three hours before seeing off 16-year-old American Coco Gauff in three sets on Fri

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Can data fix healthcare?

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There is infinite money for stock-trading startups

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A look at the soaring valuations of Rivian and Cruise with transportation VC Reilly Brennan

Reilly Brennan loves cars. The native Michigander happily did grunt work for an automotive magazine as an undergrad at the University of Michigan before landing a gig as a trackside communications man

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How VCs invested in Asia and Europe in 2020

Wrapping our look at how the venture capital asset class invested in 2020, today we’re taking a peek at Europe’s impressive year, and Asia’s slightly less invigorating set of results

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AmCham Shanghai: No major policy shift expected with Biden

03:25 Donald Trump is wrapping up his four years of chaotic presidency on Wednesday, and will be replaced by Joe Biden.Many observers are closely watching whether the new U.S. presiden

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Foresight raises $15M for its construction workers compensation platform

When an accident on a building site resulted in the death of their friend, the founders of Safesight were inspired to launch the platform to digitize safety programs for construction. The data from th

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2020 was a disaster, but the pandemic put security in the spotlight

Let’s preface this year’s predictions by acknowledging and admitting how hilariously wrong we were when this time last year we said that 2020 “showed promise.”In fairness (almo

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Despite limitations, 3D and AR are creating new realities in retail

In North America, shoppers are increasingly turning to online orders to buy their products.National postal services have seen a significant uptick in parcel volumes; so many that the number matches th