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Asian shares skid as rising U.S. yields hit tech stocks

Monitors displaying the stock index prices and Japanese yen exchange rate against the U.S. dollar at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Tokyo, Japan January 4, 2022./ Reuters Asian stocks fell on Wedne

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Markets open 2022 with records, Apple hits $3 trillion in value

The New York Stock Exchange, U.S., July 20, 2020. /CFP Global stocks began 2022 in bullish fashion, with major bourses notching records and Apple's valuation briefly hitting $3 trillion as inv

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First satellite tracking of wild snow leopards in China yields results

01:14 Chinese researchers say they have made "breakthrough" findings of the behavior of rare snow leopards after months of tracking them in northwest China using satell

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China's hybrid double-cropping rice yields over 1.6 tons, hitting new record

A hybrid double-cropping rice paddy field yielded over 1.6 tons per mu (about 0.067 hectares) in two growing seasons in one year, hitting a new record, according to CMG

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What's next for China-U.S. relations after Yang-Sullivan meeting?

The last time China's top diplomat Yang Jiechi sat down with U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan was in Anchorage, Alaska. The world remembered that meeting fo

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How drones are helping to fight rural poverty

03:06 Agricultural drones are surging in popularity across China's farms. A drone spraying a field with pesticides or fertilizers can cover 1,215 hectares in one day compared with just

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Avalo uses machine learning to accelerate the adaptation of crops to climate change

Climate change is affecting farming all over the world, and solutions are seldom simple. But if you could plant crops that resisted the heat, cold or drought instead of moving a thousand miles away, w

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Trym adds crop steering to its cannabis seed-to-sale platform

Crop steering turns growing carrots or cannabis from an art into a science. Indoor growers have long turned to this practice to improve yields, which involves precisely controlling and manipulating th

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The Next Solutions Episode 1: Farm is the new lab

04:42 The outside looks like a cargo container. The inside looks like a spaceship.Either way, it’s not an ideal farming spot. But it’s where scientists are growing 40 million vegetables

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U.S. consumer sentiment plummets in early August to decade low

Shoppers visit H&M store at Times Square in New York City, New York, U.S., May 20, 2021. /CFP U.S. consumer sentiment dropped sharply in early August to its lowest level in a decade, in a worr

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Following the IPCC’s report, we need more technology to respond to more disasters

This week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its major sixth assessment report on the physical science of climate change. The details are grim, if getting more precise as better a

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Drunk-driving provision could fuel demand for driver monitoring technology

Companies developing driver detection technology could get a boost from a provision tucked inside the 2,702-page $1 trillion infrastructure bill that would require automakers to build into new cars te

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Cent, the platform that Jack Dorsey used to sell his first tweet as an NFT, raises $3M

Cent was founded in 2017 as an ad-free creator network that allows users to offer each other crypto rewards for good posts and comments — it’s like gifting awards on Reddit, but with Ether

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Meet the startups competing in the Extreme Tech Challenge Global Finals on July 22

There’s not much that thrills us more than a startup competition — and we mean deep down in our bones thrilled. That’s why we’re beyond excited to host the Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC) Global Finals o

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Sydney Airport gets $16.7 bln buyout bid as investors take longer-term view on travel

A group of infrastructure investors has proposed one of Australia's biggest-ever buyouts, a A$22.26 billion ($16.7 billion) purchase of Sydney Airport Holdings Pty Ltd,

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Beeflow raises $8.3 million to save the bees AND put them to work

Bees are absolutely critical to the health of our agricultural system, ecosystem, and overall wellbeing as a species here on Earth. And yet bee populations are decreasing and extinction concerns are g

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Swiss to decide on pesticides ban, terrorism law and COVID-19 aid

A poster demanding: "Destroy Swiss Agriculture? Radical plant protection & drinkwater initiatives - 2 x No" is placed in front of a field near Aesch, Switzerland, June 1 2021. /Reuters Swiss v