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Brooklyn Nets build ultimate small-ball squad for NBA championship

LaMarcus Aldridge rejoins the Brooklyn Nets on a one-year, $2.6-million contract. /CFP The Brooklyn Nets continue to build their small-ball squad for the 2021-22 NBA season by acquiring Paul M

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Afghanistan 2001-2021: America's longest war

Editor's note: The Afghanistan war ended just as it began. The country has once again come to a crossroads as the U.S. pulled its traumatized soldiers out of its longest war in history, with the T

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CGTN Exclusive: Taliban to announce new govt members in 2-3 days

00:39 The Taliban have concluded the meeting to form a new government in Afghanistan and will announce its members in two to three days, Ahmadullah Wasiq, deputyhead of the Taliban'scul

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Nearly 33,000 children killed, maimed in Afghanistan war: Aid group

Children stand on the roof of their house in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 14, 2018. /Reuters Twenty years of war in Afghanistan have seen nearly 33,000 children killed or maimed, an average of on

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Putin on Afghanistan, says democracy can't be imposed by force

Democracy can't be imposed by force in Afghanistan, Russian PresidentVladimirPutin told the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Friday.Putin said the western way of so-called "civilization" of o

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Firefly launches its first rocket, but loses the launch craft in mid-flight explosion

Firefly launched its first rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and on board it carried a number of payloads with an intended destination of low Earth orbit. The rocket took off as p

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Use cohort analysis to drive smarter startup growth

Cohort analysis is a way of evaluating your business that involves grouping customers into “cohorts” and observing how they behave over time. A commonly used approach is monthly cohort ana

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Panorama raises $60M in General Atlantic-led Series C to help schools better understand students

Panorama Education, which has built out a K-12 education software platform, has raised $60 million in a Series C round of funding led by General Atlantic.Existing backers Owl Ventures, Emerson Collect

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Station F launches FemTech Program on its startup campus

Paris-based startup megacampus Station F is announcing a new program for early-stage startups looking for opportunities to join the Station F community — the FemTech Program. With this new program, th

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FAA opens probe into anomaly on Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic spaceflight

The Federal Aviation Administration is looking into an anomaly on the Virgin Galactic flight that carried Richard Branson to space. In a piece discussing not just that particular flight but the compan

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All the reasons why you should launch a credit or debit card

Over the previous two or three years we’ve seen an explosion of new debit and credit card products come to market from consumer and B2B fintech startups, as well as companies that we might not traditi

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The CPC Way: The sacrifice of medical workers

05:11 When Wuhan was first hit by the COVID-19 outbreak, the healthcare system was on the brink of collapse. Despite the unknown risks back then, medical workers from a

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Rocket Lab boosts its space systems division in quest to become an ‘end-to-end space company’

Peter Beck hasn’t been shy about his intention to grow Rocket Lab into more than just a launch provider, but a fully vertically integrated space company that makes spacecraft in addition to sending th

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Blueprint raises $16M Series B to grow its title-focused insurtech business

Blueprint Title, an insurtech startup working in the title insurance space, announced this morning that it closed a $16 million Series B. The new round was led by Forté Ventures. The startup previousl

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Twitter is testing a new anti-abuse feature called ‘Safety Mode’

Twitter’s newest test could provide some long-awaited relief for anyone facing harassment on the platform.The new product test introduces a feature called “Safety Mode” that puts up

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Sphere raises $2M to help employees lobby for Green 401(k) plans

In the United States, a 401(k) plan is an employer-sponsored defined-contribution pension account. However, with legacy institutional investing, most of these have at least some level of fossil fuel i

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Forum Brands secures $100M in debt financing to acquire more e-commerce brands

Forum Brands, an e-commerce acquisition platform, announced today that it has secured $100 million in debt funding from TriplePoint Capital.The financing comes just just over two months after the star