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Pearson to pay $1M fine for misleading investors about 2018 data breach

Pearson, a London-based publishing and education giant that provides software to schools and universities has agreed to pay $1 million to settle charges that it misled investors about a 2018 data brea

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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin goes toe to toe with NASA in federal court over award to SpaceX

Blue Origin, the space company helmed by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is taking NASA to court. The company filed a complaint with a federal claims court on Monday over the agency’s decision to award a luna

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The hyperactive late-stage market should keep the startup investing game afoot

As last week came to a close, funding news involving three major U.S. technology startups lit up on Twitter.Carta closed a $500 million Series G at a $7.4 billion price tag. Chime put together a $750

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U.S. safety regulator opens investigation into Tesla Autopilot following crashes with parked emergency vehicles

U.S. auto regulators have opened a preliminary investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot advanced driver assistance system, citing 11 incidents in which vehicles crashed into parked first responder vehicle

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Electricity deals that might not be as 'green' as they seem to be reviewed by government

Nine million UK households have signed up to green tariffs but some are allowed to be marketed in this way even if some of the energy they supply comes from fossil fuels - prompting concerns about so-called "greenwashing".

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Vaccine makers prepare for possible COVID-19 boosters in U.S.

U.S. health experts say most people don't need a COVID-19 booster shot -- yet.But all three companies, which make the vaccines being used in the U.S., are studying whether, and when, they might be

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The summer’s extreme weather is just a preview of the climate crisis

Floods, wildfires and heatwaves. That’s just a taste of some of the natural disasters the northern hemisphere experienced this summer, and experts say it’s all fueled by climate change.Nearly 200

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British sprinter CJ Ujah 'devastated' at positive doping test

CJ Ujah of Great Britain looks on after competing in the men's 100m event at the Tokyo Olympics at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan, July 31, 2021. /CFP British sprinter CJ Ujah said he was

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Spain nears record temps as heat wave bakes southern Europe

Temperatures in Spain soared above 45 degrees Celsius on Saturday, with Seville topping out at 46.5 degrees Celsius, just shy of the country’s all-time record of 46.9 Celsius from July 2017.The pe

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China's embassy in UK slams Daily Telegraph 'prejudice and hostility'

The Chinese embassy in the UK sent an open letter to the Daily Telegraph on Saturday, criticizing that the newspaper's report on the imported cases of the Delta variant in China violates "professiona

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Apple alters planned new system for detecting child sex abuse images over privacy concerns

The tech giant triggered a backlash from policy groups and its own employees after announcing plans to scan iPhones and report offending images to the US National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children.

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Meng Wanzhou lawyers called called U.S. fraud case “fatally flawed”

Lawyers for Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou have called the U.S. fraud case against her implausible, unprecedented and fatally flawed.They were arguing in the final stage of Meng’s extr

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There could be more to the Salesforce+ video streaming service than meets the eye

When Salesforce announced its new business video streaming service called Salesforce+ this week, everyone had a reaction. While not all of it was positive, some company watchers also wondered if there

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Google infringed on five Sonos patents, according to preliminary ruling

Way back in January 2020, Sonos sued Google over patent infringement. Today, the streaming speaker company scored an early victory with the U.S. International Trade Commission. A preliminary ruling pe

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Orchata raises $4M, aims to build a ‘Gopuff for Latin America’

Luis Mario Garcia grew up in Mexico making deliveries for the grocery stores in his neighborhood. After honing his startup skills in San Francisco, he returned to Mexico with the idea of building a so

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Kiddom grabs early revenue amid $35M Series C funding

Kiddom, a platform that offers a digital curriculum that fits the core standards required by states, announced today that it has raised a $35 million Series C round led by Altos Ventures, with partici

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NASA's Mars helicopter spots Perseverance rover from above - can you?

"The laws of physics may say it's near impossible to fly on Mars, but actually flying a heavier-than-air vehicle on the red planet is much harder than that," the space agency has quipped.