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iPhone sales fuel Apple’s Wall Street-beating Q3

Another excellent quarter for Apple, as the company posted $81.4 billion in revenue. That’s a 36% year-over-year jump for the company, besting Wall Street estimates of $73.3 billion by a considerable

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Can Artificial Intelligence figure out if a cat is in pain or happy?

01:00 Do you know when your cat is in pain?This new app that uses Artificial Intelligence technology to detect feline feelings.Taking pictures of a cat’s face over time, the app gives f

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Instagram now supports 60-second videos on Reels, its TikTok clone

Haven’t you heard that Instagram is no longer a photo-sharing app? Today, Instagram announced that users can now upload 60-second videos on Reels, the platform’s TikTok competitor.This upd

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African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines

The Exchange is on a trip around the world, poking our heads into various startup markets to better understand how different geographies are faring during a historic boom in venture capital activity.

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Edtech’s venture-backed globalization pauses at China

U.S.-based edtech investors are increasingly going global, but recent regulatory crackdowns in China, which instructed local K-12 tutoring startups to go non-profit, have led to a chill among check-wr

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Joby Aviation, aiming to go to market in 2024, completes 154-mile test flight

Santa Cruz, California-based Joby Aviation has completed the longest test flight of an eVTOL to date: Its unnamed full-sized prototype aircraft concluded a trip of over 150 miles on a single charge, t

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Here’s Nothing’s $99 Ear (1) buds

It’s been just over five months since Carl Pei first told the world about Nothing. Perhaps it’s just the way time moves these days or maybe it’s the fact that the company has trickled out information

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An aura of mystery

A new book focuses on the lifestyle of women in ancient China. Author and researcher Meng Hui has spent years studying the lifestyles of ancient Chinese women. [Photo by WeiEI Kongyuan/for China

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Harvard researchers to look for signs of alien technology

Professor Avi Loeb - a controversial popular science author who claimed the Oumuamua interstellar object was an alien spacecraft - is leading the new project.

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iRocket to begin rocket engine testing at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center

Reusable rocket startup iRocket has entered into a new partnership with NASA in its quest to reach commercialization in just two years.The partnership will give iRocket access to testing facilities an

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Tesla’s solar and energy storage business rakes in $810M, finally exceeds cost of revenue

Tesla’s primary source of revenue comes from the sale of its electric vehicles, but its latest quarterly earnings report showed growth in its energy storage and solar business.The demand picture

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South, North Korea have restored hotlines as leaders seek to rebuild ties

South and North Korea have restored hotlinesthat Pyongyang severed a year ago when ties deteriorated sharply, with renewed efforts by the two countries' leaders to rebu

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Samurai Warriors 5: A triumphant nostalgia trip soaked in blood and glory

The fifth instalment of the Samurai Warriors series remains principally the same recipe many fell in love with 17 years ago.

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Tesla shrugs off chip shortage to post $1bn quarterly profit for first time

The electric car maker enjoyed better than expected results despite the impact of global supply chain challenges - and the provision of $176m for a likely performance-based payout to boss Elon Musk.

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Young people driving hanfu revival in daily life find self-identity in Hong Kong

Hanfu, the traditional clothing of China's Han ethnic group that was formed in the main residential areas of the Han people in ancient China, has made a comeback nowadays as an increasing number

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Boeing Starliner to attempt second uncrewed flight to space station

Boeing will be paying an estimated $410m (£297m) for the test mission after its first uncrewed test flight ended in failure due to a software problem.

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Sri Lanka finds Sinopharm COVID-19 shots highly efficient

Waiting to get a dose of the Chinese-made Sinopharm COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 15, 2021. /CFP Researchers from one of Sri Lanka's leading universities, the Sri Ja