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Maine’s facial recognition law shows bipartisan support for protecting privacy

Maine has joined a growing number of cities, counties and states that are rejecting dangerously biased surveillance technologies like facial recognition.The new law, which is the strongest statewide f

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Chinese volleyball head coach Lang Ping excited about Tokyo Olympics

Members of Chinese national women's volleyball team pose for a group photo before departing for Tokyo Olympics, in Beijing, China, July 19, 2021. /CFP Lang Ping, head coach of the Chinese nati

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Can China end 25-year winless women's football record against Brazil?

China's players prepare for the women's football match against Brazil at the Tokyo Olympics in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, July 19, 2021. /Xinhua China will meet their first opponent, Br

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Team China at Tokyo 2020: Young climbers chase medals at new event

Among the four newly-added sports to the Olympics: Skateboarding, surfing, sport climbing and karate, sport climbing is the one that Chinese athletes have high hopes to

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Team China at Tokyo 2020: Young climbers chase medals at new event

Among the four newly-added sports to the Olympics: Skateboarding, surfing, sport climbing and karate, sport climbing is the one that Chinese athletes have high hopes to

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A dream 52 years in the making: Amazon founder ready to blast off into space

Jeff Bezos will head into space 52 years to the day since Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon.

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Recapped lands $6 million for collaborative sales software that gets the customer in the mix

Recapped, a startup building collaborative sales software, announced the close of a $6.3 million seed round today. The deal was led by Charles River Ventures. Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, CoF

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Zhu Ting and Zhao Shuai: It's an honor to be China's flag-bearers

00:56 Chinese women's volleyball player Zhu Ting and the country's first-ever Taekwondo Olympic gold medalist, Zhao Shuai, have been selected as national flag-bearers for the opening ce

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Second group of Chinese athletes arrive at Tokyo Olympics

The second group of Chinese athletes, including the Chinese table tennis team and women's football team, arrived in Tokyo on Saturday, nearly a week ahead of the Olympic Games.The plane of the Chines

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Standing at 2.26 meters tall, 14-year-old Chinese girl dubbed 'next Yao Ming'

A video of a 2.26-meter-tall girl dominating China's National U15 Women's Basketball Championship final has gone viral on the internet, reminding many in China of baske

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Standing at 2.26 meters tall, 14-year-old Chinese girl dubbed 'next Yao Ming'

A video of a 2.26-meter-tall girl dominating China's National U15 Women's Basketball Championship final has gone viral on the internet, reminding many in China of baske

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Teen in space! Dutch student to be youngest person to ever to leave earth's atmosphere

Bezos's Blue Origin craft will have no pilots on board as the systems are completely automated.

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis explains how to identify (and tell) your startup story

How do you go beyond the names and numbers with your startup pitch deck? For Doug Landis, the answer is one simple compound gerund: storytelling. It’s a word that gets thrown around a lot of late in S

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Afghan cyclist leads the way for refugees at the Tokyo Olympics

01:33 Afghan refugee Masomah Ali Zada hopes to be a beacon for women forced to quit their country or abandon their sporting dreams when she crosses the start line at the Tokyo Olympics.

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Events platform Bevy acquires Egypt’s Eventtus to scale its offering for enterprises

It’s been fascinating to watch the development of Eventtus, a startup I came across many years ago in my travels in the Middle East, finding them at the Rise-Up Summit in Cairo in 2012. Then, it was t

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Drawing attention to themselves

An exhibition titled Moments, depicting those rare golden moments that seem to lodge in our minds, is being held in Shanghai. Modern Love by Zhou Jiaqi is on display as part of an exhibition held

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Female Founders Fund closes third fund with $57M for female founders

Female Founders Fund announced Tuesday the closing of its Fund III after raising $57 million to create what the seven-year-old New York-based early-stage fund considers “the largest fund for seed capi