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Minecraft Earth will shut down in June

Throughout 2019, Microsoft experimented with building a real world, augmented reality Minecraft game designed in the same vein as Pokémon GO. Called Minecraft Earth, they finally opened it up to ever

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Divvy raises $165M as the spend management space stays red-hot

Today Divvy, a Utah-based startup that focuses on corporate spend management, announced that it has closed a $165 million round at a $1.6 billion valuation. The company said that the new capital was r

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Writing community with a shared future

International authors and translators visit Shanghai during an event hosted by Webnovel in mid-November. [Photo provided to China Daily] Almas Ilyas, a Pakistani, would never have imagined she

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After Soleimani's assassination: The U.S.-Iran-Iraq triangle a year on

Protesters hold up an image of former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force General Qasem Soleimani during a demonstration following the U.S. airstrike in Iraq whic

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2020 was a record year for Israel’s security startup ecosystem

From COVID-19’s curve to election polls, public temperature checks to stimulus checks, 2020 was dominated by numbers — the guiding compass of any self-respecting venture capital investor.As a VC exclu

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NBA highlights on Jan. 3: Curry gets career-high 62, helping GSC win

Damion Lee (R) of the Golden State Warriors pours a bottle of water on Stephen Curry to celebrate after Curry scores a career high 62 points in the win over the Portland Trail Blazers at Chase Ce

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Goodbye Flash, goodbye FarmVille

While much of what made 2020 such an absolute nightmare will still be with us on January 1 (sorry!), we will really, truly be leaving Adobe Flash and FarmVille behind as we enter the new year.The end

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Merkel slams 'cynical, cruel' COVID-19 skeptics in New Year's address

German Chancellor Angela Merkel poses for photographs after the television recording of her annual New Year's speech at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, December 30, 2020. /Reuters Germany'

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Historical and societal causes for America's racism

06:15 Editor's note: Year 2020 has seen the United States rattled by heightened racial tensions which have triggered widespread protests. On Tuesday, another black man from Columbus, O

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'We did it, sisters': Argentina Senate votes to legalize abortion

Argentina’s Senate voted on Wednesday to legalize abortion, a first for a big country in Latin America and a triumph for women’s rights campaigners achieved over the vi

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Google pilots a search feature that aggregates short-form videos from TikTok and Instagram

Google is testing a new feature that will surface Instagram and TikTok videos in their own dedicated carousel in the Google app for mobile devices — a move that could help the company retain use

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Google pilots a search feature that aggregates short-form videos from TikTok and Instagram

Google is testing a new feature that will surface Instagram and TikTok videos in their own dedicated carousel in the Google app for mobile devices — a move that could help the company retain use

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AI chipmaker Graphcore raises $222M at a $2.77B valuation and puts an IPO in its sights

Applications based on artificial intelligence — whether they are systems running autonomous services, platforms being used in drug development or to predict the spread of a virus, traffic manage

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Feast your eyes on the space rocks Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission harvested from asteroid Ryugu

Japan’s ambitious second asteroid return mission, Hayabusa 2, has collected a wealth of material from its destination, Ryugu, which astronomers and other interested parties are almost certainly

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Feast your eyes on the space rocks Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission harvested from asteroid Ryugu

Japan’s ambitious second asteroid return mission, Hayabusa 2, has collected a wealth of material from its destination, Ryugu, which astronomers and other interested parties are almost certainly

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A deal at last: The final chapter in the story of Brexit?

Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a press conference after reaching a Brexit trade deal, London, UK, December 24, 2020. /Getty Editor's note: Jonathan Arnott is a former member of the Europea

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Belt and Road Initiative is not debt-trapping Africa

Editor's note:Lawrence Freeman is a political-economic analyst on Africa with 30 years of experience in Africa promoting infrastructure development policies. The article reflects the author's opin