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Human rights mean nothing without survival and possibility

Editor's note: CGTN's First Voice provides instant commentary on breaking stories. The daily column clarifies emerging issues and better defines the news agenda, offeri

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Hear how Cityblock Health’s Toyin Ajayi, Carbon Health’s Eren Bali and Forward’s Adrian Aoun see tech impacting access to health at Disrupt 2021

If there’s one thing that the ongoing COVID-19 crisis has proven, it’s that the healthcare system in the U.S. is in drastic need of major transformation. One of the biggest issues to be hi

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Samsung brings active noise cancellation to its entry-level Galaxy Buds

In what has quickly become the busiest Unpacked of the virtual era, Samsung just dropped a new version of its wireless earbuds. The Galaxy Buds 2 add active noise canceling to the entry-level model, w

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Facebook engineers develop new open source time keeping appliance

Most people probably don’t realize just how much our devices are time driven, whether it’s your phone, your laptop or a network server. For the most part, time keeping has been an esoteric

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46 GOP senators warn they will not vote to raise debt ceiling

Forty-six GOP senators are warning that they will not vote to raise the debt ceiling, as Republicans ramp up pressure on Democrats to increase the nation's borrowing li

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Feds dismantle Blue Origin and Dynetics protests of NASA’s SpaceX lunar lander award

Blue Origin and Dynetics are still steaming over NASA’s decision to award only one contract — to SpaceX — to build a Human Landing System for the Artemis program. Their protest of the decision w

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Chinese cyber spies 'posed as Iranians while targeting Israeli government'

According to threat intelligence researchers, the hackers attempts to conceal their origin was more likely an effort to slow down response efforts than actually frame Iran.

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Flying reptile discovered in Queensland was 'closest thing we have to real life dragon'

The new species of pterosaur "would have been a fearsome beast, with a spear-like mouth and a wingspan around seven metres" according to the researchers analysing its fossil.

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Senate votes to end debate on $1T infrastructure bill

The Senate on Sunday night voted to end debate on a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, putting it on a glide path, albeit a lengthy one, to passing thi

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It's heartbreaking, but Lionel Messi says goodbye to Barca in tears

Lionel Messi in tears at the press conference at the Camp Nou, home stadium to La Liga's Barcelona, in Barcelona, Spain, August 8, 2021. /CFP At 12 p.m. on August 8, 2021, in Barcelona, Lionel

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$100M donation powers decade-long moonshot to create solar satellites that beam power to Earth

It sounds like a plan concocted by a supervillain, if that villain’s dastardly end was to provide cheap, clean power all over the world: launch a set of three-kilometer-wide solar arrays that be

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The cost of Velodyne’s internal drama is starting to add up

Velodyne Lidar, the sensor company that went public a year ago when it merged with special purpose acquisition company Graf Industrial Corp., reported its second quarter earnings Thursday, results tha

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What to expect from Samsung’s next Unpacked

Foldables! Two, probably! Those are your headliners. Samsung tipped its hand with the event invite, which features a pair of geometrical objects that pretty clearly represent the new Galaxy Z Fold and

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Republican Bill Cassidy's push to address climate change 'resilience' in the infrastructure bill

The bipartisan infrastructure bill advancing in Congress would provide tens of billions of dollars to help cities and states protect against the effects of climate chan

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What Raisi's presidency means for Iran-U.S. stalemate

Iran's president-elect Ebrahim Raisi attends his first press conference since the election win in Tehran, Iran, June 21, 2021. /Getty Editor's note:Bobby Naderi is a London-based journalist, g

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3 invaluable founder lessons I learned on my immigration journey

I was four years old when my dad first showed me a computer. I immediately asked him if we could take it apart to see how it worked. I was hooked.When I learned that Windows and Mac were based in the

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Google Maps on iOS adds live location sharing in iMessage, home screen widget, dark mode

Google Maps announced today three feature updates to its iOS app. With live location sharing in the iMessage app, a traffic widget for the home screen and dark mode, Google Maps is positioning itself