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'Persistent fragilities' ahead for households and businesses: Fed

The U.S. Federal Reserve building in Washington, U.S., May 1, 2020. /Reuters The Federal Reserve expects household finances and business balance sheets to suffer "persistent fragilities" as a

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Vendr raises $4M from David Sacks’s Craft Ventures to reduce SaaS bills

When TechCrunch last checked in with the Y Combinator-backed Vendr in October, the company had just raised $2 million, and was crowing about its profitability. Profitable seed-stage companies arenR

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Italy records lowest new COVID-19 cases since Feb. 27

Italy recorded 178 fresh cases of infection from the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the lowest such figure since Feb. 27, the Civil Protection Department said

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Italy records over 150,000 COVID-19 recoveries, death toll at 33,142

The novel coronavirus infection trend continued downward in Italy as the number of recoveries jumped by 3,503 on Thursday, bringing the total to 150,604, the Civil Protection Department said. Meanwh

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AP-NORC poll: Less than half of Americans would get a COVID-19 vaccine

VCG Only about half of Americans say they would get a COVID-19 vaccine if the scientists working furiously to create one succeed, a number that's surprisingly low considering the effort going

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China to honor prominent figures in cultural heritage preservation

An annual event to honor individuals and groups for their contributions to the preservation and promotion of cultural heritage around China has kicked off, according t

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Multinational corporations not likely to leave China: media

Though decoupling with China has been incited by some politicians recently, the world's largest developing country is set to "remain a critical manufacturing hub for m

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China's high school enrolment up 5.9 percent in 2019

Over 8.39 million students were enrolled by Chinese high schools in 2019, 5.90 percent more than the previous year, according to a report released by the Ministry of Ed

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Clubhouse proves that time is a flat circle

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.First, a big thanks to everyone who took part in the Equity survey, we

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2020 is going virtual

The headline says it all. TechCrunch’s big yearly event, Disrupt, is going fully virtual in 2020. As you can imagine, this is largely due to the impact that the coronavirus has had on the world. But i

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China's BRI needed to revitalize world economy

Editor's Note: The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has changed the lives of many people around the world and may even change the global landscape. While Western nations are still struggling with COVID-1

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Discover China: South China islanders guard whales' "dining hall"

As the tide was still on the ebb at 6 a.m. on Weizhou Island in south China, Chen Mo, a marine biologist, got up, donned a wetsuit and grabbed his sampling tools, rush

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China's postal industry registers robust growth in first four months

China's postal industry registered higher revenue and business volume in the first four months of this year, despite the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, official data

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Millions of historic newspaper images get the machine learning treatment at the Library of Congress

Historians interested in the way events and people were chronicled in the old days once had to sort through card catalogs for old papers, then microfiche scans, then digital listings — but modern adva

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Enterprise companies find MLOps critical for reliability and performance

Enterprise startups UIPath and Scale have drawn huge attention in recent years from companies looking to automate workflows, from RPA (robotic process automation) to data labeling.What’s been overlook

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Industrial restructuring in China's 13 Five-Year Plans

The Five-Year Plans for National Economic and Social Development, or the Five-Year Plans (FYP) in short, are a series of social and economic initiatives issued since 1953 in China to map the directio

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The good, better and best of cloud and SaaS growth

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.The crew at Bessemer released their new, yearly cl