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Quadrantid meteor shower of 2022 to peak today

CFP The annual Quadrantid meteor shower, one of the three major meteor showers in the northern hemisphere, will peak around January 3 and 4.The Quadrantid meteor shower happens every year in e

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Fired Alibaba employee suspected of 'forcible indecency', no proof of rape: police

A fired male employee of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is suspected of committing "forcible indecency" against a female colleague, said a local Chinese police

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Giving EV batteries a second life for sustainability and profit

Electric cars and trucks seem to have everything going for them: They don’t produce tailpipe emissions, they’re quieter than their fossil fuel-powered counterparts and the underlying archi

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Lawmakers want to empower publishers to collectively negotiate with Facebook

On the heels of a heated standoff between platforms and publishers in Australia, U.S. lawmakers reintroduced a piece of legislation that would allow the news industry to collectively negotiate content

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Popular show helps narrow gender gap in Chess

02:11 "The Queen's Gambit", a new mini-series on Netflix, an American streaming platform, has broken viewing records in the United States and abroad. The story of an orphaned Chess pro

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International Fiber Art Biennale opens online

The poster of the 11th From Lausanne to Beijing International Fiber Art Biennale features a QR code to scan to enter the exhibition. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn The 11th From Lausanne

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Pollen Robotics’ humanoid robot can be controlled remotely with VR

Pollen Robotics turned heads at last year’s CES . After all, a humanoid robot will do that on the show floor (even if it’s only half of one). The French startup is back for this year’s show (insofar

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Japanese prosecutors seek to question former PM Abe over party costs

Japanese prosecutors are seeking to question former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on suspicions that his political group covered part of the party costs for his supporters

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Giraffe360, a robotic camera for real estate, raises $4.5M from LAUNCHub and Hoxton Ventures

Giraffe360 has a robotic camera, combined with a subscription service, which enables real estate agents and brokers to generate high-resolution photos of properties, floor plans and virtual tours easi

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Startups joining SK Telecom’s accelerator include AI-driven mapping and vision for delivery robots

We don’t often cover telecom technology startups, but it’s periodically worth checking in to see what’s happening in that space. We can get a good indication from the latest cohort to emerge fro

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Netflix tests new low-cost subscription plan in India

Netflix is testing a new low-cost pricing tier in India as the on-demand video streaming service looks to court more subscribers in Asia’s third-largest economy.The American giant has unveiled a “Mob

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HK national security legislation purely China's internal affairs, former Kazakh politician says

"The Hong Kong national security legislation is purely China's internal affairs," Yermukhamet Ertysbayev, an ex-advisor to Kazakh president, has told Xinhua in an exclusive interview. Ertysbayev, who

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Facebook to pay $52 million to traumatized content moderators

The settlement involves over 10,000 former and current content moderators, who will get up to 50,000 dollars in medical costs if they are diagnosed with a condition such as post-traumatic stress diso

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Facebook to pay $52m to moderators who saw disturbing images

Payments will go to content moderators who had to view images of rape, suicide and murder posted on the platform.

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Qomolangma National Park to reopen in May

The Qomolangma National Park in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region is to reopen as of Friday to end a temporary closure amid the COVID-19 epidemic, local author

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Oscars admits streaming films next year as coronavirus suspends cinema

Movies that skip the big screen will be allowed to contend for Oscars this year, the Academy said Tuesday in a significant rule change forced by the coronavirus pandemi

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The European country where it's still game on for top-level football

FC Minsk fans at the local derby against FC Dinamo-Minsk. /Sergei Gapon/AFP With professional football at a standstill across Europe, fans in need of much-missed match action have turned to Be