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Bach to the future with variations

Pianist Lang Lang talks about how playing composer's music has helped him in his growth as a musician and family man. Lang Lang shares his knowledge and expertise to children from Beijing primary

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Four possible ways to describe Biden's foreign policy

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Republicans seize on immigration as border crossings surge

Delegation trips to the border. Apocalyptic warnings. A flurry of new conferences.Republicans still divided over former President Donald Trump’s legacy are seizing on h

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Google Area 120’s ThreadIt is bite-size video for team collaborations

The team at Google’s Area 120 in-house incubator says the idea for ThreadIt came well before COVID-19 made remote work a necessity for large swaths of the globe. Of course, the pandemic certainly acce

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How to recruit data scientists without paying top dollar

When it comes to building a data science team, many companies fail at the first step — creating a job posting. These mistakes have been amplified in the age of COVID-19.The increasing demand for AI an

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How localization leader Iyuno Media Group opens entertainment to international audiences

Video streaming platforms have signed up more subscribers during Covid-19 lockdowns, and that growth is expected to continue after the pandemic, showcasing more international content. When subtitles a

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SoftBank, Tencent backs IP analytics platform PatSnap in $300M round

As enterprises around the world pour more money into research and invention to stay competitive, the need for analyzing the worthiness of RD expenses also grows.One company serving that function is Pa

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4 signs your product is not as accessible as you think

For too many companies, accessibility wasn’t baked into their products from the start, meaning they now find themselves trying to figure out how to inject it retrospectively. But bringing decade

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Blaming China for cyberattacks won't solve India's energy problem

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Trump coronavirus coordinator, Deborah Birx, takes job at air purifier business

Dr Deborah Birx, the former Trump White House coronavirus taskforce coordinator, is taking a private sector job, joining a Texas manufacturer that says its purifiers cl

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Marco Rubio says he ‘stands with’ Amazon warehouse workers

Workers at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse have already received public support from Democratic politicians ranging from Bernie Sanders to Joe Biden, the latter of whom promised to be “the most p

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Assembled, an operating system for support teams, raises $16.6M

From the point of view of a consumer, customer service sometimes feels like a monolith, but behind the scenes it can be a very fragmented business, with dozens of companies providing various different

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Does your VC have an investment thesis or a hypothesis?

Venture capitalists love to talk investment theses: on Twitter, Medium, Clubhouse, at conferences. And yet, when you take a closer look, theses are often meaningless and/or misleading.OpenVC is a new,

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Professor Scott Galloway just raised $30 million for an online school that upskills managers fast

Scott Galloway, the New York University professor, author, and tech entrepreneur, is taking the wraps off a $30 million Series A round for his newest company, Section4, a platform for business “

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Vietnam begins COVID-19 vaccinations after successful virus containment

Vietnam launched its COVID-19 vaccination programme on Monday with healthcare workers first in the queue, even as the Southeast Asian country looked set to contain its

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President of EU Chamber in China: 6% GDP target for qualitative growth

01:16 With the global economy still facing serious challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic, China aims to achieve a higher than 6 percent GDP growth for 2021."By setting it at 6 percent,

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Swedish Prime Minister Under Fire for Saying Afghan Stabbing 'Not a Question of Immigration'

An Afghan man in his 20s was shot by Swedish police after a bloody knife attack in the town of Vetlanda that left seven people injured; he has been arrested on suspicio