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Chinese breakdancer Zeng Yingying and her Olympic dream

A person breakdances in public. /CFP When the International Olympic Committee announced on Monday that breakdancing, among other sports, was approved for inclusion at the Paris Olympics in 202

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"You can 'will yourself' to longer life" - CGTN meets Peter Diamandis

10:56 CGTN's Yue Zou spoke to Greek-American entrepreneur and engineer Peter Diamandis as part of Web Summit 2020.Diamandis is famous for his X Prize Foundation, which aims to encourag

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Major obstacles remain for Merkel ahead of EU summit

German Chancellor Angela Merkel wears a face mask as she attends the weekly meeting of the German Federal cabinet in the conference hall of the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, December 2, 2020. /

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Cloudflare lets you control where data is stored and accessible

Cloudflare has launched a new set of features today called the Data Localization Suite. Companies on the Enterprise plan can choose to enable the features through an add-on.With the Data Localization

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Gift Guide: Games on every platform to get you through the long, COVID winter

Welcome to TechCrunch’s 2020 Holiday Gift Guide! Need help with gift ideas? We’re here to help! We’ll be rolling out gift guides from now through the end of December. You can find ou

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Gift Guide: The best books for 2020 recommended by VCs and TechCrunch writers (Part 1)

Welcome to TechCrunch’s 2020 Holiday Gift Guide! Need help with gift ideas? We’re here to help! We’ll be rolling out gift guides from now through the end of December. You can find ou

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Gift Guide: Camping and backpacking gear that the outdoors lover in your life really wants

Welcome to TechCrunch’s 2020 Holiday Gift Guide! Need help with gift ideas? We’re here to help! We’ll be rolling out gift guides from now through the end of December. You can find ou

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World AIDS Day: Uganda reports decline in new HIV infections

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Vivenu, a ticketing API for events, closes a $15M Series A round led by Balderton Capital

vivenu, a ticketing platform that offers an API for venues and promoters to customize to their needs, has closed a $15 million (€12.6 million) in Series A funding led by Balderton Capital. Previous in

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WHO: Skiing may not spread coronavirus but slopes still risky

Skiers take to the slopes in the ski resort of Verbier in the Swiss Alps, November 15, 2020. /CFP As several European countries have suspended access to the ski slopes to stop the spread of th

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5 reasons you don’t want to miss out on TC Sessions: Space 2020

We’re just about two weeks away from launching TC Sessions: Space 2020, our first focused foray into early-stage space startups and the essential satellite industries that support them. Buy your pass

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WHO urges against large end year festivities as COVID-19 war rages on

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus /Photo by James Chau The World Health Organization has urged the world to scale down festive celebrations to avoid fanning

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What's worse than depression? Pandemic loneliness

A man looks at the half-empty Darsena during the Milanese lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Milan, Italy, November 11, 2020. /Getty Editor's note:Haider Rifaat is a writer for theSouth Chin

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Chinese equestrian Hua Tian: 2020 is hard, but you need to face it

Chinese equestrian Alex Hua Tian. /CFP 2020 is finally coming to an end after putting almost everyone on Earth through a stressful year. Chinese equestrian Hua Tian and equestrianism were no e

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Kahoot drops $50M on Drops to add language learning to its gamified education stable

After raising $215 million from SoftBank to double down on the surge of interest in online learning, Kahoot has made an acquisition to expand the scope of subjects that it covers. The popular startup,

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The downfall of ad tech means the trust economy is here

2020 has brought about much-needed social movements. In June, activists launched the Stop Hate for Profit campaign, a call to hold social media companies like Facebook accountable for the hate happeni

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Netflix says ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is setting viewership records

“The Queen’s Gambit” is setting viewership records at Netflix, the streaming service said today.Like all the viewership data that Netflix has released this year, these new numbers r