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Tempo reveals $17M-funded $2000 weight lift training screen

Tempo wants to be the Peloton of barbells. It’s a 42-inch tall screen with 3D machine vision that tracks and teaches you as you workout. The giant upright HD display makes it feel like your pers

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HP offers its investors billions in shareholder returns to avoid a Xerox tie-up

To ward off a hostile takeover bid by Xerox, which is a much smaller company, HP (not to be confused with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a separate public company) is promising its investors billions and

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Deviceplane wants to bring over-the-air updates to Linux edge devices

Deviceplane, a member of the Y Combinator Winter 2020 class is developing an open source toolset to manage, monitor and update Linux devices running at the edge,“We solve the hard infrastructure

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My battle with coronavirus: A 10-day "blitz" at Leishenshan

by Xinhua writers Ma Yunfei and Chen Jian At the age of 40, Chen Gang finally fulfilled his childhood dream of proudly slipping on a "military uniform", though the cir

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The rise of the winged pink unicorn

Like most investors, I am a little too obsessed with unicorns.But not just the Silicon Valley kind. As the mother of a five-year-old daughter, my interests also veer in a pink, sparkly direction. So i

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DeFiance: billion-dollar finance, million-dollar hacks, and very little value

Over the last year or so, much-to-most of the cryptocurrency world has pivoted from the failure of “fat tokens” and ICOs, and the faltering growth of “Layer 2” payments like Li

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Full disclosure one: I’ve hosted a lot of independent podcasts, with varying degrees of success. Full disclosure two: This story is being hosted on a site owned by a corporate media giant. There’s eve

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Feature: Family members find common ground in fight against coronavirus

Seeing the infection numbers jump daily on TV news, Hou Jianying got the feeling it was about time to end her Spring Festival holiday. A doctor in central Hunan Provin

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Chinese expert addresses common concerns about COVID-19

Doctors at Beijing Ditan Hospital in the Chinese capital are treating novel coronavirus patients in critical condition. I had a chance to visit the hospital on Thursday and spoke with the head of

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Here’s everything Samsung just announced at Unpacked 2020

At least once a year, Samsung pulls hundreds of reporters, analysts, and industry folk into one big room for an event it calls “Samsung Unpacked”, where the company shows off all of their

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WHO offers basic protective measures against novel coronavirus

Amid the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP), the World Health Organization (WHO) has offered basic protective measures to the public against the virus.1. Wash hands frequently with

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Facebook Workplace co-founder launches downtime fire alarm Kintaba

“It’s an open secret that every company is on fire,” says Kintaba co-founder John Egan. “At any given moment something is going horribly wrong in a way that it has never gone wrong b

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UK’s Tiney raises $6.5M to source, train and connect childminders to improve early-years care

A shortage of good teachers and carers is an acute problem in the world of education. Getting smart people into the profession is hard when the pay is not great and the stresses coming from above and

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WHO details protective measures against novel coronavirus

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published an article on the basic information, transmission mechanism and protection measures relating to the novel coronavirus in a QA format, amid global eff

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WHO details protective measures against novel coronavirus

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published an article on the basic information, transmission mechanism and protection measures relating to the novel coronavirus in a QA format, amid global eff

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New Early Stage speakers to tackle growth marketing, media strategy and M&A

In a little less than three months, TechCrunch will bring its Early Stage event to SF for the very first time. Early Stage is meant to bring together more than 50 experts across startup core competenc

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Facing the silent mental health epidemic amid the coronavirus outbreak

Frequently checking body temperatures, feeling ashamed and guilty for being infected by the novel coronavirus, many people across China, especially residents in Wuhan a