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Getting help as a foreigner in China

EU nationals prepare to board an evacuation flight at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport in Wuhan, Hubei Province, February 1, 2020. /AP PhotoMajor cities in China have

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BlaBlaCar’s revenue grew by 71% in 2019

French startup BlaBlaCar is sharing some metrics today. In 2019, the company’s revenue grew by 71% compared to 2018. The big difference between 2019 and 2018 is that BlaBlaCar diversified its activity

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Messenger Kids adds expanded parental controls, details how much kids’ data Facebook collects

Facebook’s messaging app for families with children, Messenger Kids, is being updated today with new tools and features to give parents more oversight and control over their kids’ chats. N

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What is going on with Tesla?

Shares of American electric car company Tesla are sharply higher again this morning, adding $122.40 (or 15.69 percent ) to their value before regular trading today. The gains come after Tesla has rap

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Man admits hacking Nintendo and leaking details of unreleased products

Ryan Hernandez, from Palmdale in California, leaked information about the Nintendo Switch console.

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Venture investing in elder tech

Senior citizens are not early adopters of new technology; many of our 65+ friends and family might not use much tech in the first place. That said, two-thirds of America’s 50 million seniors use

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Equity Monday: Stock market woes, vertical SaaS and WeWork gets serious

Good morning friends, and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a short-form audio hit to kickstart your week. Regular Equity episodes still drop Friday morning, so if you’ve listened to the sho

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Official: Rational, optimistic mind crucial amid 2019-nCoV epidemic

VCG Photo In order to alleviate public's psychological confusion and discomfort amid the novel coronavirus (2019-nCov) epidemic outbreak, experts have developed guidelines of emergency psychol

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Warning: Coronavirus may spread further as Chinese get back to work

Screenshot from CCTV The novel coronavirus came at a bad time for China. January and February are the two months for the world's largest human migration, the "chunyun," or Spring Festival trav

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Chinese internet companies vs. coronavirus: What have they been doing?

China is famous for its borderline-unrealistic application of internet technologies. When the country is hit by a large-scale infectious disease like the novel coronavirus, what have internet compani

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Global Business Daily: Digital taxes, spying claims and a Chinese IPO

"I think we have progress – that's something I'm paid to say, but I believe it."Well, that's certainly one way to break the silence after a big round of international talks on a global digital tax.Pa

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Virologist reveals the science behind fight to find coronavirus vaccine

Researchers at Imperial College in London are hopeful their knowledge of SARS and MERS means they can develop a vaccine quickly.

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Elon Musk just dropped an EDM track on SoundCloud

Friday typically brings a bunch of new music releases, but this Friday’s new drops includes a new track from an unlikely source – Elon Musk . The SpaceX and Tesla CEO said earlier this week he

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Stanford’s Doggo quadrupedal robot and siblings Pupper and Woofer are coming to TC Sessions: Robotics+AI

Animal-like, four-legged robots have been a crowd pleaser since Boston Dynamics’ BigDog, and Stanford’s Doggo shows how the technology can be made open source, accessible, and educational

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Greylock’s Reid Hoffman and Sarah Guo to talk fundraising at Early Stage SF 2020

Early Stage SF is around the corner, and we are more than excited for this brand new event. The intimate gathering of founders, VCs, operators and tech industry experts is all about giving founders th

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The better everyday camera — Pixel 4 or iPhone 11 Pro?

I need a new phone.A big chunk of my time on the iPhone was spent taking pictures, so I’m heavily basing the next smartphone on its camera capabilities. After playing around with the Pixel 4 for

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More Chinese medical teams sent to aid coronavirus control

More medical teams are rushing to central China's Hubei Province to aid the coronavirus control there. A team of 136 medical workers from 12 hospital run by the Beijin