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Spotify opens a marketplace for Canvas looping artwork designers

Spotify today announced that it has leveraged last year’s SoundBetter acquisition to create a marketplace for artists who make short, looping visuals for Canvas. The feature, which began rolling out

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It's time to build a community with a shared future for mankind

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the 12th BRICS summit via video link in Beijing, capital of China, November 17, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note:Keith Lamb is a University of Oxford graduate w

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Trump's attempt to create misinformation media sphere is bad politics

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media at a campaign rally at Pittsburgh-Butler Regional Airport in Butler, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 31, 2020. /AP Editor's note: Bradley Blankenshi

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Tutor marketplace GoStudent takes its Series A to €13.3M with Left Lane Capital and DN Capital

Vienna-based e-learning start-up GoStudent has increased the Series A round it raised earlier this year to €13.3 million, adding €5m this week, in a round led by Left Lane Capital and DN Capital. To d

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Tesla to join S&P 500 as largest-ever new member

A Tesla logo seen in Beijing, China, August 1, 2019. /VCG Elon Musk's rising electric car powerhouse Tesla reached another landmark Monday when it officially qualified for the prestigious SP 5

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Opposition parties win major cities in Bosnia's local vote

Opposition candidates have won council seats and mayoral posts in Bosnia’s biggest cities, dealing a painful blow to the long-entrenched nationalists in nationwide muni

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'Time will tell': Trump comes closest yet to admitting defeat

U.S. President Donald Trump is accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence as he delivers an address from the White House Rose Garden in Washington, U.S., November 13, 2020. /Reuters President Do

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COVID-19: U.S. shatters daily infection record

Click right to read more. Click right to read more. The U.S. blew past another COVID-19 record, reporting more than 153,000 new cases and more than 67,000 hospitalizations on T

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New protein treatment 'reduces odds of developing severe COVID-19'

The drug, developed in Southampton, contains interferon beta-1a - a protein naturally produced by the body to fight viruses.

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New protein treatment 'reduces odds of developing severe COVID-19'

The drug, developed in Southampton, contains interferon beta-1a - a protein naturally produced by the body to fight viruses.

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Diego Maradona leaves hospital after successful brain surgery

Argentine football legend Diego Maradona left the hospital on Wednesday, eight days after undergoing surgery to remove a blood clot in his brain.The 60-year-old left the Olivos clinic in Buenos Aires

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OPEC expects COVID-19 to halt oil demand recovery into 2021

Global oil demand will rebound more slowly in 2021 than previously thought because of rising coronavirus cases, OPEC said on Wednesday, hampering efforts by the group and its allies to support th

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India’s broadcasting ministry secures power to regulate streaming services, online content

India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, which oversees programs beamed on television and theatres in the country, will now also regulate policies for streaming platforms and digital news out

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Sony prepares to enter the drone game with Airpeak

Sony has announced that it is entering the drone market with a new brand called Airpeak, though the specifics of the drone itself are left something of a mystery. It plans to launch the project next s

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China seized over 7,500 corrupt Chinese fugitives in six years

Screenshot from the website of the National Supervisory Commission. China seized 7,831 fugitives from more than 120 countries and regions between 2014 and June 2020, ac

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Beijing blasts U.S. smearing its fugitive-catching efforts

Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin speaks at a news conference in Beijing, October 29, 2020. Photo/fmprc.gov.cn China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin expressed strong oppositio

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'Litmus test': Olympic host Tokyo holds international gymnastics meet

Japan's Kohei Uchimura in action at the Men's All-Around Gymnastics Final competition during 2012 London Summer Olympics in London, UK, August 1, 2012. /CFP Tokyo this weekend hosts an interna