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Typewise taps $1M to build an offline next word prediction engine

Swiss keyboard startup Typewise has bagged a $1 million seed round to build out a typo-busting, ‘privacy-safe’ next word prediction engine designed to run entirely offline. No cloud connec

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'Recently active' volcanoes discovered on Venus

The discovery of coronae on the surface of the planet could challenge the assumption that Venus is dormant.

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Siberia heat 'almost impossible' without climate change

A recent heatwave in Siberia that saw temperature records tumble as the region sweltered in 38 degrees Celsius highs was "almost impossible" without the influence of manmade climate change, leadin

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Credit Suisse aims for 100% of securities venture in China growth plan

Credit Suisse wants to raise its China securities joint venture stake to 100 percent and increase its market share after getting the regulatory green light to take a majority holding, the head of its

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Northflank announces $2.6M seed to create end-to-end DevOps workflow in cloud

Northflank, a startup from a couple of guys in their 20s, has been working on a full-stack DevOps platform in the cloud since their first year at university in 2016. Today the startup announced a $2.6

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Disney Research neural face swapping technique can provide photorealistic, high resolution video

A new paper published by Disney Research in partnership with ETH Zurich describes a fully automated, neural network-based method for swapping faces in photos and videos – the first such method that re

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Australia, New Zealand to host 2023 Women's World Cup

Lights of women football players are projected on the Sydney Opera House as part of a campaign for Australia and New Zealand's joint bid for hosting 2023 women's World Cup, in Sydney, Australia,

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Silq is a new high-level programming language for quantum computers

Quantum computing hardware continues to improve to the point where we may actually see real-world use cases in the next few years and so it’s probably no surprise that we are also seeing a stead

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Coronavirus: FIFA allows transfer windows to open before season ends

The FIFA logo is seen outside their headquarters in Zurich, October 7, 2015. /VCG FIFA has announced a new temporary regulation that allows transfer windows to open before the current season i

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Some 5,000 people demonstrate in Geneva denouncing police violence, racism

Some 5,000 people joined a demonstration denouncing police violence and racism in downtown Geneva on Tuesday, the day scheduled for the funeral of George Floyd, an Afr

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WADA vice president Yang says doping fight is on way back to normal

China's former short-track speed-skater Yang Yang speaks after being elected as the vice president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in Katowice, Poland, Nov. 7, 2019. (Xinhua/Zhou Nan) WADA vi

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Iran: Ready for more prisoner exchanges with the U.S.

FILE PHOTO: Michael White, a freed U.S. Navy veteran detained in Iran since 2018, poses with U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Brian Hook while on his return to the United States at Zurich Airport in Z

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Scientists retract study that suggested hydroxychloroquine was dangerous

The World Health Organisation says trials of the drug will resume, after halting them following the study's publication.

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Trump says American held in Iran since 2018 freed, on his way home

It took 683 days.After a nearly two-year detention in Iran, American Michael White is a free man.White,​the U.S.Navyveteran had been on medical furlough​from an Iranian prisonsinceMarch, after bei

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Appway raises $37M, its first-ever funding, for financial customer management tools

With the renewed push for more of the services we use everyday to be accessible online and in a non-physical way, a company out of Switzerland that builds tools for financial services companies to int

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This Week in Apps: Facebook launches trio of app experiments, TikTok gets spammed, plus coronavirus impacts on app economy

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all.The app industry is as hot as ever, wit

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Scandit raises $80M as COVID-19 drives demand for contactless deliveries

Enterprise barcode scanner company Scandit has closed an $80 million Series C round, led by Silicon Valley VC firm G2VP. Atomico, GV, Kreos, NGP Capital, Salesforce Ventures and Swisscom Ventures als