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Ronaldinho closing in on 70 days detention in Paraguay

Ronaldinho of Brazil at an interview in Budapest, Hungary, December 6, 2019. /VCG Ronaldinho's lawyers are hoping the former world player of the year will be allowed to go home after more than

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WeWork and SoftBank unveil the first 14 startups in their Emerge accelerator for underrepresented founders

SoftBank Investment Fund and WeWork Labs say they’ve officially kicked off the first session of Emerge, an accelerator program designed for underrepresented founders.In their press release, th

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Behold the relentlessly optimistic silliness of the ‘AI Eurovision’ winner

Around two-thirds of the way through “Beautiful the World,” a voice declaratively whispers, “The music of the Earth has arrived.” Created by the fittingly-named Uncanny Valley, the three-and-a-half mi

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Docket, a platform for organizing meeting agendas and notes, wins Zoom’s Marketplace App competition

In an episode of Extra Crunch Live last week, Roelof Botha expressed excitement not only about the shift to teleconference platforms like Zoom, but the apps and bots that may spring up on top of the Z

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Hong Kong's immigration department wins Skytrax's Best Airport Immigration Service award

The Immigration Department of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government has been voted the winner of the 2020 best airport immigration service award in the World Passenger Survey

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Daily Crunch: Target acquires Deliv’s delivery tech

Target makes another acquisition, social platforms struggle with a “Plandemic” conspiracy video and Boston Dynamics’ robot Spot encourages social distancing.Here’s your Daily

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Microsoft and AWS exchange poisoned pen blog posts in latest Pentagon JEDI contract spat

Microsoft and Amazon are at it again as the fight for the Defense Department JEDI contract continues. In a recent series of increasingly acerbic pronouncements, the two companies continue their ongoin

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Froome fears Tour de France may struggle to keep fans away

Chris Froome of Great Britain finishes stage 20 of the Tour de France 2018, in Espelette, France, July 28, 2018. /VCG Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome fears that event organizers c

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Spain's La Liga targets June restart, Ronaldo enters 14-day quarantine

Real Madrid players during a training session, Madrid, Spain, February 29, 2020. /VCG Spanish football is beginning to move toward reclaiming some semblance of normalcy as the country's sports

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Live tennis returns with exhibition event in Germany

Germany's tennis player Dustin Brown returns the ball during a pro-tennis tournament at a local base tennis academy in Germany, May 1, 2020. /AP An exhibition tennis event got underway near Ko

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Amazon faces loss with $4bn coronavirus spending

The online retailing giant has recruited an extra 175,000 workers to cope with a surge in online shopping during the pandemic.

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Murray and Bertens claim titles in virtual Madrid Open

Andy Murray of Great Britain poses with his winners' trophy after his straight sets victory against Rafael Nadal of Spain in the men's final at the Madrid Open in Madrid, Spain, May 10, 2015. /VC

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SpaceX, Blue Origin and Dynetics will build human lunar landers for NASA’s next trip back to the Moon

NASA has selected the companies that will provide them with the human landing system for their Artemis Moon missions, including a lander vehicle which will carry astronauts from space to the lunar su

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Deliveroo cuts ~15% of staff as coronavirus challenges food delivery

Is it feast or famine for food delivery startups during the coronavirus pandemic? The UK’s Deliveroo has confirmed it’s axing more than 350 staff — or around 15% of its global headc

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Maradona hails move to suspend relegation in Argentinian football

Football legend Diego Maradona, the manager of struggling Argentinian club Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, has praised a decision to suspend relegation from the country's

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Italy records fewest new deaths in nearly six weeks, antibody testing to start May 4

In another sign of encouragement, Italy reported 415 new deaths related to COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, the smallest daily increase since March 18, fresh figures showed on Saturday. Saturday's n

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World leaders launch WHO COVID-19 plan, but U.S. not involved

Global leaders joined the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday to launch an initiative to accelerate work on drugs, tests and vaccines against COVID-19 and to shar