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​Nobel laureate Mo Yan starts blog to communicate with youngsters

Prominent Chinese writer and Nobel laureate Mo Yan opened a new social media account Monday, with the aim of talking to young people.He recorded a short video on the WeChat social media platform, intr

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Medium revamps its Partner Program, launching new eligibility requirements and referral bonuses

Amid a year of editorial pivots and employee exits, Medium announced today that it will make significant changes to its Medium Partner Program, which allows writers on the platform to monetize their c

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Hear how Cityblock Health’s Toyin Ajayi, Carbon Health’s Eren Bali and Forward’s Adrian Aoun see tech impacting access to health at Disrupt 2021

If there’s one thing that the ongoing COVID-19 crisis has proven, it’s that the healthcare system in the U.S. is in drastic need of major transformation. One of the biggest issues to be hi

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The art of startup storytelling with Julian Shapiro

Although he’s coming from a numbers-driven background, growth expert Julian Shapiro focuses on the emotional power of storytelling these days.“I like to think of successful brand-building

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Experts appreciate China's commitment to global anti-COVID-19 fight

Chinese officials inspect the shipment of the Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines at Harare International Airport on March 16, 2021 in Harare, Zimbabwe. (Photo by Tafadzwa Ufumeli / Getty Images via C

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Sci-fi novel predicted Olympic sprinter Su Bingtian 23 years ago

A comparison between Chinese Olympic sprinter Su Bingtian and an event in a 23-year-old sci-fi novel written by famous author Wang Jinkang has gone viral online after the latter seemed to portray Su’s

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When the goals of PR and journalism don’t align

Update: We promised to link to Creighton’s Soundcloud. Here it is.Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines

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Substack doubles down on uncensored ‘free speech’ with acquisition of Letter

Substack announced last week that it acquired Letter, a platform that encourages written dialogue and debate. The financials of the deal weren’t disclosed, but this acquisition follows Substack&

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America's COVID-19 complacency backfires for the worst

A COVID-19 patient arrives outside Maimonides Medical Center, New York, U.S., November 17, 2020. /Reuters Editor's note: Haider Rifaat is a features writer for OK! Pakistan, the international

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Draft.dev CEO Karl Hughes on the importance of using experts in developer marketing

Developers can be a tough crowd. They typically hate being marketed to and are often short on time, which sets a particularly high bar for any content marketing aimed at them.Coming up with relevant c

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IMAX reports significant profitability turnaround in China

IMAX China on Wednesday reported a half-year 2021 Greater China revenue of $53.4 million, up from $6.7 million a year ago, driven by strong year-on-year box office recovery and increased installation

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BioNTech founder Uğur Şahin and Mayfield’s Ursheet Parikh are coming to Disrupt

It’s hard to argue that any technology company has had a greater impact in the past decade than BioNTech, the mRNA-based therapeutics pioneer behind the world’s most widely-used COVID-19 v

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48-hour countdown to early bird savings on passes to TC Disrupt 2021

What’s big enough, bold enough and influential enough to inspire more than 10,000 people around the world to carve out three days from their intensely busy schedules? If you said TechCrunch Disrupt 20

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ASCAP Lab highlights a quartet of early-stage music startups

Music rights giant ASCAP said today that a quartet of early-stage startups/university music projects will compete in its Immersive Music Studio Challenge. The 12-week project is a partnership between

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The RapidSOS EC-1

Three digits, so little time.Numbers can take on profound cultural significance, but few numbers have quite the resonance as 911, the emergency number for the United States. Few want to dial it, but w

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Writer sheds light on lives of urban women

Whenever a young, female author releases a modern metropolitan fiction, it is often categorized as a work of feminine literature and readers will nearly always speculate on whether or not the plot is

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US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is coming to Disrupt

The myriad emerging and longer-term transportation technologies promise to change how people and packages move about the world or within their own neighborhoods. They also present myriad regulatory an