03:22 Brazil’s Cariri region is among the world's top spots for fossil research where well-preserved fossils are found in many places. But officials are also dealing with illegal traff
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Zhou Qi of the Xinjiang Flying Tigers looks on in the CBA playoff game against the Shandong Heroes in Zhuji, east China's Zhejiang Province, April 18, 2021. /CFP Chinese center Zhou Qi of both
03:31 After a six-and-a-half-hour trip from the International Space Station, four astronauts on board the SpaceX Dragon capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico early Sunday mornin
02:28 The pandemic has created tremendous challenges for Brazil’s health care system. So the state of Sao Paulo created a ‘VolunteersRegistry’early on -to find people willing to helpf
China's Spring Festival blockbuster "Hi, Mom" beat the 2017 American superhero film "Wonder Woman" at 5.39 billion yuan ($823 million) on Tuesday and made Chinese film director Jia Ling overtake P
02:27 The United Nations says there’s ample evidence from around the world thatgender-basedviolencehas increased amid the pressures of theCOVID-19 pandemic.It’s even described the spik
03:43 The disappearance of Chinese scholar Zhang Yingying in 2017 made international headlines.The search for Zhang and her family's fight for justice ended in a court decision not to
As remote work continues to solidify its place as a critical aspect of how businesses exist these days, a startup that has built a platform to help companies source and bring on one specific category
02:23 Argentina’s Senate is debating a one-off wealth tax that affects roughly 10,000 of the country’s richest citizens.It is aimed at raising over $3 billion for social spending to h
Last week, we reported that popular language learning app Duolingo, with 500 million total app downloads, was raising $35 million on a valuation of at least $2.21 billion — the latest chapter i
Deep Vision, a new AI startup that is building an AI inferencing chip for edge computing solutions, is coming out of stealth today. The six-year-old company’s new ARA-1 processors promise to str
When it comes to apps, Android leads the pack with nearly 3 million apps in its official Google Play store. The sheer volume also means that sometimes iffy apps slip through the cracks.Researchers at
Extended warranties — those offers to add an extra year or two to an existing product warranty to give you a little more peace of mind in case something goes wrong with something you’ve pu
Snowflake went public this week, and in a mark of the wider ecosystem that is evolving around data warehousing, a startup that has built a completely new concept for modelling warehoused data is annou
China stocks rose marginally on Wednesday as investor confidence in the country's economic upswing stayed intact, though a drop in financials tamed the broader market's strength.At the midday brea
Flipkart is rolling out a voice assistant feature to its platform to make it easier for consumers to shop as the Walmart-owned e-commerce giant looks to expand its reach in the nation.The AI-powered