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World leaders to attend Davos Agenda online next week

The World Economic Forum (WEF) on Monday announced that its Davos Agenda event would be held virtually from January 25-29 under the theme "A Crucial Year to Rebuild Trust."More than 1,500 business, g

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Preparations underway for inauguration of President-elect Biden

The streets of downtown Washington, D.C. appear virtually empty Saturday ahead of the Presidential inauguration next Wednesday, which will mark the commencement of the four-year term of Joe Biden as

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Tech It Out: Chinese tech make splashes at first-ever virtual CES

02:46 For the first time in its over five-decade history, the Consumer Electronics Show or CES, is held virtually this year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.Although leading Chi

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Grafana Labs adds a free tier to its managed observability platform

Grafana Labs, the company behind the increasingly popular open-source monitoring and observability platform, today announced both an updated version of its cloud service and the launch of a free tier

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Attending CES 2021? TechCrunch wants to meet your startup

It’s that time of year again. Of course, this year is going to be different (to be honest, even looking at that lead image makes me uneasy). For the first time ever, CES is going all-virtual – but as

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Kenyatta urges harmonized COVID-19 protocols ahead of AU Summit

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta speaks during a past event in Nairobi, Kenya. /Photo courtesy: State House - Kenya Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged the Africa Centres for Disease Cont

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COVID-19 threatens global progress against malaria: WHO warns

A photo showing mosquitoes under experiment. /Getty Images Gaps in life-saving interventions are undermining efforts to curb malaria, amid fears that the coronavirus pandemic could set back th

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EU announces €22.6 mln for troubled Sahel, Lake Chad region

FILE PHOTO: A Malian soldier stand beside a destroyed building in Gao after a suicide car overnight, which killed three people, November 13, 2018. /VCG Photo The European Union on Monday annou

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Microsoft announces its first Azure data center region in Taiwan

After announcing its latest data center region in Austria earlier this month and an expansion of its footprint in Brazil, Microsoft today unveiled its plans to open a new region in Taiwan. This new r

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Deci raises $9.1M to optimize AI models with AI

Deci, a Tel Aviv-based startup that is building a new platform that uses AI to optimized AI models and get them ready for production, today announced that it has raised a $9.1 million seed round led b

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Future raises $24M Series B for its $150/mo workout coaching app amid at-home fitness boom

With thousands of gyms across the country forced to close down during the pandemic, there’s been an unprecedented opportunity for fitness companies pitching an at-home solution. This moment has

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Apple will announce the next iPhone on October 13

Apple just sent out invites for its upcoming hardware event, all but confirming the arrival of the next iPhone. The event is scheduled nearly a month to the day after the its last big event, which ga

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Oil industry looks to green energy in new coronavirus world

04:02 The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the oil industry's move to invest in green energy. French power giant Total became the latest energy company to increase its commitment t

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Trump's campaign postponed or held virtually after COVID-19 test

Trump's campaign postponed or held virtually after COVID-19 test. /Getty Images President Donald Trump's scheduled campaign events, including two next week in Arizona, will either be postponed

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COVID-19 is biggest indication since WWII of UN importance: WHO chief

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said countries were given sufficient warning. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP The COVID-19 pandemic has offered the biggest indication since World War II that the world needs t

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Google will announce a new Pixel, smart speaker and Chromecast September 30

Hardware season is in full swing. Apple’s big Watch event kicks off tomorrow and Samsung is readying itself for a third (!) Unpacked event on September 23. Now Google’s getting in on the fun. After op

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Nvidia nears deal to buy chip designer Arm for over $40 bln: sources

A woman walks past a SoftBank mobile store in Tokyo on August 11, 2020. /VCG Nvidia Corp. is close to a deal to buy British chip designer Arm Holdings from SoftBank Group Corp. for more than 4