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Colombia begins vaccinating youths against COVID-19

02:13 In Colombia,the country is pushing forward in its effort to achieve herd immunity in the fight against COVID-19.More than a quarter of adults have received at least one vaccine do

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Mindset, an artist-driven mental wellness audio platform, raises $8.7M from Scooter Braun’s TQ Ventures and others

Mindset, a platform featuring personal story collections from recording artists, announced today that it raised $8.7 million in seed funding.As co-founders of the K-pop-focused podcast production comp

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Cybersecurity VC funding surges to a record $11.5B in 2021

The pandemic completely upended the threat landscape as we know it. Ransomware accounted for an estimated 2.9 million attacks so far in 2021, and supply-chain attacks that targeted Kaseya and SolarWin

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PSG reject Real Madrid's €160m offer for Kylian Mbappe

Kylian Mbappe of Paris Saint-Germain looks on in the Ligue 1 game against Stade Brestois 29 at Stade Francis Le Ble in Brest, France, August 20, 2021. /CFP Real Madrid offered 160 million euro

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Italian student gets COVID-19 health pass tattoo – and it works

01:19 While most people would rather forget living through a pandemic, Andrea Colonnetta, has got a permanent reminder – a tattoo of his COVID-19 vaccine certificate. The 22-year-old st

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House passes John Lewis voting rights bill on party lines

The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act passed the House on Tuesday, with the 219-212 vote going along party lines.The bill, named after the late Georgia represent

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Fika Ventures nearly triples its assets under management: ‘It’s definitely a crazy time’

Fika Ventures is a five-year-old, LA-based seed-stage fund that has been funding mostly business-to-business startups, as well as fintech companies and a sprinkling of healthcare IT startups — a

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It’s time for the VC community to stop overlooking the childcare industry

Square. Uber. Zillow. Airbnb. Besides being some of the biggest technology companies, what else do these titans have in common? They all operate in entrenched, highly fragmented, geographically locali

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Max Q: Launch industry low-down

Max Q is a weekly newsletter from TechCrunch all about space. Sign up here to receive it weekly on Mondays in your inbox.Another public launch company is coming soon, while a still-private launch had

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Infinite Canvas raises $2.8M for a metaverse creator group modeled after esports teams

With the promise of an interconnected virtual world coming into focus and user-crafted gaming content exploding, Infinite Canvas is looking to apply lessons learned in the esports boom to the metavers

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Record numbers of children groomed online as offenders exploit 'risky design features'

According to figures obtained by the NSPCC, online grooming crimes recorded by police increased by almost 70% in the last three years.

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India’s Khatabook raises $100 million for its bookkeeping platform for merchants

Khatabook, a startup that is helping merchants in India digitize their bookkeeping and accept online payments, said on Tuesday it has raised $100 million in a new financing round as it prepares to lau

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U.S. approves Pfizer, booster jab inequality: COVID-19 Daily Bulletin

TOP HEADLINES• The U.S. drug regulator has granted full approval to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. While the German-made inoculation has been in use in the U.S. since December after being given emergen

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Tennis: In-form Zverev looks to U.S. Open title

Alexander Zverev will take an 11-match winning streak into the U.S. Open later this month after adding the Western & Southern Open title to his Olympic gold medal, but

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Gaming for climate change: Will it lead youths and governments to act?

04:00 The blazing wildfire continues to deplete the forest cover shrinking the habitat and resources of a sugar glider – a tiny flying marsupial. With food availability getting scarce a

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Tennis: In-form Zverev looks to U.S. Open title

Alexander Zverev will take an 11-match winning streak into the U.S. Open later this month after adding the Western Southern Open title to his Olympic gold medal, but he still rates Novak Djokovic as

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Afghan immigrants grab low-pay jobs, including shepherding, in Turkey

Afghan shepherds are in demand in Turkey. /CGTN Afghan immigrants or refugees fleeing the Taliban takeover have been scrambling to take up whatever jobs are available in Turkey in order to sur