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Jackson Yee to serve as youth ambassador for Beijing film fest

The organizers of the 11th Beijing International Film Festival (BJIFF) announced on Tuesday popular young actor Jackson Yee will serve as its Youth Publicity and Promotion Ambassador.An official promo

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GGV Capital gave this real estate startup founder a term sheet 48 hours after meeting

Realm, which aims to help homeowners maximize the value of their property with its data platform, has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by GGV Capital.Existing backers Primary Venture Partner

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Singer Jace Chan lights up Times Square

Hong Kong-based recording artist Jace Chan's image landed on a giant Times Square LED billboard in New York City on July 20, as a part of a campaign to boost the young artist's popularity inte

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Art of the Party: The Hard Time

01:58 The Qiongya Column is known as “the armed forces of the people.” The military contingent, led by the Communist Party of China, was founded during a peasant uprising on the souther

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Saving Mexico's ancient canal gardens: Xochimilco

03:27 Mexico's ancient canal gardens, Xochimilco, once belonged to the powerful Aztec empire.Fast-forward 500 years, nature resides, along with trash."I think we all know that humans ca

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Facebook warns of ‘headwinds’ to its ad business from regulators and Apple

Facebook posted its second quarter earnings Wednesday, beating expectations with $29 billion in revenue.The world’s biggest social media company was expected to report $27.8 billion in revenue f

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Nura finally goes fully wireless with the NuraTrue buds

As I write this, I have no fewer than five recently reviewed earbuds sitting on the desk in front of me. And you know what? They’re all pretty good. Some are better than others, of course — that’s why

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Brain Technologies raises $50M+ for the launch of Natural, a natural language search engine and ‘super app’

Voice-based and other personal assistant apps — which use natural language and hefty AI engines in the backend to source information to address your various questions, do your e-commerce bidding

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Insurtech startup Spot brings in $17.5M equity, debt to fill insurance gaps for accidental injuries

Affordable healthcare continues to be a major problem in the U.S., with roughly 30 million people without comprehensive healthcare and high medical costs causing many to go into debt. Spot is tackling

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The graveyard of empires groaning again: What's the way out?

U.S. President Joe Biden (R) meets with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 25, 2021. /Getty Editor's note: Abu Naser is an inde

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NBA releases schedule for 2021-22 season, keeps play-in tournament

LeBron James (R) of the Los Angeles Lakers shoots in the NBA Western Conference play-in tournament game against the Golden State Warriors at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California,U.S., May 19

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High-profile entrepreneurs launch $85 million fund to back Indian SaaS startups

Four high-profile Indian entrepreneurs who are among those who kickstarted India’s SaaS journey, building and helping startups scale and win customers globally and also backed about 100 such firms, ar

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Pelicans trade for Valanciunas, aim for big fish free agent

The New Orleans Pelicans are trading Steven Adams (L) and Eric Bledsoe (R) for Jonas Valanciunas (C) with the Memphis Grizzlies. /CFP The New Orleans Pelicans sent Steven Adams, Eric Bledsoe a

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Cameroon refugee living his Olympic dream after living on UK's streets

03:14 Cyrille Tchatchet II is preparing to make history at the Tokyo Olympics – seven years after finding himself homeless and penniless on Britain's streets.In June, the weightlifter w

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Instagram to default young teens to private accounts, restrict ads and unwanted adult contact

As it gears up to expand access to younger users, Instagram this morning announced a series of updates designed to make its app a safer place for online teens. The company says it will now default use

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Robotic AI firm Covariant raises another $80 million

In May of last year, Covariant announced that it had raised a $40 million Series B. It was a health sum of money for the young company, bringing its total funding up to $67 million. Just a little over

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China's Xu Jiayu falls short of Olympic men's 100m backstroke medal

China's two-time world champion Xu Jiayu didn't make it onto the podium in the men's 100m Olympic backstroke event in Tokyo on Tuesday depsite producing his best perfor