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Liu He holds video talks with EU official over investment deal

Chinese Vice Premier Liu He held video talks on Friday with Valdis Dombrovskis, executive vice president of the European Commission.Liu, also head of the Chinese side of the China-EU High-Level Econo

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Neuroglee gets $2.3 million to develop digital therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases

There are now about 50 million people with dementia globally, a number the World Health Organization expects to triple by 2050. Alzheimer’s is the leading cause of dementia and caregivers are often ov

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AWS announces Panorama a device adds machine learning technology to any camera

AWS has launched a new hardware device, the AWS Panorama Appliance, which, alongside the AWS Panorama SDK, will transform existing on-premises cameras into computer vision enabled super-powered surve

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UK hydrogen car maker unveils first production car

01:29 The UK has unveiled plans to ban the production of new petrol and diesel cars beyond 2030 and challenged manufacturers to come up with new ways of fueling their vehicles.Just day

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Rwanda, Israel sign agreement to boost ICT, innovation

Rwanda and Israel on Friday, November 27, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which seeks to boost Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and innovation sector. Rwanda and Isra

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Egypt's el-Sisi visits South Sudan, to meet Kiir

FILE PHOTO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. /VCG Image Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi arrived in Juba on Saturday for an official visit to South Sudan.El-Sisi was welcomed i

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Ballet dancers find new places to practice during pandemic

02:45 Businesses that require person-to-person contact, such as the performing arts, are among the hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic.In Venezuela, dancers are working within the

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Foxconn could move some iPad and MacBook production to Vietnam

Following a request from Apple, Foxconn could be shifting production out of China for some iPad and MacBook models according to a report from Reuters. The new assembly lines would be based in Vietnam.

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Fortnite adds a $12 monthly subscription bundle

Fortnite’s free to play model has no doubt been a big driver in the battle royale title’s stratospheric success. Epic clearly hasn’t had much issue monetizing the game. While revenue slipped last year

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Gatik’s self-driving box trucks to shuttle groceries for Loblaw in Canada

Gatik, the autonomous vehicle startup focused on the “middle mile,” is already using its self-driving box trucks to deliver customer online grocery orders for Walmart. Now, the company —

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German firms double down on recovering Chinese market

German industrial robot-maker Hahn Automation plans to invest millions of euros in new factories in China over the next three years, keen to capitalize on an economy that's rebounding more rapidly

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Walmart is buying JoyRun assets to add ‘peer-to-peer’ product delivery

The last time we wrote about JoyRun, it was raising $10 million. Today, the Bay Area startup has some very different news to share, as it becomes part of Walmart as Walmart has purchased select asset

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ORIX invests $60M in Israeli crowdfunding platform OurCrowd

Japan-based financial services group ORIX Corporation today announced that it has made a $60 million strategic investment into the Israeli crowdsourcing platform OurCrowd. In return, the crowdfunding

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GM to leverage driver data as it jumps back into the insurance business

General Motors is launching an insurance service, returning to a business that it abandoned more than a decade ago, but this time more in step with the connected-car era.The service, called OnStar Ins

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Global pharmaceutical companies make progress on COVID-19 vaccine

In quick succession, several international pharmaceutical companies have reportedly made major headway in the development of a COVID-19 vaccine that could slow the pandemic.On Monday, the experimenta

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Arrikto raises $10M for its MLOps platform

Arrikto, a startup that wants to speed up the machine learning development lifecycle by allowing engineers and data scientists to treat data like code, is coming out of stealth today and announcing a

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CVS becomes first national retailer to offer support for PayPal and Venmo QR codes at checkout

PayPal announced this morning that its customers can now use either PayPal or Venmo QR codes when checking out at over 8,200 CVS retail stores across the U.S. This is the first national retailer to