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Scientist finds 'hugely significant' Jurassic-era dinosaur bone while running on Scottish island

The limb bone is thought to belong to the family of dinosaurs best known for the recognisable stegosaurus.

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XYZ Robotics raises $17M for its pick-and-place logistics robots

COVID-19 is proving to be a massive driver for robotics investments — and for good reason. Robots don’t call in sick, and they’re far less likely to be disease vectors than their human counterparts. C

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TikTok-rival Triller inks deal with Reliance’s JioSaavn in India push

Triller, an app that functions similarly to TikTok, has inked a strategic partnership with a platform owned by India’s richest man to cash in on the Chinese app’s ban in its biggest international mar

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Carrie Lam expects Hong Kong residents to cherish Basic Law, "one country, two systems"

The Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) has provided Hong Kong residents with a better life and every resident should cherish the Basic La

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How has the COVID-19 pandemic changed our drinking habits?

02:02 After the pandemic forced pubs and bars to call last orders and shut their doors for months, where, what and how much people have been drinking during lockdown has changed dramat

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British, Ukrainian defense chiefs discuss cooperation in Kiev

British Secretary of State for Defense Ben Wallace discussed strengthening Ukraine's security and defense capabilities through cooperation with Ukrainian Defense Minister Andriy Taran during a vis

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China-Africa cooperation key to boost COVID-19 response, industrial growth: experts

African countries should leverage on robust bilateral ties with China to boost action on COVID-19 pandemic and hasten growth of the continent's manufacturing sector, experts said on Tuesday. Speak

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Roundup: China, Syria highlight cooperation against COVID-19; Turkey sees infections over 250,000

Officials from China and Syria discussed Monday about more cooperation against COVID-19 as several countries in the Middle East saw tally of infections crossed major m

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Verizon adds free Hulu and ESPN+ to some unlimited wireless plans

Verizon and Disney announced this morning that they’re extending and expanding a partnership that gives some Verizon Wireless subscribers access to Disney’s streaming services at no additi

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China, Syria highlight cooperation against COVID-19

Chinese Ambassador to Syria Feng Biao discussed medical cooperation against COVID-19 pandemic with Syrian Health Minister Nizar Yazigi in the capital Damascus on Monda

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Facebook tests TikTok-style video format on its main app in India

Facebook is going all in on short-form videos. After flirting with the idea in Lasso, a TikTok-clone it tested in select markets, and adding a similar feature to Instagram recently, the company is ex

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Researchers explore sound to help improve robotic perception

Robots primarily rely on two basic senses: vision and touch. But even the latter still has a long ways to go to get up to the speed with the former. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are loo

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Does 👁👄👁 illustrate the power of meme culture in fundraising?

Fundraising was once a formal process.A decade ago, founders would make pilgrimages to the stodgy investor offices that line Sand Hill Road. Now, as the coronavirus ravages the world and venture capit

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Merico raises $4.1M for its developer analytics platform

Merico, a startup that gives companies deeper insights into their developers’ productivity and code quality, today announced that it has raised a $4.1 million seed round led by GGV Capital with

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Tech titans say Trump block on worker visas harms U.S.

Pedestrians pass by Amazon ads, Shanghai, December 27, 2017. /VCG Amazon, Apple and Facebook are among tech industry titans and organizations signing onto a court filing saying U.S. President

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Russian Foreign Ministry Says TikTok Ban Panders to US Tech Giants

By banning US transactions with the Chinese owner of the popular video app TikTok Washington is trying to give US tech giants an upper hand as they chase a deal to take

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