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Mexican biologists develop a faster, more reliable test for COVID-19.

02:29 Scientists around the world are trying to find faster, more reliable ways to test for COVID-19. One Mexican team believe they have an answer.

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Agricultural Bank of China increases financial support for small firms

The Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), one of China's biggest state-owned commercial lenders, has rolled out a string of measures to facilitate production resumption of

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How much should a startup spend on security?

One of the questions I frequently ask startup founders is how much they’re spending on security. Unsurprisingly, everyone has a different answer.Startups and small companies are invariably faced

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DeFi aims to bridge the gap between blockchains and financial services

If you’ve been following cryptocurrency news for the past few months, there’s one word that keeps coming back — DeFi, also known as decentralized finance. As the name suggests, DeFi aims to bridge the

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Kazakhstanis pour sympathy, support into China's anti-virus fight

Ravil Budukov, 31, has studied in China and worked on China-related issues since 2009. The Kazakstani said he felt obliged to do something after the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in China. Buduko

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China, ASEAN foreign ministers hold special meeting on jointly fighting COVID-19

China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) kicked off a Special Foreign Ministers' Meeting on Coronavirus Disease here Thursday to discuss coordinati

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China issues guideline for enhancing educational supervision, guidance

The general offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council have published a guideline for deepening the reform of the educational supe

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Cubans face cooking gas shortage

People queuing at a gas dispatch center. /CGTN Photo The Cuban government recently announced the shortage of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), used mainly for cooking, as a result of the U.S. san

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Jeff Bezos announced a $10 billion fund to fight climate change

Jeff Bezos (one of the world’s richest men) announced on one of the world’s largest social media platforms (Instagram) that he’s creating a $10 billion fund to combat climate change.

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Jeff Bezos announced a $10 billion fund to fight climate change on Instagram

Jeff Bezos (one of the world’s richest men) announced on one of the world’s largest social media platforms (Instagram) that he’s creating a $10 billion fund to combat climate change.

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Rocket Lab will launch a satellite to the Moon for NASA to prepare for the Lunar Gateway

Launch startup Rocket Lab has been awarded a contract to launch a CubeSat on behalf of NASA for the agency’s CAPSTONE experiment, with the ultimate aim of putting the CAPSTONE CubeSat into cislu

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Fiji launches national biodiversity action plan

Fijian Ministry of Waterways and Environment launched on Friday its five-year 2020-2025 national biodiversity action plan, setting out an ambitious vision on how the ministry work to in partnership w

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Datometry snares $17M Series B to help move data and applications to the cloud

Moving data to the cloud from an on-prem data warehouse like Teradata is a hard problem to solve, especially if you’ve built custom applications that are based on that data. Datometry, a San Fra

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Tozny introduces encrypted identity tool as part of security service platform

Tozny, a Portland, Oregon startup that wants to help companies more easily incorporate encryption into their programs and processes, introduced TozID today. It is an identity and access control tool t

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Will Apple, Facebook or Microsoft be the future of augmented reality?

Apple is seen by some as critical to the future of augmented reality, despite limited traction for ARKit so far and its absence from smartglasses (again, so far). Yet Facebook, Microsoft and others ar

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Moscow Confirms Intention to Retaliate If US Withdraws From Open Skies Treaty

Russia will be forced to take countermeasures if the United States withdraws from the Open Skies Treaty, the Foreign Ministry's Department for Nonproliferation and Arms

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NATO Reportedly Set to Boost Presence in Iraq by Reassigning US-Led Coalition Troops

Previously, US President Donald Trump suggested without elaboration that NATO should be more actively involved in the Middle East. The suggestion came soon after US ten