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SpaceX and NASA targeting early August for Crew Dragon return with astronauts on board

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule has been docked at the International Space Station (ISS) since its historic first crewed launch in May, but it’s getting ready to make its return trip. NASA h

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Puppet announces $40 million debt round from BlackRock

Puppet, the Portland, Oregon-based infrastructure automation company, announced a $40 million debt round today from BlackRock Investments.CEO Yvonne Wassenaar says the company sees this debt round as

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China-Laos railway completes both cross-Mekong River bridges' beam installation

The Laos-China Railway Co., Ltd. (LCRC), a joint venture based in Lao capital Vientiane in charge of the construction and operation of the railway, told Xinhua on Thurs

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Biden’s $2 trillion climate plan aims to reframe debate

Joe Biden released a $2 trillion plan on Tuesday to boost investment in clean energy and stop all climate-damaging emissions from U.S. power plants by 2035, arguing tha

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Three people illegally trampling geological site criticized by police

A video of three people, including a foreigner, illegally entering a no-entry geological protection area in northwestern China, aroused netizens' anger online and were

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China's Qinghai transmits over 10 bln kWh clean energy-generated electricity in H1

Qinghai, a province in northwest China that is rich in green energy, transmitted 10.23 billion kWh of electricity generated by clean energy out of the province in the

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COVID-19 may have been around for years, says Oxford scientist

The COVID-19 virus may have been circulating for years and so trying to identify its geographic origins could be a waste of time, according to a leading scientist.Tom Jefferson, an honorary senior re

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Warren Buffett's Berkshire buys Dominion Energy natural gas assets

Berkshire Hathaway said its energy unit will buy Dominion Energy natural gas transmission and storage network for 4 billion U.S. dollars, the deal totals almost 10 billion U.S. dollars including the

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Twitch breaks records again in Q2, topping 5B total hours watched

Twitch had already broken viewership records in the first quarter of 2020 amid coronavirus lockdowns, surpassing 3 billion total hours watched in a single quarter for the first time. In the second qua

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UK braces for surge of e-scooters

01:03 In May, the British government urged people to return to work, if they couldn't work from home, but to avoid public transport if possible.At the same time, the government brought

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Spain closes half its coal-fired power stations

VCG Spain on Tuesday shut down eight of its 15 coal-fired power stations on grounds that they were unprofitable and also to comply with European regulations on industrial emissions. The move c

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Facebook shuts down Hobbi, its experimental app for documenting personal projects

Facebook’s recently launched app, Hobbi, an experiment in short-form content creation around personal projects, hobbies, and other Pinterest-y content, is already shutting down. The app first ar

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U.S. states backtrack reopenings amid new coronavirus surge

Ella Speer speaks with a doctor before getting tested for COVID-19 during an outbreak in Austin, Texas, U.S., June 28, 2020. /Reuters New coronavirus cases have jumped in more than half of U.S

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UK climate change report: Six key points

A coal-fired power plant and a BP refinery beside a wind generator in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. /Martin Meissner/AP Photo On Thursday, the UK's Committee on Climate Change released its progress

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Hopin raises $40M Series A as its virtual events business accelerates

This morning Hopin, a London-based startup building virtual events technology, announced that it has raised a $40 million Series A led by IVP. According to the company, Salesforce’s corporate ve

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Budapest orchestra makes its music heard in lockdown

02:33 Concerts in Budapest may have stopped under coronavirus restrictions but the show has carried on thanks to creative thinking with classical music brought to people's homes.The Bu

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See who's changing their stereotypical logos - and who's not

In the wake of widespread discussions on race and inherent racism, companies and institutions have responded by making pledges to change long-standing logos and mascots that many have criticized a