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Andy Rubin’s Essential shuts down

Essential was supposed to disrupt the smartphone industry. And when it was done with that, it was coming for the smart home. The company came out of stealth with a $330 million funding round and grand

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Expert on virus outbreak: Hidden turning point of its rise exists

Epidemiologist Zeng Guang writes about the turning point of the outbreak on Weibo. /Screenshot via Weibo The turning point of decline of the current novel coronavirus outbreak has appeared. St

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Tuesday Capital teams up with design powerhouse Frog to grab startups’ attention — and keep it

In a day and age when everyone seems to have their own seed-stage venture fund, it’s hard to stand out. But Tuesday Capital, the San Francisco-based outfit formerly known as CrunchFund, thinks i

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N26 exits UK market following Brexit

German fintech startup N26 is shutting down its operations in the U.K. Customers who have opened a bank account in the U.K. will have to transfer their deposits, spend everything with their card or wi

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The Parasite: How South Korea shapes Asian cultural wave

Editor's note:Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Britain, and

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UK public sector failing to be open about its use of AI, review finds

A report into the use of artificial intelligence by the UK’s public sector has warned that the government is failing to be open about automated decision-making technologies which have the potent

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Pompeo grossly misrepresents ties between China and U.S. states

Editor's note: Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Britain, an

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Pompeo grossly misrepresents ties between China and U.S. states

Editor's note: Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Britain, an

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U.S.-Kenya trade deal unlikely to be game-changer

The combined photo shows U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. Editor's note:Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate

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Apple fined $27 million in France for throttling old iPhones without telling users

France’s competition watchdog DGCCRF announced earlier today that Apple will pay a $27.4 million (€25 million) fine due to an iOS update that capped performance of aging devices. The company will also

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Blackbox welfare fraud detection system breaches human rights, Dutch court rules

An algorithmic risk scoring system deployed by the Dutch state to try to predict the likelihood that social security claimants will commit benefits or tax fraud breaches human rights law, a court in t

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Trump State of Union address focuses on economy, Neo-Monroe politics

Editor's note: Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Britain, an

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Lemonade is getting into pet insurance

Lemonade, the homeowners and renters insurance provider that’s raised $480 million, has announced its plans to expand into pet insurance. This marks the startup’s foray into a new insuranc

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Neo4j 4.0 graph database platform brings unlimited scaling

Neo4j,the premiere graph database development platform, announced the release of version 4.0 today, which features unlimited scaling among other updates.Graph databases are growing increasingly import

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A voting app by Shadow Inc. takes center stage at chaotic Iowa caucuses

American democracy can be confusing and messy. There is, perhaps, no better example than last night’s Iowa caucuses. The votes that kick off presidential primary season are, at once, a wonderful

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Why Pompeo can't drive a wedge between China and Central Asia

Editor's note: Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Britain, an

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At home with history

Museums in China are holding online exhibitions amid curbs on outdoor activities during the epidemic.In recent years, visiting museums has become a new way to celebrate Spring Festival for many Chines