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Polychain led the Series A funding round, which included participation from Hack VC, dao5, and Robot Ventures. [...]
The 39-year-old mom of two needs full night's sleep, every night. And no compromising on the small details. [...]
The court ordered a new trial for Weinstein, 72, who is serving a 23-year sentence. [...]
"The challenge for Vision Pro is to address the lack of key applications, price, and headset comfort," warned Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. [...]
As a loyalty program, Delta SkyMiles has valuable rewards and eye-popping perks—but if you’re keen to reach elite status, you’re in for a rather steep climb. [...]
Beauty has been an important driver in Unilever and LVMH's recent earnings—is it just the lipstick effect or more? [...]
Locals want the local government to focus on housing instead of creating policies that revolve around tourism. [...]
The Tokyo Stock Exchange aims to attract listings from Asian startups, leveraging the market’s recent gains and positioning itself as a preferred fundraising destination for companies outside Japan. [...]
In-line sales for Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi and a beat for rare-disease drug Skyclarys has Wall Street giving Biogen another chance. [...]
A new study suggests people are overly optimistic about how much they can work later in life. [...]
The Facebook parent’s capital expenditures this year will rival outlays from Google and Microsoft, but advertising growth is slowing. [...]
The price of the metal has surged and BHP has bid for miner Anglo American, but the bull case for the metal is a bit more complicated than it seems. [...]
The company, backed by investors including Microsoft and Lightspeed Venture Partners, is selling 23.5 million shares. [...]
U.S. stocks have rebounded in recent days, after notching their worst week in more than a year. [...]
First-quarter results at regional banks show the uneven toll of higher interest rates. [...]
Ping Jiang street, Suzhou, China, by cattan2011 (CC BY 2.0) [...]
Nymphia Wind, a Taiwanese drag queen, has won the 16th season of the American reality TV competition show RuPaul’s Drag Race. Her victory has been cause for quiet celebration in China, where drag is in the ascendant despite increased state repression of the LGBTQ+ community. [...]
In Peter Hessler’s latest piece for The New Yorker, “How Chinese Students Experience America,” he notes that “COVID, guns, anti-Asian violence, and diplomatic relations have complicated the ambitions of the some three hundred thousand college students who come to the U.S. each year.” One of [...]
Untitled (Fengjian village, Guangdong province), by Peter Chou Kee Liu (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) [...]
On April 14, Sina News Hot Topics published a lengthy article on Weibo under the clickbait headline “The First Batch of DINKs, Exposed: Where Are They Now, and Do They All Regret Not Having Kids?” The four-part article focused on ostensible profiles of DINK (“double [...]
After a decades-long infrastructure spending spree, many of China’s local governments now find themselves saddled with unsustainable levels of debt and a surplus of vastly ambitious but often underutilized infrastructure projects. The International Monetary Fund and Wall Street banks estimate China’s total outstanding off-balance-sheet government [...]
Investigators have uncovered a way to unleash in blood vessels the protective effects of a type of fat-related molecule known as a sphingolipid, suggesting a promising new strategy for the treatment of coronary artery disease. [...]
Hydrologists predict human-induced underground fluid fluxes to rise with climate change mitigation strategies like carbon sequestration. [...]
Scientists are using artificial intelligence software to analyze plant root systems, laying out a protocol that can be applied to gather data on crop and model plant phenotypes (physical characteristics) more efficiently and with equal or greater accuracy than existing methods. [...]
Researchers discovered that light can cause evaporation of water from a surface without the need for heat. This 'photomolecular effect' could be important for understanding climate change and for improving some industrial processes. [...]
A new survey has found that for residents living within three miles of a large-scale solar development, positive attitudes outnumbered negative attitudes by almost a 3-to-1 margin. Researchers surveyed almost 1,000 residents living near solar projects. [...]
Tumors actively prevent the formation of immune responses by so-called cytotoxic T cells, which are essential in combating cancer. Researchers have now uncovered for the first time how this exactly happens. The study provides rationales for new cancer immunotherapies and could make existing treatments more [...]
Many American companies are relying on carbon offsets to reduce their carbon footprint, especially those who have pledged to achieve 'net-zero emissions.' Sequestering carbon in forests is an example of a nature-based solution that is being used to address climate change, but a new study [...]
Scientists use laser ablation technology to develop a deformable micro-supercapacitor. [...]
Hamas issues a proof-of-life video of US-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin, abducted on 7 October. [...]
While the Speaker visited Columbia, police confronted pro-Palestinian protesters at campuses in Texas and California. [...]
In this war, it is a huge challenge to find out how people whose bodies were exhumed at Nasser hospital died. [...]
Two newly-built encampments near the southern city are shown on satellite pictures. [...]
Musician Toomaj Salehi had backed anti-government nationwide protests in 2022. [...]
Palestinian officials say more than 300 bodies have been found at Nasser and al-Shifa hospitals. [...]
The call for his arrest comes after an Argentine court blamed Iran for an attack on a Jewish centre. [...]
Six months of conflict have also taken a heavy economic toll. [...]
U.S. aid to Taiwan, a new TikTok law, and Beijing’s ties with the Kremlin are at the forefront of this week’s visit. [...]
As vote-buying corrupts the country’s politics, the West African nation could learn from Taipei’s effective crackdown on the practice. [...]
Lawmakers are calling for direct measures against the group’s leader, Hemeti. [...]
But the fact it took so long to pass has some worried about future support. [...]
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said flights will begin in 10 to 12 weeks no matter what foreign courts say. [...]
Even with the approval of new U.S. aid, most of the artillery Ukraine needs won’t get to the front until next year. [...]
New reporting implicates Beijing and anti-doping officials in covering up Chinese Olympic swimmers’ positive tests in 2021. [...]
A recent ruling on campaign finance reflected a judicial independence that will be key to checking Modi’s power if he wins a third term. [...]
[allAfrica] World Immunization Week celebrates a remarkable milestone - 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI). This global initiative has been instrumental in saving countless lives and protecting children from devastating vaccine-preventable diseases. [...]
[Daily Trust] The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has diverted all flight operations from the E wing of the Murtala Muhammad International Airport (MMIA) following a fire at the terminal. [...]
[RFI] Mauritania President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani said Wednesday he would run for a second term in presidential elections due in June. [...]
[RFI] Military forces in Burkina Faso killed 223 civilians, including babies and many children, in attacks on two villages accused of cooperating with militants, Human Rights Watch said in a report published Thursday. [...]
[Nyasa Times] Government officials say 80,000 workers are wanted in Israel to work in the construction industry in the Jewish state. [...]
[HRW] AU Should Adopt Guidelines to Protect Rights of Pregnant, Parenting Girls [...]
Africa: World Malaria Day 2024 - 'Accelerating the Fight Against Malaria for a More Equitable World'
[WHO] Dear malaria partners and friends, [...]