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Airbnb to Shut Domestic Business in China from July 30

Vacation rental company Airbnb Inc will shut down all listings and experiences in mainland China from July 30, it said on Tuesday, joining a long list of Western internet platforms that have opted out of the Chinese market. The company made the announcement on its official WeChat account without elaborating on the reasons behind the […]

App to Help Blind People Navigate Public Transit to Debut in Washington

An app designed to help visually impaired or blind pedestrians use public transit will debut at a Washington subway station on Tuesday. Waymap aims to expand travel options for blind and visually impaired people with step-by-step audio directions that it says are accurate up to 3 feet (0.9 meter) throughout a trip. The app does […]

'Looty' Project Launches Digital Art Heists to Reclaim African Artifacts

A Nigerian man has launched a project called “Looty” to reclaim African artifacts stolen by European colonisers by creating 3-D images of them, selling them as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and using the proceeds to fund young African artists. Calls for objects stolen during the colonial period to be returned to their places of origin have […]

Innovation in Computer Cooling Uses a Common and Cheap Material to Increase Power by 740 Percent.

It seems we are heading back to the bronze age. According to a press release from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), researchers recently devised an invention that could cool electronics more efficiently than other alternative solutions and enable a 740 percent increase in power per unit using […]

India's Top Crypto App CoinSwitch Calls for Regulatory 'Peace, Certainty'

India must establish rules on cryptocurrencies to resolve regulatory uncertainty, protect investors and boost its crypto sector, CoinSwitch CEO Ashish Singhal said on Sunday. Although India’s central bank has backed a ban on cryptocurrencies over risks to financial stability, a federal government move to tax income from them has been interpreted by the industry as […]

Apple's AR/VR Headset Inches Ever Closer to Reality

It has been a while since Apple released a new gadget. Not a new model of a line of gadgets, but a new piece of hardware altogether. Soon we may see the release of the first new iGadget since the Apple Watch in 2015; Apple’s AR/VR headset. Most of Apple’s revenues, over 80 percent, come […]

Chipmaker Broadcom in Talks to Acquire VMware -Sources

Broadcom Inc is in talks to acquire cloud service provider VMware Inc in a deal which could transform the chipmaker into a diversified tech firm, people familiar with the matter said. Negotiations between Broadcom and VMware are ongoing and a deal is not imminent, the sources said. The deal terms being discussed are not known. […]

Cancer Coalition Aims to Boost Access to Medicines in Poorer Countries

Pharmaceutical companies including Novartis and Roche have teamed up with global cancer organisations in an alliance aimed at getting more oncology medications to poorer countries. Currently, fewer than 50% of the cancer drugs on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) essential medicines list are available in low and middle income countries, and the disease burden is […]

Computer Chip Giant ASML Places Big Bets on a Tiny Future

ASML, a semiconductor industry and stock market giant, has to think smaller. Or maybe bigger. It is building machines the size of double-decker buses, weighing over 200 tonnes, in its quest to produce beams of focused light that create the microscopic circuitry on computer chips used in everything from phones and laptops to cars and […]