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My mom cuts to the chase when she is describing my beat to others. In her words, I cover companies like Uber before they become companies like Uber. And honestly? I can’t exactly disagree with the description. The best feeling in tech journalism is telling a story about a startup before it becomes a household…
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The writer is chair of the NHS Confederation The starting gun has been fired on the most significant NHS reforms for a decade and a partial reversal of the market-based reforms introduced by David Cameron’s government in 2012. The NHS white paper, published in February, was warmly received by NHS leaders. Reorganisations are never top…
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When Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan sat down with Chinese officials in Anchorage, Alaska for the first high-level bilateral summit of the new administration, it was not a typical diplomatic meeting. Instead of a polite but restrained diplomatic exchange, the two sides traded pointed barbs for almost two hours.…
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Startups constantly talk about being mission-oriented, but it’s hard to take most of those messages seriously when the mission is optimizing cash flow for tax efficiency. However, a new generation of startups is emerging that are taking on some of the largest global challenges and bringing the same entrepreneurial grit, operational excellence, and technical brilliance…
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There’s an old saw from Mark Twain about how truth is stranger than fiction, and I think it’s fair to say we’ve lived through a very strange reality this past year. With all the chaos and change, we’re led to a foundational question: what’s the purpose of speculative fiction and its adjacent genres of science…
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Is there an export ban on coronavirus vaccines in the US? There is no formal export ban on vaccines or vaccine components, like syringes, vials and filters. Companies manufacturing vaccines, or items needed by jab makers elsewhere in the world, are free to export them. However, Washington has used a wartime power known as the…
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A new analysis found that a majority of critical-care nurses scored themselves low on physical and mental health status even before the pandemic began. Survey results conducted by researchers at Ohio State University College of Nursing found 61% of more than 700 critical care nurses rated their physical health a score of five or lower…
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Vegans have a reputation for virtue signalling. Sneerers joke that it takes two vegans to change a lightbulb: one to deal with the repair and the other to tell everyone they refuse to eat animal products. These days the joke may be on the cynics. Climate-friendly lifestyles are gaining in popularity. But codes looser than…
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Startup life, especially in the early innings, is nothing short of hectic. Who wouldn’t love a clone or two to help get everything done? Well, we can’t clone you, but we can give you more time to sign up and save on a pass to TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing and Fundraising on July 8-9.…
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