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Clubhouse’s rise in popularity led Facebook, Twitter and Spotify to also get into social audio. Now the company is looking for a second growth spurt.

Clubhouse’s rise in popularity led Facebook, Twitter and Spotify to also get into social audio. Now the company is looking for a second growth spurt.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed is trying to get tough on crime with a creative solution.

British digital bank Starling will resume crypto exchange deposits on June 23, a bank representative said.

JENNER plane talk — BIDEN to HIGH-SPEED RAIL rescue? — FAULCONER to NUNES event — PETA vs. COX Presented by Charge Ahead Coalition THE BUZZ: Is personal wealth a political turnoff? The moment that many people will remember from Republican gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner’s Wednesday debut was Jenner’s anecdote about a hangar-mate fleeing for Arizona. The point was intended to illustrate how a spiraling homelessness crisis has driven Californians away, but allies of Gov. Gavin Ne...

Climate change appears to be high on the agenda for tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates but some are questioning whether they’re focusing their efforts on the right areas. Broadly speaking, the three richest tech billionaires — who rank in the top five richest people on the planet — are all trying to develop new technologies that can reduce the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. Musk is largely focused on funding carbon capture technologies, Gates is particularly ...

The coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford was approved for emergency use in the U.K. and is expected to be rolled out next week. The authorization is welcome news for Britain as cases have surged in London and southern England, pressuring hospitals capacity. People wanting to leave the U.K. have faced travel restrictions because a new coronavirus variant found in the U.K. is reportedly more transmissible. The U.S. confirmed on Tuesday the first case of the ne...

Also over the weekend, several countries announced plans to shut their borders to Britain as news of a highly contagious new variant of the coronavirus led the British government to backtrack on plans to let families mix over Christmas. The U.K. is locking down London and other areas in southern England where infections by the Covid mutation are heavily concentrated. The U.S. is recording at least 215,700 new Covid-19 cases and at least 2,600 virus-related deaths each day, based on a seven-day ...

Also over the weekend, several countries announced plans to shut their borders to Britain as news of a highly contagious new variant of the coronavirus led the British government to backtrack on plans to let families mix over Christmas. The U.K. is locking down London and other areas in southern England where infections by the Covid mutation are heavily concentrated. The U.S. is recording at least 215,700 new Covid-19 cases and at least 2,600 virus-related deaths each day, based on a seven-day ...

The U.S. recorded more than 221,000 new cases and more than 3,100 deaths on Wednesday, according to JHU data.