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A Nigerian Finds Hard Truths — And Hope — In Netflix Series On Nigeria

Ifeanyi Nsofor reviews the documentary series, Journey Of An African Colony, which confronts a painful past — including involvement in the slave trade — and celebrates the nation’s independence. (Image credit: Quramo Productions)

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A Nigerian Finds Hard Truths — And Hope — In Netflix Series On Nigeria

Ifeanyi Nsofor reviews the documentary series, Journey Of An African Colony, which confronts a painful past — including involvement in the slave trade — and celebrates the nation’s independence. (Image credit: Quramo Productions)

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A Nigerian Finds Hard Truths — And Hope — In Netflix Series On Nigeria

Ifeanyi Nsofor reviews the documentary series, Journey Of An African Colony, which confronts a painful past — including involvement in the slave trade — and celebrates the nation’s independence. (Image credit: Quramo Productions)

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Altinity grabs $4M seed to build cloud version of ClickHouse open source data warehouse

Earlier this month, cloud data warehouse Snowflake turned heads when it debuted on the stock market. Today, Altinity, the commercial company behind the open source ClickHouse data warehouse announced a $4 million seed round from Accel along with a new

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California legislation bans toxic chemicals in cosmetics

The Toxic Free Cosmetics Act bans 24 chemicals starting in 2025.

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U.S. layoffs remain elevated as 837,000 seek jobless aid

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits declined last week to a still-high 837,000, evidence that the economy is struggling to sustain a tentative recovery that began this summer.

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Flailing in the face of COVID-19, Israel is now on the brink of catastrophe

The contagion rates, serious case numbers and death toll are dire and worsening. They are not yet exponential, but they will be soon in the absence of a coherent, credible strategy

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Is ultra-Orthodox ideological disobedience fueling Israel’s soaring virus rate?

Top medic blames ‘irresponsible behavior,’ crowded living conditions; others call finger-pointing ‘borderline racism,’ ascribe surge to yeshivas’ reopening 10 days before schools

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Imperva to acquire database security startup jSonar

Cybersecurity giant Imperva will acquire jSonar, a database security startup that recently landed $50 million from Goldman Sachs. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The acquisition of jSonar, which provides security and compliance to databases on-premise or in the

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