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Another voice has joined the chorus of business leaders running away from their support of US President Donald Trump. Business Insider reports billionaire venture capitalist Doug Leone was once one of Trump's strongest supporters in Silicon Valley. However, Business Insider reports he now says he believes Trump was responsible for inciting the riots. After last week's horrific events, President Trump lost many of his supporters, including me. Doug Leone Managing Partner, VC Sequoia Capital Global Leone has donated to many Republicans including at least $2,700 in 2018 to Josh Hawley. Hawley is the Republican Senator from Missouri who voted against certifying the election results after the riots.
Images of the exterior of Silicon Valley Bank’s office in California. US stocks ended Friday's session decisively lower as banking shares wobbled on contagion fears, after the failure of regional lender Silicon Valley Bank. The SVB debacle dominated investors' focus all day, with the Nasdaq suspending trade on the stock before the market opened, overshadowing a solid US jobs report. IMAGES
Parisian schoolchildren return to school after a two-month holiday. They're going back without masks, but an unprecedented teacher recruitment crisis looms. IMAGES
Girls are seen entering a school in the Afghan capital Wednesday. This comes after Taliban authorities announced the reopening of secondary schools, more than seven months after seizing power and imposing harsh restrictions on the rights of women to be educated. IMAGES
Beijing, Sep 29 (EFE).- The new smart factories and logistic robots for the delivery of packages featured at the forum of Zhongguancun, dubbed as the Chinese "Silicon Valley," on the outskirts of Beijing.The forum, which was first held in 2007, was attended by leading figures from the technology community such as Xiaomi's founder Lei Jun, who spoke about their aim to become the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer by sales.To achieve this, he stressed that the company will rely "on smart manufacturing" and revealed they were building a smart factory on the outskirts of Beijing, which will "work without staff" and produce "10 million high-end mobile phones every year." (Camera: ÁLVARO ALFARO).B-ROLL OF THE ZHONGGUANCUN TECH HUB; THE SECURITY ROBOT; THE MODELS OF AN AUTONOMOUS TRAIN, AND A MODEL OF THE HIGH-SPEED TRAINS IN BEIJING, CHINA. SOUND BITES: BUSINESS OWNERS, SHI JING AND ZHANG WEI.1. SHI JING, BUSINESS OWNER.-This stone stele was found in Anhui province. Its original appearance is no longer clear due to erosion. We repair it using a precision two-dimensional and three-dimensional scan to restore it to its original form. 2. ZHANG WEI, BUSINESS OWNER.- This is a backpack that reduces the load. With magnetic levitation technology, when you put this backpack on, it feels like someone is holding the backpack from behind. It can reduce 87 percent of the effort required to carry the backpack.