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Henry Ford Health System to conduct first large U.S. study of hydroxychloroquine’s ability to prevent COVID-19

Despite false assertions by the President to the contrary, any potential treatments to counter or prevent COVID-19 are still only at the stage of early investigations, which include one-off treatment

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Apple accidentally confirms the existence of an unreleased product, AirTags

Whoops! Apple inadvertently revealed the existence of an unreleased product, AirTags, in a support video uploaded to its YouTube account today. The video, “How to erase your iPhone,” offer

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CIOs are dead tired of dumb tech. Pulse has $6.5M to help them help each other

The technology that runs our companies these days is staggering in its complexity. We have moved from a monolith to a microservices world, from boxes to SaaS, and while that has added agility to the e

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Collibra nabs another $112.5M at a $2.3B valuation for its big data management platform

GDPR and other data protection and privacy regulations — as well as a significant (and growing) number of data breaches and exposées of companies’ privacy policies — have put a spotl

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Singapore and South Korea strategies to fight COVID-19

As the world struggles with the rapid spread of COVID-19, Asian countries showed greater signs of encouragement.Singapore: early reduction Singapore is currently in a "relatively stable" situation

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Controversial tech group heads west to offer COVID-19 tracking

According to a demonstration of the company's software seen by Sky News, data on citizens would only be held by the authorities.

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Philter Labs nets additional funding in quest to build a better portable smoking filter

Philter Labs aims to reduce the stigma associated with vaping tobacco and cannabis. The company’s product is simple enough: it’s a portable filter that, to my surprise, eliminates nearly a

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'Some of us will die': India's homeless stranded by coronavirus lockdown

In a densely packed neighborhood of Delhi, hundreds of homeless people queued up this week as volunteers doled out rice and peas from a vat in the back of a van.Only a

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Fractures grow among Iraq militias, spell political retreat

In February, an Iraqi militia commander trained by Iran took over the empty office of his slain superior, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, killed weeks before alongside Iranian m

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China's Commercial Press launches language-learning app

Screenshots of the Hanfen app, which is launched by the Commercial Press. /Hanfen App The Commercial Press, the first modern publishing organization in China, launched smartphone application "

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Thailand trials 15-minute COVID-19 test

If the test is positive the patient is sent for a more comprehensive swab test to confirm the result.

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Free app will alert all previous passers-by if you later test positive

02:57 A Hungarian web developer has created a free app to let people infected by COVID-19 inform everyone they've come into contact with – even strangers.VirusContact uses Bluetooth to

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Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all

Now that we’re all stuck at home thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, video calls have gone from a novelty to a necessity. Zoom, the popular videoconferencing service, seems to be doing better th

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No proof of a Houseparty breach, but its privacy policy is still gatecrashing your data

Houseparty has been a smashing success with people staying home during the coronavirus pandemic who still want to connect with friends.The group video chat app, interspersed with games and other bells

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'It's not a Chinese virus,' says South Korean expert

The world should fight the coronavirus together because the virus attacks everyone, said Jerome Kim, head of the International Vaccine Institute (IVI)."Together we need to find treatments that work.

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We must consider secure online voting

The list of states delaying primaries and elections is quickly increasing, with New Jersey adding local elections to the list. Even Congress — in a break from tradition — is rethinking wha

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Compete in Startup Battlefield and Launch at Disrupt SF 2020

Early-stage founders: don’t miss your chance to follow in the footsteps of tech giants. We know COVID19 has created challenges for startup founders, but fear not. Disrupt SF is still proceeding as sch