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Prisma Health develops FDA-authorized 3D-printed device that lets a single ventilator treat four patients

The impending shortage of ventilators for U.S. hospitals is likely already a crisis, but will become even more dire as the number of patients with COVID-19 that are suffering from severe symptoms and

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News-reading app Flipboard expands local coverage, including coronavirus updates, to 12 more U.S. metros

Earlier this year, personalized news aggregation app Flipboard expanded into local news. The feature brought local news, sports, real estate, weather, transportation news and more to 23 cities across

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COVID-19 frontline: Are there effective treatments?

Editor's Note: On March 12, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, and as of Thursday (March 26), about 200 countries and regions have confirmed over 400,000 cases

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U.S. slashed CDC staff inside China prior to coronavirus outbreak

The Trump administration cut staff by more than two-thirds at a key U.S. public health agency operating inside China, as part of a larger rollback of U.S.-funded health and science experts on the gro

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Huawei announces the P40 and tries to stay relevant without Google

Huawei has unveiled new flagship phones today, the P40, P40 Pro and P40 Pro+. These are beautiful phones with great specs. But it would only take you a few minutes to realize that there’s something od

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Stripe leads $20M Series A into Fast, which is building a universal checkout service for e-commerce

Early this morning, Fast, a startup building platform-agnostic login and checkout services, announced that Stripe has led a $20 million investment into its business. Prior investors Index Ventures and

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Spotlight: California places orders for 100 million N95 masks against COVID-19

California has distributed 24.5 million N95 masks and has placed orders for an additional 100 million to address a shortage in coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Gavin Newsom said Wedn

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Life under coronavirus lockdown in Spain

Waking up from a bad dream, Gonzalo Resa Heras looked at his watch and saw that it was already 11 a.m., but he still felt tired after a very restless sleep once again. As Spain has the second

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Diary from Rome: Two weeks into its lockdown, resilient Rome dreaming of its post-coronavirus future

Editor's note: Italy has been in lockdown for two weeks to contain the novel coronavirus pandemic. Eric J. Lyman, a freelance journalist and frequent contributor to Xinhua, reviews the two weeks in R

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Prototype thrusters designed for use on the Moon undergo key hot-fire testing

NASA’s renewed efforts to return to the Moon may be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but works still proceeds on a number of projects related to the effort, including a series of hot-fire test

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France launches marketplace to manage essential products against COVID-19

French startup Mirakl usually works with e-commerce websites in order to help them build out a marketplace with third-party sellers. This time, the company has developed a marketplace called StopCOVID

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New York State seeks tech talent for its COVID-19 technology SWAT team

New York State is ramping up efforts to combat the growing coronavirus pandemic, including appeals to all industries for help in the form of much-needed medical equipment for healthcare workers. It

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Spotify adds fundraising features and a COVID-19 news hub to address the health crisis

Spotify this morning announced a series of new initiatives to address the COVID-19 health crisis across its platform. The company is launching a financial relief effort for those in the creative commu

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UK researchers develop new low-cost, rapid COVID-19 test that could even be used at home

A new type of test developed by UK researchers from the Brunel University London, Lancaster University and the University of Surrey can provide COVID-19 detection in as little as 30 minutes, using han

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Experts: New challenges ahead for global economic recovery

01:41 We're in the midst of an unprecedented global collapse in industrial production, retail sales, business confidence, and investment with rising coronavirus infections and death to

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Entertainment moves online amid lockdowns

01:53 Public events have been cancelled and social spaces have been closed across Europe in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19.Life and entertainment is now becoming increasingl

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Apple releases iOS and iPadOS 13.4 with trackpad support

Apple has released software updates for the iPhone, the iPad, the Apple Watch, the Apple TV and the Mac. The biggest changes are on the iPad. Starting today, you can pair a mouse or trackpad with you