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Mozilla expands its partnership with ad-free subscription service Scroll

Mozilla just announced a new initiative called Firefox Better Web with Scroll, which combines the tracking protection built into its Firefox browser with the ad-free browsing experience offered by Sc

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Imatag inserts invisible watermarks to track images around the web

Meet Imatag, a French startup that has been working on a watermarking product. Watermarking is nothing new, but the company has found a way to mark images even if they are resized, cropped, edited or

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Is the latest human trial of COVID-19 vaccine ethically viable?

04:34 Chinese respiratory specialist Zhong Nanshan said measures against the COVID-19 pandemic should not be reliant on "herd immunity," adding that a vaccine is now the top priority.

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The best video chat apps to turn social distancing into distant socializing

The vicissitudes of social distancing have taken many people by surprise, making video calls a new necessity for distant socializing. But which of the two dozen apps out there should you and your (per

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Kinsa’s fever map could show just how crucial it is to stay home to stop COVID-19 spread

Smart thermometer maker Kinsa has been working on building accurate, predictive models of how seasonal illnesses like the flu travel in and among communities – and its fever map is finding new utilit

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Could one of these four drugs help treat COVID-19?

Two HIV drugs, an ebola treatment and an antimalarial are being trialled by the WHO to see if they work on the new coronavirus.

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Moderna could make experimental COVID-19 vaccine available to healthcare workers by fall

There are some hard limits to the vaccine development process that mean we are not going to see any preventative immune therapies to fight the new coronavirus for at least a year to 18 months. But Mod

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The New York Times Company acquires Audm, an app that turns longform journalism into audio

Audm, a startup that turns longform journalism into audio content, has been acquired by The New York Times Company, it announced this morning. While there are other services that turn news articles in

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Across China: Italian restaurateurs make comeback in southwest China

"Welcome, pizza night is back," Simone Crespi said while greeting his German guest by bumping elbows. "It would be a giant hug under normal circumstances." On March 17, Simone, one of the three ow

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China adopts entry management over sailors to prevent imported COVID-19 cases

China's transport ministry said Monday it will adopt stricter management over sailors on international ships amid the country's battle of preventing imported novel cor

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Child's face masks go into mass production in south Chinese city

A production line capable of producing 4 million face masks for kids per day has been put into use in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou to meet the surging demand

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Roundup: Ethiopia welcomes Jack Ma Foundation's donation of medical supplies

Massive medical supplies donated by China's Jack Ma Foundation to 54 African countries arrived on Sunday morning in Addis Ababa, capital of the East African nation of Ethiopia, through an Ethiopian

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Major hit Chinese TV drama "All is well" hits Kazakh airwaves amid virus outbreak

The popular Chinese TV drama "All is well" has captured viewing audiences in Kazakhstan at a time when large population centers remain at home due to the novel coronavi

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Volunteer group develops a COVID-19 testing location database for the U.S.

The effort to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic globally relies on testing as a core component of the current strategy, which primarily focuses on isolating individuals to slow the transmi

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Hong Kong reports 44 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, 317 in total

Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) reported on Sunday afternoon 44 additional COVID-19 cases confirmed during the past 24 hours, taking the total number of

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Coronavirus infections approach 25,000 in Spain, with 1,328 deaths

A medical worker works at a hospital in Barcelona, Spain, March 20, 2020.(Photo by Francisco Avia/Xinhua)The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Spain rose from 19,980 on Friday to 24,926 on Saturda

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U.S. equities book worst week since 2008 amid coronavirus fears

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, the United States, March 18, 2020. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)"The biggest change in what we know about the economic challen