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Chinese company launches global online consultation services to fight COVID-19

A Chinese company Wednesday launched an online platform providing medical consultation services in English to help the world's combat against the COVID-19 pandemic. Th

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TechCrunch Live: Join execs from Roblox, SuperAwesome, and Fingerprint tomorrow at 11:15am PDT to discuss kids media

With large majorities of all children (70% in the U.S. and U.K.) staying home from school during the COVID-19 crisis, use of digital media properties popular with kids has soared. Screen time among ki

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Big data report shows China's recovering production

China's resumption of production has been accelerating with the jump of highway freight nationwide, according to a report released by Manbang, a leading domestic freig

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HKSAR gov't to arrange chartered flight to help residents stranded in Peru return home

China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government announced on Tuesday that a chartered flight will be arranged to help Hong Kong residents stranded i

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New app to help Africans cope with COVID-19

A new app, "COVID 19 Self Assessment System in Africa," was launched on Friday to help people on the continent cope with the coronavirus epidemic. Co-developed by Tsinghua University andthe Chines

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Notarize to add 1,000 online notaries to address demand for remote transactions

Notarize, the platform that enables digital notarizations, announced that it is adding 1,000 notaries to address demand as more Americans are ordered to shelter in place because of the COVID-19 pandem

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Swiss track phone data to check if COVID-19 measures are working

Switzerland asked provider Swisscom for user mobile phone data to see whether their COVID-19 restrictions are working. /AP The Swiss government has rejected claims it's using mobile phone data

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ePlane, the B2B sourcing and BI platform for aerospace parts and repair, raises $9M

ePlane, described as a B2B sourcing and business intelligence platform for the aerospace parts and repair market, has raised $9 million in funding. The round is led by Japanese trading and investing c

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China to improve scale of IPv6 network connections

China will improve the access capability of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)-based network this year, which is considered the next generation of the internet, that allows much higher theoretical

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Instacart will bring on 300,000 new full-time shoppers due to coronavirus

San Francisco-based Instacart today announced it will bring on 300,000 shoppers for its grocery delivery platform over the next three months. The move is meant to manage an uptick in demand due to the

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U.S. FDA approves coronavirus test with 45 minutes detection time

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first rapid coronavirus diagnostic test, with a detection time of about 45 minutes, as the United States struggles to meet the demand for cor

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YouTube launches dedicated COVID-19 homepage section

In an effort to ensure that the latest updates related to COVID-19 are as visible as possible, YouTube announced today that they’re launching a dedicated hub on the YouTube homepage for stories

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Netflix will reduce streaming quality in Europe for 30 days

Earlier today, we learned that EU Commissioner Thierry Breton had called for Netflix to reduce streaming quality in Europe — a move to limit its overall bandwidth usage as more users turn to streaming

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The MacBook Air gets an updated keyboard and souped-up specs, starting at $999

Apple just offered up a new version of the the MacBook Air with some souped up internals, including a 10th-generation Intel processor and double the storage. Honestly, the big news here for many is pr

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Regal is closing all theaters ‘until further notice’ over COVID-19 fears

Three days after announcing plans to reduce theater attendance by 50%, Regal Cinemas announced that it will be closing all theater locations, effective March 17. The company announced the news via soc

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Microsoft Teams goes down — just as everyone starts working from home

Microsoft Teams is down.Perfect timing, as some might say, given that pretty much everyone who uses Microsoft Teams who can work from home is currently not working at all.The technology giant left a c

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Shanghai reduces electricity, gas prices to support work resumption

Shanghai will reduce electricity and gas prices for corporate users to support their work resumption amid the coronavirus outbreak. The Shanghai Municipal Development