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Apple Watch designer reveals the device’s origins on its fifth birthday

In his two decades at Apple, Imran Chaudhri worked on many of the company’s most iconic product lines, including the iPhone, iPad and Mac. The designer left the company back in 2017 (landing on Micros

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Cuba's ration book stages comeback due to coronavirus pandemic

A woman shows her ration book to buy goods in a subsidized state store amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Havana, April 22, 2020. /Reuters Cuba's decades-old rationing system

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House passes COVID-19 relief package to replenish PPP loan funding

On Thursday, the House passed the newest federal stimulus package aimed at providing financial relief for businesses and institutions hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis.The bill lingered in the Senate fo

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Instacart announces new COVID-19 policies and plans to hire 250,000 more shoppers

Instacart’s aggressive hiring spree is continuing due to COVID-19 shelter in place orders. Today, the company announced it is adding 250,000 more shoppers to meet consumer demand, and to help the com

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U.S. firms may face probes over payroll loans, officials warn

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warned on Wednesday that companies that received coronavirus rescue money intended for small businesses could be investigated if it appears they did not really

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48 crew on cruise ship docked in Japan's Nagasaki test positive for virus

Fourteen more crew members aboard a cruise ship docked in Nagasaki, southwest Japan, have tested positive for the coronavirus, bringing the total number to 48, prefect

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Nearly 90 pct of online stores resume work: MOC

About 90 percent of online stores in China have resumed operation by far based on a survey on 3.5 million major online retail stores, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) sa

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5 killed as tornado hit U.S. states of Oklahoma, Texas

shows a tornado in America s notorious Tornado Alley. (VCG) At least five people were killed and more than a dozen injured Wednesday as severe weather hit the U.S. sta

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Hong Kong insurtech startup OneDegree launches its first product, medical coverage for pets

OneDegree, the Hong Kong-based insurance technology startup, launched its first product today, a line of medical plans for pets called Pawfect Care. The company will introduce other products, includin

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SpaceX successfully launches 60 more Starlink satellites as it continues towards 2020 service debut

SpaceX has launched another big batch of Starlink satellites, the low Earth orbit spacecraft that will provide connectivity for its globe-spanning high-bandwidth broadband internet network. This brin

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SpaceX engine issue on last Starlink mission caused by cleaning fluid according to Elon Musk

SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk said on Twitter on Wednesday that the cause of the failure of a single Merlin engine during the most recent Starlink launch (which didn’t prevent the launch fro

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Trump says U.S. states safely reopening despite warnings of virus resurgence

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that U.S. states are safely starting to reopen businesses, even as some public health officials warned that relaxing restrictio

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New Zealand gives Moving Day green light despite COVID-19

Moving Day, which celebrates the first day of the dairy season in New Zealand, will go ahead as planned this year, but with strict controls amid the COVID-19 outbreak,

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CNN host Richard Quest tests positive for coronavirus

Richard Quest, anchor of CNN International's "Quest Means Business" program, revealed on Monday that he has tested positive for COVID-19.He made the announcement while

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U.S. CDC director warns second wave of COVID-19 likely "more devastating"

Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Robert Redfield attends a press conference on the COVID-19 at the White House in Washington D.C. March 9, 2020. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)"W

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China's telecom sector sees rebound in Q1 revenue

China's telecommunications industry saw a rebound in revenue in the first quarter of 2020, official data showed on Tuesday.The sector's revenue totaled 338.3 billion yuan (47.8 billion U.S. dollars),

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Trump signals he wants South Korea to pay more for US military presence there

President Donald Trump signaled that he wants South Korea to pay more than what it’s already paying for U.S. military presence there. Seoul and Washington are currently