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Tech for good during COVID-19: Texts for frontline workers, a crisis prevention hotline and more

What do a heating filter company, a robotics startup and an architecture startup have in common? Usually, nothing. But right now, as COVID-19 sweeps the world and jeopardizes the lives of millions, co

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Tory grandees urge probe into China’s Imagination coup

David Davis has asked ministers to conduct an urgent probe of the move by China Reform Holdings, Sky News learns.

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Hong Kong must uphold Basic Law for better future: seminar

Aerial photo taken on June 27, 2017 shows the scenery on both sides of Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong, south China.(Xinhua/Lui Siu Wai)Leung Chun-ying, vice chairman of

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U.S. federal government missed opportunity to fight COVID-19: NEJM

The response to the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed major weaknesses in the federalist system of public health governance, which divides powers among the federal, state and local governments, accord

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Chinese investor plots coup at UK chip designer Imagination

MPs have alerted the PM to concerns that the British chip designer will have its assets relocated to China, Sky News learns.

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Zoom admits some calls were routed through China by mistake

Hours after security researchers at Citizen Lab reported that some Zoom calls were routed through China, the video conferencing platform has offered an apology and a partial explanation.To recap, Zoom

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The pandemic is already reshaping tech’s misinformation crisis

Since 2016, social media companies have faced an endless barrage of bad press and public criticism for failing to anticipate how their platforms could be used for dark purposes at the scale of populat

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Britain's Queen Elizabeth to make rare address to nation over coronavirus

Queen Elizabeth will make an extremely rare address to the nation on Sunday as Britain grapples with the increasingly deadly coronavirus outbreak.The government has put

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27 TV show recommendations from TechCrunch while you’re stuck at home

With shelter-in-place orders worldwide, it’s never been a better time to curl up on the couch and loss oneself in a TV show. That’s what we’re doing.Some TechCrunch staffers are watc

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UK government tells English Premier League to 'take pay cut'

Arsenal ground staff work on the pitch at Emirates Stadium in London, UK, March 20, 2020. /VCG The British government on Thursday said English Premier League footballers should take a pay cut,

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Zoom freezes feature development to fix security and privacy issues

Zoom has been widely criticized over the past couple of weeks for terrible security, a poorly designed screensharing feature, misleading dark pattern, fake end-to-end-encryption claims and an incompl

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Responsible media outlets should provide their audience with the truth

A journalist is preparing for a live report in front of the New York Stock Exchange, March 24, 2020. /VCG Editor's Note: This article is an edited version of "Fox's Fake News Contagion", which

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Intl. Children's Book Day: The respite of reading during a pandemic

April 2 is celebrated Danish author Hans Christian Andersen's birthday, which also marks International Children's Book Day (ICBD) every year.Founded in 1967 by the Inte

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Interview: COVID-19 patients infected again after recovery is highly improbable: Australian Nobel Laureate

SYDNEY, March 30 (Xinhua) -- Australian Nobel laureate immunologist Peter Doherty said it is highly improbable that people who have recovered from COVID-19 will be infected again, and even if it turn

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China leads UN Security Council to form new working modalities for emergencies amid COVID-19: envoy

China has led other United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members to set up new working modalities for emergencies amid COVID-19, in an effort to ensure the council functions effectively and pl

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London mayor asks top football clubs to support NHS

A general view of London Stadium, home of West Ham United, in London, UK. /VCG London Mayor Sadiq Khan has asked the city's top football clubs to support the National Health Service (NHS) in f

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US outlines plan for Venezuela transition, sanctions relief

The Trump administration is prepared to lift sanctions on Venezuela in support of a new proposal to form a transitional government representing allies of both Nicolas M