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Costa Rica farmers destroy flowers as coronavirus spoils exports

Costa Rican flower farmers have started destroying the lilies, roses and chrysanthemums they have lovingly tended to for months after the coronavirus outbreak led to the suspension of flights to mark

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Google and USCF collaborate on machine learning tool to help prevent harmful prescription errors

Machine learning experts working at Google Health have published a new study in tandem with the University of California San Francisco (UCSF)’s computational health sciences department that desc

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China's lunar rover travels over 424 meters on moon's far side

China's lunar rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, has driven 424.455 meters on the far side of the moon to conduct scientific exploration of the virgin territory.Both the l

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CIOs are dead tired of dumb tech. Pulse has $6.5M to help them help each other

The technology that runs our companies these days is staggering in its complexity. We have moved from a monolith to a microservices world, from boxes to SaaS, and while that has added agility to the e

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Tributes flow for trailblazing football icon Diouf after his death

For anyone who is familiar with French football, the addition of Pape Diouf to the growing list of deaths from COVID-19 is heartbreaking and hard to accept."Pape will remain in the hearts of the M

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Encore’s musical messages let you commission a video performance to send to loved ones

Encore, the U.K. marketplace that lets you find and book a musician or band online for your event, is launching a new online product to help musicians find an additional revenue stream during the coro

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Mobile payments firms in India are now scrambling to make money

Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder and chief executive of India’s most valuable startup, Paytm, posed an existential question in a recent press conference.“What do you think of the commercial model for dig

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Palantir provides COVID-19 tracking software to CDC and NHS, pitches European health agencies

As the floor drops out from under many startups, some tech companies are finding a path forward by meeting new government needs.Among them is Palantir, a secretive government-friendly big data operati

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UK enlists China's help in COVID-19 battle

02:46 As the UK fights the constant rise in coronavirus cases, a team of experts from China is in the country to pass on the lessons they learnt fighting the virus back home.The team o

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Hio wants to put networking events back on your remote-only calendars

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines and the COVID-19 pandemic has surged event cancellations across the country. Tech workforces have found ways to stay productive: back-to-back Zoom calls

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DeepMind’s Agent57 AI agent can best human players across a suite of 57 Atari games

Development of artificial intelligence agents tends to frequently be measured by their performance in games, but there’s a good reason for that: Games tend to offer a wide proficiency curve, in

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Amazon investigated after firing worker who went on strike over coronavirus

The worker claims he was fired in retaliation for his activism, but Amazon says he violated the company's quarantine policies.

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Steady recovery seen in China's food delivery industry

03:04 As the COVID-19 pandemic in China comes under control, steady recovery is being seen in the catering economy, especially the food delivery sector, since enterprises are gradually

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Hospital in Indian capital shut after doctor tests positive for novel coronavirus

A government-run hospital in Indian capital city was shut down on Wednesday after a doctor tested positive for novel coronavirus (COVID-19), local media reports said.

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Is China using COVID-19 to exercise 'mask diplomacy'?

01:48 As China is providing medical assistance worldwide, some are questioning whether China is using the coronavirus pandemic to exercise "mask diplomacy.”In anexclusive interview, Ar

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Roundup: U.S. hospitals muzzle medical workers amid pandemic

With the coronavirus pandemic overwhelming U.S. health services, some hospitals have warned their staff not to speak out about the lack of equipment unless they want to be fired, U.S. media repo

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Study: China lockdown may have blocked 700,000 COVID-19 cases

A screenshot from journal Science.China's decision to lock down the city of Wuhan may have prevented more than 700,000 COVID-19 cases by containing the spread of the co