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SecondNature raises $16.4M for “healthy home” subscription products, like air and water filters

After a confusing trip to the store to purchase an air filter back in 2012, two N.C. State University students, Thad Tarkington and Kevin Barry, came up with the idea to make this routine home mainten

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Experts: New challenges ahead for global economic recovery

01:41 We're in the midst of an unprecedented global collapse in industrial production, retail sales, business confidence, and investment with rising coronavirus infections and death to

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Harvard president and wife diagnosed with coronavirus

President of Harvard University Lawrence S. Bacow said he and his wife Adele Fleet Bacow have tested positive forcoronavirus, as the epidemic spread rapidly in the U.S. and the WHO said the countr

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Chinese guide on COVID-19 to be published in Russia

Russia's government-run Rossiya Segodnya news conglomerate will publish the Russian version of China's anti-coronavirus guide on Wednesday, its CEO Dmitry Kiselyov said

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As coronavirus cases increase, Defense Secretary Mark Esper places new restriction on Pentagon

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Monday he is again raising the protection condition on the Pentagon, which will further restrict access to one of the world’s largest

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Swiss startup Creal is building display tech for the next generation of AR/VR headsets

After years of hype, the AR/VR space has certainly grown quieter as of late, but some investors are still coalescing behind a vision that the technologies could one day replace mobile if the technical

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Amazon warehouse workers organized to demand PTO and coronavirus clinched it

Amazon never tires of explaining how great it is to work at one of its warehouses, but as usual the actual employees tell a different story. This particular group of Chicago workers was fed up with th

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Senior IOC official says Tokyo Games will be postponed amid pressure

A countdown board for Tokyo 2020 showing 123 days to go until the Olympics and 155 days until the Paralympics, Japan, March 23, 2020. /VCG As the Japanese government is facing growing pressure

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White House coronavirus task force expert disagrees with calling COVID-19 "China virus"

White House coronavirus task force member and the leading infectious diseases expert in the United States, Anthony Fauci, told Science magazine Sunday that he has neve

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CBA's Liaoning Flying Leopards aid former employee in Spain

Players stand in line before the game against the Zhejiang Golden Bulls in Shenyang, capital city of northeast China's Liaoning Province, January 21, 2019. /VCG China is helping the rest of th

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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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TCM treatment effective on over 90 pct of COVID-19 patients on mainland: official

Clinical observation showed that traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has proven to be effective in the treatment of over 90 percent of all confirmed COVID-19 cases on t

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IMF official says China's policy to support most affected amid COVID-19 a key lesson

One of the key lessons from the Chinese experience so far is that it is important for macroeconomic policy to focus on mitigating the economic impact of the COVID-19 shock and supporting the recover

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IBM, Amazon, Google and Microsoft partner with White House to provide compute resources for COVID-19 research

During today’s White House coronavirus task force press conference, President Trump announced the launch of a new public/private consortium to “unleash the power of American supercomputing

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Feature: Chinese, Italian medics join hands in Rome to battle COVID-19

"In May 2008, I had the opportunity to be in China, in Chengdu after the earthquake that hit the Sichuan Province. I was there to lead a team of experts sent from EU and Italy to support China after

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The tragic birth of a new Europe

A person wearing a mask walks across the Millennium Bridge in London, Britain, March 9, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's Note: Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a

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Lithuania reports first COVID-19 death

A worker wearing a protective suit disinfects a bus in Vilnius, Lithuania, on March 18, 2020.(Photo by Alfredas Pliadis/Xinhua)As of Saturday morning, 21 people tested positive for the coronavirus inL