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U.S. Senate races to agree on massive coronavirus relief package

VCG The Republican-led U.S. Senate scrambled on Saturday to forge a bipartisan agreement on a one trillion U.S. dollar bill aimed at stemming the economic fallout from the growing coronavirus

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Spotify opens up its podcast catalog to third-party apps, but not for streaming

Spotify is opening up its podcast catalog to third-party apps. The company this week launched a new version of its Podcast APIs that makes it possible for third-party apps to connect to Spotify in ord

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Hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine and other potential COVID-19 treatments explained

During two of this week’s White House briefings, President Trump referred specifically to two potential treatments that have been identified by medical researchers and clinicians, and that have

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Hospital droid Diligent Robotics raises $10M to assist nurses

28% of a nurse’s time is wasted on low-skilled tasks like fetching medical tools. We need them focused on the complex and compassionate work of treating patients, especially amid the coronavirus

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Conservation efforts slowly reviving African black rhino population

Conservation efforts are slowly boosting the numbers of critically endangered African black rhinos, new data released on Thursday shows.The rhino population increased at an annual rate of 2.5 perc

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China CITIC Group names vice governor of central bank as Party chief

VCG China's CITIC Group has appointed Zhu Hexin as its Party chief, replacing Chang Zhenming, the state-owned banking and financial conglomerate said on Friday.Zhu Hexinwas also recommended to

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US, Mexico discuss halting much of cross-border travel

The United States and Mexico are working on plans to halt much of cross-border travel without disrupting trade during the coronavirus outbreak, officials said.Mexican F

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NASA suspends work on its Moon and Mars spacecraft due to coronavirus pandemic

NASA has temporarily paused work on the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion capsule that will be used for its forthcoming Artemis missions, which will ultimately return the next American man and the

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African countries beef up measures to contain spread of COVID-19

Countries in Africa have stepped up their efforts against the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure public health security. A foreign national tested positive on Feb. 14 in Egypt, the first case of infection r

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Instigating Sinophobia is not the way to fight COVID-19

Editor's note: Nyongesa Lemmy is the senior policy analyst and executive director of the Center for China-Africa Studies at the Africa Policy Institute, a think tank based in Kenya. The article re

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How China got to zero new domestic COVID-19 cases

Editor's note:Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Britain, and

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Hulu launches on Comcast’s set-top boxes, including Xfinity Flex and soon, X1

Hulu’s streaming service is available almost everywhere. But one significant platform it hadn’t yet launched on was Comcast’s set-top boxes. That changes today as Hulu announced its

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Female-led Robin Games raises $7 million to combine lifestyle content with fantasy gaming

As a former Jam City executive, Jill Wilson led teams behind some of the top-grossing gaming franchises, like Cookie Jam and Panda Pop. Now she’s running her own startup, Robin Games, where a te

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Founders who share insights can build industry trust at scale

Everyone knows that press features don’t drive sustainable traffic. But they still matter for one simple reason: sales requires trust. Trust is transitive. And the press is trusted.Press features vali

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Mya Systems gets $18.75M to keep scaling its recruitment chatbot

Hiring chatbot Mya Systems — which uses a conversational AI to grease the recruitment pipeline by automating sourcing for agencies and large enterprises needing to fill lots of vacancies in area

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What works against the virus?

04:22 Editor's note: March 19 marked the first time that China has recorded zero new domestic cases of COVID-19 since the country implemented strict and sweeping quarantine measures to

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East China's Suzhou issues plan to reward top global talents

Suzhou in east China’s Jiangsu Province issued a plan Thursday to reward high-end talents with up to 400,000 yuan (about 57,000 U.S. dollars) for their contributions i