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Trump taps U.S. Congressman Mark Meadows for White House chief of staff

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that Congressman Mark Meadows will become the new White House chief of staff. "I have long known and worked with Mark, and the relationship is a very

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A billion Android smartphones at risk of being hacked

The consumer watchdog group Which? warns personal data could be stolen or users even signed up to premium rate phone services.

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Morphology of inactivated coronavirus revealed in Shenzhen

By obtaining biological samples from clinical cases of novel coronavirus patients, the Third People's Hospital of Shenzhen and Southern University of Science and Technology have worked together an

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Palestine announces 7 COVID-19 cases

The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Thursday declared that seven Palestinians have been infected with COVID-19 in the West Bank. A total of seven among 20 examined tested positive with COVID-19, PA He

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Twitter expands hateful conduct rules to ban dehumanizing speech around age, disability and now, disease

Last year, Twitter expanded its rules around hate speech to include dehumanizing speech against religious groups. Today, Twitter says it’s expanding its rule to also include language that dehum

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Defense contractor CPI knocked offline by ransomware attack

A major electronics manufacturer for defense and communications markets was knocked offline after a ransomware attack, TechCrunch has learned.A source with knowledge of the incident told TechCrunch th

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YC-backed Turing uses AI to help speed up the formulation of new consumer packaged goods

One of the more interesting and useful applications of artificial intelligence technology has been in the world of biotechnology and medicine, where now more than 220 startups (not to mention universi

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Heartwarming moment during epidemic: Doctor and patient enjoy sunset together

A doctor stopped on the way to escort a patient for a CT scan, enjoying a sunset together. The 87-year-old patient has been hospitalized for nearly a month due to infe

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Riemsdyk breaks right hand helping Flyers take 7th straight win

Ivan Provorov of the Philadelphia Flyers celebrates his goal in the game against the Washington Capitals at the Capital One Arena in Washing D.C., March 4, 2020. /AP Travis Konecny heard the

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Book 'China, We Stand with You!' released

A new book explores the lives of foreign nationals, from 25 nations, living in China during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak. China, We Stand with You—what communications professionals from

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Sanders refocusing his campaign after Biden’s super Tuesday

His front-runner status slipping, Bernie Sanders refocused his Democratic presidential campaign on surging rival Joe Biden on Wednesday as the Vermont senator’s allies

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Bookshlf launches an app to curate and share your favorite digital content

Bookshlf has created a new way for people to recommend media — whether it’s music, videos, articles, podcasts or even tweets — to their friends and to the rest of the world.The New York-based st

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Bloomberg to reassess after disappointing results

Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg will reassess on Wednesday whether he should stay in the race after getting disappointing results in Super Tuesday prim

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Robinhood blames record trade volume & itself for outages

It wasn’t the leap year, a coding blip, or a hack that caused Robinhood’s massive outages yesterday and today that left customers unable to trade stocks. Instead, the co-CEOs write that &#

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Google pitches free trials of its enterprise G Suite conferencing tools as part of a coronavirus response

Google said in a blog post that it would roll out free access to advanced Hangouts Meet video-conferencing capabilities to all G Suite and G Suite for Education customers globally as the company pitc

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Conspiracy theories still being promoted despite YouTube crackdown - study

The video site changed its recommendations feature after claims it was driving up the popularity of harmful conspiracy theories.

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Boston Dynamics unveils OTTO Motors collaboration to bring our robot overlords to the warehouse

Boston Dynamics, the undisputed heavyweight of technical robotics wizardry, unveiled a new collaboration with the warehouse autonomous material handling and transportation technology developer, OTTO