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Roundup: Pakistan seeks internal consensus, Chinese experts' help to combat COVID-19

The Pakistani government has appealed to the nation including politicians to set aside differences and will seek help of Chinese experts to fight against the COVID-19 outbreak. Pakistani President A

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Air pollution declines in Spain after partial lockdown

Restrictions on mobility have had an important effect on air pollution in the Spanish cities of Madrid and Barcelona, according to investigations carried out by the Catalan regional authority and

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India bans all international flights for one week from March 22

The Government of India on Thursday announced a ban on all international passenger flights for a week with effect from March 22, in a bid to check the spread of novel

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Global Business Daily: Ventilators, Amazon and advertising drought

"I would like to inform you that I have tested positive for COVID-19. I am doing well and in good spirits."Businesses across Europe and the UK in particular will have been shocked to see Michel Barni

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Global Update: Italy deaths surpass China, no new infections in Wuhan

ITALY TOPS COVID-19 DEATHSCOVID-19 deaths in Italy have surpassed China's.The death toll reached at least 3,405, officials announced on Thursday.According to a Johns Hopkins University

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Here are the most promising COVID-19 treatments being explored today

Companies from around the world are racing to find treatments for the deadly COVID-19 virus. According to a recent study by Chinese scientists, "Research thus far has revealed more than 30 agents

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NVIDIA makes its GPU-powered genome sequencing tool available free to those studying COVID-19

NVIDIA is making its Parabricks tool available for free for 90 days (with the possibility of extension, depending on needs) to any researcher currently working on any effort to combat the ongoing nov

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‘Cloud-first’ game studio Mainframe raises $8.1M led by Andreessen Horowitz

With most new social media startups seeming to dial in on specific communities to thrive in a still Facebook-dominated sphere, some of the more broadly focused social investments from top VCs are goin

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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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Quantum Machines raises $17.5M for its quantum orchestration platform

Quantum Machines, a Tel Aviv-based startup that is building both hardware and software to operate quantum computers, today announced that it has raised a $17.5 million Series A funding round. The roun

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Facebook now lets most users opt-in to dark mode desktop redesign

Facebook today officially rolled out its sweeping desktop redesign that offers dark mode, tabbed homescreen, and a cleaner profile. Facebook tells TechCrunch that “starting today, the majority o

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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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South Korean, Japanese central banks buy gov't bonds

The Bank of Japan. /VCG Central banks in South Korea and Japan on Thursday announced bond buying plans to help douse the volatility in the local markets affected by fears surrounding the COVID

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FA further postpones Premier League to April 30

Logo of Premier League. /VCG The FA have some bad news for football fans. On Thursday, the English football governing body announced its decision to further postpone domestic football competit

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Only multilateralism can save us

Editor's note: Anne O. Krueger is a former World Bank chief economist and former first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Senior Research Professor of International Econo

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A Chinese New Year letter home – coronavirus edition

Editor's Note: On January 29, long-time Shanghai resident John Darwin Van Fleet, who was in China through the 2002–2003 SARS epidemic, wrote this letter to his family i

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Greece hands over Olympic Flame to Tokyo 2020 in event trimmed to basics

The modest handover ceremony took place at the marble Panathinaic Stadium of Athens, which hosted the first modern Olympics in 1896. The ceremony was closed to spectat