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Hospitals told to create 'emergency pods' for coronavirus patients

Those suspected of having the virus will be isolated from other patients at A&E, so an assessment can be made about their health.

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Building a search tool for state court data and analytics, Trellis adds Alon Shwartz as co-founder

Trellis Research, the Los Angeles based startup building out a search and analytics tool for state court data, hasn raised $4.4 million in a new round of funding, and added Alon Shwartz as a technical

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How Microsoft runs its $40M ‘AI for Health’ initiative

Last week, Microsoft announced the latest news in its ongoing “AI for Good” program: a $40M effort to apply data science and AI to difficult and comparatively under-studied conditions like

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Apple unifies its app stores by extending the universal purchase option to Mac apps

Apple surprised its app developer community today with the official announcement that they’ll soon be able to sell their cross-platform apps as one universal purchase including, for the time, ap

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Nike is making footwear to improve athletes’ efficiency for the Tokyo Olympics

All it takes to win a gold medal at the Olympics is the best performance on the day of the event. Champions may be made in countless training hours, but championships, finals and even world title-repr

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How Hoop hit #2 with its Tinder for Snapchat

Snapchat’s developer platform is blowing up as a gateway to teen social app users. Hoop is the latest Snap Kit blockbuster, rocketing to #2 on the overall App Store charts this month with its Ti

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Daily Crunch: Spotify is acquiring The Ringer

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe her

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YouTube to invest $100M in kids’ content that showcases character strengths, like compassion and curiosity

YouTube in September announced a $100 million fund to invest in new children’s video content, following its $170 million settlement with the FTC over children’s privacy law violations. The

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YouTube has seen soaring growth in South Korea

Earlier this week, Google released revenue figures for YouTube for the first time in the product’s history, revealing that the video service pulled in $15.1 billion in advertising revenues in 2019. G

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Uber issued permit to test self-driving vehicles on California public roads

Uber Advanced Technologies Group has been issued a permit that would allow the company to put its autonomous vehicles back on public roads in California nearly two years after the company scaled back

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Jeff Weiner will step down as CEO of LinkedIn June 1, product head Ryan Roslansky steps up

Major change ahead for LinkedIn, the social network for the working world, now with 675 million members. Jeff Weiner, who has been leading the company as CEO for the past 11 years, is stepping down on

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12-billion-year-old monster galaxy discovered

The galaxy known as XMM-2599 has baffled scientists because it appears to have died during its prime star-birthing years.

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European roundup: Liverpool kids shine, Dembele out for rest of season

Liverpool legend Alan Hansen once famously said 'You can't win anything with kids' in 1995. He may have to eat his words once again.Liverpool's youngest ever team defied the odds to progress into

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Warriors' assistant coach Mike Brown to lead Nigeria in Olympics

Mike Brown, assistant coach of the Golden State Warriors, reacts in Game 3 of the NBA playoff series against the Houston Rockets at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, May 4, 2019. /VCG Photo

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New York Knicks fire president of basketball operations Steve Mills

Steve Mills, president of basketball operations of the NBA's New York Knicks reacts before the preseason game against the Brooklyn Nets at the Barclays Center in the Brooklyn, New York, October 3

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Disney aims to launch Hulu internationally in 2021

Hulu will finally expand outside of the U.S., likely as soon as next year. This tidbit of news was confirmed by Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger on this week’s earnings call with investors. Disn

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Dear Sophie: My H-1B was renewed, but I’m getting laid off

“Dear Sophie” is a collaborative forum hosted by Extra Crunch and curated by Sophie Alcorn, who is certified as a specialist attorney in immigration and nationality law by the State Bar of