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Our love of the cloud is making a green energy future impossible

An epic number of citizens are video-conferencing to work in these lockdown times. But as they trade in a gas-burning commute for digital connectivity, their personal energy use for each two hours of

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Australia moves to "community phase" of COVID-19 response: PM

Australia has moved to the third phase, or the "community phase" of the fight against COVID-19, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Friday. He told reporters that Austr

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White House shifts from raising alarms to reopening country

For weeks, the Trump administration played up the dangers of the coronavirus as it sought to persuade Americans to disrupt their lives and stay home. Now, as President

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Miro lands $50M Series B for digital whiteboard as demand surges

Miro is a company in the right place at the right time. The makers of a digital whiteboard are seeing usage surge right now as businesses move from the workplace and physical whiteboards. Today, the c

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Collaborative meeting notes platform Hugo nabs seed funding from Google, Slack

Workplace productivity software has had an insane year with slick subscription tools popping up seemingly each new day. VCs have been backing the tools en masse, and startups are continuing to find ne

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Extra Crunch Live: Navigating the pandemic with an equitable lens

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the tech industry has yet again found itself in a vulnerable state.As we saw in the dot-com era, when the economy takes a hit, so do companies, and they need to make critic

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Heavy drinking can affect ability to make decisions at work next day - study

Those with a hangover have less ability to make decisions, making it more difficult to switch tasks and retain information.

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Loss of remittances will damage many countries

The announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump that he intends to suspend immigration to the United States in response to the coronavirus pandemic is further evidence of the extra pressure that m

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WHO regional director urges for caution in lifting coronavirus lockdowns

The World Health Organization (WHO) regional director for the Western Pacific on Tuesday urged countries to be more cautious in lifting COVID-19 lockdowns, warning of

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Can employers mandate COVID-19 testing?

COVID-19 commanded an understandably outsized presence in Jeff Bezos’s annual shareholder letter last week. The Amazon exec laid out the company’s plans for addressing the pandemic on a number of diff

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Facebook launches Fundraisers in India, expands partnerships with state governments for WhatsApp and Messenger helplines

Facebook has expanded Fundraisers to India and is working with several additional state governments to provide authoritative information about the coronavirus to more people in the country, it said t

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Electrical worker safety startup launches a COVID-19 workplace distance and contact tracker

A startup that created a dedicated gadget to help ensure the safety of electrical industry workers has turned their talents to addressing the need for similar workplace protections in the face of anot

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Australian airline Qantas "knowingly" exposes staff to COVID-19: union

Australia's leading airline has been accused of "knowingly" exposing baggage handlers to the COVID-19. The Transport Workers' Union (TWU) recently claimed that Qantas staff at Adelaide Airport wer

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China strives to ensure workplace safety as epidemic control becomes regular practice

Chinese authorities on Sunday demanded solid efforts to ensure workplace safety and resolutely curb major accidents. Workplace safety should be enhanced as epidemic pre

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Over 22,000 healthcare workers infected with COVID-19: WHO

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit over 22,000 healthcare workers across 52 countries and regions, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Saturday.According to its daily situation report, 22,073 COVID-1

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Black Americans bear brunt of coronavirus impact: research

People wearing masks take a walk near the U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C., the United States, April 11, 2020. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)Underlying structural inequality

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Over 22,000 healthcare workers infected by COVID-19: WHO

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit over 22,000 healthcare workers across 52 countries and regions, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Saturday. According to its daily situation report, 22,073 C