The term "social distancing" has become synonymous with 2020. It's become the coronavirus battle cry. Lockdowns are halting cities and towns all over the world. Schools, universities and shopping mal
There’s crowdsourcing a problem, and then there’s crowdsourcing a problem within NASA, where some of the smartest, most creative and resourceful problem-solvers in the world solve real-wor
Okta, the popular identity and access management service, today used its annual (and now virtual) user conference to launch Lifecycle Management Workflows, a new tool that helps IT teams build and man
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Europe's wealthier nations along with China and the United States have borne the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic and its deadly impact so far. In Latin America, there were more than 14,000 confi
Palo Alto Networks announced today that it has an agreement in place to acquire CloudGenix for $420 million.CloudGenix delivers a software-defined wide area network (SD
"Even though we're in the midst of a crisis, essential health services must continue," the chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, noting people still need life-saving treatme
"Even though we're in the midst of a crisis, essential health services must continue," the chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) said here Monday, noting people
Macy's flagship store on 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan in New York, U.S., February 25, 2020. /VCG Major U.S. retailers Macy's Inc, Kohl's Corp and Gap Inc said on Monday they would furlough
Healthcare and biomedical engineering company Medtronic, which was in the news recently because Tesla CEO Elon Musk had discussions with the company about the automaker’s potential plans to buil
Amazon, the e-commerce giant that has fared well financially amid the COVID-19 pandemic, is facing a bevy of worker strikes. Today, warehouse workers on Staten Island in New York walked off the job i
Migrant workers crowd up outside a bus station as they wait to board buses to return to their villages during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease, in Ghazi
A female medical staff works at the department of infectious diseases in Wuhan Union Hospital, to combat the COVID-19 outbreak, in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, January 28, 2020. /Xinhua
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A massive bipartisan effort to provide relief to a U.S. economy on ice just leapt over its last major hurdle. On Friday, the House of Representatives passed a historic stimulus package known as the Co
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House leaders’ plan for swift action on a $2.2 trillion package to ease the coronavirus pandemic ’s devastating toll on the U.S. economy and health care system ran into