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Apple’s Jeff Bigham, disability rights lawyer Haben Girma, author Sara Hendren and more to join Sight Tech Global

The other day we announced the first ten sessions for Sight Tech Global, a virtual event Dec. 2-3 that is convening the world’s top technologists to discuss how AI-based technologies are revolut

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The US now seems to be pinning all of its hopes on COVID-19 therapies and vaccines

Almost eight months after the White House first announced it would move from containment to mitigation efforts to stop the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic, the Administration is now pinning its hopes

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Yankees Hall of Famer Whitey Ford dies at 91

Former New York Yankee Whitey Ford salutes the crowd during Old Timers Day ceremonies before the Yankees play the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx borough of New York

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'Is New York Dead?' – City looks to future after COVID-19 pandemic

03:21 New York City is known as the financial capital of the world, the city that never sleeps, but it is now being called a ghost town.Hard hit by the coronavirus, New Yorkers are tor

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Electric moped startup Revel returns to New York with helmet selfie, other in-app safety features

Shared electric moped startup Revel has resumed operations in New York City a month after shutting down its service following several deaths. The startup’s blue mopeds

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After early-COVID layoffs, Hipcamp is buying competition, hiring

When shelter-in-place was first announced in the United States, most companies in the travel space saw bookings drop. Some shuttered. Hipcamp, a San Francisco-based startup that provides private land

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"Respect science" and "hard work" enable Chinese to control epidemic: The New Yorker

A screenshot taken from the website of The New Yorker on Aug. 11, 2020 shows the title and picture of the article it just posted: "How China Controlled the Coronavirus." (Xinhua) There is not such ne

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"Respect science" and "hard work" enable Chinese to control epidemic: The New Yorker

A screenshot taken from the website of The New Yorker on Aug. 11, 2020 shows the title and picture of the article it just posted: "How China Controlled the Coronavirus." (Xinhua) There is not such ne

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iOS 14 redirects web links from News+ publishers directly to the Apple News app

Apple’s still-in-beta operating systems will automatically redirect News+ subscribers to the Apple News app when they click on links from a News+ publisher.In other words, if you click or tap o

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Pompeo's anti-China speech undermines long-term U.S. interests: The New Yorker

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's anti-China speech at the end of July has undermined long-term U.S. interests, and appears likely to fail, like the country's many

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Commentary: Pompeo's anti-China hysteria won't "make America great again"

As the world and the United States in particular remain trapped in a raging COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is travelling abroad to coordinate a

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The coronavirus pandemic is fueling an exodus from New York City

From the moment she decided to leave New York City to the time she arrived in California, it took Amira only two days. She packed most of her essentials, posted an ad online for a temporary lease

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‘All eyes’ on New York: Reopening tests city torn by crises

Scarred by the deadliest coronavirus outbreak in the nation, New York City gradually began reopening Monday in a turning point in the three-month-long crisis and an imp

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U.S. states rush to reopen economy, but soaring death toll could be the price

As COVID-19 continues to sweep across the United States with over 1.2 million people infected so far, several states have recently started to reopen their economies. Models have projected a sharp

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What does Wuhan tell us?

06:58 I am from Wuhan and I heard a lot about COVID-19 and Wuhan over the past 100 days, but did people really listen?The most important thing is information. Like any viruses we have

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GrubHub/Seamless’s pandemic initiatives are predatory and exploitative, and it’s time to stop using them

Times are exceptionally hard, especially for local restaurants, which were always in a precarious business even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. But when times are hard, people pull together, right?

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Original Content podcast: ‘Star Trek: Picard’ launches with a bumpy, memorable season

Star Trek TV shows generally take a while to get good — but if any of them was going to have a strong start, you’d think it’d be “Star Trek: Picard.”After all, it returns Patri