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Rumor Buster: Is COVID-19 a laboratory construct?

As COVID-19 continues to spread around the world, killing more people, questions about the origin of the virus are mounting. Recently, scientists have concluded that the severe acute respiratory s

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YouTube launches dedicated COVID-19 homepage section

In an effort to ensure that the latest updates related to COVID-19 are as visible as possible, YouTube announced today that they’re launching a dedicated hub on the YouTube homepage for stories

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Duterte declares state of calamity amid rising COVID-19 cases in Philippines

A policeman from the Philippine National Police (PNP) uses a thermal scanner to check the temperature of people trying to enter a checkpoint at the border of Rizal Prov

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Microsoft Teams goes down — just as everyone starts working from home

Microsoft Teams is down.Perfect timing, as some might say, given that pretty much everyone who uses Microsoft Teams who can work from home is currently not working at all.The technology giant left a c

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AWS launches Bottlerocket, a Linux-based OS for container hosting

AWS has launched its own open-source operating system for running containers on both virtual machines and bare metal hosts. Bottlerocket, as the new OS is called, is basically a stripped-down Linux di

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Cityscoot raises another $25.6 million for its electric moped service

French startup Cityscoot is raising a $25.6 million (€23.6 million) funding round from Allianz France, Demeter as well as existing investors Groupe RATP and Banque des Territoires. The startup is also

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Huawei launches 2nd foldable Mate Xs with harder screen cover

Huawei has announced the brand's second-generation foldable smartphone "Mate Xs" with a revamped screen cover that's "80 percent harder" than the previous one, during a press release in Barcelona,

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Gazelle poses like a praying mantis

A bizarre moment was captured in Samburu National Reserve in Kenya: a weird-looking gazelle standing on hind legs and stretching its elongated neck to reach the leaves. The slender animal uses its fr

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Iran starts parliamentary elections

TEHRAN, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Iran's parliamentary election campaign officially started across the country on Thursday. According to Iran's Guardians Council of Constitution, the main entity in charge

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Sixgill raises $15M to expand its dark web intelligence platform

Sixgill, an Israeli cyber threat intelligence company that specializes in monitoring the deep and dark web, today announced that it has raised a $15 million funding round led by Sonae IM, a fund base

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EU enlargement chief urges talks on Montenegro religion law

The European Union's enlargement commissioner on Friday urged dialogue in EU-hopeful Montenegro over a contentious religious rights law that has fueled tensions in the

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Wuhan's second SARS treatment-model hospital starts delivery

After 10 days' work, the Leishenshan (Thunder God Mountain) Hospital, another makeshift hospital in Wuhan, started to be delivered gradually after passing the check by

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Rocket startup Firefly signs satellite constellation launch mission with Satlantis

Rocket launch startup Firefly Aerospace has signed a new agreement with Satlantis, a maker of Earth observation and remote sensing payloads for satellite-based operation. Firefly will launch a conste

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AWS partners with sports leagues to change how we watch games

Since the inception of professional sports, fans have sought statistics about how their favorite teams and players are performing. Until recently, these stats were generated from basic counting, like

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University wins $1.1bn battle with Apple and supplier over iPhone patents

Caltech claims Apple and Broadcom infringed four of its patents by using wifi chips in hundreds of millions of iPhones.

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German expert for coronavirus brings virus inhibitors to China: CMG

Rolf Hilgenfeld, a German coronavirus research expert and professor at the Lubeck University, brought two inhibitors developed for SARS-CoV to China to test their effects on the 2019 novel coronavir

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German expert for coronavirus brings virus inhibitors to China: CMG

Rolf Hilgenfeld, a German coronavirus research expert and professor at the Lubeck University, brought two inhibitors developed for SARS-CoV to China to test their effects on the 2019 novel coronavir