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AI can battle coronavirus, but privacy shouldn’t be a casualty

South Korea has successfully slowed down the spread of coronavirus. Alongside widespread quarantine measures and testing, the country’s innovative use of technology is credited as a critical factor in

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Trump administration should rank patients and healthcare workers first

Editor's note:Azhar Azam works in a private organization as a market business analyst and writes about geopolitical issues and regional conflicts. The article reflects the author's opinion and not

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Expert: 'China has low interest to play a leadership role'

00:50 As people struggle with a pandemic that has turned the world upside down, its consequences for individuals, nations and the world are already being considered. The post-pandemic

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Two Sessions: CPPCC member suggests law to curb annoying pop-up ads

Laws should be used to regulate annoying pop-up ads, and platforms and operators that use pop-ups excessively should be blacklisted as a warning and punishment, Wei Shi

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Australia's life expectancy stagnates amid worsen social inequality: study

Despite recording a steady increase for the past several decades Australia's life expectancy has begun to stagnate, local research disclosed on Monday, with growing so

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U.S. in chaos after Trump ended virus-alert program: Chomsky

Prominent American intellectual Noam Chomsky has criticized U.S. President Donald Trump's handling of COVID-19 pandemic as 'chaotic'. /Jimi Giannatti President Donald Trump's systematic disman

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CDC, states' reporting of virus test data causes confusion

Elected officials, businesses and others are depending on coronavirus testing and infection-rate data as states reopen so that they will know if a second wave of contagion is coming – and whether

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White House imposes coronavirus travel ban on Brazil

President Donald Trump on Sunday further limited travel from the world’s coronavirus hotspots by denying entry to foreigners coming from Brazil, which is second to the

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Brazil's divided leadership worsens COVID-19 situation

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (front) arrives at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, March 17, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note:Guy Burton is an adjunct professor at Vesalius College, Bru

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FM Wang Yi calls for global cooperation to defeat coronavirus

VCG The coronavirus is the common enemy of mankind, and unity and cooperation are the most advantageous weapons to defeat the virus, said Wang Yi, Chinese state councilor and foreign minister,

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Pots and pans protests break out as Spanish rail against restrictions

Demonstrators wrapped in flags bang pots and pans during a protest against the Spanish government's measures during the national lockdown. /Oscar Del Pozo/AFP Spain's two biggest cities have f

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India records biggest single-day spike in COVID-19 cases, tally reaches 125,101

People do morning walk at the Lodhi garden after reopened by New Delhi Municipal Council in New Delhi, India on May 21, 2020. (Photo by Partha Sarkar/Xinhua) India on S

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Italy COVID-19 data "encouraging" almost 3 weeks after end of lockdown

Italy continued to see a downward trend in the novel coronavirus infections on Friday, almost three weeks after the exit of a national lockdown. With 652 new infections reported over the past 24

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Scale AI releases free lidar dataset to power self-driving car development

High quality data is the fuel that powers AI algorithms. Without a continual flow of labeled data, bottlenecks can occur and the algorithm will slowly get worse and add risk to the system.It’s w

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Strategies for surviving the COVID-19 Series B squeeze

A generation of companies now needs to forget what it has learned. The world has changed for everyone, and nowhere is this more true than in fundraising.I’ve been investing in technology companies for

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UNICEF warns of dangers for migrant children forcibly returned during pandemic

The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday warned of the dangers for migrant children who are being forcibly returned during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since early March,

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With an ex-Uber exec as its new CEO, digital mental health service Mindstrong raises $100 million

Daniel Graf has had a long career in the tech industry. From founding his own startup in the mid-2000s to working at Google, then Twitter, and finally Uber, the tech business has made him extremely