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YC startup Felix wants to replace antibiotics with programmable viruses

Right now the world is at war. But this is no ordinary war. It’s a fight with an organism so small we can only detect it through use of a microscope — and if we don’t stop it, it cou

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How has the coronavirus pandemic become a new historical divide?

As new confirmed cases of the pandemic novel coronavirus disease surge in the U.S., intellectuals are looking into how the outbreak may bring changes to society in a fundamental way, and expose some

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WHO chief urges world to draw inspiration from Wuhan in COVID-19 fight

The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom delivers his address in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday regarding the COVID-19 outbreak. The World Health Organization (WHO)

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Stuart Russell on how to make AI ‘human-compatible’

In a career spanning several decades, artificial intelligence researcher and professor Stuart Russell has contributed extensive knowledge on the subject, including foundational textbooks. He joined us

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Using 'Chinese Virus' will not help Trump fight COVID-19

U.S. President Donald Trump. /VCG Editor's note: Sun Chenghao is an assistant research professor at the Institute of American Studies under the China Institutes of Contemporary International R

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Japan's visitor arrivals plunge 58% in February due to COVID-19

Visitors walk through Nakamise Alley at Asakusa in Tokyo, Japan, March 20, 2020. /AP The coronavirus pandemic is hitting Japan's tourism industry hard with the number of foreign visitors plung

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How doctors pull critically ill patients back from the brink of death

06:51 "I had seen what SARS could do, but COVID-19 is much sneakier," said Zhang Qingyuan, chief physician for the Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Department at

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U.S. to Iran: Coronavirus won't save you from sanctions

The United States sent Iran a blunt message this week: the spread of the coronavirus will not save it from U.S. sanctions that are choking off its oil revenues and isol

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Australian government considers possibility of nationalizing failing companies

The Australian government is exploring the possibility of nationalizing companies as the economic fallout from COVID-19 continues. News Corp Australia reported on Friday that Prime Minister Scott Mo

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Morgan Stanley: Recession this time worse than in 2001

06:46 Investors are factoring in a global recession while governments and central banks are shoring up economies bracing for what looks likely to be a short but deep global recession f

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Only multilateralism can save us

Editor's note: Anne O. Krueger is a former World Bank chief economist and former first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Senior Research Professor of International Econo

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Flame arrival faces calls for Tokyo Olympics be delayed

The Olympic flame is set to arrive in Japan from Greece even as the opening of the Tokyo Games in four months is in doubt with more voices calling for the event to be p

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Pandora's box opened by Trump's 'Chinese virus' reference

Editor's note: CGTN's First Voice provides instant commentary on breaking stories. The daily column clarifies emerging issues and better defines the news agenda, offering a Chinese perspective on

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'Fake news' tweets which could make coronavirus outbreak worse to be removed

Tweets that put people at risk of contracting the COVID-19 coronavirus as it rapidly spreads across the globe are to be removed by Twitter to help the public get accura

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The Dow and S&P near three-year lows, Nasdaq falls as well, and treasuries are no haven

It was another brutal day on Wall Street as investors continue to come to grips with the new economic realities imposed by the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA

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Why is Blue Apron’s stock skyrocketing?

Back in 2017, a formerly hot, formerly profitable company called Blue Apron went public. It didn’t go well. Today as the global stock market continues to fall, shares in the former venture darli

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iPads become more laptop-like with the arrival of full mouse and trackpad support

Apple just dumped a bunch of hardware news online via press release. That’s just the world we live in right now. We’ll probably be seeing a whole lot of this in the coming weeks and months, as compani