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Ford goes drag racing with 1,400 HP electric Mustang Cobra Jet

Ford today took the wraps off an electric Mustang prototype. Called Mustang Cobra Jet 1,400, it carries Ford’s long tradition of drag racing the Mustang. But for the first time, a quiet electric power

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Tokyo 2020 NIPPON Festival events cancelled

The "Tokyo 2020 NIPPON Festival," the official cultural event of the Tokyo 2020 Games, which was scheduled to be held from April to September this year, has been cancel

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COVID-19 study: Malaria drug shows no benefits and a higher death rate

AFP A malaria drug, widely touted as a potential cure for COVID-19, showed no benefits against the disease over standard care and was in fact associated with more deaths, the biggest study of

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Netflix beats growth predictions with 15.77M net new subscribers

With almost everyone stuck at home thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, Netflix was widely expected to do well in the first quarter of 2020 — but it did even better than anticipated.Before the current cr

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Facebook Avatars, a Bitmoji competitor, launches in Europe

Facebook Avatars, which lets users customize a virtual lookalike of themselves for use as stickers in chat and comments, is now available across Europe, the company said today.The social giant’s Avat

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Can employers mandate COVID-19 testing?

COVID-19 commanded an understandably outsized presence in Jeff Bezos’s annual shareholder letter last week. The Amazon exec laid out the company’s plans for addressing the pandemic on a number of diff

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COVID-19: Europe's reaction - The Agenda in full

30:10 Europe has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic – with Italy and Spain suffering some of the highest death rates in the world. But individual governments have had widely dif

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UK scientists to make a million potential COVID-19 vaccines by September

A million doses of a potential COVID-19 vaccine being developed by British scientists are already being manufactured and will be available by September, even before tri

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Scientists to make a million potential COVID-19 vaccines by September

A million doses of a potential COVID-19 vaccine being developed by British scientists are already being manufactured and will be available by September, even before trials to prove the shot's effe

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UK extends COVID-19 lockdown measures for 'at least' 3 more weeks

01:56 Britain extended its nationwide lockdown on Thursday, as stand-in leader Dominic Raab ordered Britons to stay at home for at least another three weeks to prevent the spread of th

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Beijing approves TCM drugs for COVID-19

01:41 China has added three patented items of traditional Chinese medicines (TCM) to the treatments for COVID-19. The drugs, specifically Jinhua Qinggan granules, Lianhua Qingwen capsu

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ROK parliamentary election landslide: A victory secured by COVID-19

The ruling party of the Republic of Korea (ROK) won a landslide victory in the country's parliamentary election on Wednesday thanks to its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.The 300-seat Nationa

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Houseparty reports 50M sign-ups in past month amid COVID-19 lockdowns

Houseparty, the popular video chat application acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games in 2019, has seen massive growth due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With government lockdowns keeping people from being

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Instagram partners with LA’s ChowNow to make food pics and stories shoppable

Instagram is partnering with the Los Angeles-based restaurant ordering platform ChowNow to make pictures and stories from local restaurants shoppable by adding “Order Food” buttons and sti

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Researchers estimate lower increase in net methane emissions in Arctic

Researchers estimated that the increase in net methane emissions in the Arctic would be smaller than previous predictions, according to a recently published research article in the journal Nature Cli

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Portuguese PM reiterates "not right time to ease restrictions"

Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa reiterated on Tuesday that almost all measures of containment and social isolation will be maintained beyond April 17, amid mounting pressure of conditional

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Stanford and Google create an embeddable COVID-19 map for local journalists

Stanford University’s Big Local News and Pitch Interactive projects, along with the Google News Initiative, are launching a new tool today that allows local journalists to embed customized, up