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Dogs being trained to detect coronavirus at airports

The Medical Detection Dogs charity says it hopes the dogs will be able to let medics know if a person needs to be tested or not.

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Thai airlines required to create space between seats for safety issues

Health officials check tourists' temperatures as they arrive at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, March 4, 2020. /AP The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT) said on Tuesday th

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Malaria drug pushed by Trump as COVID-19 cure has no benefit

Donald Trump had hailed hydroxychloroquine as a "game changer" but a study has shown it has no beneficial effect.

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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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Special team formed to help recover U.S. Texas oil industry

A special task force was formed Tuesday to help recover the hard-hit oil industry in the U.S. state of Texas. The formation of the Blue Ribbon Task Force for Oil Econo

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Oktoberfest:World's largest beer festival scrapped amid COVID-19 fears

02:15 Germany's world-renowned Oktoberfest has been canceled because of fears over public safety amid the COVID-19 pandemic.The 210-year-old beer festival held in the Bavaria region of

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UK made a firm decision on Huawei in 5G: foreign ministry

British government made a firm decision to allow China's Huawei to have a role in building the country's 5G phone network (5th Generation)./HUAWEI British government made a firm decision to al

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Thai airlines required to create space between seats, mandatory face masks by passengers

The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT) said on Tuesday that it will meet with domestic airlines to check health and safety measures before granting the carrier

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S. African gov't recommends widespread use of face masks to guard against COVID-19

In an about-turn, the South African government on Tuesday recommended that the public use cloth face masks to guard against COVID-19. The main benefit of everyone wearing a facemask is to redu

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German gov't advises consumers against making any holiday plans at present

German consumers should refrain from making any holiday plans at present, the government advised on Tuesday. "There will not be a normal holiday season with full beach bars and full mountain h

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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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Epic Games launches Fortnite on the Google Play Store and they’re not happy about it

Epic Games is finally settling its feud — kind of — with Google and putting Fornite onto the Google Play Store, but the studio sounds pretty pissed about it.When Fortnite launched on mobil

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Extra Crunch Live: Navigating the pandemic with an equitable lens

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the tech industry has yet again found itself in a vulnerable state.As we saw in the dot-com era, when the economy takes a hit, so do companies, and they need to make critic

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NPR proves Trump's 'inconsistency' on COVID-19 with a timeline

"The constant is the inconsistency" — that's how U.S. media outlet National Public Radio (NPR) described President Donald Trump's remarks and actions in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in an artic

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LabCorp’s at-home COVID-19 test kit is the first to be authorized by the FDA

LabCorp’s at-home COVID-19 test, which is called ‘Pixel,’ has received the first Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for such a test missed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (F

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Moshi, a sleep and mindfulness app for kids, raises $12 million Series B led by Accel

“If your kids aren’t sleeping, you aren’t sleeping,” says Moshi founder and CEO Ian Chambers.As mindfulness apps grow increasingly popular among adults, Moshi is looking to br

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Sonos launches Sonos Radio, a free streaming radio service including artist and genre stations

Sonos has launched its first in-house music streaming offering: Sonos Radio, a digital streaming radio service that includes both existing radio stations from TuneIn and iHeartRadio, as well as its