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AMC will close all US theaters for six to 12 weeks

AMC this morning formally announced that it will close all locations in the United States for between six to 12 weeks, beginning today. The move comes on the heels of a partial shutdown by the largest

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Veteran VC Mike Volpi discusses investing and fundraising in ‘a very difficult time’

Last week, I talked with Mike Volpi, longtime Index Ventures partner and the former head of MA at Cisco for many years before that. We originally planned to talk about Index and general market trends,

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China's customs beef up efforts to curb the import of COVID-19 cases

Chinese authorities released guidelines on Monday to further strengthen border health inspection and quarantine to curb the import of COVID-19 cases as overseas infections spiral.The Civil Aviatio

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Smart Cities - The Agenda in full

30:10 Smart cities are designed to solve the problems facing citizens every day, creating a liveable city that thinks for itself. Smart City technology can be anything from traffic con

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Regal is closing all theaters ‘until further notice’ over COVID-19 fears

Three days after announcing plans to reduce theater attendance by 50%, Regal Cinemas announced that it will be closing all theater locations, effective March 17. The company announced the news via soc

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Peloton stock spikes as the at-home fitness company finds potential customers stuck at home

As governments across the country weigh whether to push non-essential public venues like gyms to close, more people are searching out expensive gear from Peloton .The public markets are obviously seei

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Online printing site Doxzoo exposed thousands of customer files

Doxzoo proudly says on its website that your “documents are in safe hands.” But for some time, that wasn’t true.The U.K. printing company left its customer files on a cloud storage b

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Alphabet’s Verily launches its California COVID-19 test screening site in a limited pilot

Alphabet -owned health technology company Verily has launched the COVID-19 screening site that was first misrepresented by President Trump as a broadly focused coronavirus web-based screening and test

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Determining COVID-19 origin key in safeguarding global health security

The director of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) Robert Redfield testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee during a hearing on Coronavirus Disease 2019 on Capitol H

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Los Angeles closes bars, theaters, gyms, to contain COVID-19

All bars, nightclubs, movie theaters and gyms in Los Angeles have been closed till March 31 in order to curb the spread of COVID-19, according to new restrictions that went into effect at midnight

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China province tightens quarantine to reduce infection from overseas

East China's Anhui Province has tightened quarantine rules for people traveling from abroad in a bid to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. All people coming fro

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Goldman cuts U.S. growth forecast due to coronavirus

Empty street is seen in Manhattan borough following the outbreak of coronavirus disease COVID-19, in New York City, U.S., March 15, 2020. /Reuters Goldman Sachs Group Inc has downgraded its U.

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Hong Kong issues travel alert on U.S., Britain, Ireland

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government Sunday night issued the red outbound travel alert on the United States, Britain, and Ireland based on pu

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Afghanistan reports 5 new COVID-19 cases, bringing total to 21

The number of novel coronavirus cases has risen to 21 in Afghanistan after five new cases were recorded, a spokesman of Ministry of Public Health said Monday. "Five mo

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S.Korea expands tighter immigration procedures to all European countries over COVID-19

South Korea has expanded tighter immigration procedures to people from all European countries on Monday to help prevent the imported COVID-19 cases. South Korean Prime

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Will the coronavirus pandemic derail the U.S. economy?

00:52 As COVID-19 continues to sweep across the world, circuit breakers were triggered twice in the U.S. stock market in just one week, temporarily pausing trading because of volatilit

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AI can check coronavirus CT scans in 20 seconds with 96% accuracy

A CT scan can hold the answer as to whether a patient is infected with the novel coronavirus. Whitening, unusual spots or hazy increases in lung density are all cues of COVID-19.The signs are pretty