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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. It’s always hard for Franz Lupo to keep his phone charged, and he’s using some of that juice to talk with me. From a San Francisco Bay Area town where he lives in a tent, Lupo tells me …

Under a bill passed Wednesday by the New York City Council, third-party food delivery services in New York, like Grubhub, DoorDash and Postmates, wouldn’t be allowed to charge restaurants more than a 20 percent commission on orders during states of emergency like the coronavirus pandemic. Currently, the apps can charge restaurants fees of more than 30 percent per order, cutting into profits at …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Amazon said it’s removed its waitlist for online grocery deliveries and pickup in most cities, a change that will allow more customers to get food delivered to their homes during the coronavirus crisis. The e-commerce heavyweight a month ago said new Amazon Fresh …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Uber has rebuilt its app to make sure drivers and riders adhere to safety guidelines around the novel coronavirus. Before each trip, drivers and passengers will now have to agree to a “Go Online Checklist” of items, including wearing a face mask, keeping …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Companies around Silicon Valley are reconsidering their work-from-home strategies amid the coronavirus pandemic, telling employees they can work remotely after the crisis subsides. Apple is reportedly taking a different tack, sharing plans to potentially bring employees back to its offices by the summer. …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. The US Senate voted down an amendment to the USA Patriot Act on Wednesday that would create a tougher standard for government investigators to collect the web search and browsing histories of people in the states. The bipartisan amendment, proposed by Sen. Ron …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. With the coronavirus locking down millions of Americans in their homes and forcing first responders to adapt in the age of social distancing, having a strong, consistent broadband signal is more important than ever. This crisis has exposed the country’s digital divide and threatens …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Amazon says it’s getting closer to normal operations.  In late March, the online retailer pumped the brakes on new shipments of nonessential items to its facilities and pushed back deliveries by as much as a month as it struggled to keep up with …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Apple is beginning to open its retail stores around the globe, another sign that the weeks-long stay-at-home orders we’ve all been under to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus are starting to come to an end. The tech giant closed its stores in …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. As countries around the world, as well as Apple and Google, release contact-tracing apps to help fight the coronavirus, MIT Technology Review has put together a list to help people track the apps.  The contact-tracing apps are designed to help people figure out if …