For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Your Google smartwatch will now ping you to wash your hands every three hours to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. The new feature is part of a Wear OS update, Android Police reports. After the alert from …
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Social media platform Instagram is making it easier for small businesses to share gift card, food order and fundraiser stickers in their profile and Stories, an effort to ease some of the challenges many are facing during the coronavirus pandemic. When you use Instagram, you can tap the sticker to make a purchase through the business’s site. This feature will …
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Verizon is expanding its military and first responders discount to include nurses and teachers, bringing its discount program to more people as the coronavirus pandemic continues. Already available for veterans, active military, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, emergency medical services and state and local law enforcement, the new offer will allow nurses and teachers to save up to $25 a month …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Google is following in Facebook’s footsteps by offering financial aid to local newsrooms, which are continuing to cover the coronavirus epidemic even as it hits their income sources. On Wednesday, it revealed the Journalism Emergency Relief Fund and encouraged small and medium-sized news …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. OnePlus, an upstart Chinese smartphone maker that caters to hardcore, savvy Android consumers, has spent years building up its credibility in the US. A year and a half ago, it planted its flag here through a partnership with T-Mobile. But on Tuesday, the …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Amazon has fired two tech workers after they spoke out publicly against warehouse conditions during the coronavirus pandemic. User experience designers Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, both active members of the advocacy group Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, had offered match donations up …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Apple repeated its privacy pledges in a letter to US senators, answering questions about a website and app it unveiled last month to help update people about the coronavirus and assist in self-screening symptoms. In the letter dated Friday and sent in response …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Apple on Tuesday said it’s making mobility data from Apple Maps available to provide insights to governments and health officials around the world trying to slow the spread of COVID-19. “While protecting your privacy, we are sharing aggregated mobility data from Apple Maps …
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Thinking of setting a phone mast on fire? Please don’t. 5G phone masts across the UK and several other European nations have been subject to arson attacks in recent weeks due to the circulation of scientifically unsound conspiracy theories linking the spread of coronavirus to telecoms equipment. In a LinkedIn post on Tuesday, Vodafone CEO Nick Jeffries said that 20 …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Apple and Google are working together on a major effort to stop the spread of COVID-19 that uses signals from people’s phones to warn them if they’ve been in contact with someone who’s tested positive for the disease. The joint project takes advantage …
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