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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Accidents happen. Cracking your iPhone’s ($500 at Best Buy) screen or breaking your Android phone’s charging port is the last thing any of us wants to worry about right now. Especially with most of us under stay-at-home orders, practicing …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Amazon this week has been promoting one of its latest coronavirus safety efforts, saying it’s now made millions of face masks available to its employees and delivery partners throughout its worldwide logistics network. But some of these workers said Thursday that only a portion …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Stanford Medicine and Apple have teamed up on a COVID-19 screening app for police, firefighters, paramedics and other first responders in the Bay Area. The iOS app, called First Responder COVID-19 Guide, offers a screening tool that can help determine if a coronavirus …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. TikTok has committed $250 million to coronavirus aid as of Thursday. According to a statement by TikTok’s president, Alex Zhu, the funds will go toward supporting “front line medical workers, educators, and local communities deeply affected by the global crisis.” The video platform joins …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Two weeks ago, a New York-based drivers group sent a letter to Uber with a demand: give drivers sanitizing equipment and face masks. The letter was sent after an Uber driver became the first known gig worker to die of COVID-19, the disease …

Some of the biggest names in encryption are developing a smartphone app they hope will tamp down the coronavirus pandemic without trampling privacy. Private Automated Contact Tracing, or PACT, is designed to let people figure out if they’ve been near others who’ve caught COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus. If you’ve tested positive, you can use the …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Ben S. stopped driving for Lyft in mid-March. He was worried about his dad, who had a heart condition. A handful of stent surgeries held his condition in check, but since contracting COVID-19, he wasn’t doing well. “His heart rate was up to …

COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus, has infected more than a million people around the world. In a new step to fight the coronavirus pandemic, Intel will spend $50 million on improving patient care, scientific research and online education. The chipmaker’s effort, unveiled Tuesday, is among several examples of companies going beyond their usual area of business …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. WhatsApp is cracking down on messaging forwarding, in an effort to control the spread of misinformation linked to the coronavirus outbreak. If you get a message that’s been forwarded more than five times, you can only forward it to one chat at a …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. New York-Presbyterian Hospital is expecting a delivery of nearly 3,000 phone chargers for coronavirus patients after a nurse called for them Sunday morning, as previously reported by the New York Post. People were apparently forgetting their chargers at home as they were being …