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 …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. YouTube has banned videos that falsely claim 5G next-generation mobile networks cause the symptoms of COVID-19, the respiratory illness actually caused by the new coronavirus, Google’s massive video service said Tuesday. That’s a lightning-quick change from its policy less than a day earlier, when it …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Back in January at CES in Las Vegas, the folks at OtterBox stuck a new Amplify Glass screen protector on my iPhone 11 Pro. It didn’t look any different from other screen protectors, but it had an interesting feature: According to OtterBox, the …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Facebook is providing researchers with more anonymized location data that could help them figure out if people are staying at home and forecast where the novel coronavirus will likely spread next. The move shows how the social network is using the trove of …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Samsung on Monday became one of the first tech companies to show how the novel coronavirus is impacting business. The company said its sales for the March quarter will rise from the previous year but won’t be quite as strong as Wall Street …
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For unconventional streaming-video service Quibi, there’s at least one optimistic glimmer as it launches in the middle of a life-altering pandemic: Even if its $1.75 billion bet on mobile video is exactly wrong for this moment, CEO Meg Whitman says that Quibi is willing to change. Want to watch on your TV? Tell the company so, and it might happen. …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Workers at Amazon’s warehouse in Staten Island, New York, are holding another demonstration Monday to protest their working conditions during the coronavirus pandemic. The protest is the second in as two weeks at this warehouse, called JFK8. The location gained national attention last …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. To try to slow the spread of the coronavirus, many people are practicing social distancing or sheltering in place, while tourist hotspots have closed down temporarily, movie releases have been pushed back, and major sporting events have been suspended worldwide. Though not every sports …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. The US Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission are demanding that telecommunications service providers help stop illegal coronavirus-related robocalls. On Friday the agencies warned three gateway providers that are facilitating COVID-19-related scam robocalls originating overseas to cut off these calls or face …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. As I’ve been stuck at home for however many days now, I’ve had more time to fly my small collection of drones — both inside and around my house, with some modest incursions into the nearby woods using the Skydio 2. I’ve been …
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