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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Over the weekend, Apple stopped limiting the number of iPhones and iPads you can buy through its online store, after briefly stopping people from buying more than two each of certain models. The restrictions applied to the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Just days after announcing a new push to combat misinformation about coronavirus circulating on the social network, Twitter warned on Monday it might not be able to address every tweet that violates those new safety rules. Under the new guidance announced Wednesday, Twitter …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Following the outbreak of coronavirus, many of us had to make significant changes to the way we socialize to remain in step with medical guidance, which advises widespread social distancing. Fortunately, keeping in touch with loved ones no matter how far away we …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Leaders in the Senate are urging the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice to do more to stop coronavirus-related robocalls. Sens. Ed Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, and John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, said they fear these scams will …

The US government, industry and academia have pooled efforts to fight the coronavirus by offering researchers access to some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers from IBM, along with cloud-computing resources from Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium can be used for work like projecting the disease’s spread and modeling possible medicines. “By pooling the supercomputing …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Amazon on Monday confirmed that it’s significantly delaying US deliveries of nonessential items, as part of its effort to get more medical supplies and household staples to its customers during the coronavirus pandemic. According to product listings on its website, some of these …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Amazon is used to huge spikes in demand: It ships millions of packages after Prime Day and during the holiday season. But the spread of the coronavirus, which has locked down cities and put everyone in a more isolated reality, has tested the …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Verizon is giving its unlimited users an extra 15GB of high-speed hotspot data while those on metered data plans get an extra 15GB of high-speed data per line to help stay connected. The move, which runs from March 25 through April 30, is …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Google will delay updates to its Chrome web browser because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the company said Wednesday, and Microsoft said Friday it’ll do the same. “Due to adjusted work schedules at this time, we are pausing upcoming Chrome and Chrome OS …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Just about every streaming service is throttling video quality in Europe during the coronavirus quarantine. Disney Plus announced over the weekend it was joining Netflix, Apple TV Plus, YouTube and Amazon Prime in the measure taken to help internet services cope with an …