Trolls break into AA meetings on Zoom and harass recovering alcoholics

"Alcohol is soooo good," an intruder said to recovering alcoholics during a Tuesday AA meeting on Zoom. | Continue reading


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Germany plans Covid-19 'immunity certificates'

The tests could allow thousands of people to leave German states' coronavirus lockdowns early and return to work and other activities. | Continue reading


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Scientist building necklace to stop people from touching their face hospitalized

Daniel Reardon even tried using pliers, but said his "entire nose would shift towards the pliers and then the pliers would stick to the magnet." | Continue reading


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US using mobile ad data to track people's movements during coronavirus lockdown

The data is anonymized, so the governments are studying general population movement rather than tracking individuals. | Continue reading


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Justice Department investigates lawmakers who dumped stock

The FBI has reportedly reached out to Republican Sen. Richard Burr as part of the investigation, which is in its early stages. | Continue reading


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UK's gov. believes China could have 40 times more Covid-19 cases than it claims

UK government sources quoted on Sunday say China faces a "reckoning" over its handling of the coronavirus crisis. | Continue reading


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Dr. Fauci: lifting lockdown weeks away, depends on avail. of 15-min. test

"If we need to push the date forward, we will push the date forward," Dr. Anthony Fauci said on CNN Sunday. | Continue reading


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Many of the world's airlines could be bankrupt

Three airlines have already folded thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, but that number could grow substantially — and include more major carriers. | Continue reading


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Holland recalls 600k masks imported from China

The Dutch Ministry of Health said on Saturday that it asked hospitals to return 600,000 face masks after they failed to meet safety requirements. | Continue reading


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If hospitalized with Covid-19 and have no insurance, you'll likely owe $73k

For the 27 million without health insurance, a study says a 6-day inpatient stay for COVID-19 could be far less — or more — than the $73,000 average. | Continue reading


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Salesforce CEO tweets 'no layoff' pledge

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, known for his outspokenness on social and political issues, is urging everyone to stop the spread of the coronavirus. | Continue reading


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Google moves summer internships to a virtual format this year due to coronavirus

Google's summer internship program will be held in a virtual format this year, as the company continues to feel the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. | Continue reading


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Things in tech you need to know today

Apple Stores will reopen from April. | Continue reading


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Airbnb hosts furious company sticking them with cost of letting guests cancel

Airbnb overrode hosts' cancellation policies in response to the coronavirus. But hosts are having to pay the cost of refunds. | Continue reading


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How Long Companies Can Survive

Half of small businesses only have a large enough cash buffer to allow them to keep business going for 27 days. | Continue reading


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Opinion | Trump says he wants to help American workers recover from the coronavirus shock, but the rest of his party is doing the opposite. | Continue reading


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If you've lost sense of smell or taste, you could be hidden carrier of Covid-19

A sudden loss of smell or taste could mean you have the coronavirus, even if you have no other symptoms. | Continue reading


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Washington state bore the brunt of U.S. testing delays and snafus

As the site of one of the most severe outbreaks in the US, Washington is seeing the consequences of the US's testing blunders and delays. | Continue reading


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Rich Americans are trying to buy their own personal ventilators

A number of "wealthy individuals" approached a company that makes ventilators, a now-scarce piece of equipment used to treat severe cases of COVID-19. | Continue reading


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Jeff Bezos asks laid-off workers to work for Amazon amid the coronavirus crisis

"We hope people who've been laid off will come work with us until they're able to go back to the jobs they had," Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

China, South Korea and Belgium have added it to Covid-19 treatment guideline

Chloroquine stands out as a potentially simple, cheap, and scalable COVID-19 treatment, though we haven't seen data from randomized clinical trials. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Apple Store: Devices left for repairs are locked up “until further notice”

Customers will have to wait until Apple Stores re-open to get their devices back — but nobody knows when that might be. | Continue reading


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FDA allows chloroquine and remdesivir for compassionate use to treat coronavirus

The term "compassionate use" refers to using a drug that's not FDA approved when other treatment options are not available. | Continue reading


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GitHub engineer builds Covid-19 Dashboard to track coronavirus cases

GitHub staff machine learning engineer Hamel Husain built the COVID-19 Dashboards, an open source project to easily find graphs about coronavirus. | Continue reading


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Early coronavirus CDC tests didn't distinguish between virus and water

The United States is quickly approaching 10,000 cases of COVID-19, and a delay in testing kits has hurt its response. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Bill Gates thinks a coming disease could kill 30M people within 6 months (2018)

New pathogens emerge all the time. It's becoming easier for small groups to create weaponized diseases. Bill Gates says a small group could build a deadlier form of smallpox in a lab. And people are always hopping on planes, making it possible for a disease to reach a new contine … | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

More than 80 major US retailers are temporarily closing stores to prevent the spread of the coronavirus

Many of these companies — which include Everlane, Patagonia, and Apple — have confirmed they will pay employees for lost shifts during this period. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Coronavirus: Amazon suspends all non-essential shipments

Amazon is suspending all shipments other than medical supplies, household staples and other high-demand products to its warehouses until April 5. | Continue reading


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USA tried to pay Germans so coronavirus cure vaccine would be exclusive to USA

Trump's administration, according to reports, offered large sums of money to secure rights for a possible coronavirus vaccine "only for the USA." | Continue reading


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Trump: 1,700 Google Engineers are building a website to direct coronavirus tests

The US government is also preparing to roll out a new drive-thru coronavirus test across the country, Trump said. | Continue reading


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Starve Kids in US

Without free and reduced-price school lunches, many children across the US can experience food insecurity and hunger during the summer months. | Continue reading


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What if Todd Rider has created a coronavirus cure?

Todd Rider moved from lab to lab and says he couldn't raise the money to continue testing DRACO, despite, he claims, the continued promise of the concept. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

AT&T is lifting all internet data caps in response to the coronavirus outbreak

AT&T is lifting data caps and Comcast is offering free internet service for 60 days to low-income families. | Continue reading


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Gojo Industries, the family-run company that makes Purell, says the current demand "is on the higher end of the spectrum but not unprecedented." | Continue reading


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Uber asks almost all employees to work from home

Uber is asking many of its nearly 27,000 employees to work from home as the coronavirus continues to spread. | Continue reading


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Shopify is giving its employees $1k to furnish their work-from-home setups

Shopify has directed all employees to work from home. And the company will letting workers spend up to $1,000 to get the gear they need to do it. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Masayoshi Son promised 1M coronavirus tests, then backpedalled

Son was met with intense backlash online after saying he would offer 1 million free tests for the virus. | Continue reading


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Google recommends all employees in Europe, MENA and Africa to work from home

This comes after Google asked thousands of staff across North America to work from home. | Continue reading


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The English village that was 1 of the most remarkable cases of self-quarantine

When the bubonic plague reached Eyam in 1665, a third of the population died after they decided to impose a cordon around the village. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Classified 1952 video shows US military testing biological warfare – on the US

You have to see it to believe it. | Continue reading


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French people told to stop kissing each other on the cheek to stop coronavirus

France ordered its citizens to stop kissing each other on the cheek as the coronavirus rapidly spreads across Europe. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Google's ambitious push into gaming is floundering

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Keith Block steps down from role as Co-CEO of Salesforce

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WeWork paid $2M in cash to woman who threatened to expose discrimination

The WeWork settlement payoff buried a 50-page document that detailed shocking allegations of sex, drugs and discrimination. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Every Supreme Court Justice Went to Harvard or Yale Law School

Not every one went to the Ivy League for undergrad. | Continue reading


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Hackers successfully tricked 2 Teslas into accelerating to 85mph

The Tesla misread a 35mph speed sign as an 85mph sign after it was altered with black tape. | Continue reading


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Marketers are panicking over Google's plan to yank cookies from advertising

Companies are creating new products and ways to get around the cookie limitations, but some marketers worry those moves will be short-term fixes. | Continue reading


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Photos of Microsoft's historic rise to rule the PC world (2015)

A history of Microsoft's founding, from 1975 through 2000. | Continue reading


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