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A nurse at a drive-up coronavirus testing station set up by the University of Washington Medical Center uses a swab to take a sample from the nose of a person in a car Friday, March 13, 2020, in Seattle. US hospitals are setting up triage tents, calling doctors out of retirement, guarding their supplies of face masks and making plans to cancel elective surgery as they brace for an expected onslaught of coronavirus patients. (Photo | AP)

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How to know whether to test for coronavirus? Soon a dedicated Google...

Google is developing a website to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing for US citizens at...

14 March 2020 5:25 PM IST

The DoT insists that employees working from home maintain all logs of activities and follow all other mandated terms

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DoT gives IT, ITes firms work-from-home breather amid coronavirus...

Nasscom had requested the government to relax the work-from-home norms to facilitate business continuity

14 March 2020 5:06 PM IST

A judge last month issued an order at Amazons request temporarily blocking the US military from starting work with Microsoft on the multi-billion dollar Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract. (Photo | AFP)

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US cloud computing deal with Microsoft being reconsidered over...

Amazon told a court it was shut out of the deal because of President Donald Trump's vendetta against it and its chief...

14 March 2020 4:08 PM IST

Mas organisation had provided similar supplies to virus-hit countries such as Japan, South Korea, Italy, Iran and Spain, he said.

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As US faces shortage, Alibaba's Jack Ma offers coronavirus 500,000...

The US government has come under heavy criticism for the slowness of testing for the virus

14 March 2020 3:30 PM IST

A file photo of Huawei Mate 20 Series launch event. (Photo | Flickr - Krlis Dambrns)

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White House plans Huawei wipeout from US as Trump signs bill to...

The bill is aimed at telecom providers with fewer than 2 million customers, as big companies already do not use Chinese...

13 March 2020 8:55 PM IST

Individual users on social media, rather than rogue state players, are the ones driving the spread of misinformation. (Photo | howtostartablogonline.net)

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Beware of fake news, you can't self-test for coronavirus

Social media is filling up with fake news on COVID-19 despite steps taken by Facebook, Google, and Twitter to curb...

13 March 2020 7:20 PM IST

Seemingly innocuous posts such as this one were being shared by a network linked to the Russian Internet Research Agency, Facebook said. (Photo | Facebook)

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Russia-linked Facebook accounts targeting US audience removed

Facebook removed 49 accounts, 69 pages and 85 Instagram accounts with a total of nearly 300,000 followers

13 March 2020 5:54 PM IST

$In this photo taken on Thursday, March 5, 2020, Abubakr Salih Babiker, a climate scientist at the Intergovernmental Authority on Developments Climate Prediction and Applications Center, shows server racks containing a supercomputer in Nairobi, Kenya. A supercomputer is boosting efforts in East Africa to control a locust outbreak that raises what the U.N. food agency calls \an unprecedented threat\ to the regions food security. (Photo | AP)$ Technology