Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Uber, Lyft warn drivers about coronavirus, but offer no paid sick days

Sanitizers at driver service locations. Reminders not to discriminate against passengers of any kind. But no paid sick days.


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Foxconn, the maker of Apple iPhones, expects production to return to normal this month

Foxconn, the main assembler of Apple products such as the iPhone and iPad, expects to resume normal production by the end of the month after the coronavirus outbreak forced it to close factories in China in late January.


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Monday, March 2, 2020

Facebook backs out of SXSW over coronavirus fears

Facebook will skip one of the tech industry's biggest annual events as companies restrict travel over fears about the novel coronavirus.


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Waymo raises $2.25 billion in first external round of funding

Waymo, the self-driving arm of Google's parent company Alphabet, announced Monday that it has raised $2.25 billion in its first external round of funding. And, it said, it expects to raise even more money as it looks to scale and expand its business.


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Apple will pay up to $500 million to settle lawsuit over slowing down older iPhones

Apple will pay up to half a billion dollars to settle a class action lawsuit accusing it of slowing down older iPhone models to compel users to buy new ones.


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Amazon deleted 1 million items for price gouging or false advertising about coronavirus

Amazon says it has pulled more than 1 million products for price gouging or falsely advertising effectiveness against the coronavirus.


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Valorant, League of Legends studio's first shooter game, is coming this summer

Riot Games, the video game studio behind one of the world's biggest PC games, "League of Legends," is revealing more details about its first shooter game.


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Nokia names new CEO after missing 5G opportunity

Nokia has appointed an energy executive from Finnish firm Fortum to serve as its new CEO.


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Sunday, March 1, 2020

How health officials and social media are teaming up to fight the coronavirus 'infodemic'

As health officials in a growing number of countries fight to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, they're also working to stem a secondary issue that the World Health Organization is calling an "infodemic."


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