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Colombia’s Rappi trials robots to deliver restaurant food to homes
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian startup Rappi is piloting deliveries by robots as a safe way of getting food to people forced to stay at home due to the coronavirus pandemic. The pilot started this week ...
Apr 17, 2020
Majority of FCC backs Ligado plan for broadband network: source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of the five-member Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted to approve an order to allow Ligado Networks' to deploy a low-power nationwide 5G network despite...
Apr 17, 2020
Safe sex under lockdown: Argentine official has some advice for digital lovers
By Hugh Bronstein BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine official has given some on-air sex education for onanistic lovers in the time of the coronavirus, underscoring how the pandemic and lockdown in ...
Apr 17, 2020
Mexico calls on older medical workers at home to return to work
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's president on Friday urged medical workers aged 60 to 65 to return to their jobs and treat non-coronavirus patients, in a bid to help the health system handle an expect...
Apr 17, 2020
Google to waive ad serving fees for news publishers amid virus crisis
(Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google would waive off the fee it collects from news publishers using its ad services for the next five months, the search giant said on Friday. News publishers, especially ...
Apr 17, 2020
Africa can still contain COVID-19 outbreak: WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) - Africa can still contain the outbreak of the COVID-19 respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus, a senior World Health Organization official said on Friday. "I believe that ...
Apr 17, 2020
Back to the future? Dutch revive 1960s ventilator for coronavirus fight
By Stephanie van den Berg and Hilde Verweij THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Dutch scientists have pulled a British-made East Radcliff ventilator built in the 1960s from the shelves of a science museum to use as...
Apr 17, 2020
Netflix adds $50 million to relief fund for production workers
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Netflix Inc has increased the amount of money in its coronavirus emergency relief fund by $50 million, bringing the total for displaced production workers to $150 million, a co...
Apr 17, 2020
Reopening wet food markets must conform to strict standards: WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) - Any "wet markets" that are allowed to reopen after coronavirus lockdowns must conform to stringent food and hygiene standards, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adha...
Apr 17, 2020
UK tells doctors to treat COVID-19 patients without full-length gowns due to shortage: report
LONDON (Reuters) - British healthcare staff have been advised to treat COVID-19 patients without full-length protective gowns due to shortages of equipment, the Guardian newspaper reported on Friday. ...
Apr 17, 2020
