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Facebook to send content review contract workers home amid virus concerns
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc said it would work with its partners to send home all contract workers who review content until further notice, as public health concerns due to the coronavirus outbreak rapid...
Mar 16, 2020
U.S. tech firms work together to combat virus misinformation
(Reuters) - U.S. technology companies, including Microsoft Corp, Facebook, Alphabet's Google, and Twitter, are working together to quell misinformation about the coronavirus on their platforms, the co...
Mar 16, 2020
Manchester is fastest-growing tech city in Europe – report
LONDON (Reuters) - The northern English city of Manchester is the fastest-growing tech hub in Europe, measured by the rate of increase in venture capital funding, with investment jumping from 48 milli...
Mar 16, 2020
U.S. Senate votes to extend surveillance tools for 77 days
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate agreed on Monday to extend a set of government surveillance tools for 77 days, to allow lawmakers time to consider broader changes to the di...
Mar 16, 2020
TransferWise taps into China market with Alipay partnership
(Reuters) - British online money transfer service TransferWise Ltd said on Monday it is partnering with mobile payments giant Alibaba-backed Alipay to enable instant transfers to China using 17 curren...
Mar 16, 2020
U.S. trade body opens patent probe after complaint by Ireland’s Neodron
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. International Trade Commission said on Monday it would open an investigation into possible patent violations involving touch-controlled mobile phones, computers and com...
Mar 16, 2020
Travel firms ramped up spending on online ads ahead of projected coronavirus slump, data show
By Katie Paul and Paresh Dave SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. travel sector doubled down on online ads in the last month, joining healthcare and food delivery providers in pushing deals even as the...
Mar 16, 2020
Amazon to hire 100,000 workers as online orders surge on virus worries
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said on Monday it would hire 100,000 warehouse and delivery workers in the United States to tackle a surge in online orders, as consumers shop heavily fearing the spread of ...
Mar 16, 2020
‘All is well’. In Italy, triage and lies for virus patients
By Emilio Parodi, Silvia Aloisi and Pamela Barbaglia MILAN (Reuters) - The fight against death pauses every day at 1 p.m. At that time, doctors in the intensive care unit of Policlinico San Donato pho...
Mar 16, 2020
White House challenges AI researchers to tackle coronavirus questions
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy on Monday challenged researchers to use artificial intelligence techniques to analyze about 29,000 scholarly article...
Mar 16, 2020
