Month: April 2020
IBM shares AI tools to better understand and treat COVID-19
IBM wants to help researchers better understand and treat COVID-19. To do so, it’s putting its AI to work. It has released a series of new tools to aggregate data, help researchers explore potential therapies, advance the study of newly sequenced SAR… Source
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Daily Crunch: Quibi finally launches its mobile streaming app
Quibi launches its mobile streaming service, Apple sources 20 million protective masks and Red Hat announces a new CEO. Here’s your Daily Crunch for April 6, 2020. 1. Quibi launches its mobile streaming service in the middle of the quarantine era The much-hyped mobile app promising to deliver “quick bites”…
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Zoom Video Communications offers 20% off Annual Business plans to Extra Crunch members
With the trying times the country is going through due to COVID-19, Extra Crunch is excited to announce a new Partner Perk from video conference software Zoom. Starting today, annual and two-year members of Extra Crunch get 20% off list pricing for all services that Zoom provides (excluding API and…
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What we’re listening to: ‘The Amulet’ and Lewis Capaldi
Sometimes, you need good tunes to keep you company. Other times, you just want to listen to a good book. Commerce Editor Valentina Palladino explains why Michael McDowell’s The Amulet is a murder mystery that’s worth your time on Audible. Reviews Edi… Source
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Luckin Coffee’s alleged fraud has some silver linings (and even more bad news too)
Chinese coffee chain super-brand Luckin Coffee has been in the spotlight the past week after the company revealed in an SEC filing that it has undertaken an internal investigation into an alleged $300 million fraud on the part of its former COO. That led the stock to drop nearly 80%…
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Disney is releasing a series of adorable new Frozen shorts, made completely at home
Just in case Frozen 2 on Disney Plus isn’t enough to keep kids entertained while they’re stuck at home, Disney animator Hyrum Osmond and actor Josh Gad have teamed up to produce a new series of shorts available on YouTube. At Home with Olaf follows Gad’s beloved character from the…
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