Tag: coronavirus
US Congress approves $8.3 billion in emergency funding for coronavirus response
Congress on Wednesday approved $8.3 billion in emergency funding to respond to the spreading novel coronavirus, COVID-19, which has already sickened 80 people across 13 states and killed nine in the U.S. alone. More than $3 billion of that funding will go to the research and development of vaccines, therapeutics…
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Zuckerberg details the ways Facebook and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative are responding to COVID-19
Mark Zuckerberg has outlined some of the steps that Facebook and his family’s non-profit, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, are taking to respond to the spread of both the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 and viral misinformation about the illness, in a statement posted earlier this evening. Facebook’s response focuses on…
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Facebook fact-check feud erupts over Trump virus “hoax”
Who fact-checks the fact-checkers? Did Trump call coronavirus the Democrat’s “new hoax”? Those the big questions emerging from a controversial “false” label applied to Politico and NBC News stories by right-wing publisher The Daily Caller. Its Check Your Fact division is a Facebook fact-checking partner, giving it the power to…
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Google pitches free trials of its enterprise G Suite conferencing tools as part of a coronavirus response
Google said in a blog post that it would roll out free access to advanced Hangouts Meet video-conferencing capabilities to all G Suite and G Suite for Education customers globally as the company pitches its remote work tools as an option for companies looking to let employees work from home.…
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New York’s Governor Cuomo requires insurers to waive cost sharing for COVID-19 tests
In a move that other states might want to emulate, New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo said that the state’s Department of Financial Services is requiring health insurers in the state to waive cost sharing associated with testing for the new coronavirus, COVID-19. The initiative paves the way for…
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Google cancels Cloud Next because of coronavirus
Google today announced that it is canceling the physical part of Cloud Next, its cloud-focused event and its largest annual conference by far with around 30,000 attendees, over concerns around the current spread of COVID-19. Given all of the recent conference cancellations, this announcement doesn’t come as a huge surprise,…
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