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A 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck in the northern Pacific and a tsunami warning was issued for the closest shores on Russia’s far eastern Kuril Islands March 25, 2020, 4:04 AM 1 min read MOSCOW — A 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck in the northern Pacific on Wednesday and a tsunami warning was issued for the closest […]

SAN FRANCISCO — As the coronavirus spread around the world and people everywhere were ordered to stay home, phone calls over Facebook’s apps more than doubled. In many countries, messaging on Instagram and Facebook soared by over 50 percent, while group calls in Italy jumped by more than 1,000 percent. And hungry for information, people

The European Space Agency says it is putting eight of its spacecraft into hibernation as it scales down operations during the coronavirus pandemic March 24, 2020, 8:24 PM 2 min read BERLIN — The European Space Agency said Tuesday that it is putting eight of its spacecraft into hibernation as it scales down operations during

WASHINGTON — Hospitals are gearing up to test if a century-old treatment used to fight off flu and measles outbreaks in the days before vaccines, and tried more recently against SARS and Ebola, just might work for COVID-19, too: using blood donated from patients who’ve recovered. Doctors in China attempted the first COVID-19 treatments using

In the fight against the spreading coronavirus, countless businesses, restaurants and bars have temporarily shuttered to stop people from congregating. But WeWork, which operates shared work spaces, has kept most of its locations open. As of Tuesday, WeWork’s website said only two of its co-working offices in North America were closed and none were closed

The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store March 24, 2020, 4:12 PM 2 min read The top iPhone and iPad apps on App store week ending March 3rd Top Paid iPhone Apps: 1. Minecraft, Mojang 2. Heads Up!, Warner Bros. 3. Monopoly, Marmalade Game Studio 4. Procreate Pocket, Savage Interactive Pty Ltd 5.

Paul Carter looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Amazon temporarily refuses to stock certain items in its warehouses following an increasing demand for household essentials due to the coronavirus pandemic Tech giant Apple receives a record-breaking €1.1bn (£1bn; $1.2bn) fine from France’s competition authority for what it sees

Last week, two high-profile San Francisco health start-ups began marketing at-home coronavirus kits that let people collect their own saliva samples or oral throat swabs and then send the specimens to commercial labs to be tested for the virus. The start-ups, Carbon Health and Nurx, each said they were preparing to offer thousands of the

The post, whose author claimed it had gotten 2.6 million views, was later taken down by Medium for violating the site’s policies. A Medium spokeswoman, Sandee Roston, said the post was removed “based on its violation of our rules, specifically the risk analysis framework we use for controversial, suspect and extreme content.” Facebook’s report, which

OAKLAND, Calif. — U.S. trade officials removed tariffs on the Apple Watch, the latest Apple device to avoid the United States-China trade war that had once looked like a dire threat to the company’s business. The U.S. trade representative’s office said in a letter on Friday that it had granted Apple’s request that the Apple