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Technology maker Abbott has come up with a new Coronavirus test that only takes 5 minutes to produce results. The test does not require a lab and can produce results on the spot. The test has already been FDA approved and will go into mass production next week. It is currently unknown how accurate this test is.

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Games Done Quick, an organization that holds speedrunning marathons for charity, will hold a special event to raise donations for those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Corona Relief Done Quick will take place April 17th-19th, with all proceeds going to humanitarian aid organization Direct Relief. Direct Relief aids those affected by poverty and emergencies.

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While Sony Interactive Entertainment initially said that it would "manage [PlayStation] download traffic [in Europe] to help preserve access for the entire internet community," as COVID-19 spreads, the company has now adopted "similar measures" in the United States."We are grateful for the role we play in helping deliver a sense of community and entertainment in these very trying times.

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If you’re coming from a previous-generation MacBook Air, then the new keyboard in the 2020 model is reason enough alone to consider upgrading. Even better is the fact that, for the very first time, MacBook Air users get to select quad-core CPUs. If you can afford it, opt for the 1.1GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 CPU, as it’ll provide a major multi-core performance improvement over the entry-level 1.1GHz dual-core model.

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Google confirmed the Infowars app removal to The Verge, and users couldn’t find the Infowars app in a search on the Play Store this evening.“Now more than ever, combating misinformation on the Play Store is a top priority for the team,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement given to The Verge.

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The new COVID-19 website, and COVID-19 app available on the App Store, were created in partnership with the CDC, the White House Coronavirus Task Force and FEMA to make it easy for people across the country to get trusted information and guidance at a time when the US is feeling the heavy burden of COVID-19.

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Hooq, a streaming service focused on Asian markets operating in India, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, and the Phillippines, backed by Singapore telecom group Singtel, Sony Picture and Warner Bros Entertainment, has filed for liquidation after admitting that it cannot sustain growth for its investors amid the current climate, with content providers choosing to reach customers directly instead of through a third-party provider.

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Prisma Health has developed a new part that will help the world deal with the global ventilator shortage. The part can be 3D printed by anyone with access to a printer and will allow one ventilator to treat four different patients. The device also allows for filtration equipment so no diseases are transferred between the four patients.

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Chip manufacturing giant AMD has announced that a hacker has managed to steal the source code for some of their latest graphics products, including what is rumored to be the GPU for the next-generation Xbox. The hacker is now demanding a ransom of $100 million for the code. An investigation has been launched into the incident.

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Since everybody is at home due to this Pandemic Disease, so people are spending their maximum time on social networks. Facebook and Youtube have reported an immense increase in traffic during Quarantine days. Facebook has experienced a 70% increase in overall traffic. Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement that he hasn't experienced such a situation before. Things are getting more difficult as employees are working from home

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Even though most tech companies have experienced stock crashes in the past month due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Groupon's share price dropped by an astounding 70 percent, due to which the company has now asked its CEO Rich Williams and COO Steve Krenzer to step down from their positions. Groupon's North America president Aaron Cooper will serve as interim CEO.

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A startup called Zoe has, in collaboration with King's College Hospital in London, launched a viral app for self-reporting COVID-19 symptoms, called C-19 COVID Symptom Tracker, garnering over 750,000 downloads in the last 24 hours, becoming the third most popular app on Apple's app store. The app is not designed for diagnosis, but rather to help medical professionals better plan their responses, and will soon be released in the US.

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UK researchers have created a new type of test fo COVID-19 that only costs $5 per person and can take as little as 30 minutes to reach a result. The team is currently working on mass-producing the test as it seems to be one of the most efficient and effective tests on the market.

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Users around the world are reporting that they are unable to access Netflix despite the service's decision to use less bandwidth. The users who are experiencing these issues are mostly located in Europe and the US. The site is experiencing exceptionally high demand due to the global pandemic and seems to be unable to meet it.

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Apple CEO Time Cook said in a tweet that we have been able to source 10 million masks for the US and plans to donate millions more for the hardest-hit regions in Europe. Apple’s operation teams are helping to find and purchase masks from the company's supply chain in coordination with governments around the world. Apple has joined other tech companies like Tesla in raising healthcare facilities across the US

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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla has announced, that the company will be going to start the production of Ventilators in the coming week. Due to the spread of this Pandemic Disease which is directly effecting lungs resulting in severe breathing issues, Countries need a large number of Ventilators. By considering the situation he plans to donate ventilators in large numbers.

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Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, internet services around the world interrupted since last week. Most of the metropolitan cities are facing this issue. As we know the majority of the cities are under lockdown around the world and people are doing work from home and using internet services to keep them entertained in this lockdown, resulting in a significant degradation in the download speed.

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A Swedish health tech startup called Kry has launched a free service that will let doctors perform video consultations amid the coronavirus crisis. The web-based platform, called Care Connect by Kry, will not require doctors to have a Kry account to avail the free service, and consultations will be protected with encryption. The service is launching soon in Europe with support for 10 languages.

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Social media giant Facebook has stated that the coronavirus pandemic is hitting its advertising revenue, which accounts for nearly all of the company's earnings, despite the fact that more users are spending time on social media due to being confined indoors. Facebook messaging has increased by over 50 percent in coronavirus-hit countries, but its shares fell heavily.

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Youtube has announced that all of the videos on its platform will now default to Standard Definition in order to conserve bandwidth. Demand for the service has grown by a large amount during the coronavirus quarantine and this has placed a huge burden on broadband providers who may not be able to keep up.

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The Mozilla Foundation, creators of the popular Mozilla web browser, and Scroll, a startup offering a subscription service that allows users to read articles on news sites without seeing advertisements, have teamed up to offer users Firefox Better Web with Scroll, which combines Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection with Scroll's ad-free browsing experience.

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The search and online advertising giant Google, owned by parent company Alphabet, has stated that amid the crisis precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is abandoning all current branches, infra support, testing and merging of branches of its next Chrome browser update, named M82, a move unprecedented in the browser's 11-year history that came as a shock to Chrome's 2 billion users worldwide.

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The video conferencing app Zoom has seen its users surge into the millions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but the freemium app intentionally tries to compel users to download its app instead of running Zoom's browser-based web client. An extension designed by Arkadiy Tetelman of US digital bank Chime, called Zoom Redirect, will now allow users to easily attend Zoom meetings or lectures in their browser without downloading the app.

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The video conferencing app Zoom has garnered millions of users in a matter of weeks, becoming the primary social media network for students who are attending online lectures hosted on the app. The company, founded by 50-year-old Eric Yuan, has seen its stock shoot to 160 USD per share as the app's popularity increases day by day. The app is free to use with payments for premium features.

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Disney+ has launched in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, and Switzerland, and will be coming to the rest of Europe soon. The service will launch in France on April 7th and has been forced to use 25% lower bandwidth in order to put less strain on broadband networks.

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