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Twitter has recently labeled a Trump tweet as 'manipulated media', thus starting their new policy of warning users if a tweet contains misinformation or tweets that appear to be deliberately misleading. The Trump tweet involved a video of Joe Biden that was edited in such a way that it seemed Biden was endorsing Trump.

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The world's largest hydrogen plant has been opened in Fukushima, Japan and it is entirely solar-powered. The plant can produce enough Hydrogen to fill 560 fuel cell vehicles daily and will transport this gas to city centers in special containers. The facility is still in its testing phase and has not found the optimal production cycle yet.

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Senator Mark Warner has said that companies such as Uber and Lyft should go the extra mile and make sure their employees don't suffer financially due to the spread of the coronavirus. Uber has said that it is exploring options to see how it can help drivers who have been affected by the virus.

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Stanford University, one of the world's elite research universities based in California, has announced that it is canceling all events and classes for the next two weeks until the university's winter quarter examinations due to the coronavirus outbreak, with professors allowed to conduct classes in an online format. The announcement comes as two Stanford students have been placed in isolation for possible exposure to COVID-19.

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The iconic annual South by Southwest conference, also known as SXSW, which for many years has been a major event where tech companies, musicians and even social media startups gathered to share their stories, garnering an attendance of over 400,000 people, has been canceled by Steve Adler, the mayor of Austin, Texas, due to the coronavirus outbreak.

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General Motors has managed to develop an electric car battery that has twice the capacity of the largest battery Tesla is producing. GM will produce cars with batteries ranging from 50.0 kWh to a whopping 200 kWh, these extra-large batteries will exclusively be used to power their new electric trucks.

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Facebook has banned all ads that are selling face masks in order to prevent people from artificially raising the prices of the masks. A number of businesses have drastically raised prices due to an increase in demand caused by the rapid spread of the coronavirus. They are also banning all ads that claim to be selling a cure for the virus.

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Mark Cuban, a world-famous American billionaire, has recently invested in Chatable Apps, a UK startup that is currently working on a revolutionary new hearing assistant app. The company has found a way to help people hear by removing all background noise in real-time. The app has not officially launched yet.

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Axiom Space has announced that it is now willing and able to send people on a round trip to the International Space Station for 10 whole days. The trip will cost the customer $55 million and will launch sometime in 2021. The company intends to send 3 people to the ISS at a time.

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Google has revealed a new feature that will let users listen to their Google Assistant read out an entire webpage. Users will be able to control the reading speed of the assistant as well as the language that it reads in. The feature will work on pretty much every modern Android phone.

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Twitter has recently announced that it is testing a new type of tweet called 'fleet', which disappears 24 hours after it was posted. The new feature is very similar to Snapchat's 'stories' feature and is currently only being tested in Brazil. Twitter hopes Fleets will encourage people to post thoughts they would not normally tweet.

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The ban on cryptocurrency trading in India, imposed by the Reserve Bank of India in April 2018, has been lifted by a court ruling which stated that the policy was disproportionate. The ban disallowed banks from including cryptocurrency transactions in their offered services and was justified by RBI as a necessary move to curb "ring-fencing" of the Indian economy.

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Atrium, a hybrid law software and law firm that had raised $75 million in investment, has announced that it is shutting down. The firm aimed to make the standard law firm model more efficient using technology but was unable to do so. The company laid off most of its employees and is returning some of the money back to the investors.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that the company is also contributing to the fight against the coronavirus. The site is actively preventing the spread of misinformation regarding the virus and is giving health companies accurate data for their research. Facebook is also giving the World Health Organisation as many free ads as they need to spread accurate information.

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Alibaba has developed a new Artificial Intelligence that it claims can diagnose the coronavirus with 96% accuracy in just 20 seconds. It takes the average doctor 15 minutes to make one coronavirus diagnosis, so this could be very helpful in speeding up the testing process for the virus. Other healthcare companies are working on similar systems.

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Robinhood, one of the most popular stock trading apps, has recently experienced a major issue that locked users out of the app for the entirety of Monday's trading time. The error likely caused a number of users to lose money as the US stock market is experiencing very volatile changes lately.

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Apple has agreed to pay $500 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged that the company was throttling its older phones in order to encourage customers to purchase newer models of their iPhone. Apple is also denying all wrongdoing and claims it is only settling to avoid the cost and burden of a lengthy trial.

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Co-founded and headed by CEO Michael Katz, the big data startup MParticle aims to allow marketing agencies a much more holistic of their customers by aggregating consumer data across multiple platforms. MParticle recently raised 45 million USD in its Series D funding round, having nearly doubled in value since raising 35 million USD in Series C in 2017.

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Visser, a company that manufactures specific parts for a number of industries such as automotive and aeronautics, has revealed that they have had a large data breach due to a cybersecurity 'incident'. Visser also made parts for missiles and rockets, including rockets being constructed by SpaceX. It is currently unclear exactly how many files were stolen.

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Chinese smartphone manufacturer Oppo has launched what it claims to be the world's first 44-megapixel dual punch-hole camera phone, called the Oppo Reno 3 Pro. A similar device was released in China 3 months earlier, but only possessed a single punch-hole camera. The new Oppo Reno 3 Pro will also be optimized for 5G technology and will be a fast-charging enabled phone.

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Scientists manage to cure diabetes in mice for a large number of months using human cells in a treatment that took a couple of weeks. Once the treatment was complete, diabetes disappeared for many months and the mice were able to normalize their blood sugar levels. This has raised hope that a cure for humans may be possible.

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The US Food and Drug Administration has announced that it has approved new diagnostic technologies that will be used in lite hospitals and health centers to diagnose the coronavirus. This announcement came after the government received much criticism for being woefully unprepared for a pandemic. The test kits that were initially used in the US were faulty and could not diagnose the virus.

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This year's Game Developers Conference is seeing developers withdraw one after the other due to rising fears of a coronavirus pandemic, with Amazon Game Tech, a Diamond partner at the GDC, the latest developer to announced that they will not be participating in the event, instead opting for a live online event. Facebook, Microsoft, Sony, Unity, and Epic have also backed out of the event.

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Billionaire inventor Elon Musk's aerospace company SpaceX has been awarded a NASA deal worth 117 million USD for a mission to explore a mineral-heavy asteroid called Psyche, which is thought to contain clues to the evolution of terrestrial planets. SpaceX will be using a Falcon Heavy rocket for the mission at an amount considerably lower than expected for the large-scale mission.

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Facebook has announced that in its latest update, some phones will be able to convert standard 2D pictures into interactive 3D images. This will not require a dual camera and will be done via complex new imaging software that Facebook has recently developed. It is unclear which Andriod phones will be able to use the feature.

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