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Daily Crunch: FDA approves speedier coronavirus test

A just-approved test could speed up the rate of coronavirus testing, the stock market had a historically bad day yesterday and Russian trolls shift to outsourcing. Here’s your Daily Crunch for March 13, 2020. PS: Hope you’re all staying safe! 1. FDA approves new coronavirus test that could speed rate…

bubmagMarch 13, 2020

Mecca

COVID-19-hit Iran asks IMF for aid amid US sanctions

For the first time in six decades, Iran has requested a loan from the IMF to fight the coronavirus outbreak. US sanctions have isolated the country from the global financial system. They could also stop IMF assistance. Iranian officials confirmed they had asked the International Monetary Fund for a $5…

bubmagMarch 13, 2020

Colin Kaepernick

Jay-Z Fires Back at Critics of NFL Deal: “Why Would I Sell Out? I’m Already Rich”

Photo Credit: Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images “Got more money than Goodell, a whole NFL bench” On Friday morning, Jay Electronica released his long-awaited debut album, A Written Testimony. Eight out of the album’s ten tracks feature Electronica’s Roc Nation boss Jay-Z. One of the album’s most popular tracks thus far is Flux…

bubmagMarch 13, 2020

Machine Learning

This is how the CDC is trying to forecast coronavirus’ spread

Every year the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention holds a competition to see who can accurately forecast the flu. Research teams around the country vie with different methods, and the best performers win funding and a partnership with the agency to improve the nation’s preparation for the next…

bubmagMarch 13, 2020

1619 Slavery

Andrew Sullivan: Reality Arrives to the Trump Era

“How should they have given a thought to anything like plague, which rules out any future, cancels journeys, silences the exchange of views.” Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP via Getty Images Plagues routinely start with denial. In his great novel, The Plague, Albert Camus describes a scene at the very beginning, after…

bubmagMarch 13, 2020

Palantir

Tech Tent: Controlling coronavirus with apps

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption This pandemic is the first to be played out via smartphones It's the first pandemic of the smartphone era - and that means governments have access to new ways of tracking the spread of Covid-19. On this week's Tech Tent, we find out about…

bubmagMarch 13, 2020

U-2 Dragon Lady

Why are U-2 jet pilots wearing Garmin satellite navigation smartwatches?

U-2, not U as well — They're useful flight- and pilot-monitoring tools, says the Air Force. Eric Tegler - Mar 13, 2020 5:15 pm UTC The current model U-2S aircraft features an all-glass digital cockpit, improved sensors, and propulsion systems. But its pilots still wear backup GPS/GLONASS-enabled watches, just in…

bubmagMarch 13, 2020

Jerusalem Controversy

Religious services curbed across Mideast over virus fears

JERUSALEM — Religious authorities moved to cancel or limit weekly prayer gatherings across the Middle East on Friday to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus as they encouraged the faithful to pray for those afflicted by the global pandemic. Iran, which is mired in the worst outbreak in…

bubmagMarch 13, 2020

Alibaba

Alibaba billionaire Jack Ma just pledged to donate 500,000 coronavirus tests and 1 million face masks to the US as shortages mount

REUTERS/Lucy NicholsonJack Ma, Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group, speaks at the WSJD Live conference in Laguna Beach, California October 27, 2014. On Friday, Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, pledged to donate 500,000 testing kits for the novel coronavirus and one million medical face masks to…

bubmagMarch 13, 2020

Greenland

Ice loss in Antarctica and Greenland increased sixfold in the last 30 years

Antarctica and Greenland are losing ice six times faster than in the 1990s, a pair of studies in the journal Nature show.According to the international team of climatologists behind the research, the unprecedented rate of melt has already contributed 0.7 inches (1.78 centimeters) to global sea level rise in the…

bubmagMarch 13, 2020

Daily Crunch: FDA approves speedier coronavirus test

COVID-19-hit Iran asks IMF for aid amid US sanctions

Jay-Z Fires Back at Critics of NFL Deal: “Why Would I Sell Out? I’m Already Rich”

This is how the CDC is trying to forecast coronavirus’ spread

Andrew Sullivan: Reality Arrives to the Trump Era

Tech Tent: Controlling coronavirus with apps

Why are U-2 jet pilots wearing Garmin satellite navigation smartwatches?

Religious services curbed across Mideast over virus fears

Alibaba billionaire Jack Ma just pledged to donate 500,000 coronavirus tests and 1 million face masks to the US as shortages mount

Ice loss in Antarctica and Greenland increased sixfold in the last 30 years

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