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Coronavirus Lockdown Likely Saved 77,000 Lives In China Just By Reducing Pollution Air Pollution

Coronavirus Lockdown Likely Saved 77,000 Lives In China Just By Reducing Pollution

WUHAN, CHINA: A masked woman walks in the empty street due to the lockdown to curb the COVID ... epidemic in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. Photo by Feature China/Barcroft Media via Getty Images. Barcroft Media via Getty Images China’s coronavirus lockdown likely saved tens…
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March 16, 2020
Factbox: Latest on the spread of coronavirus around the world Electric Scooter

Factbox: Latest on the spread of coronavirus around the world

(Reuters) - France and Spain joined Italy in imposing lockdowns on tens of millions of people, Australia ordered self-isolation of arriving foreigners and other countries extended entry bans as the world sought to contain the spreading coronavirus. Several countries imposed bans on mass gathering, shuttered sporting, cultural and religious events,…
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March 16, 2020
Digi-Capital: over $4.1B was invested in AR and VR startups in 2019, but Q4 lagged; 2019 was the third-highest year for AR and VR investment after 2017 and 2018 (Tim Merel/VentureBeat) Virtual Reality

Digi-Capital: over $4.1B was invested in AR and VR startups in 2019, but Q4 lagged; 2019 was the third-highest year for AR and VR investment after 2017 and 2018 (Tim Merel/VentureBeat)

March 15, 2020, 11:07 PM Top News More: Vox, Washington Post, STAT, New York Times, The Intercept, and International Business Times Tweets: @realdonaldtrump, @ddale8, @kitttyms, @soledadobrien, @amuse, @kaitlancollins, @reckless, @reckless, @brianweeden, @reckless, @theplumlinegs, @tpm, @nytimes, @tripgabriel, @pkafka, @4030lisa, @inafried, @foxcahn, @maggienyt, @billprady, and @lutherlowe More: Engadget, Wired, New York Times, ZDNet,…
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March 16, 2020
Meet the 17-year-old behind a website tracking coronavirus cases that is now a vital global resource Korean Peace Talks

Meet the 17-year-old behind a website tracking coronavirus cases that is now a vital global resource

A teenager’s website tracking coronavirus has become one of the most vital resources for people seeking accurate and updated numbers on the pandemic. The URL is nCoV2019.live. We speak with 17-year-old Avi Schiffmann, a high school junior from Mercer Island outside Seattle, who started the site in late December, when coronavirus had not…
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March 16, 2020
India’s Left in the time of Hindutva: A SWOT analysis of what remains of the red bastion Nuclear Disarmament

India’s Left in the time of Hindutva: A SWOT analysis of what remains of the red bastion

Just like Kemal, the protagonist of Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence, the Indian Left's best moment may have arrived and gone in 1996 without it even realising. Jyoti Basu, who could have been the country's first Marxist prime minister, had later famously called it a "historic blunder". Looking back,…
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March 16, 2020