Pandemic

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WASHINGTON -The U.S. economy was on a strong footing before the coronavirus pandemic and Federal Reserve officials are working to help the economy rebound quickly once businesses that were shuttered because of the virus begin to reopen, two policymakers said. Economic numbers could get “very ugly” in the near term…

ISLAMABAD-Petroleum Division (Ministry of Energy) has extended its unfailing support to government of Pakistan in the fight to curb COVID-19 pandemic in country. The SNGPL (Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited Co.) has allocated Rs38 million for relief activities across the country. The Board of Company has directed the company to…

Image: ShutterstockThe COVID-19 pandemic has many of us spending a lot more time at home, and many companies offering options for things to do while you’re there.This week Google announced that it’s offering free access to its cloud gaming service Stadia right now. Additionally, it’s giving anyone that signs up…

Photo: GettyOver the weekend, four tigers at the Bronx zoo tested positive for covid-19. The weird occurrence raised questions about the zoonotic transmission of covid-19. Did Joe Exotic have anything to do with this? (Probably not). Did the tigers contract the virus from human contact? Can the tigers infect humans?…

Helen hasn’t taken a day off in weeks. Since the novel coronavirus crisis began, she’s taken countless trips to the grocery store as an Instacart shopper, ferrying bags of food to people for what amounts to a little more than minimum wage. Recently, a group of Instacart shoppers staged a…

FaZe Clan, the esports mega-franchise worth more than $240 million, is still planning on moving forward with its international expansion this year on the heels of a multi-million-dollar funding round backed by investors including Jimmy Iovine and the startup shopping network, NTWRK. Backed by Drake, Live Nation and Iovine, NTWRK…

The pandemic is even affecting emoji. The Unicode Consortium, the group behind emoji releases, announced today that it’s delaying its version planned for 2021, meaning that devices won’t receive new emoji next year and instead will get a release in 2022. The good news is that the emoji that were…

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One of the first things they teach wannabe epidemiologists is the shape of the exponential growth curve—how epidemics spread slowly at first, and then take off like a rocketship as the numbers of infected people double, double, and double. But unless you’re actually fighting an outbreak, or are in one,…