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A contact tracing app could help stop the spread of COVID-19 only if billions of people use it — here’s a 3-step plan for how to make that happen Peace

A contact tracing app could help stop the spread of COVID-19 only if billions of people use it — here’s a 3-step plan for how to make that happen

Daniel Schreiber is the CEO and cofounder of Lemonade, an insurance company powered by artificial intelligence and behavioral economics.He says that contact tracing — a technology that to notifies you when someone you were in close quarters with is diagnosed with COVID-19 — could help curb the pandemic, but only…
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April 28, 2020
South Korea says it has ‘enough intelligence’ to dispel rumors that Kim Jong Un is dead or seriously ill Peace

South Korea says it has ‘enough intelligence’ to dispel rumors that Kim Jong Un is dead or seriously ill

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been conspicuously missing from the public eye since April 11. His absence at a major holiday on April 15 sparked rumors about fragile health and even death.On Monday, South Korea's unification minister dismissed the speculation, saying the country had "enough intelligence to confidently…
bubmag
April 27, 2020
Researchers release data set to evaluate COVID-19 chatbots and search engines Peace

Researchers release data set to evaluate COVID-19 chatbots and search engines

In a paper published this week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, researchers at Facebook, New York University, and the University of Waterloo detail at question-answering data set — CovidQA — that comprises submissions from the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge, a collection of tasks based on scientific questions developed with…
bubmag
April 27, 2020
Trump pushes advisers to get U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, citing coronavirus Peace

Trump pushes advisers to get U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, citing coronavirus

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has pushed his military and national security advisers in recent days to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan amid concerns about a major coronavirus outbreak in the war-torn country, according to two current and one former senior U.S. officials.Trump complains almost daily that U.S.…
bubmag
April 27, 2020
You should never work a financial adviser who’s not a ‘fiduciary’ — here’s why Peace

You should never work a financial adviser who’s not a ‘fiduciary’ — here’s why

Personal Finance Insider writes about products, strategies, and tips to help you make smart decisions with your money. We may receive a small commission from our partners, but our reporting and recommendations are always independent and objective.A fiduciary is a type of financial adviser who is required to put your…
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April 23, 2020
Sudan to Replace Military Governors After Dispute Emerges at Top Peace

Sudan to Replace Military Governors After Dispute Emerges at Top

(Bloomberg) -- Sudan will replace all provincial military governors with civilians in the coming week, the information minister said, after tense talks within the power-sharing government over the pace of the nation’s democratic transition.The North African country, where the army overthrew long-time ruler Omar al-Bashir a year ago, will also…
bubmag
April 18, 2020