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UPDATE 1-Britain to quarantine travellers for 14 days, UK airlines association says

By feeds.reuters.com
Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 07:10:52 -0400

* Airports say it could be devastating for aviation industry (Adds details, changes sourcing)

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U.S. FDA grants emergency use authorization to Quidel for first antigen test for COVID-19

By feeds.reuters.com
Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 10:53:54 -0400

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Saturday approved emergency use authorization (EUA) to Quidel Corp for the first COVID-19 antigen test.

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Ex-NHL player who had COVID-19: Season shouldn't resume

By feeds.reuters.com
Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 19:52:07 -0400

Former NHL player Georges Laraque, who has recovered from COVID-19, doesn't want to see the season resume amid the pandemic.

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On this day: Born May 10, 1995: Missy Franklin, American swimmer

By feeds.reuters.com
Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 02:05:03 -0400

A "star in the making" were the prophetic words of an announcer who had just witnessed 16-year-old Missy Franklin slice up the competition at swimming's 2011 world championships.

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Cycling: Vuelta cancels stages in Portugal amid COVID-19 crisis

By feeds.reuters.com
Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 06:42:58 -0400

This year's Tour of Spain will not go through Portugal as planned because of the COVID-19 crisis, organisers said on Saturday.

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Mark Levinson Introduces № 5105 Turntable at CES 2020

By news.harman.com
Published On :: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT

Las Vegas, Nev. — HARMAN International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. focused on connected technologies for automotive, consumer and enterprise markets, is introducing the Mark Levinson № 5105 Turntable at CES 2020. The №...

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Rare Bob Dylan lyrics could fetch $19,000 in sale

By www.reuters.com
Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 13:14:54 -0400

A 1966 manuscript, on which a young Bob Dylan typed and wrote lyrics for a track on his "Blonde on Blonde" album and another song he later abandoned, went on sale at Sotheby's auction house from Tuesday.

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Roy Horn of Las Vegas magic duo Siegfried and Roy dies of COVID-19: report

By www.reuters.com
Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 00:08:32 -0400

Magician Roy Horn, who alongside Siegfried Fischbacher starred in a popular, long-running Las Vegas act built around rare tigers, died on Friday from of complications of COVID-19, the Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper reported. He was 75.

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Top hedge fund managers take home $13 bln

By feeds.reuters.com
Published On :: Tue, 10 May 2016 15:25:37 -0400

The 25 biggest hedge fund earners took home a combined $13 billion last year, despite mediocre returns.

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Mum and newborn leave hospital after beating COVID-19

By www.reuters.com
Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 11:13:20 -0400

A mother who was given a 50 percent survival chance and her newborn baby were discharged from hospital on Monday (May 4) after both fighting COVID-19.

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Australia to end most COVID-19 restrictions by July

By www.reuters.com
Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 08:03:19 -0400

Australia will ease social distancing restrictions implemented to slow the spread of the coronavirus in a three-step process, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday, with the aim of removing all curbs by July. Lauren Anthony reports.

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Africans scale back funerals to curb COVID-19

By www.reuters.com
Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 11:22:21 -0400

Across Africa, centuries-old cultural traditions are being foregone in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has seen governments impose restrictions on gatherings and other practices around death and burial. Francesca Lynagh reports.

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Train in India kills at least 16 migrant workers

By www.reuters.com
Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 09:57:18 -0400

Police in India's western Aurangabad district have returned the bodies of 16 migrants killed by a train on Friday, to their home towns. Ciara Lee reports

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BCG vaccine being trialled as potential protection against covid-19

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:00:54 +0000

A long-standing hypothesis suggests the BCG vaccine also serves to generally enhance the immune system, meaning it could protect against covid-19, and trials are under way to find out

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We may have found 19 more interstellar asteroids in our solar system

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 18:25:34 +0000

A bunch of asteroids near Jupiter and Neptune with orbits perpendicular to the plane of the solar system may have come here from a different star system

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We're still untangling Ramanujan's mathematics 100 years after he died

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 18:00:00 +0000

Srinivisa Ramanujan’s ideas seemed to come from a parallel universe and mathematicians are still getting to grips with them today, say Ken Ono and Robert Schneider

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What is it like to be a covid-19 contact tracer and what do they do?

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:53:07 +0000

Covid-19 contact tracers are part healthcare worker, part detective and part call centre operative. But what is the job really like? New Scientist spoke to one in Ireland to find out

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UK sets new target to recruit 18,000 contact tracers by mid-May

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:01:36 +0000

The UK government has set a new target of recruiting an army of 18,000 coronavirus contact tracers by the middle of May, to be in place for the launch of the NHS contact tracing app

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How many people have really died from covid-19 so far?

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:20:00 +0000

Looking at how many more people are dying than usual gives an idea of the coronavirus pandemic’s true effect – and suggests a far higher death toll in many countries

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Are you more likely to die of covid-19 if you live in a polluted area?

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:01:58 +0000

A number of studies have found a link between air pollution and increased covid-19 deaths, but it isn't clear why. Both attack the lungs, but it could just be that more people live in polluted areas

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UK government won't say how many covid-19 contact tracers it has hired

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:51:42 +0000

The UK government has refused to say how many covid-19 contact tracers it has employed, with less than three weeks to go until its target of recruiting 18,000 of them by mid-May

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People put on ventilators for covid-19 may need lengthy rehabilitation

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 18:29:27 +0000

Healthcare systems need to prepare for the extensive physiotherapy and mental rehabilitation that people put on ventilators for covid-19 will need as they recover

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The 10 best documentaries you should watch right now

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 09:00:18 +0000

Apollo 11, Take Your Pills, Pandemic: How to prevent an outbreak, and Icarus are all great documentaries available to stream at the moment

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What four coronaviruses from history can tell us about covid-19

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:00:00 +0000

Four coronaviruses cause around a quarter of all common colds, but each was probably deadly when it first made the leap to humans. We can learn a lot from what happened next

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An ancient river on Mars may have flowed for 100,000 years

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 16:00:23 +0000

We’ve found a 200-metre cliff in Mars's Hellas basin, the first evidence of a river that flowed on the planet for more than 100,000 years

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Covid-19 shows why an infodemic of bad science must never happen again

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Once the coronavirus pandemic is over, we must work out how to stop the spread of poor information that has helped make a bad situation that much worse

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Why countries should start weekly covid-19 testing for key workers

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 13:50:00 +0000

Many countries are focusing coronavirus testing on people who have covid-19 symptoms. But regularly testing all essential workers would have more of an impact

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How the covid-19 pandemic has led to a flood of misleading science

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 14:25:00 +0000

Amid the global coronavirus outbreak, a second epidemic of preliminary, unverified and misinterpreted research has broken out. Can it be fixed?

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Can nudge theory really stop covid-19 by changing our behaviour?

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 18:00:00 +0000

Human behaviour is key to the spread of coronavirus, so government scientists are trying to control our decisions. Does it work, and what happens when they get it wrong?

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Black people in England and Wales twice as likely to die with covid-19

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 17:30:39 +0000

The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and essential information about the covid-19 pandemic

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New Zealand is close to wiping out covid-19 - can it return to normal?

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 06:00:42 +0000

New Zealand is on track to eliminate covid-19 altogether, but keeping the virus out for good will be a challenge, and the economic impacts are likely to hurt

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Spam and phishing in 2019

By securelist.com
Published On :: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 10:00:10 +0000

In the search for new ways to bypass spam filters, attackers are developing new methods of delivering their messages. This year, they made active use of various Google services, as well as popular social networks and video hosting sites.

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Financial Cyberthreats in 2019

By securelist.com
Published On :: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 10:00:10 +0000

Methodology Financial cyberthreats are malicious programs that target users of services such as online banking, e-money, and cryptocurrency, or that attempt to gain access to financial organizations and their infrastructure. These threats are usually accompanied by spam and phishing activities,… Read Full Article

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A look at the ATM/PoS malware landscape from 2017-2019

By securelist.com
Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 10:00:07 +0000

Much like other areas of cybercrime, attackers only refine and grow their skillset for infecting ATM systems from year-to-year. So what does the ATM landscape look like as of 2020? Let’s take a look.

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APT trends report Q1 2020

By securelist.com
Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 11:00:13 +0000

For more than two years, the Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat (APT) activity. This is our latest installment, focusing on activities that we observed during Q1 2020.

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DDoS attacks in Q1 2020

By securelist.com
Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 10:00:55 +0000

Since the beginning of 2020, due to the COVID-2019 pandemic, life has shifted almost entirely to the Web. This is reflected in the goals of recent DDoS attacks, with the most targeted resources in Q1 being websites of medical organizations, delivery services, and gaming and educational platforms.

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More Than 4 in 10 Americans Are Now Obese: CDC

By www.medicinenet.com
Published On :: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 00:00:00 PDT

Title: More Than 4 in 10 Americans Are Now Obese: CDC
Category: Health News
Created: 2/27/2020 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 2/27/2020 12:00:00 AM

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