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Amazon Care to provide delivery and pick-up of at-home COVID-19 test sample kits in Seattle trial
Amazon is going to be working with a new research initiative backed in part by the Gates Foundation that will…
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Here’s a wrap of the main tech-related coronavirus news in the last 24 hours
Much of the world is waking up to a strange new reality. As the coronavirus strain, COVID-19, swept across the…
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Nvidia makes its GPU-powered genome sequencing tool available free to those studying COVID-19
Nvidia is making its Parabricks tool available for free for 90 days (with the possibility of extension, depending on needs)…
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US State Department issues unprecedented ‘do not travel’ warning over coronavirus
The U.S. State Department has issued an unprecedented “do not travel” warning to U.S. citizens, as the number of coronavirus-related…
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Home diagnostics startup Everlywell is launching an at-home coronavirus test sample kit
The state of testing for the novel coronavirus currently spreading globally in the U.S. is abysmal, relative to other developed…
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Hackers are jumping on the COVID-19 pandemic to spread malware
If there’s one thing certain during a pandemic, it’s that hackers will use it for their own gain. Don’t be…
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US response to the COVID-19 coronavirus moves from ‘containment’ to ‘mitigation’
In interviews across major television networks on Sunday, U.S. officials all but admitted that efforts to contain the spread of…
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Gates Foundation-backed program will soon be issuing home testing kits for COVID-19 in Seattle
A project funded by the Gates Foundation will soon begin issuing at-home testing kits for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, according…
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