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Google scrubs coronavirus misinformation on Search, YouTube
On Feb 28 questions about the coronavirus swirled around Google’s offices. The company was being criticised for YouTube’s handling of hoax videos, a major company conference was cancelled and an employee in Zurich tested positive.
Mistrust, rumour and conspiracy fantasies hinder US virus fight
No one has been diagnosed with the new coronavirus in Alabama, but unfounded social-media rumours run so wild that the state public health department assigned a staffer to stamp them out.
‘It’s like someone’s hit pause on life’: China turns to therapy amid virus lockdown
Therapists, counselling hotlines and online wellness groups in China are struggling to cope with surging demand for emotional help as the coronavirus outbreak upends normal life.
Analysis: Coronavirus controls increase surveillance ‘danger’
The coronavirus outbreak has enabled authorities from China to Russia to increase surveillance and clamp down on free speech, with the risk that these measures will persist even after the situation eases, digital rights experts said.
Coronavirus triggers work-from-home trend for tech firms in Seattle
Tech firms in Seattle, a new focal point for the coronavirus epidemic, were telling employees this week to take advantage of technology to work remotely in an effort to contain the outbreak.
Hong Kong researchers join US tech startup to remotely monitor Covid-19 patients and quarantine cases in world’s first trial of its kind
Researchers at HKU join US tech startup to conduct a trial to remotely monitor Covid-19 patients and others in quarantine centres. Joint effort aims to engage a majority of confirmed Covid-19 patients and other increasingly larger group under quarantine orders.
Twitter bans posts that ‘dehumanise’ people in connection with diseases
Twitter Inc said on Thursday it is banning posts that "dehumanise" people because they have a disease or disability or because of their age, a step that happens to correspond to an explosion of tweets about the spreading coronavirus.
Hospital dance clips lighten virus gloom in hard-hit Iran
In coronavirus-hit Iran, healthcare workers are not just treating patients – doctors and nurses are also lifting spirits with light-hearted dance performances that have spread massively on social media.
Robotic arm designed in China could help save lives on medical frontline
Researchers at one of China's top universities have designed a robot they say could help save lives on the frontline during the coronavirus outbreak.
China adapts surveying, mapping, delivery drones to enforce world’s biggest quarantine and contain Covid-19 outbreak
Shenzhen Smart Drone UAV’s drones used in surveying, mapping can lift a maximum payload of 15kg. Adaptation shows how outbreak has opened the door for innovative applications to emerge from existing tech.
