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FDA approves Battelle’s process to decontaminate N95 face masks but limits it to 10,000 per day

Photo by James Black/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration has approved the limited use of a process that would clean much-needed N95 protective face masks and allow them to be reused, the agency said in a release. Columbus-Ohio based Battelle uses a “vapor phase hydrogen peroxide” process to decontaminate the masks

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US government officials using mobile ad location data to study coronavirus spread

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge US government officials are using cellphone location data from the mobile ad industry —not data from the carriers themselves— to track Americans’ movements during the coronavirus outbreak, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with state and local governments have received cell

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Q&A with Jeffrey Katzenberg on launching Quibi on April 6 in the middle of a global pandemic, why Quibi only licenses rather than owns the content, and more (Peter White/Deadline)

Peter White / Deadline: Q&A with Jeffrey Katzenberg on launching Quibi on April 6 in the middle of a global pandemic, why Quibi only licenses rather than owns the content, and more  —  Quibi is one of the most anticipated platform launches of the year and it’s also one of the most talked about in

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Profile of DJI, which has a 77% share of the US consumer drone market but is in a precarious spot amid US-China trade war, fraud accusations, COVID-19 pandemic (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Profile of DJI, which has a 77% share of the US consumer drone market but is in a precarious spot amid US-China trade war, fraud accusations, COVID-19 pandemic  —  China’s flashiest global brand has a 77% share of America’s consumer drone sales.  It also has to deal with coronavirus … Profile of DJI, which

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An in-depth look at China's New IP proposal, whose plans are being spearheaded by Richard Li, chief scientist at Futurewei, Huawei's California-based R&D arm (Financial Times)

Financial Times: An in-depth look at China’s New IP proposal, whose plans are being spearheaded by Richard Li, chief scientist at Futurewei, Huawei’s California-based R&D arm  —  Huawei is developing the technology for a new network.  But what does this mean for the rights of users? An in-depth look at China's New IP proposal, whose

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AppBrain: Google Classroom, which wasn't in the top 100 most popular apps in the Play Store at the start of March, surpasses 50M installs, joins top 5 in the US (Hagop Kavafian/Android Police)

Hagop Kavafian / Android Police: AppBrain: Google Classroom, which wasn’t in the top 100 most popular apps in the Play Store at the start of March, surpasses 50M installs, joins top 5 in the US  —  Because of the coronavirus pandemic, most schools and universities around the world have had to close. AppBrain: Google Classroom,

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