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White House teams up with Google to build coronavirus screening site

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During a press conference at the White House, President Trump today announced that the government is working with Google to build an online screening website for COVID-19. The announcement was short on details, but the idea, it seems, is to give users the ability to enter their symptoms and see if they need additional testing. None of this sounds extremely complicated, but according to Trump, Google has 1,700 engineers working on this. According to Debbie Birx, the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, users will have to log into this new…

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Vanessa & Nick Lachey Admit Plenty Of ‘Shower Sex’ Keeps Their Marriage Going Strong! – Perez Hilton

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Nick and Vanessa Lachey have a tried and true method for keeping the sparks alive within their marriage! The longtime couple has recently put their romance expertise on display as co-hosts of Netflix‘s wildly popular new show, Love Is Blind. But the pair, who tied the knot in 2011 and share three children together, know firsthand how busy life can get sometimes — and they’ve committed to squeezing in moments on intimacy whenever possible! According to Vanessa, she and her husband often reconnect often with some good old “shower sex.” The 39-year-old…

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35 Quarantine Conference Calls Gone Hilariously Wrong

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It’s a good thing if your issues revolve around things like setting up your workspace and trying to find out where to plug the wires in. You spend some time googling it and take care of it. But if you can’t handle a conference call, I have some bad news for you. Not only will your colleagues make sure you remember it, they will probably tell the Internet all about your fiasco as well. reply Unfollow 10 hours ago That’s hilarious ! It would have been hard to do the…

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Self-driving car engineer Anthony Levandowski files motion to force Uber into arbitration

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Anthony Levandowski, the star self-driving car engineer who was at the center of a trade secrets lawsuit, has filed a motion to compel Uber into arbitration in the hopes that his former employee will have to shoulder the cost of at least part of the $179 million judgment against him. The motion to compel arbitration filed this week is part of Levandowski’s bankruptcy proceedings. It’s the latest chapter in a long and winding legal saga that has entangled Uber and Waymo, the former Google self-driving project that is now a…

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Birth in a pandemic: ‘You are stronger than you think’

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The coronavirus crisis is throwing many pregnant women’s birth plans up in the air and leading some health trusts to increase home births. The image captured hearts on social media 10 days ago. Faolán, Gaelic for “little wolf”, was born in Drogheda in Ireland on Saturday 14 March and a few days later his grandfather dropped round to see him – through the window. He stayed for 10 minutes, gazing at his first grandchild. Skip Twitter post by @emmabethgall Three generations of social distancing as my dad meets his grandson…

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Finance Courses Are They Worth It?

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It is easy to assume that this is an overpriced attendance event. There are many ‘experts’ in the field that sell their knowledge at a high price, but there are many options out there for those being conscious of their finances looking to learn more. Whatever you opt for, whether this be online tutorials to in-person bootcamps, financial literacy is something that needs to be enhanced, this being particularly relevant in the US. Finance Knowledge is Low According to a recent survey carried out by Global Finance Literacy Excellence Centre,…

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Meghan Markle, Prince Harry close chapter as senior royals with out-of-office email reply

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex attend The Endeavour Fund Awards at Mansion House on March 05, 2020, in London, England. (Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage) (Getty) According to the outlet, Harry and Markle’s former communications team lead, Sara Latham, will slide over to work in Queen Elizabeth’s private office where she’ll oversee her special projects while reporting to the monarch’s private secretary Edward Young. What’s more is Buckingham Palace will no longer issue comments on behalf of Harry, 35, and Markle, 38, and “no other royal communications representatives act…

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Meghan Markle Gives A Baby Archie Update – He ‘Is Into Everything’ – Perez Hilton

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All eyes were on Meghan Markle and Prince Harry as they stepped out for their first UK event together since announcing their intentions to lead a “financially independent” life. As we previously shared, the twosome attended the Endeavour Fund Awards in London on Thursday evening ahead of a packed schedule of appearances before they jet back to Canada. Though it was great to see the pair back together again, one person who was sorely missed was baby Archie Harrison! Much to the dismay of the royal fam, the little one stayed behind…

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‘You think Trump will save you?’: my nine days detained by North Korea’s secret police

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Alek Sigley was studying in Pyongyang when he was blindfolded and taken to an interrogation facility where his handlers demanded he confess to his crimes Do you know what day it is? asked the man as we sat in the black Mercedes-Benz that had whisked me from the foreign student dormitory at Kim Il-sung university, where I had been living in the North Korean capital Pyongyang. I knew full well, but he answered his own question: Its the day the US imperialists invaded and started the war. It was Tuesday…

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ASOS: ‘Safety accusations just panic and hysteria’

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The site is a distribution centre for the online clothing store and is on the list of government exemptions that can stay open during the current shop closures. One ASOS employee told Newsbeat they were “frightened for their families as well as themselves” because workers in the warehouse aren’t able to keep two metres apart, as instructed by the government’s social-distancing measures. ‘Additional health and safety measures’ ‘Mike’, who didn’t want to give his real name, worries that people are at risk. “They don’t want to be taking the virus…

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