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In this screengrab taken from a berniesanders.com webcast, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) talks about his plan to deal with the coronavirus pandemic on March 17, 2020 in Washington, D.C. Businesses are being severely impacted, schools are closing temporarily and large events are being postponed as the COVID-19 virus continues to spread across

The 2020 27-inch iMac. Todd Haselton | CNBC I’ve been toying around with Apple‘s new 27-inch iMac, which was announced earlier this week and starts at $1,799. Apple bumped up a bunch of the hardware inside, but also focused on a few things that I think are really important for people and families who are

Livongo’s founder and early investor on route to the meeting in Dallas. Source: Hemant Teneja The merger of Livongo and Teladoc, two of the largest publicly traded companies in digital health, came together in less than three months and played out against the backdrop of widespread lockdowns and quarantines of the coronavirus pandemic. The deal, announced

If, as seems to be the case, the Beirut explosion was caused by thousands of tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse, the blast demonstrates the deadly potential of this common agricultural chemical. What is ammonium nitrate? With the chemical formula NH4NO3, ammonium nitrate is a naturally occurring, highly soluble white crystalline solid, more

Samsung has revealed its new premium flagship smartphone, the Note 20, alongside the new S7 tablet, Galaxy Watch 3, a new foldable handset, and its redesigned Galaxy Buds. During a virtual Unpacked event on Wednesday, streamed live from South Korea, the company confirmed it was committed to focusing on the Note series for its gaming

Google has unveiled its new low-cost Pixel 4a smartphone and announced future devices including the Pixel 5. Priced at $349 (with an expected UK price of £349), the Pixel 4a is aimed at consumers turned off by more expensive devices. It is cheaper than the starting price of the Pixel 3a which was released last

Chinese-owned app TikTok has been accused of harvesting its users’ data, and was even described as a potential national security risk by White House officials. On Friday, President Trump said he intended to ban the video-sharing platform from the US because of these concerns, although over the weekend he appeared to approve of a potential

Smartwatch maker Garmin paid a multi-million dollar ransom to criminals who encrypted its computer files through a ransomware negotiation business called Arete IR, sources have told Sky News. Earlier this week Sky News reported that Garmin had obtained the decryption key to recover its files from the WastedLocker virus. Security sources believe this virus has

The Chinese-owned short-video app TikTok could be sold to Microsoft after an apparent change of mind by President Trump. On Friday he said he intended to ban TikTok from the US because of concerns about the data of US users and appeared to dismiss the idea of a takeover by an American company. The US

Scientists are investigating whether minks can pass on coronavirus to humans, after outbreaks at farms in Spain and the Netherlands. It is thought that the outbreaks started with infected workers on the mink farms, passing the virus on to the small animals. Scientists believe it is “plausible” that the minks then passed it back to

Chinese video-sharing app TikTok has responded to Donald Trump’s threat of a US ban by declaring: “We’re not planning on going anywhere.” In a video aimed at the app’s supporters, TikTok spokesperson Vanessa Pappas said it was “here for the long run” and called people to “stand for TikTok”. It followed a suggestion from the

Donald Trump has vowed to ban Chinese video-sharing app TikTok from operating in the US. Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, the president said: “As far as TikTok is concerned, we’re banning them from the United States.” He did not specify how he intended to achieve what he described as a “severance”, but he

A teenager from Bognor Regis is one of three people accused over the Twitter hack that saw the accounts of politicians and celebrities compromised. The US Department of Justice said Mason Sheppard faces three charges. The 19-year-old, also known as “Chaewon”, has been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering,

Twitter has revealed how accounts belonging to celebrities including Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos and Kim Kardashian were hijacked by Bitcoin scammers two weeks ago. At the time the company confirmed that a “co-ordinated social engineering attack” had allowed criminals to post tweets from celebs’ accounts offering to send $2,000 for every $1,000 sent to a

On this edition of the Sky News Daily podcast with Dermot Murnaghan, we discuss NASA’s launch of the Perseverance rover – the first leg of returning rock samples to Earth with the hope of finding microbial life and paving the way for humans to go to the planet. We look at why we go to

NASA has successfully launched its new Perseverance rover to Mars, beginning a mission to search for signs of alien life on the planet. The Mars 2020 mission launched on the back of an Atlas V rocket, the most powerful currently in use by humanity, which took its payload to an altitude of greater than 250