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Redfin is shifting its focus from iBuying to this less risky business venture

Redfin launched this service in late 2017, just after creating RedfinNow, but has struggled to create the software and on-demand operations until now.




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KC business leaders, companies lead effort to do widespread Covid-19 contact tracing

A group of area executives who helped bring 50,000 Covid-19 test kits to the area have been searching the world for the best ideas in contact tracing. The search led back to Kansas City.




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Google can give you AR science lessons right from the search page

Last year, Google launched an augmented reality feature within Search that lets you put virtual animals in the real world. Now, it’s adding more 3D objects you can view right from your Search results page on mobile, including Neil Armstrong’s spacesu...




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Google fires four for accessing internal documents. Workers say it's retaliation

Google terminated four employees for what the tech firm said were "repeated violations of our data security policies." At least one of them, Rebecca Rivers, had spoken out publicly against company initiatives including Google's past work with government agencies.




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California is rewriting the rules of the internet. Businesses are scrambling to keep up

A new law that will let you opt out of the online data economy goes into effect on Jan. 1 — assuming businesses can figure out how to make that happen in time.




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Seeing those opt-out messages about your personal information on websites? Thank California's new privacy law

"Do not sell my info" links popped up on websites New Year's Day as companies scrambled to comply with California's sweeping new consumer privacy protection law.




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New California labor law AB 5 is already changing how businesses treat workers

California employers may dislike the new law on independent contractors, but they're devising a host of strategies to comply.




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How a coronavirus recession could be disastrous for Uber and Lyft drivers

People who make their living through on-demand platforms face the possibility of a recession aggravated by a drop in demand caused by coronavirus fears.




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Vanessa Bryant opens a birthday card from Kobe. 'It gave me something to look forward to'

Vanessa Bryant opened a card from her late husband Kobe on her birthday. "It gave me something to look forward to today," she writes.




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Plaschke: Longtime Dodger Stadium ticket taker leaves a lasting impression on one family

Errol Coffey has been greeting fans entering Dodger Stadium for 42 years. Until recently, he didn't realize how much he meant to some of them.




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Rob Blake: Kings will 'find positives' in otherwise meaningless games if season resumes

The Kings are out of the playoff hunt, but GM Rob Blake says they'll find a way to make the games meaningful if the NHL completes the 2020 regular season.




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Plaschke: Lakers won a beautifully messy NBA Finals over Celtics in 2010

Could a mismatched band of defending champions gain revenge for a 2008 Finals embarrassment against the Celtics and become eternal Lakers?




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Christine McGuinness details 'heartbreaking' impact of lockdown on autistic kids

The Real Housewives of Cheshire star joined the Loose Women panel via a video call to talk about how children with autism have been affected by the pandemic




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Stacey Solomon brands Paddy McGuinness 'Eminem' as he debuts blond hair

The Take Me Out presenter made a surprise appearance on today's Loose Women and proudly revealed his striking bleach blond hair to the presenters




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Bride's mum has brutal reaction to daughter's wedding dress picked to please her

Jenny and her mum Jacky have very different ideas about what she should wear on her big day - so they turn to Gok Wan for help




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New move could see TV cameras in Man City and Man United dressing rooms

The group has been set up to look at ways to enhance the TV product for fans when football returns.




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More than 200 homes and businesses hit by power cut in Wythenshawe

Electricity North West said the power might not be restored until 6pm tonight



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Make way for the milkman as lockdown brings these old school businesses back

'That old fashioned, community spirit seems to be back'




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LIVE updates as Grant Shapps holds UK daily coronavirus press conference

The Transport Secretary will lead Saturday's briefing




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Can we estimate the time until the next recession?

As the world economy is falling into one of the biggest contractions of the last decades, a new study of economic recession patterns finds that the likelihood of a downturn was high even before the onset of the Coronavirus crisis.




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Controlling quantumness: Simulations reveal details about how particles interact

A recent study at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University has described new states that can be found in super-cold atom experiments, which could have applications for quantum technology.




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Pangolins may possess evolutionary advantage against coronavirus

Pangolins lack two genes that function to sound the alarm when a virus enters the body, triggering an immune response in most other mammals. The findings from the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, are significant because, while the exotic animals can be carriers of coronavirus, they appear able to tolerate it through some other unknown mechanism. Understanding how pangolins are able to survive coronavirus may point to possible treatment options for humans.




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How does the brain link events to form a memory? Study reveals unexpected mental processes

The brain has a powerful ability to remember and connect events separated in time. And now, in a new study in mice published today in Neuron, scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute have shed light on how the brain can form such enduring links.




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Charity warns of 'mental illness timebomb' as calls increase by 200%

The number of callers to the charity SANE’s telephone helpline has increased by 200 percent since the lockdown began.




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Hospices still denied access to PPE as Health Secretary insists government is doing 'as much as we can'

One hospice ITV News spoke to is three days away from running out of protective gowns needed to treat patients with coronavirus.




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Duchess of Cambridge calls on budding photographers to capture life under coronavirus lockdown

The Duchess of Cambridge has teamed up with the National Portrait Gallery to launch the Hold Still project.




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Only half of businesses prepared to return to pre-crisis levels after lockdown lifts

One in twenty businesses said they would be unable to viably operate as long as social distances measures are still enforced.




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Who has a torch in the coronavirus darkness?

The big question is whether you want to focus on the 2020 bit of the Bank of England's illustrative scenario, which shows a 14% fall in GDP.




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Lower paid essential workers ‘substantially constrained’ over childcare

The report stated that the groups identified are not an exhaustive list of essential employees.




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Consumer confidence ‘severely depressed’ as families sit on their cash

A new survey by GfK found there was a slight overall improvement in mood but fears for the future remain.




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GCHQ reveals last message from German Second World War network

Historian Tony Comer says it is ‘a small insight into the real people behind the machinery of war’.




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Queen’s televised addresses just weeks apart

The monarch will speak to the nation on Friday to mark 75 years since VE Day.




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Our royal team on Kate's photography project and Princess Charlotte's birthday

In this week's Royal Rota, our team discuss the Duchess of Cambridge's latest volunteer work and Princess Charlotte birthday celebrations.




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'Disastrous': Joko under pressure to stop villagers taking virus home

There are growing fears that Indonesian President Joko Widodo has not done enough to stop the spread of coronavirus, risking millions of lives.




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Jobless claims double in a week as coronavirus takes toll on US economy

The coronavirus outbreak continues to upend all aspects of American life, including the November presidential election.




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Blue skies amid darkness, India transforms under lockdown

In its desperate attempt to flatten the curve, India is flattening something else: its notorious air pollution.




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Chinese authorities' latest wildlife trade outrage is mindbogglingly reckless

China's government is putting on a show of sending aid to countries suffering from COVID-19, but undermining efforts to control the source of further pandemics.




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Trump fundraisers embrace anti-China message in pitch for donations

The appeal reflects an increased effort by the Trump campaign to use US-China relations as a campaign issue against presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.




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'Banana republic': Trump threatens to unilaterally suspend Congress

The President's remarkable threat - which came on the day US recorded its highest number of coronavirus deaths - drew immediate criticism from constitutional experts.




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Trump-aligned states ready to reopen for business from this week

Republican governors, including in Georgia, are reopening gyms, churches, bowling alleys and hairdressers later this week despite COVID-19 cases still rising.




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New suits and long journeys: How we navigated the Great Depression

Memories of the Depression years come flooding back with talk of Australia heading into another depression or at least a severe recession.




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Auschwitz: The final witness

“In seeing the mass of people coming in and out day after day, butchered and gassed, and we did the work, how can you have peace of mind?”




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"Very messy": Principals question premier's part-time learning plan

Premier Gladys Berejiklian wants students to resume learning under a roster system, but principals have slammed the idea as confusing and unrealistic




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No hustle. No bustle. Emptiness and stillness fill the streets

As the Great Lockdown continues our cities are looking strangely familiar yet eerily different.




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'Very messy': Principals question Premier's part-time learning plan

Premier Gladys Berejiklian wants students to resume learning under a roster system, but principals have slammed the idea as confusing and unrealistic.




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Company 'knew' virus was running rampant on Ruby Princess, court told

In a series of explosive allegations, Princess Cruises has been accused of recklessly endangering lives.




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Sign up to sex abuse redress scheme or lose funding, government warns

Victorian private schools, religious entities and other organisations who don't sign up to a redress scheme for child sex abuse survivors may lose funding, the state government has warned.




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Thank you to all the nameless nurses risking their lives daily

The terrifying feeling of being unable to breathe is something that never leaves you, writes Helen Pitt.




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Lessons we can learn for whatever crisis strikes next

There’s even a lesson for Scoldilocks.




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Ruby Princess preparing to leave as passengers promised full refund

The plans for the ship's departure come as Carnival Australia confirmed on Monday it would offer a full refund to guests on the cruise that returned to Sydney on March 19.