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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clapped back at Ted Cruz after he mocked her over a coronavirus comment

The New York congresswoman informed Cruz that she, in fact, holds an award for microbiology from MIT.

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10 countries that show just how behind the US is in paid parental leave for new mothers and fathers

The US and Papua New Guinea are the only countries left in the world that still don't guarantee paid maternity leave.

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Everything we know about 'Final Fantasy VII Remake,' the gorgeous new game that's been rebuilt from the ground up

A remake of the classic 1997 roleplaying game is coming to the PlayStation 4 in April 2020. Here's what it looks like, and how it works.

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Companies around the world are telling their employees to work from home amid the coronavirus outbreak

As more workers are relegated to working from home, the economic consequence of the disease caused by the Wuhan coronavirus could become more severe.

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An Ivy League professor who nailed the financial crisis says another 'colossal disaster' is on the way — and warns of a 50% market crash

"50% is a monster," warned Dave Collum in reference to a vicious stock-market crash he sees brewing on the horizon.

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Catastrophic software errors doomed Boeing's airplanes and nearly destroyed its NASA spaceship. Experts blame the leadership's 'lack of engineering culture.'

Boeing's plane crashes were on a NASA official's mind when he decided to investigate the company's spaceship software.

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One of Facebook's first 20 employees says the company lied to its own employees about whether it was developing a 'Facebook phone'

Facebook denied that it was working on a smartphone in an effort to keep the project low key, says Steven Levy's new book.

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Chinese social-media platform WeChat saw spikes in the terms 'SARS,' 'coronavirus,' and 'shortness of breath,' weeks before the first cases were confirmed, a study suggests

A study found discussions about SARS-like infections on WeChat in early December, raising questions about the timeline of the coronavirus outbreak.

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Several young doctors in China have died of the coronavirus. Medical workers are far more vulnerable to infection than the general population.

Older people are the most likely to die from the coronavirus. But overworked, under-protected healthcare workers are at risk, too.

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