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Robot to safely swab for coronavirus developed by scientists in Denmark
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish researchers have developed a fully automated robot that can take coronavirus swabs so that health care professionals are not exposed to the risk of infection. Researchers...
Jun 04, 2020
Europe pins hopes on smarter coronavirus contact tracing apps
By Douglas Busvine MUEHLBACH AM MANHARTSBERG, Austria (Reuters) - European countries cautiously emerging from the onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic are looking to a second generation of contact tr...
Jun 04, 2020
Exclusive: Amazon in talks to buy $2 billion stake in Indian telco Bharti Airtel – sources
By Aditya Kalra and Sumeet Chatterjee NEW DELHI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Amazon.com is in early-stage talks to buy a stake worth at least $2 billion in Indian mobile operator Bharti Airtel , three source...
Jun 04, 2020
GM to work closely with CATL in its China EV push: executive
By Yilei Sun and Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) - General Motors will "work very closely" with Chinese electric vehicle battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL) as it ramps up electric ...
Jun 04, 2020
German auto stimulus to boost Volkswagen’s electric push
BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany unveiled sweeping incentives for cheap electric cars and for hybrid vehicles, providing a boost to Volkswagen's electric push while staggered taxes for polluting c...
Jun 04, 2020
A robot walks into a bar, helps make a cocktail
SEOUL (Reuters) - One robot makes cocktails from 25 bottles hanging upside-down from the ceiling, another carves perfect ice balls in the fraction of the time it takes a human with a knife and an ice ...
Jun 04, 2020
Taiwan to spend $335 million to woo foreign tech investment
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan will spend more than T$10 billion ($334.49 million) over the next seven years to lure investment in technology from foreign companies, Lin Chuan-neng, the island's vice minis...
Jun 03, 2020
Australia’s EcoGraf inks graphite battery material supply deal with Thyssenkrupp unit
By Soumyajit Saha (Reuters) - Australian graphite explorer EcoGraf Ltd said on Thursday it had signed an agreement to supply graphite products used in making batteries to a unit of German industrial c...
Jun 03, 2020
Amid pandemic, investors bet on India’s Jio and its giant-killer playbook
By Alexandra Ulmer and Promit Mukherjee MUMBAI (Reuters) - From its Silicon Valley-like campus near Mumbai, Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Jio telecom carrier is emerging as a winner from changes ...
Jun 03, 2020
Telus director Stockwell Day steps down after likening racism to childhood bullying
(Reuters) - Canadian telecom firm Telus Corp said director Stockwell Day had stepped down from its board a day after the former cabinet minister compared enduring racism to his experience of being tea...
Jun 03, 2020
