The Covid-19 pandemic has created a tidal wave of data. As countries and cities struggle to grab hold of the scope and scale of the problem, tech corporations and data aggregators have stepped up, filling the gap with dashboards scoring social distancing based on location data from mobile phone apps and cell towers, contact-tracing apps using geolocation services and Bluetooth, and modeling efforts to predict epidemic burden and hospital needs. In the face of uncertainty, these data can provide comfort — tangible facts in the face of many unknowns.

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As the stock market experiences a collective shudder in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, investors are actively seeking out new opportunities for healthy long-term gains and higher upside potential. Start-up investing is not a new phenomenon in the financial world, but one sector, in particular, has seen a veritable boom in investors since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. While many industries plummeted in the first quarter of the year, digital health companies closed the first quarter of 2020 with unprecedented levels of funding. 

In the days and weeks after 9/11, walking around midtown Manhattan felt like a small act of resilience. You didn’t know if more attacks were coming. Every car and truck was a possible bomb. You felt like a potential target. Each morning, as I emerged from the 50th street subway and walked west two blocks to the old Time-Life Building on 6th Avenue, I felt a tiny surge of pride and also, relief.

Lauren Gardner, an associate engineering professor at Johns Hopkins University, was sitting in a school coffee shop with two graduate students in January, chatting about their work on measles, Dengue fever and the Zika virus, when conversation turned to an emerging coronavirus in China.

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Science has a reputation for moving slowly. The very process of publishing solid scientific data—let alone developing vaccines and therapies—requires a long timeline. But outbreaks of infectious diseases spread quickly, demanding a much quicker pace.

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While the novel coronavirus is taking a toll on the nation’s economy and small businesses, some companies within the sector that are backed by accelerators are finding ways around obstacles created by the pandemic.

Unlike incubators, which help aspiring entrepreneurs hone their ideas, an accelerator helps small businesses find a road to profitability and access to investors. Over the past 15 years, the number of accelerators has risen substantially, investing an estimated $20 billion in more than 5,000 U.S. startups, according to the Harvard Business Review.

Particle accelerators, sometimes called atom smashers, are some of the most advanced pieces of scientific equipment in the world. But what are they and how do they work?

Here we will briefly explore the technology behind them and look at some interesting facts about these high-tech matter "kablamers." 

We’re living through a period of economic, business and personal uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It has caused economic downturns and losses on a monumental scale around the world. The ambiguity around the depth and length of the economic slowdown has made it even more difficult for businesses to adapt.

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So, when’s the last time the world stopped?

Having never experienced anything quite like the current health concerns, it is certainly worth taking a deep breath and thinking through what the impact might be on corporations and their advisors as location positioning is examined.

The current push to develop treatments and possibly a vaccine for covid-19 is testing all elements of the research landscape, but it’s arguably placing the efforts of universities and other institutes under particular scrutiny.

In the UK, Oxford University has been one of those leading the charge and as IAM recently exclusively revealed that has led the famed academic institution to a new and expedited licensing policy for covid-19 related IP.

Every startup founder rightfully starts out as the single leader of the startup, but as the business grows, many entrepreneurs struggle with relinquishing any control, or fail to recognize and allow other leaders to emerge. The result is that the business becomes dysfunctional as growth stagnates, and entrepreneur health and happiness decline.

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John Doerr (born 1951) is a Venture Capitalist at storied Silicon Valley-based Kleiner Perkins, where he currently serves as Chairman. In 2009, Doerr was appointed a member of President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board to provide the administration with advice and counsel in trying to fix America's economic downturn. He is a New York Times bestselling author of Measure What Matters.

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(CNN) -- Venture capitalist Arlan Hamilton knows a thing or two about defying the odds.

Once broke, homeless and sleeping on the floor of San Francisco's airport, Hamilton became the first, black queer woman to start her own venture capital firm, Backstage Capital, a fund that invests in underrepresented founders who are women, people of color and LGBTQ. It's a journey, she details in her new book, "It's About Damn Time: How To Turn Being Underestimated into Your Greatest Advantage."

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For humans, the Covid-19 virus is a novel foe. And to combat a new pathogen, we need innovation: a new vaccine, new drugs, new tests, new clinical knowledge, and new data for epidemiology models.

In response to the current crisis, many private companies and some governments have been trying to generate a vaccine and other medical advances in short order. And yet, whatever progress is being made, we can do better, suggests an MIT professor who has spent two decades studying the foundations of life-science breakthroughs.

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All coaching takes place in a particular context. It is guided by various points of focus, including the environment where the coaching takes place. There are certain types of coaching that take place in a refined context, such as entrepreneurship and executive coaching. They are specialized and built on common coaching methodologies. Although a coach does not have to have technical expertise and experience with entrepreneurship and executive business, an understanding of their clients' environments is essential for success to be achieved.

The ongoing pandemic is fertile ground for opportunistic hucksters, loud frauds, and coronavirus deniers who attack or blame everyone and everything from Chinese-Americans to Bill Gates to 5G networks. The latest front in this bizarre war: contact tracing.

Tracing is the technique public health workers use to identify carriers of an infectious disease and then uncover who else they may have exposed, in an effort to isolate those at risk and halt the illness’s spread. It’s a time-tested investigation method used to successfully fight outbreaks of diseases including measles, HIV, and Ebola.

In the face of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, Entrepreneurs must face a new reality: it is not only a huge sanitary and health crisis affecting millions or even billions of people all over the world but also an unprecedented downturn on the global economy revealing its breakability and fundamentals. 

Inspired by the biomechanics of cheetahs, researchers have developed a new type of soft robot that is capable of moving more quickly on solid surfaces or in the water than previous generations of soft robots. The new soft robotics are also capable of grabbing objects delicately – or with sufficient strength to lift heavy objects.

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The science is certain at this point: Wearing a mask can help reduce the likelihood of being infected with COVID-19. But masks alone are far from perfect. Over the past two weeks, as masks have gone from optional to mandatory in many states, I’ve noticed a shift in behavior. I’ve seen people wearing masks at small get-togethers and people wearing masks in stores—all without observing the six feet of social distancing recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

What are the odds that the coronavirus will recede on its own during the spring because of warmer temperatures or a higher ultraviolet (UV) index? This has been a question from the beginning.

There has been some research in support of the idea that the warmer season would force the virus to retreat. And there has been other research that concluded that the virus would retreat but not disappear, that it would survive in the southern hemisphere and that it could then stage a comeback in the northern hemisphere in the fall when cooler temperatures return.

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