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Seven McLaren team members who were tested for coronavirus following the abandoned Australian Grand Prix have returned negative results. The staff took the test because they had showed symptoms after close contact with a team member who returned a positive test in Melbourne on 12 March. McLaren had previously said the employee was free of symptoms. On Wednesday, the team added that 16 staff will remain in quarantine for a further week to follow recommendations. Of those isolated, 14 had been in close contact with the team member who tested positive and an additional team member displayed symptoms over the weekend. Three members of senior management, including racing director Andrea Stella, also stayed behind to support them. McLaren team member 'recovering well' Tyre supplier Pirelli team member tests positive The Formula 1 season has been thrown into disarray by the virus. The first four races in Australia, Bahrain, Vietnam and China have all been postpone...

A man in his 40s with motor neurone disease (MND) is thought to be the youngest person in the UK to have died having tested positive for coronavirus. Craig Ruston, died in Kettering, Northamptonshire, on Monday morning and his chest infection was diagnosed as Covid-19. In a post on his Facebook page,  Me and My MND,  his wife Sally paid tribute to a "wonderfully kind and caring person". In the UK, 71 people with coronavirus have died. Mr Ruston's wife said he was given about two years to live when he was diagnosed with MND in June 2018 and his "fight with MND was not ready to be over". She said: "Last Tuesday he was taken unwell and we have since spent the last six days in isolation. "Craig's chest infection was confirmed as Covid-19. How dare that take Craig who was already facing this, the most vile and evil of diseases." EASY STEPS:  How to keep safe A SIMPLE GUIDE:  What are the symptoms? TRAVEL PLANS:  What are your right...

1:07 AM WAT Mark Schlabach ESPN Senior Writer Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print Shortly after an undercover FBI agent revealed her true identity to aspiring business manager Christian Dawkins in a hotel suite at Times Square in New York on Sept. 25, 2017, Dawkins' cellphone rang. And then the undercover agent's cellphone rang. Arizona basketball coach Sean Miller was somehow simultaneously calling both phones. "My phone rings, their phone rings," Dawkins said. "That s--- was like duplicated, basically. This s--- is crazy." That scene was recreated in HBO's upcoming documentary "The Scheme," which will be broadcast at 9 p.m. ET on March 31. "The Scheme" was supposed to premier Tuesday at the South By Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas, but the festival was cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic. HBO provided a screening copy of the film, directed by Pat Kondelis, to ES...

Sarah Perez  @sarahintampa   Amazon announced this morning it’s making a $1 million donation that will be split among four Washington D.C. region community foundations that are working to support vulnerable populations during the COVID-19 crisis. The groups,  ACT for Alexandria ,  Arlington Community Foundation ,  Community Foundation for Northern Virginia  and the  Greater Washington Community Foundation , will each use a portion of the million dollars as flexible funds that will go towards food, housing and shelter, and emergency assistance. Amazon only months ago  received approval  for its plans for HQ2 in Arlington County, Virginia, which is why it’s focusing its relief efforts on this area. It has also been preparing for the HQ expansion  by hiring hundreds of workers , with the goal of hiring 1,000 by the end of this year and 25,000 by 2030. The foundations receiving the donations from Amazon will focus on those w...

Romain Dillet  @romaindillet   A couple of days after Microsoft unveiled  a ton of info  about the Xbox Series X, Sony is about to do the exact same thing in a live video.  Sony   is hosting a live broadcast about the PlayStation 5 today at 9 AM PT, 12 PM ET, 4 PM GMT. Lead system architect Mark Cerny will unveil the console’s architecture and what it means for both developers and gamers. We already know that the PlayStation 5 will be launched in late 2020. It’ll feature an eight-core AMD CPU, a custom AMD GPU with ray-tracing support and SSD storage. The controller will support haptic feedback and adaptive triggers depending on what you’re doing in the game. But many details are still missing. Today’s announcement should answer some questions.

Image Credits:  Somyot Techapuwapat / EyeEm / Getty Images The rollercoaster ride of equity markets continues as all of the major stock indexes opened sharply lower one day after President Donald Trump announced the intention to push through a sweeping aid package — including the potential  for a direct payout  to most American workers. Domestic indexes had  risen sharply on Tuesday , but market volatility increasingly seems to be the new normal according to market analysts at some of the nation’s biggest financial services firms.  “The Covid-19 pandemic sparked the fastest reassessment of equity market fundamentals and risk in the last 30 years,” Bram Kaplan, executive director of equity derivates strategy at JPMorgan, told clients  in a note quoted by CNN . On a net basis, the market is heading south. Worth just a handful of points over the 20,000 mark, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is nearly 10,000 points closer to its 5...

QuitGenius , the YC-backed startup that uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help folks quit smoking and vaping tobacco products, has today announced the close of am $11 million Series A round. The new funding was led by  Octopus Ventures,   with participation from Y Combinator, Startup Health and Triple Point Ventures. Quit Genius   was built by doctors — Yusuf Sherwani (co-founder and CEO), Maroof Ahmed (co-founder and COO), and Sarim Siddiqui (co-founder and head of product) — who met on the first day of medical school. They saw the terrible effects of smoking on patients’ health but didn’t see doctors giving those patients a clear path to quit smoking. Cognitive behavioral therapy is seen as one of the more effective treatments for breaking addiction, helping patients focus on their thoughts, feelings and behaviors and understanding how one affects the others. The Quit Genius app helps users recognize when a negative thought or feeling pops...