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This man came home from the hospital to die. His son found a way to keep him alive When Suryakant "Suri" Nathwani returned from the hospital, the reserved 81-year-old grabbed his son's hand and pleaded to be allowed to die at home. "He said, 'Please promise me one thing: If I'm going to go, I'm going to go here. Do not take me back there,'" his son Raj Nathwani said. Death was not an outcome Raj, 55, was willing to accept -- but he knew his father's chances of surviving coronavirus were not in his favor. Raj had been tracking the virus since January, watching countless news reports: about the toll it had taken on multigenerational households; about medics in  Italy's overstretched health system  being too swamped to make home visits; about  elderly people in China  with pre-existing conditions --  including the one his father has  -- having a higher chance of dying. "I'm not a betting man, but if I was... [I would...
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Facebook and Google are coming for Zoom

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If there's one company the pandemic has turned into a household name, it's Zoom. Amid the continued state lockdowns, the video conferencing platform has become a lifeline for schools and businesses and a gathering place for virtual cocktail hours, birthday parties, workout classes and even weddings. And that hasn't escaped the notice of some of the world's biggest technology companies, including Facebook and Google. The two tech giants are now gunning for Zoom by ramping up their own group video apps, raising questions about whether they'll be able to successfully eat Zoom's lunch by leveraging the immense advantages they hold in scale and existing user loyalty. The added competition will also test whether Zoom has done enough to allay the  privacy concerns  that cropped up as its service was taking off.. Facebook last week announced a new service it's calling  Messenger Rooms , which doesn't require a Facebook account and allows up to 50...
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