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Telecoms engineers have told Radio 1 Newsbeat they're being threatened and harassed by people who believe they're working on 5G, which has been wrongly linked to coronavirus.

Claims about any link have been branded complete rubbish by scientists.

But the union and trade body representing thousands of workers across the UK

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Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Spotify is hoping the feature will help fans support musicians during the lockdown

Spotify has introduced a new feature allowing artists to receive "tips" or donate money to charity.

Bands can pin an "Artist Fundraising Pick" badge to the top of their Spotify profile,

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The use by Israel's police of mobile-phone location data to enforce quarantine has been halted because of privacy concerns.

The government had approved the use of such data for a limited time, to make

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Investigations are under way after at least three Zoom meetings were infiltrated by people sharing footage of children being sexually abused.

The latest incident occurred on Tuesday during a legal education seminar on the video conferencing platform.

A law lecturer, who was a guest speaker at the online event, said his

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Rocio Wu is a venture partner at F-Prime Capital who focuses on early-stage investments in software/applied AI, fintech and frontier tech investments.
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  • Will Chinacoronavirus-related trends shape the future for American VCs?

While some U.S. investors might have taken comfort from Chinarebound, we still find ourselves in the early innings of this period of uncertainty.

Some epidemiologists have estimated that COVID-19 cases will peak in April, but PitchBook reports that dealmaking was down -26% in March, compared to Februaryweekly average. The decline is likely to continue in coming weeks — many of the deals that closed last month were initiated before the pandemic, and there is a lag between when deals are made and when they are announced.

However, therestill hope. A recent report concluded that because valuations are lower and thereless competition for deals, &the best-performing vintages tend to be those that invest at the nadir of a downturn and into the early stage of recovery.& There are countless examples from the 2008 recession, including many highly valued VC-backed businesses such as WhatsApp, Venmo, Groupon, Uber, Slack and Square. Other early-stage VCs seem to have arrived at a similar conclusion.

Also, early-stage investing seems more resilient. During the last recession, angel and seed activity increased 34% as interest in the stage boomed during a period of prolonged growth.

6 investment trends that could emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic

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Furthermore, there is still capital to be deployed in categories that interested investors before the pandemic, which may set the new order in a post-COVID-19 world. According to data provider Preqin Ltd., VC dry powder rose for a seventh consecutive year to roughly $276 billionin 2019, and another $21 billionwere raised last quarter. And looking at the deals on the early-stage side that were made year to date, especially in March, the vertical categories that garnered the most funding were enterprise SaaS, fintech, life sciences, healthcare IT, edtech and cybersecurity.

6 investment trends that could emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic

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That said, if VCs have the capital to deploy and are able to overcome the obstacle of &having never met in person,& here are six investment trends that could emerge when the pandemic is over.

1. Future of work: promoting intimacy and trust

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