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 The global tally for confirmed cases of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 climbed to 33.4 million on Tuesday, according to data aggregated by Johns Hopkins University, while the death toll rose to 1.002 million. The U.S. has the highest case tally at 7.1 million, and highest death toll at 205,085. The White House pressured the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to play down the risk of sending children back to school, the New York Times reported, citing documents and interviews with current and former government officials. Brazil has the second-highest death toll at 142,058, but third-highest case tally at 4.7 million. India is second to the U.S. by case tally at 6.1 million, and has the third-highest death toll at 96,318. Mexico is fourth with 76,603 deaths and seventh with 733,717 cases. The U.K. has 42,090 deaths and 441,573 cases, the highest death toll in Europe and fifth-highest in the world.
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Microsoft last week pitched Edge as "the browser for business," as in fact, "the best browser for business," and revealed some of the new features and functionality it will use to convince customers that its aspirations are more than posturing.
Edge, which Microsoft relaunched in January after tearing it down to the studs and rebuilding it with the same code from the Chromium project that powers Google's Chrome, has managed to scratch its way into second place on the world's browser standings. At the end of August, approximately 8.5% of all browser activity was attributed to Edge. That was a mere 1.5 percentage points higher than at the January restart, equivalent to about two-tenths of a point per month.
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 Gold prices on Tuesday head higher for a second straight session as a pullback in the U.S. dollar extends for as many days, providing room for bullion values to climb, commodity experts said.
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European stocks slipped Tuesday, amid political uncertainty and concerns about the economic impact of a second coronavirus wave.
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