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Blizzard, the game studio behind popular trading card game Hearthstone, has started moving its developers from Hearthstone to a new secret project. The developers have said that it will be a long time before they can publicly talk about this new game. Many suspects that this may be a new card game.

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Brazilian star player for the Paris St-Germain team Neymar has been withdrawn from the squad due to a rib injury, days after he needed medical treatment during PSG's match with Montpellier, but was seen at a nightclub in Paris celebrating his birthday party less than 24 hours later. Manager Thomas Tuchel has stated that the team will proceed without him to its league match at Nantes.

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While current US president Donald Trump won the Republican caucus with no competition, Iowa's Democratic caucuses are seeing mosques serve as caucus sites for the first time in history, with 5 mosques across the state designated as satellite sites for Iowa's Muslim population to feel comfortable participating in the political discussion, and 80 satellite sites globally to ensure all Iowans are part of the process.

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Digital board games developer Asmodee Games had recently announced that three of its new games would be released on the Epic Games Store for free: Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne and Pandemic, but in a new statement Epic Games has stated that Pandemic will no longer be included in the free games offered, but will be offered for free in a later promotion.

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A report published in Nature has provided the first direct evidence for the hypothesis that the Wuhan Coronavirus, dubbed 2019-nCoV, infects cells through the same mechanism as the virus that causes a severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS. Both rely on the ACE2 enzyme to enter and infect living cells, leading researchers to suggest that both viruses may have originated in bats.

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The Super Bowl advertisement for the 9th upcoming addition to the Fast and Furious franchise showed actor Sung Kang resuming the role of Han, who was shown to have died in 2015's Furious 7 in a car crash. The trailer also reveals popular World Wrestling Entertainment professional wrestler John Cena as Jakob, presumed to be Dom's long lost little brother.

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Electric car manufacturer Tesla's stock rose 20 percent following partner company Panasonic's publication of improved profits for the last quarter. Panasonic provides batteries for Tesla's cars and has collaborated with the firm on a 1.6 billion USD Gigafactory in 2014 in Nevada to manufacture batteries exclusively for Tesla's electric cars. Tesla's stock gain marks a 300 percent increase in value since June 2019.

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Chinese tech giants Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp have requested the US administration to reconsider its designation of the companies as national security risks. The Federal Communications Commission unanimously voted in favor of the designation in November and is further considering requiring domestic telecom companies to replace any current Huawei and ZTE equipment.

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The popular card game company Cards Against Humanity has announced its acquisition of news parodying website ClickHole from G/O Media, a private equity group whose union recently passed a vote of no confidence in the top management. The amount paid for the all-cash deal has not been released, but CAH founders have stated they will restructure ClickHole as a majority employee-owned company.

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Parent company Alphabet has revealed, for the first time, the revenue streams it received from YouTube and Google, as well as its cloud services. In the final quarter of 2019, YouTube's ad sales leaped 31 percent to 4.7 billion USD, with 2 million paying subscribers on the popular video hosting platform. Meanwhile, Google's advertising revenue increased 17 percent to stand at 27.2 billion USD.

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According to the Chinese National Health Commission, death tolls from the Wuhan Coronavirus have risen to 361 across the country, with 17,205 infected, reflecting a sharp and alarming rise in the virus' spread. Philippines also recorded the first death from the Coronavirus to occur outside China, of a male patient who had traveled to the country from Wuhan city.

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In a match up that lasted four hours, Serbia's Novak Djokovic defeated Austrian Dominic Thiem 6-4 4-6 2-6 6-3 6-4 to win the Australian Open for the eighth time, bringing his tally up to 17 majors and closing in on legendary players Spanish Rafael Nadal and Swiss Roger Federer's majors records.

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After Republican senators successfully blocked the motion to introduce more witnesses to testify in US president Donald Trump's impeachment trial, Trump is almost assured acquittal in the impeachment's final verdict to be resolved on Wednesday. A two-thirds majority is required in the Senate for the president to be impeached, with no Republicans voicing support in the Republican majority Senate for an impeachment verdict.

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Steam tracker SteamDB has revealed that the popular gaming platform has recently surpassed its own record for player counts by a huge margin, with 18.8 million users currently active compared to 2018's previous record 18.5 million. The number of players concurrently in a game, however, did not surpass the 2018 record, with 5.8 million players against 2018's 7 million players.

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With Adobe's announcement in 2017 that support for its Flash platform will be phased out in 2020, tens of thousands of online games based on Flash, an extremely popular platform in the 2000s, risked being lost, but a newly released program called Flashpoint, developed by BlueMaxima, has made 36,000 Flash games available to users to download and play for free.

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The US government recently implemented measures to contain the spread of Coronavirus in the country, imposing travel restrictions and mandatory quarantines for suspected victims, but experts are challenging the effectiveness of these policies, stating that the virus is sometimes asymptomatic and may be spread by travelers who cannot be screened at airports, since they show no signs of infection.

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The latest addition to the James Bond movie franchise, No Time to Die, debuted its first trailer at the Super Bowl, which revealed Daniel Craig resume his role as the titular 007, Rami Malek as the villain of the movie, surmised to be Bond's arch rival Dr. No and Ralph Fiennes as Bond's handler M.

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The Chinese government has protested the travel ban instituted by the US due to the spread of Coronavirus as unreasonable, blaming the country's policy for a steep decline in Chinese stock markets, with stocks down 8 percent and Chinese commodities hitting their maximum downward limits for the day, while the yuan tumbled to its lowest value since August 2019.

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Smartphone manufacturing giant Apple has announced that starting February 9, it will be closing down all of its stores, offices and support centers in China due to the Coronavirus outbreak, though it is not clear if the policy also applies to its manufacturing operations in the country, which are run by Foxconn and are currently operating on a holiday schedule.

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With presidential elections looming in the United States, and the Iowa caucuses due to be held next week, YouTube and its parent company Google has announced a policy that will remove videos uploaded to the platform that can be classified as having been manipulatively edited in some way or attempt to misinform users about voting and census issues.

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France is now deploying 600 more troops to Africa to help the local governments fight off ISIS and other destabilizing forces. They already have 4,500 troops in the region but violence in the area has increased. The troops are also training local forces and equipping them to fight terrorism on their own.

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Dozens of Koalas have been killed and many more have been injured after their habitat was destroyed by logging. The Australian environment department has said that it will be launching an investigation into the matter, with those responsible facing heavy fines. The injured animals are going to be relocated to a safer area.

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China's local Red Cross division has received a large amount of criticism after supplies promised to hospitals treating the coronavirus failed to arrive. Although a large chunk of the country has been donating to the organization to help fight the virus, they accidentally sent the supplies to hospitals that did not really need them.

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Critically acclaimed World War 1 movie '1917' has won both the best film and best director awards at this year's BAFTA award ceremony. The entire event was widely criticized for its lack of diversity, with its best acting categories being dominated by white nominees and best director nominees being entirely male.

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As the coronavirus continues to spread in China, the local markets have begun to plunge. Chinese stock prices have been going down, despite the best efforts from the government to keep them afloat. A large number of cities in the country are still under lockdown and many businesses have not reopened due to the virus.

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