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Babylon Health, a new tech startup that raised $550 million last year, has signed a deal with the city of Wolverhampton to create an AI-powered healthcare app that will cover all the 300,000 people that live in the city. The first phase of the app will be out by the end of the year.

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Marvel Studios has announced that it has officially begun development on Captain Marvel 2, with Brie Larson still playing the titular character. The first movie has a huge success, making over a billion dollars at the Box Office. According to an inside source, Megan McDonnell has been hired to write the screenplay for the film.

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Harvey Weinstein's high profile sex crimes case has finally begun as both prosecutors and defense brought forward their opening arguments. The prosecutors claim that he violently assaulted several women and is using testimonies from his victims to establish a pattern of behavior. The defense is arguing that the sex was consensual and that Weinstein and the women maintained warm relations for years.

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Netflix has hired a Korean animation studio to create a new animated film that will be set in the Witcher universe that their show has created. Very little is known about the film as of yet, all Netflix has said is that the movie will explore a whole new powerful threat that may destroy the entire continent.

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The International Court of Justice is set to decide on preliminary measures that should be taken to protect the Rohingya Muslims from genocide. The court has not yet heard the case in full and will most likely not reach a final decision on the matter for a few years. Although these preliminary measures could indicate how the court will later rule.

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Microsoft is currently working on two different smartphones that will have two foldable screens and has now released the tools developers will need to create apps for such devices. Both the phones will be using Android and will probably release sometime during the holidays this year. They are also releasing tools for web apps to change how they appear on two screens.

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The Chinese government has closed off the city of Wuhan, the area considered to be the epicenter of the deadly new coronavirus. The illness has already killed 17 people and infected 600, including some people in the US. Officials are trying to prevent the virus from becoming a global pandemic.

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Manchester United recently played against Burnley at Old Trafford and lost the match 2-0, giving Burnley their first win at the historic stadium. United's own fans began booing them as the match went one, with many leaving while there were still five minutes left. Burnley is now 7 points clear of the relegation zone.

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'Wasteland', an RPG originally released in the 1980s, is receiving a large remaster where its graphics will be upgraded to meet modern standards while still keeping the gameplay the same. The remaster will release on 25th February, just before 'Wasteland 3' is released in March. The remaster raised more than $3 million in crowdfunding.

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The United Nations has condemned the recent publication of a report by Myanmar's government-backed commission investigating incidences of rape and gang rape perpetrated by Myanmar's security forces upon the country's Rohingya minority. The report claimed to find no evidence of rape reported by any victims, but the inquiry's methods have been criticized as deeply flawed by the UN and human rights activists.

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Naomi Osaka, the 2019 Grand Slam champion and current world number one, is expected to meet 15-year-old American tennis prodigy Coco Gauff at the Australian Open after both defeated their opponents in the tournament's latest round. Gauff dispatched Romanian opponent Sorana Cirstea 4-6, 6-3 7-5 while Osaka defeated Saisai Zheng with a comfortable 6-2 6-4.

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As part of a pre-release promotion for its long-awaited VR game Half-Life: Alyx, Valve has made all Half-Life games available to play for free on Steam. The games are not free to own, only free to play until Alyx's release, with the promotion including Half-Life 1 and 2, additional episodes and add-ons like Half-Life: Opposing Force and Half-Life 1: Source.

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An unnamed male patient in Seattle was recently confirmed as the first known case of the Chinese coronavirus in the United States. The Wuhan coronavirus has killed six people and spread to hundreds more in China, with most of the people killed by it suffering from a pre-existing condition. The World Health Organization will convene a meeting today to discuss the declaration of a global health emergency.

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The Yarrabubba crater in western Australia has officially earned the designation of world's oldest crater at 2.2 billion years old, surpassing the previous record by more than 200 million years. The 70-kilometer wide crater is thought to have been caused by a meteorite impact, with researchers stating the crater will help studies of ancient glacial periods and ice sheet melting.

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Following the commercial success of the Nintendo Switch remakes of the classic Pokemon Yellow, Nintendo is also looking to remake classic Pokemon movies, with Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back: Evolution being a CG remake of 1998's anime-styled Pokemon: The First Movie, slated for release next month on Netflix. The movie stars an extremely powerful, man-made Pokemon known as Mewtwo and his army of clone Pokemon.

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Billionaire inventor Elon Musk's electric car manufacturer Tesla has surpassed 100 billion USD in valuation, after having exceeded the combined value of Ford and General Motors earlier this month. The company's stock has more than doubled in the past three months.Tesla's shares gained 1.4 percent to close at 555 USD per share, making it the highest valued car manufacturer in US history.

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The innovative self-driving car startup Cruise recently launched the Cruise Origin, a self-driving electric car without steering wheels or pedals. Cruise is majority-owned by General Motors and developed the car in collaboration with Honda, who are also shareholders. The two carmakers had been planning on releasing self-driving cars since 2018 but faced delays due to safety concerns and regulations.

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For the first time since the iPhone SE's release in 2016, Apple is set to return to the low-cost smartphone market in February 2020. Production will start in February while the phone's unveiling is expected in March. The new iPhone will replace the standard screen with a cheaper LCD screen to maintain the reduced cost, and seems to be targeting customers of low to mid-tier smartphone manufacturers like Huawei.

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The Witcher showrunner has said that he would like Mark Hamil, the actor who played Luke Skywalker, to play Vesemir in season 2 of the show. Mark Hamil himself has said over social media that he would like to play the character and fans have also been very vocally supportive of the idea.

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US President Donald Trump has said that he has been closely observing the Kashmir issue for some time and would like to help resolve it. He did not reveal how the US would help or when. Trump is scheduled to meet Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan at Davos although Khan has said that Afghanistan is currently a more pressing issue for the country.

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The head of Coca-Cola's sustainability department has said that the company will continue to produce and sell plastic bottles as consumers still want them. Coke is one of the world's largest producers of plastic waste but has promised to recycle as many bottles as it produces by 2030. The company fears changing the bottle could reduce sales.

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Uber has announced that it will be testing a brand new feature that will allow some drivers to charge more than the fare set by the company. They hope that this feature will prove that the drivers are independent contractors, not employees and thus Uber will not have to improve working conditions.

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Chinese health officials are claiming that the new coronavirus that has already killed 9 people, is adapting and mutating. The authorities have been struggling to control the virus and the fact that the virus continues to change only makes this harder. The illness is spreading to many different parts of the world.

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Netflix has announced that 'The Witcher', starring Henry Cavil, has become its largest first season original TV series. According to the site, around 76 million households watched the show in the first four weeks of its release, which accounts for 46% of Netflix's total subscribers. Netflix also used Google trends to claim the show was more popular than 'The Mandalorian'.

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According to some insider sources, the Saudi Crown Prince hacked Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos' phone in 2018. The hack was used to extract a large amount of data from the phone within just a few hours although it is unknown what kind of data they were able to extract. This will likely hurt the country's attempts to gain more foreign investors.

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