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The pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson announced Wednesday that it is going to begin its human trial phase of developing a potential coronavirus vaccine in the second half of July, rather than September as originally planned. Johnson & Johnson is not the first pharmaceutical company to establish a goal of developing a coronavirus vaccine at an accelerated rate.

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Amazon said the suspension of law enforcement use of its Rekognition software was to give US lawmakers the opportunity to enact legislation to regulate how the technology is employed. In recent months Congress has been weighing possible legislation of the technology as lawmakers, companies and civil liberties activists have called for stronger regulation of surveillance software.

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Los Angeles County is set to issue its guidelines on Thursday for the restart of film and TV production, allowing filming to resume as soon as Friday. The county’s action follows a similar move by the California Department of Public Health, which said last week that production could return on Friday subject to approval from local authorities.

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For the past decade, the Recording Academy has tinkered with what it means to be a “Best New Artist.” After Lady Gaga was ineligible for the award in 2010 after being nominated for Best Dance Recording in 2009, the rules were updated the next year.

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HBO Max is facing more backlash this week, this time from comic book fans who have learned that a large portion of its DC Comic films will be pulled from the platform shortly after its launch. The big draw to sign up for the TimeWarner streaming service, which launched on May 27, was that users can view any show and film from both the HBO and the Warner Brothers

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The video game developer said it is investigating a Facebook post which it referred to as "abhorrent" and against company values. Riot Games, the Santa Monica-based video game developer behind League of Legends, has placed one of its senior staff members on administrative leave after the executive posted a Facebook note about George Floyd.

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Following a delay, Activision is releasing the much-anticipated Season 4 update for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone this evening on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Perhaps the biggest and most exciting part of the Season 4 update are the new multiplayer maps--Trench, Scrapyard, and Barakett Promenade. Fixed a bug where players were able to drop their weapon in the Gulag

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American engineer and Founder Tony Fadell, also known as the father of iPod said he was rejected by 80 venture capital investors when trying to raise funding for his own technology business. “So I literally had a decade of failure,” Fadell said, reflecting on his early years in the technology industry in the 1990s. Fadell was speaking on a panel at the 2020 CogX conference with former colleagues

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Local authorities are searching for an active shooter who shot a sheriff’s deputy in Paso Robles, California on Wednesday morning. According to the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office, the active shooter fired at the Paso Robles Police Department, hitting the sheriff’s deputy. Residents in the downtown area of Paso Robles are being asked to shelter-in-place Wednesday morning as law enforcement searches for an active shooter suspect

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Former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign has sharply increased spending on Facebook ads, splashing out $5.2 million over the last seven days, while Trump has spent $1.25 million, according to the Facebook Ad Library. The 2020 presidential campaign takes a turn with Biden pulling ahead in national polls. Since May 2018, Biden has spent $20.5 million while Trump has spent nearly $42.6 million on Facebook ads

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England and Manchester City star Raheem Sterling has backed protests taking place across the UK, saying "the only disease right now is the racism that we are fighting". Thousands of people have taken part in Black Lives Matter marches in the UK, despite the coronavirus threat. "This is the most important thing at this moment in time because this is something that is happening for years and years," Sterling

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The 1939 American classic movie “Gone With the Wind” has been temporarily removed from HBO Max Library in the wake of protests over the death of George Floyd. “'Gone With The Wind’ is a product of its time and depicts some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that have, unfortunately, been commonplace in American society. These racist depictions were wrong then and are wrong today” an HBO Max spokesperson said

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Zynn is an almost direct copy of TikTok, and is funded by Kuaishou, which is a rival app for TikTok. Kuaishou has also been funded, in part, by Tencent. The app is no longer available on Google Play Store. Zynn is filled with videos that appear to be stolen from creators on other social media platforms, including TikTok celebrities with massive followings like Charli D'Amelio and Addison Rae

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Inditex, the company which owns Zara, reported a net loss of 409 million euros ($465 million) for February through April, in comparison with a net profit of 734 million euros over the same period in 2019. The loss came despite a 50% increase in online sales in the first quarter and a 95% jump in online sales in April. Inditex expects online sales to grow substantially

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Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said that the capital is likely to have 550K cases by the end of July 2020 based on currency infection rate. India's financial capital, Mumbai, has recorded 51,000 cases of COVID-19. The news comes amid a surge of infections in India, which has 266,598 confirmed cases. Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital, has 90,000 of them

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Officials and leading universities of Australia on Wednesday rejected China's claims students should be "cautious" in choosing to study Down Under because of concerns over racist incidents during the COVID-19 pandemic. China's ministry of education warned students on Tuesday there had been "multiple discriminatory incidents against Asians in Australia" during the pandemic, ramping up diplomatic tensions between the two countries

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According to Mercer's newly-released Cost of Living Survey, Asian financial hub Hong Kong has been ranked the most expensive in the world for expats to live and work. The most surprising city this year has been Ashgabat. The Turkmenistan capital might not spring to mind when listing deep-pocket destinations, but Ashgabat is now the world's second most expensive city for overseas workers. Tokyo ranked third

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Coronavirus may have been circulating in China as early as August 2019, a new study from Harvard Medical School (HMS) claims. The virus, which is widely believed to have originated in Wuhan, was first reported to the WHO in late December. An analysis of hospital traffic and search engine data in Wuhan indicates that there was early disease activity in the fall of 2019, according to HMS researchers

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The UK has the second-highest number of coronavirus deaths globally as more than 50,000 people in the UK have now died after contracting coronavirus, according to the respective national statistics offices of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. At least 50,413 people had died, as of late May, with Covid-19 listed on their death certificate

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Tesla's top investor Baillie Gifford has invested $35 million in Lilium, a German start-up vying to become a major player in the emerging “air taxi” space. Munich-headquartered Lilium made waves last year with the maiden flight of its five-seater electric aircraft, the Lilium Jet. The vehicle takes off and lands vertically, similar to a helicopter, but is powered by 36 electric jet engines placed in two sets of wings

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Pakistan recorded 105 coronavirus deaths in the last 24 hours as the country had the deadliest day since the virus outbreak. The South Asian country also reported 4,646 new COVID-19 cases in a single day. Pakistan working on the expansion of its testing capacity, the country conducted 24,620 tests yesterday, its highest so far. Punjab is the worst affected province with 40,819 cases

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Once marked as an epicenter of coronavirus outbreak in the US, New York City plans to ease its lockdown from today. As many as 400,000 workers could begin returning to construction jobs, manufacturing sites, and retail stores today in the city’s first phase of reopening. More than 205,000 people have been infected with Covid-19 in the city, and nearly 22,000 have died

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Protests over the death of George Floyd in the US attracted massive gatherings, but the Government's response has been under the spotlight as many countries including China, Russia, and Iran criticized the American style of handling the protests. Chinese media mocked the U.S. and accused Washington of hypocrisy for criticizing China in the past over its crackdown on protesters in Hong Kong. Iran and Russia also endorsed China’s stance

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Elon Musk urged SpaceX employees to accelerate progress on its next-generation Starship rocket "dramatically and immediately," writing Saturday in a company-wide email seen by CNBC. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on the Demo-2 mission with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard.

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As reported by Variety, Olympic gymnast Kurt Thomas, the first American man to ever win a gold medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships—though possibly better known to pop culture as the star of cult classic Gymkata—has died.

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