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Travis Scott’s first virtual performance wasn’t just spectacular — it also broke a record. This evening developer Epic Games revealed that the concert, which took place inside of Fortnite, saw 12.3 million concurrent players participate.
The previous record holder was last year’s Marshmello concert, which topped 10.7 million virtual attendees.

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Apple appears to have created an official account on popular social networking app TikTok, which is a platform designed to allow users to share short videos. Over the course of the last several years, Apple has become more active on social networks, sharing images on Instagram and introducing accounts for Apple support and services on Twitter.

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Bill Gates thinks most countries will fight COVID-19 with interview-based contact tracing and a central database to track exposure. He calls contact tracing, which helps identify and isolate people who could spread the virus, an “ideal way” to stop the pandemic. American health authorities are attempting to rapidly scale up a contact tracing interview system that may require an “army” of disease detectives.

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The pseudoscience category is an especially bad look for Facebook, which has long failed in its efforts to prevent its platform from becoming a vehicle for conspiracy theories and has claimed to be cracking down on advertisers seeking to profit off of misinformation during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Introduced as a privacy measure, you can tune how sensitive Smart Displays and speakers will be to “Hey Google,” with the feature now rolling out. Also, Google Assistant might not activate when you say “Hey Google” or “Ok Google,” particularly in a noisy environment. At the top right, tap Device settings “Hey Google” sensitivity.

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Supernatural, a new virtual reality fitness app you can play in your home, makes me sweat so hard I have to guzzle five glasses of water for every 15-minute workout. For Supernatural, you pay a $19-a-month subscription after a 30-day free trial, and you need an Oculus Quest, the virtual-reality headset starting at $399 that won a CNET innovation award last year.

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Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates outlined what the world needs to do to stop the COVID-19 pandemic and reopen the economy in a blog post Thursday. Gates said the world must advance its treatments, vaccines, testing and contact tracing. It also needs to examine its policies for opening up global economies, he said. He compared the pandemic to a war. He pointed toward the potential of using blood plasma or antibodies

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Ramadan begins for the Muslim world as most of the countries are under lockdown, One non-profit in the Indian capital, Delhi, has found a way to connect the community, as no gatherings at mosques allowed. “We thought let’s give ourselves an alternative - let’s give out ration kits to families in need,” Irtiza Quraishi of the Marham non-profit said. Volunteers will aim to deliver around 200 kits every night

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Malaysia's daily new cases jumped to 71 today, which is lower than the number of recoveries at 90, according to the Ministry of Health. The total number of coronavirus cases in Malaysia increased slightly to 5,603, the total number of cured cases is at 3,542, representing a recovery rate of 63.2%. This means the number of active cases is now 1,966 the lowest since March 27 (1,876 active cases)

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Nearly 50 crew members on an Italian cruise ship Costa Atlantica, docked for repairs in Japan’s Nagasaki have tested positive for the new coronavirus, raising concern about the strain on the city’s hospitals if conditions worsen for those infected. Japan has seen more than 11,500 infections and close to 300 deaths from the new coronavirus, excluding figures from the Diamond Princess

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The city of Wuhan, once the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, reopened this month after a 76-day lockdown. “People are visiting parks, markets, malls. On the roads there are many cars,” said Hector Retamal, a photojournalist with Agence France-Presse. “I have seen people who go swimming in the Yangtze River, other people dancing in a park. No big crowds yet, but step by step, life is returning to the city.”

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On Thursday Raslan and Gharib will appear at a regional court in the south-western German town of Koblenz, the first trial for war crimes in Syria since the start of the conflict nine years ago. Raslan, 57, is charged with crimes against humanity, rape, aggravated sexual assault and 58 murders at Branch 251, an intelligence unit with its own prison in Damascus, where he allegedly tortured atleast 4,000 people

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Confinement measures imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic have resulted in an unprecedented fall of deadly air pollutants around the world, according to new research published on Earth Day. New Delhi recorded a 60% fall of PM2.5 from 2019 levels, Seoul registered a 54% drop, while the fall in China's Wuhan came in at 44%.

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World mustn't forget 'deeper emergency', that's the view of the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, in remarks released to celebrate Earth Day. But as the world commemorates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the planet's "unfolding environmental crisis" is an "even deeper emergency", he says.

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It was business as usual Wednesday for North Korean state media, which reported about Kim Jong Un’s achievements and undated musings on the economy , without even mentioning the despot’s health or whereabouts. A rep for South Korea’s presidential House said they could not confirm the leader’s whereabouts, or whether he had undergone surgery.

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In a recent news briefing, President Trump pointed to a bar chart that showed one country's coronavirus death toll per capita stretched out distinctively beyond all the others. The display enraged Belgian government minister Denis Ducarme, who called it "macabre" and "level zero" politics for Trump to suggest Belgium's numbers are so poor and "all is well" in the U.S.

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That would mean an additional 130 million people were "living on the edge of starvation," largely due to the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis, with wages, supply chains and humanitarian aid under pressure as a result of the outbreak. In 2020, Yemen was likely to suffer the world's worst food crisis, the WFP said, as a result of conflict, a macroeconomic crisis, pests and climate shocks.

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President Trump says the U.S. Navy should fire on Iranian boats if they continue to harass U.S. warships in the Gulf, a move that raises the prospect of open hostilities between the two rivals. In a separate development also likely to heighten tensions, Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had launched a military satellite into orbit for the first time.

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Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps says the country is now able to "monitor the world from space", after successfully launching its first military satellite into orbit. US President Donald Trump, without addressing the launch directly, has threatened to destroy Iranian gunboats which he says, have been harassing US ships at sea.

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The Federal Housing Finance Agency said Tuesday that servicers will only need to advance scheduled monthly principal and interest payments to investors for four months once a mortgage borrower has entered forbearance. The FHFA’s move will reduce some of this strain on servicers whose mortgages are backed by Fannie Mae; Freddie Mac’s policies already only required servicers to make payments to investors for four months

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Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian told employees Wednesday that it could take two to three years for the airline's business to recover from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The airline is carrying about 5% of its normal passenger loads, Bastian told CNBC in an interview, as demand for air travel has nearly disappeared because of the virus and measures to stop it from spreading such as stay-at-home orders.

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Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and US Bank were sued Sunday for allegedly failing to process forgivable loans in the $349 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) on a first-come first-served basis. JPMorgan said that it has more than 40,000 processed and fully verified applications ready to submit to the SBA that would provide an additional $7.3 billion to small business customers.

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In partnership with Formlabs and others, Northwell Health recently announced that it has started 3D-printing nasal swabs to be used within the health system and across the U.S. to test for COVID-19. Watertown, Mass.-based 3D printing specialist Markforged recently announced a partnership with fiber photometry company Neurophotometrics to produce a 3D-printed swab that can be used for COVID-19 testing.

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Because nearly all of Netflix’s original productions are currently on hold, that will “shift out some cash spending on content to future years,” the company said in the Q1 letter.With its current outlook and balance sheet, Netflix said it has more than 12 months of “liquidity and substantial financial flexibility.” The company ended Q1 with $5.2 billion in cash and equivalents and maintains an untapped $750 million line of credit.

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"I am pleased to report that we have reached an agreement with the administration on interim emergency relief legislation," Schumer announced in a letter to Democratic colleagues Tuesday afternoon. "Leader McConnell initially tried to bypass negotiations altogether and jam through a bill that would have increased funding for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) alone, while ignoring the many changes Democrats have called for to improve its service to small businesses,"Schumer

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