Category: coronavirus
Apple closes stores in California and the UK as COVID-19 cases soar
Apple has closed all 53 stores in California and up to 16 across the UK, Tennessee, Brazil and Mexico due to soaring COVID-19 cases in those regions, the company told the New York Times in a statement. It’s the second major closure of Apple’s retail… Source
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‘Wonder Woman 1984’ rentals will start early in UK, where there’s no HBO Max
Warner Bros. is using Wonder Woman 1984 to push HBO Max, but what happens in countries where the streaming service (or an equivalent partner) simply isn’t an option? Early rentals, apparently. Deadline and Variety have confirmed WW84 will be availabl… Source
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Why Sapphire’s Jai Das thinks the Salesforce-Slack deal could succeed
Who says that chats about enterprise software have to be boring? They don’t, we learned during our conversation earlier this week with Sapphire’s Jai Das, a pleasant time that touched on a host of topics including startup sectors, his investing group’s capital base and, of course, the Slack-Salesforce deal. Our…
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PAX plans a return to in-person events in 2021
PAX events could return in their regular in-person format next year. Dates have been set for the 2021 installments of PAX East, West and Unplugged.As things stand, PAX East is scheduled to run June 3rd-6th in Boston. The gaming expo typically takes p… Source
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Mark Zuckerberg sits down with Dr. Fauci to talk holiday COVID safety
In less than an hour, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will interview Dr. Anthony Fauci. You can watch the entire segment through Facebook Live at 3 PM PT / 6 PM ET. According to the company, Zuckerberg will talk to Dr Fauci about the COVID-19 vaccines t… Source
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Moderna claims 94% efficacy for COVID-19 vaccine, will ask FDA for emergency use authorization today
Drugmaker Moderna has completed its initial efficacy analysis of its COVID-19 vaccine from the drug’s Phase 3 clinical study, and determined that it was 94.1% effective in preventing people from contracting COVID-19 across 196 confirmed cases from among 30,000 participants in the study. Moderna also found that it was 100%…
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