• The numbers of COVID-19 coronavirus cases and deaths are continuing to spike in the US and around the world, with the total number of cases globally passing 1 million as the first week of April drew to a close.
• Much of the US remains under quarantine, with millions of Americans ordered to adhere to stay-at-home mandates while countless businesses are still dealing with coronavirus shutdowns right now. One idea — for a so-called immunity certificate — is being talked about as a way for people to start getting back out into public.
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While there’s still so much we don’t know about the COVID-19 coronavirus that’s practically brought normal life in the US to a standstill in recent weeks, there’s one question that remains unanswered but which is at the top of the list of things most people are desperate to know:

When will all this end? When can we at least start to regain some semblance of normalcy and tentatively venture out into public again, for all those mundane things we used to take for granted like visiting a beach or going to see a movie at the cinema? Health experts and public officials around the world are starting to grapple with the intricacies of one solution that could preface just such a return to normalcy — it’s something called an immunity certificate, but I really hope this idea doesn’t gain traction, for a whole host of reasons.

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• Bill Gates said in an interview with Trevor Noah that his foundation will invest billions of dollars in building factories for seven vaccine candidates for the novel coronavirus.
• The former Microsoft executive explained that billions might be lost in the process, but what the world can’t afford to lose is time.
• Research and development and vaccine manufacturing logistics have to be ramped up for all promising candidates at the same time, in the hope that one or two will work.
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The medical research community starting rushing to find a vaccine for the novel coronavirus disease the moment it became clear what the worst-case scenario might be. More than three months and more than a million COVID-19 cases later, it’s clear the world needs a vaccine to hasten the immunization process and reduce the number of fatalities. The World Health Organization (WHO) is already working with dozens of firms on vaccine candidates, and two have already reached human trials in the US and China. But there are plenty of ideas out there, and the race is on. There’s a vaccine candidate started by a tobacco company, while researchers in Australia and the Netherlands are trying to determine whether the 100-year-old anti-tuberculosis vaccine can mount a defense against COVID-19 by providing a temporary boost to the immune system.

Bill Gates is no stranger to vaccines. After voicing his concerns about the way the response has been handled, the former executive confirmed he will fund new factories that will work on seven different coronavirus vaccine candidates. The effort might cost him billions of dollars and end without a viable vaccine. But Gates thinks it’s something that needs to be done as soon as possible, and that it’s time that we can’t afford to waste.

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• A security researcher unearthed seven zero-day vulnerabilities in mobile Safari and leveraged them to hijack an iPhone camera.
• The iPhone camera hack landed the researcher a $75,000 check from Apple.
• Apple fixed the exploit via a Safari update earlier this year.
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Apple recently paid a white hat hacker $75,000 after he unearthed a number of zero-day vulnerabilities that could have allowed a malicious actor to gain access to the camera on a user’s iPhone or MacBook.

Originally brought to light via Forbes, a former Amazon security engineer named Ryan Pickren was curious about exploring and finding potential security loopholes on the iPhone.

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We’ve got some fantastic daily deals for you to check out on Saturday, and it all starts with all-time low pricing from Amazon on Apple’s AirPods Pro and the AirPods 2. What’s more, they’re both shipping out immediately instead of in late-April like most stuff right now on Amazon! Other top deals on Saturday include Amazon’s best-selling Fire TV Stick 4K at Black Friday’s price of just $24.99 for a select few lucky customers (here are all the details) or a $20 Amazon credit when you buy and activate two Fire TV Stick 4K streaming media players, DIY coronavirus face mask supplies that are back in stock on Amazon including MERV 13 filters and activated carbon pads (see how to make DIY coronavirus face masks), a crazy new Hi-Fi speaker fits perfectly in Ikea’s most popular bookshelf, an unbelievable robot lawnmower at its lowest price yet, and the crazy wireless camera that lets your iPhone or Android see anywhere for just $28.79 with coupon code GSD8NBF2, and more. See all of today’s top deals below.

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10 deals you don’t want to miss on Saturday: AirPods Pro at all-time low, $25 Fire TV Stick 4K, DIY face masks, more originally appeared on BGR.com on Sat, 4 Apr 2020 at 08:44:45 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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• While most of the US is under a quarantine or stay-at-home order of some kind right now as a result of the continued spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, essential businesses like grocery stores are one of the few remaining places left that people are allowed to go to outside their home.
• Below, we present several credit card offers for what we think are the best options specifically for grocery spending.
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Thanks to the coronavirus outbreak, it’s a pretty good bet that most people’s food-related spending has drastically changed in recent weeks. You might be ordering takeout and meal delivery even more than you were in the days before the virus-related shutdowns and quarantines, or you might have gone to the opposite extreme and are now spending heavily on on groceries to keep yourself stocked up for an extended period. Suffice it to say, most of us are probably spending well above what folks used to spend on food and groceries during a normal month, which amounted to about 10% of disposable income, according to the USDA.

In these strange times, it might be worth re-evaluating your personal credit card situation and making sure you have a rewards credit card in your wallet that maximizes one of the biggest line items of your personal budget, whether you head to the store to shop the aisles or press a few buttons online and have the groceries brought to your doorstep. Unlike travel credit cards, where the choices are wide and plentiful, there are only a handful of points-earning and cash-back cards that offer groceries as a solid bonus category, and many of the top choices come from one issuer — American Express. In this post, we’ll present some recommendations of the top credit cards that can earn rewards worth hundreds of dollars or more annually for the typical household. The larger your grocery budget, the more you stand to benefit from a rewards credit card tailored perfectly for grocery spending, whether you do that online or you happen to be one of those hardy souls venturing into physical stores right now.

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• Mating flies frozen in time were found encased in amber for the past 41 million years.
• The flies, still locked in their mating pose, were swallowed up by tree sap which then hardened into protective amber that preserved them and made it possible for paleontologists to study them.
• The flies are just part of a new collection of amber-cased insects and arachnids found in sites from Australia and New Zealand.
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Have you ever been caught in the act? You know the act I mean. I mean when someone walks in on you and your significant other during a beautiful moment of physical… activity. If you have, you know how traumatizing it can be, so just imagine the plight of these two flies which have spent the past 41 years locked in the mating position, just dreading the day when someone would finally stumble upon them.

Well, that day has come, and the unfortunate flies are now not only the subject of slack-jawed stares from the rest of the insect world, but they’re also the stars of a new research paper published in Scientific Reports. These two prehistoric bugs are never going to live it down.

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• Marvel is giving fans free access to some of its most popular comic book story arcs to help keep them entertained while they’re stuck inside due to the coronavirus.
• Dozens of Marvel comics will be free to read on Marvel Unlimited until May 4th, 2020.
• Avengers vs. X-Men, Civil War, and the Dark Phoenix saga are all included.
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe has become so ingrained in the pop culture consciousness over the last decade that it’s hard to even imagine going more than a year without seeing a new Marvel movie in theaters. But due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, that scenario becomes more likely by the day, with Black Widow already having been delayed indefinitely. As a reminder, the last MCU movie to hit theaters was Spider-Man: Far From Home in July 2019. Being able to walk into a movie theater by July 2020 seems like a pipe dream.

The good news is that if you still need your fill of superhero stories, and don’t mind reading instead of watching, the company has made some of its most popular comic book story arcs free to download for the next few weeks. In order to read them, you can either download the Marvel Unlimited app from the App Store (if you’re on iOS) or Google Play (if you’re an Android user) or simply click the links below and read them in your browser.

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• SpaceX Starship prototype SN3 was destroyed during a pressure test early this morning, producing a massive cloud of steam before the vehicle crumpled and collapsed.
• This is now the second time a Starship prototype has endured such a failure during pressure testing, with a similar incident occurring back in November 2019.
• Elon Musk notes that a test configuration mistake may ultimately be to blame for this morning’s failure, though a full investigation will be launched to determine the cause.
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One of SpaceX’s shiny Starship prototypes suffered a complete meltdown early this morning during a pressure test. The result was what appeared to be the total destruction of the Starship SN3 prototype as it completely collapsed into a crumpled pile of twisted metal. The event, which was captured by observers, is kind of neat to watch, but it obviously isn’t what SpaceX had in mind.

The exact cause of the prototype failure will have to be investigated by SpaceX, but shortly after the machine blew its top, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to offer his own predictions for what may have gone wrong.

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• The FDA just approved a brand new test for the novel coronavirus which could speed up the return to normal life.
• The test looks for antibodies in the bloodstream of a COVID-19 survivor, which could prove that person is immune to the virus and could avoid social distancing restrictions.
• However, the science is still uncertain, and it’s not clear how long COVID-19 immunity will last without a vaccine.
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Staying indoors is the only thing that can reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus. The longer we avoid others, the less likely we are to get COVID-19. We already know the virus is highly contagious, with research showing that presymptomatic patients can also transmit the infection. Not to mention there may be some rare cases out there where the pathogen remains highly active for several weeks — the current record is at 49 days.

As we stay inside, we’re also helping physicians and first responders. Some countries have been overwhelmed by the number of patients they’ve had to treat in a short period of time, and various communities will continue to experience this harsh reality for a while longer. But life will return to “normal” eventually. Even then, we’ll run the risk of more outbreaks. Eradicating the virus is only possible with a targeted cure, like a vaccine. Before that, we’ll need a different COVID-19 test than the one being offered today. And the FDA just approved the first such test.

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• According to the latest coronavirus numbers from Johns Hopkins University, more than 1,500 people have died so far from the virus in New York City, which has also seen more than 45,000 residents test positive.
• New York City has become the epicenter of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in the US, and one reporter recently got a tour of a hospital on the front lines of this fight — Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn.
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The eerie reality that you’d probably notice the quickest if there was any way for you to visit the Intensive Care Unit at Brooklyn’s Maimonides Medical Center right now is the presence of IV drop bags out in the hallway. Nurses have to adjust those bags, which deliver drugs and fluids to the suffering coronavirus patients, but that would require proximity to the patients themselves — and so, thanks to long tubes that snake underneath closed doors, the bags stand out in the hallway.

The hospital — where workers were recently filmed moving bodies wrapped on gurneys into position to be loaded onto a trailer — gave a tour of its coronavirus preparations in recent days to a New York Post reporter. The tour was meant to illustrate the preparations being made there, where 26 coronavirus patients were packed into the ICU on one particular day when the normal number is half that much. Most of the patients were sedated and relying on ventilators to keep their lungs going, while the reporter noted one man who appeared to be in his 30s who had an oxygen mask strapped to his face, with the only sound around him the low hiss of the oxygen tank.

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The desperate struggle at one NYC hospital on the front lines of the coronavirus fight originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 3 Apr 2020 at 18:04:01 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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