• A crisis like the COVID-19 coronavirus provides a fertile breeding ground for fake cures and misleading preventative measures to spread quickly.
• Some people are claiming the coronavirus was engineered in a lab even though reputable scientists have already proven this to be false.
• Make sure to do a quick Google search before buying into and spreading disinformation that could actually put people at greater risk of catching the virus.
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A few days ago, I hopped onto Twitter and saw a disturbing tweet putting forth the idea that the coronavirus could very well be a manmade bioweapon that was created to bring the United States to its knees. And lest you think that outlandish ideas like this only come from unemployed 40-year-old crackpots who still live at home, the tweet in question came from a well-respected and highly-educated doctor.

Unfortunately, a crisis like the novel coronavirus tends to be a fertile breeding ground for conspiracy theorists who are all too eager to come up with a seemingly endless number of hot takes, each one more outlandish than the one that came before it.

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We’re all in store for at least a few weeks spent mostly indoors, so we’ve rounded up 10 daily deals on Saturday that will help pass the time and keep you entertained while saving a bunch of money in the process. Highlights include a rare opportunity to get a UV-C smartphone sanitizer that kills coronavirus and other germs on your smartphone, a one-day deal that slashes the AeroGarden Harvest Elite 360 to an all-time low price so you can grow fresh herbs during the coronavirus lockdown, a Prime-exclusive deal that slashes Amazon’s best-selling Fire TV Stick to just $22.99, $150 off a stunning BenQ 4K home theater projector that can turn your home into a movie theater during quarantine, the crazy 33-foot wireless camera that lets your smartphone see anywhere for $31.99, the $140 Instant Pot Air Fryer Lid for $79.95, the Dyson-killing $350 Bissell ICONpet cordless stick vacuum for $199, several deals on best-selling Bose wireless speakers, a pair of surprisingly good $50 wireless noise cancelling headphones for only $24.99 with coupon code L5G769UL, and Sony’s insanely popular $230 true wireless noise cancelling earbuds that are so much better than AirPods Pro for only $130 renewed.

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Bose sale

Bose Home Speaker 500 with Alexa voice control built-in, Black: $299.00

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10 deals you don’t want to miss on Saturday: $23 Fire TV Stick, 4K home theater projector, Bose blowout, more originally appeared on BGR.com on Sat, 21 Mar 2020 at 07:48:55 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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• Chase’s Ink Business Preferred Credit Card, which is a card product for business owners, just launched a 100,000-point welcome bonus.
• In these uncertain times, with the coronavirus still spreading and so many small businesses seeing their revenue evaporate as customers hunker down at home, a solid card like this is worth considering and may just end up serving as a lifeline.
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One of the best business cards on the market today just launched a stellar welcome bonus for new cardmembers.

For small business owners that may be struggling at the moment or looking for all the help they can get in terms of saving money, the Ink Business Preferred Credit Card from Chase is a card you might want to put on your radar right now. One of the key reasons is that you’ll earn 100,000 Ultimate Rewards points when you spend $15,000 on purchases in the first three months of account opening.

Now, granted — travel is the last thing on people’s minds right now, so the card’s lineup of travel-related benefits isn’t going to appeal to most people at the moment. Indeed, airlines have cut out major parts of their route network as a result of the spread of the coronavirus, and warnings have been issued to everyone domestically and internationally about traveling. However, these circumstances won’t last forever, and there’s still plenty worth recommending about this card, even outside of anything related to travel.

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• NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance, is coming together ahead of its expected launch to the Red Planet in July of this year.
• The mission is still on schedule despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and though it’s still possible that that could change.
• Among other tasks, the rover will gather material samples from the planet’s surface and ready them for transport back to Earth.
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NASA’s Mars 2020 mission is still a go, despite the growing public health crisis in the United States and abroad. The launch of the Perseverance rover has been planned for years now and is rapidly approaching the finish line, with NASA staff reinstalling some of the robot’s vital components and readying it for its long trip to the Red Planet.

As NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains in a new blog post, the tools the rover will use to snatch samples of the martian soil and ready them for eventual delivery back to Earth were recently integrated and tested, including the Adaptive Caching Assembly and the Bit Carousel.

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• As states with sizable populations like New York, California, and Illinois enact stay-at-home measures, the stock market dropped significantly before the close of trading on Friday.
• Apple shares in particular fell by more than 6% and closed down below the $240 threshold for the first time in months.
• With so much uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus and whether or not countries can stop it from spreading, there’s no telling when the stock market will make a full recovery.
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Amidst a report that the iPhone 12 release is still on schedule, investors thought that Apple might make a strong end-of-the-week push before the markets closed on Friday. As it turns out, the opposite happened. While Apple was seemingly holding strong at $240 a share for quite some time, Apple’s share price dropped abruptly during the last 40 minutes of trading today, falling from $241 a share down to $229. That represents a 6.35% drop for the day and, as a point of interest, the last time Apple shares dropped down below $230 was in October of last year.

Apple, of course, wasn’t the only company to close out the week with a sizable loss. The entire Dow fell more than 900 points in trading today, marking the end of what has been the most significant fall off in the stock market in more than 10 years. Over the past 5 days alone, the Dow fell by about 17%.

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• Amazon, Apple, and other retailers are extending their return policies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Amazon’s new return policies were first spotted in Italy, the country that has been hit the hardest by the outbreak.
• Other retailers already announced extended return windows for various goods.
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Shopping online during the coronavirus pandemic is just one of the ways technology can help during the crisis. Placing orders from your home will reduce the time you need to spend out of the house, and therefore reduce the risk of being infected with the new virus.

Amazon is a handy resource for purchasing essentials and anything else you might need, and plenty of other stores are taking orders online as well. In light of what’s going on, it looks like most businesses, Amazon included, are extending their return policy windows on account of the coronavirus.

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• Android 11 may finally introduce an AirDrop-style feature. iPhone users have enjoyed AirDrop since iOS 7 but Google has been slow to release an equivalent feature for its large base of Android users.
• AirDrop, in case you’re unfamiliar, lets users share extremely large files with other iOS and macOS devices in a ridiculously short amount of time.
• Notably, Google isn’t the only company working hard on emulating the ease of use AirDrop provides. Samsung is working on its own solution as well.
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When Steve Jobs first introduced the iPhone, he said that Apple set out to create a “leapfrog product” that was a good five years ahead of the competition. And with the benefit of hindsight, the iPhone was just that.

For years, the iPhone easily outclassed Android rivals across the board. Eventually, though, Android handset manufacturers like Samsung — bolstered by Google’s continuous efforts to improve Android itself — started churning out devices that could stand toe-to-toe with the iPhone. These days, the difference between an iPhone and a top of the line Android is smaller than ever.

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• Wonder Woman 1984 is currently scheduled to hit theaters on June 5th, but there’s no telling if theaters will actually be open again when the release date arrives.
• A new report claims that some Warner Bros. executives have discussed selling the movie online and skipping theaters altogether, which producer Charles Roven does not want.
• Warner Bros. denies this report, stating that Wonder Woman 1984 will release in theaters.
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It wasn’t long ago that a movie going straight to a streaming service and skipping a theatrical release altogether was seen as a sign that the distributor wasn’t confident if the movie would succeed. In our new reality – the one in which a viral pandemic is forcing us all to stay away from public venues such as movie theaters – going straight to streaming might be the new normal. In fact, even the biggest studios are now considering it.

TheWrap reports that Warner Pictures Group Chairman Toby Emmerich and his top advisers are currently discussing the idea of bypassing theaters and releasing Wonder Woman 1984 digitally instead. According to TheWrap’s sources, not even director Patty Jenkins and producer Charles Roven have been included in these talks yet.

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• Google placed a dedicated COVID-19 news panel on the YouTube homepage which houses authoritative content about the pandemic.
• The new panel has gone live in 16 countries, and will be placed under the Recommended videos section.
• The COVID-19 news panel includes the latest videos from various reputable news sources and is meant to reduce the spread of fake news.
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Google is building a nationwide COVID-19 information site that should also include details about screening and testing locations, but the resource isn’t available to the public yet. But that’s not the only thing Google is doing to improve access to accurate information about the coronavirus pandemic.

Over the past few weeks, Google has been policing coronavirus content on YouTube to prevent misinformation from going viral. You may have seen banners appearing on the video streaming site that pointed you to genuine COVID-19 information. Google is now ready to step up those efforts by making a huge change to the YouTube homepage. A COVID-19 news shelf has gone live in 16 countries, and you should start seeing it soon.

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• A combination of two existing drugs is proving to be effective at eliminating the novel coronavirus in patients confirmed to have the infection.
• Treatment with both hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug, and the antibiotic azithromycin dramatically shortened the recovery time for people with COVID-19.
• More trials on a larger scale will be needed before we know just how effective this drug combo is.
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A specific combination of existing drugs has shown it is capable of wiping out the novel coronavirus in a small-scale study conducted in France. Doctors gave confirmed COVID-19 patients a drug cocktail that included the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin. The results of the trial were published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents.

A total of 30 COVID-19 patients participated in the trials. The participants were split into three groups. Ten of the patients received just the anti-malaria drug, while another group of ten receive both hydroxychloroquine in combination with the antibiotic. The third group of 10 were the control group and did not receive any treatment.

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