• Jupiter’s moon Europa may have a vast ocean of water beneath its surface, and new data from Galileo supports that theory.
• Researchers found that a lack of protons over Europa’s north pole could indicate an active water plume.
• Tidal forces prevent the water from freezing, but whether life exists there remains a mystery.
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Jupiter’s moon Europa is an incredibly interesting place. It’s a massive ball of ice that scientists believe is hiding a vast ocean of liquid water. Proving that there’s water buried beneath the crust is tricky, but a new study reveals that data gathered two decades ago supports that theory.

As Gizmodo reports, a new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters focuses on readings taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft way back in 2000. During that mission, Galileo’s Energetic Particle Detector was constantly on the lookout for charged particles moving rapidly through space. When the spacecraft cruised over Europa’s north pole, its particle detector noted a dearth of protons.

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• Facebook launched its Zoom rival, Messenger Rooms, in the US and Canada on Thursday.
• Messenger Rooms can hold up to 50 people, have no time limit, and don’t require an account.
• Messenger Rooms are free on Facebook, Messenger, and soon WhatsApp and Instagram as well.
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Zoom got an early lead over the competition when the viral pandemic began, beating out other video chat apps with high-quality video streaming and a bunch of features that its rivals couldn’t match. The limitations of the free tier and the multitude of security concerns weren’t enough to turn away millions of new users, but over the past few weeks, some of the biggest technology companies in the world have set their sights on Zoom.

On Tuesday, Google Meet went free for anyone with an email address, with new features such as grid view in order to give Zoom a run for its money. Two days later, Facebook has announced that its own Zoom rival, Messenger Rooms, is now available to everyone in the US and Canada, completely free of charge.

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• The U.S. has seen a record number of unemployment claims in recent weeks due to the coronavirus.
• The $2 trillion stimulus package passed in March calls for a $600 increase in weekly unemployment benefits.
• Unemployment benefit payouts vary by state, but a video helps provide a rough framework for how the weekly payout amount is calculated.
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As the coronavirus pandemic started sweeping across the country in March, all non-essential businesses closed up shop and millions of people found themselves stuck at home without a job. In turn, unemployment claims in the United States quickly reached historic levels. During the last week of March, the number of unemployment applications reached 6.9 million. As a point of contrast, unemployment applications hovered around the 210,000 mark this past January.

Though the volume of unemployment claims has dropped off in recent weeks, it’s still at a historically high level. In short, a large percentage of the U.S. workforce is without work, and there’s no indication as to when the economy might return to a fraction of its previous strength.

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• Scientists injected human stem cells into mouse embryos and let them develop.
• One of the resulting embryos had 4% human cells after 17 days of additional maturity.
• Human cells were found in tissue that would become the heart, brain, and even eyes.
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Scientists mixing the genetic building blocks of two different animal species sounds like the beginning of a bad science fiction movie, but that’s precisely what a team of researchers just did by injecting human stem cells into mouse embryos. Just over two weeks later, the team had more mature mouse embryos that contained up to 4% human cells.

These cross-species hybrids, called chimeras, were long the stuff of fiction but have more recently become reality. Scientists in several countries have conducted experiments in which human cells were added to developing animal embryos, but none of them have managed to create an animal that was made up of as many human cells as these mice.

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• The coronavirus pandemic numbers, which already looked downright frightening, only keep getting worse — with more than 4.4 million people globally having been infected at this point, according to the latest numbers from Johns Hopkins University.
• Many states and cities around the US are trying to figure out how to gradually reopen their economies right now, but there’s also renewed fear at the moment of a fresh wave of the COVID-19 virus that seems to be revisiting the Chinese city of Wuhan, where this all began.
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We’ve been starved for good news throughout the coronavirus pandemic, which has seemed to deliver worrisome new signs every time a fresh bit of information emerges. And, unfortunately, that’s the case again now, with much of the world trying to figure out how to gradually reopen their economies — while the city in China where this all began, which had already tried the delicate reopening dance, looks to be suffering from a second wave of the COVID-19 virus. A virus the World Health Organization recently clarified might not even go away. Ever.

In the city of Wuhan, everyone is back on alert after half a dozen new instances of coronavirus infections were reportedly identified over the weekend. Those were the first positive cases there in more than a month, with the city slowly coming back to life in recent weeks after a drastic 76-day lockdown ended on April 8. And as a result of those new cases, Chinese officials are planning to subject all 11 million residents of Wuhan to a coronavirus test as part of aggressively chasing down new infections.

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• Grand Theft Auto 5 is now free to download for PC from the Epic Games Store.
• The Epic Games Store has been giving away free PC games since late 2018, but Grand Theft Auto 5 is by far the biggest title to be included in the program to date.
• The store actually crashed at around the time that the free GTA5 offer was expected to go live.
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The Epic Games Store has been giving away free PC games since the end of 2018, and while there have been some gems over the past year and a half, today’s game is the most significant freebie to date. As of Thursday morning, Epic is giving away free copies of Grand Theft Auto 5, which is still one of the most popular games on the planet, despite having originally launched in 2013. The offer will end on May 21st at 11:00 AM ET.

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• NASA’s DART mission will test the feasibility of redirecting an asteroid, but the debris it creates could generate the first-ever manmade meteor shower.
• The DART mission includes a spacecraft that will slam into one of the rocks that makes up the binary asteroid Didymos.
• A new study suggests we might see some of the debris light up the night sky.
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NASA’s upcoming test of an asteroid redirection system may accidentally trigger the first-ever manmade meteor shower. That’s according to a study published in The Planetary Science Journal that assessed the potential outcomes of the space agency’s upcoming Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission.

The aim of the mission is to test the feasibility that a spacecraft could save Earth from an asteroid impact by slamming into it before it reaches our planet. The mission will send a fast-moving spacecraft to the binary asteroid Didymos, targeting the smaller of the two space rocks while scientists back on Earth observe the results of the impact.

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• Scener is a free extension for Google Chrome that turns your browser into a virtual theater and lets you watch shows and movies while chatting with your friends remotely.
• Scener previously only supported Netflix, but added support for HBO Go and HBO Now this week.
• In order to watch shows and movies on HBO with Scener, everyone needs to have an account.
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One of the most distressing side effects of the coronavirus pandemic has been our inability to spend time with family and friends. As a result, people have been finding clever ways to virtually meet up, from Zoom game nights to online watch parties facilitated by apps and extensions that let us watch shows and movies together. One of the apps that makes these watch parties possible is called Scener, and as of this week, it now supports HBO.

Scener is a free browser extension for Chrome that initially only supported Netflix, but can now be used with HBO Go and HBO Now. Once you install the extension, you can synchronize playback on any show or movie on the supported platforms and watch in sync with your friends as you chat over audio, video, or text.

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• Apple’s Augmented Reality glasses will launch in 2022 at the earliest, according to a top Apple analyst.
• Apple is also planning to release two brand new iPad models in the coming months.
• A 10.8-inch iPad will arrive this year while a new iPad Mini will likely launch in early 2021.
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A new research note from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (via MacRumors) relays that Apple’s Augmented Reality glasses likely won’t launch until 2022 at the absolute earliest. We’ve heard a bunch of conflicting rumors about Apple’s AR glasses in recent months, but a 2022 launch window seems to be a common thread.

Last year, for example, The Information published a report claiming that Apple executives openly discussed the product in front of 1,000 Apple employees and that the device will likely hit the market in 2022. A recent Digitimes report, meanwhile, also claimed Apple is eying a 2022 release.

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