• The Netflix docu-series Tiger King has been one of the most popular streaming releases so far this year, with Netflix itself estimating that some 64 million households watched the series during the first four weeks after its release.
• Now, a new report teases that Netflix may have a movie adaptation of the series in the works, with a focus on the colorful character at its center — Joe Exotic.
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Few things in Netflix’s vast catalog of TV shows and movies have proven as simultaneously bingeable, buzzy, and unequivocally insane as the Tiger King docu-series, about a polygamist zoo owner from Oklahoma who comes off like a character somebody dreamed up in a movie. The series is still among the Top 10 Netflix TV series in the US, according to the daily rankings put out by the streamer, which means people still haven’t been able to get enough of the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story herein — and, along those lines, Netflix might be about to give fans even more Tiger King-related content to enjoy.

After releasing an extra episode earlier this month, a kind of aftershow special hosted by Joel McHale, Netflix went on to tout some impressive stats related to the series in its first-quarter letter to shareholders, published on April 21. In it, Netflix projected that some 64 million households would have seen Tiger King in the first four weeks following its release in mid-March. Now, meanwhile, comes word that a movie adaptation of the series focused on the Tiger King himself — “Joe Exotic,” aka Joseph Maldonado-Passage — is reportedly in production at the streamer.

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• People are bingeing more streaming TV than ever while hunkering down at home as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, sending record levels of traffic to streamers like Netflix.
• What are the most-watched TV shows that streaming fans love right now? Here’s a rundown of the Top 20 series that people started streaming for the first time during their coronavirus quarantine.
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Can we just stop for a moment and appreciate how explosive, satisfying, well-written, superbly-acted, and just jaw-droppingly excellent the third season of Netflix’s original series Ozark is?

The season debuted on the streamer at the end of March, making it a perfect and desperately-needed distraction from the insanity of the coronavirus pandemic. In the new season, we pick up six months after things left off in Season 2. The casino is now up and running, but Marty and Wendy Byrde find themselves frequently at cross-purposes over the future of their family and business interests. Marty, the numbers guy, is cautious and risk-averse, while Wendy — thanks to an ominously supportive drug cartel leader — wants to expand, to do more. All the tension boils over in the lead-up to the final episode, with the very last shot in the closing moments of the season presenting a truly unforgettable image.

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• The Tesla Semi won’t enter mass production until 2021.
• Initially unveiled in late 2017, Tesla’s semi-truck was supposed to enter production in 2019.
• The Tesla Semi delay aside, Tesla this week posted a surprisingly strong earnings report.
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Tesla’s earnings report yesterday was mostly good news. Defying expectations yet again, the electric automaker posted better than anticipated sales and managed to eke out a $16 million quarterly profit in the process. And while that figure isn’t exactly earth-shattering, it’s certainly encouraging given Tesla’s long history of losing money quarter after quarter.

All told, Tesla during the March quarter saw revenue hit $5.9 billion as the company delivered 88,400 vehicles. Breaking things down even further, the Model 3 and Model Y accounted for 76,200 of those deliveries while cumulative deliveries for the Model S and X checked in at 12,200 units.

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• Facebook launched a new photo transfer tool in the US and Canada on Thursday that allows users to copy all of their photos and videos over to other services.
• The tool originally launched last December, and currently only supports Google Photos.
• Facebook says the tool will support Microsoft, Apple, Twitter, and more when it rolls out globally.
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Social media has turned all of us into amateur photographers, but with all of the platforms we use on a daily basis, it’s difficult to keep track of which photos were uploaded where. In order to alleviate this problem (and others similar to it), Facebook and a bunch of other major internet companies teamed up for an initiative called the Data Transfer Project in 2018 “to create an open-source, service-to-service data portability platform so that all individuals across the web could easily move their data between online service providers whenever they want.”

In early December, Facebook made a contribution to the project by introducing a photo transfer tool to let Facebook users transfer photos and videos to other services, and Google Photos would be the first service that it would support. Initially, the tool was only available in a few areas, but expanded throughout Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa in February and March. Now, at long last, the tool is available in the US and Canada.

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• Everyone is still learning new details about the novel coronavirus in real-time, as scientists and researchers continue uncovering fresh insight about the COVID-19 virus — even as the virus’ toll keeps growing.
• New research shows that there seems to be a greater chance of avoiding the virus in less-crowded, well-ventilated rooms.
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With each day that passes, we’re continuing to learn more and more about the novel coronavirus that’s sparked a global pandemic and continues to add to an already tragic toll in the US and elsewhere in the world. At the time of this writing, for example, almost 1.1 million cases of the virus have been identified in the US, according to the latest numbers from Johns Hopkins University — and almost 62,000 Americans have died from the COVID-19 coronavirus.

At the same time, work to defeat the virus continues as scientists and researchers race to identify therapeutics that can treat victims of the virus and to ultimately find a vaccine that prevents it. In a post on Thursday to his GatesNotes blog, for example, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates stressed that there’s reason for hope, and that there’s starting to be “light at the end of the tunnel.” Writes Gates: “Dr. Anthony Fauci has said he thinks it’ll take around eighteen months to develop a coronavirus vaccine. I agree with him, though it could be as little as 9 months or as long as two years. Although eighteen months might sound like a long time, this would be the fastest scientists have created a new vaccine.”

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• The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said on Thursday there’s no evidence that the novel coronavirus was man-made or genetically engineered.
• US intelligence will continue to study the theory that the virus might have escaped a laboratory.
• Conspiracy theories about COVID-19 suggest that the disease was engineered by man for nefarious purposes, defying scientific evidence.
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It’s never a good time for a pandemic, but we’re lucky to have experienced the novel coronavirus health crisis at a time when health-related advances happen at a much faster rate than at any other time in human history. Many governments failed to react quickly enough to the emerging COVID-19 threat, and that’s why nearly 3.3 million people have been infected. But we have seen an increasing number of coronavirus studies hit the web in the past few months, and more than 90 teams are working on vaccine candidates, some of which may be ready for emergency use this fall.

One of these studies was able to prove that the coronavirus evolved naturally from animals, and it’s not a man-made bioweapon, as many conspiracy theories claim. We have since explained why the basis of some of those theories is wrong and that there’s no scientific evidence to prove that the virus was genetically engineered and released into the wild. US intelligence agencies have now come forward with an official statement on the matter, agreeing with scientists: COVID-19 isn’t the result of a man-made virus. But the intelligence sector will still study the possibility of the disease having escaped a lab.

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• NASA selected SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Dynetics to develop lunar landing systems that will allow astronauts to travel to the Moon as part of the Artemis program.
• The companies will have until early 2021 to develop their systems before NASA evaluates them for their readiness.
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NASA wants to get humans back on the Moon by 2024. It’s an incredibly ambitious goal and there’s plenty of skepticism in the scientific community and abroad that the space agency can actually pull it off. If NASA has any hope of achieving the incredible milestone it’s going to need a lot of help from commercial partners. To that end, the space agency just announced a trio of new deals with US companies to help get astronaut boots on lunar soil.

The three companies SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Dynetics. Now, you may not have heard of Dynetics before, but the other two companies are practically household names at this point. In a new news release, NASA describes what each company will be doing to help make the goal of crewed missions to the Moon a reality once more.

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• Leaker who revealed the iPhone SE launch date ahead of time says that the same source has told him how much the iPhone 12 models will cost.
• The cheapest iPhone 12 will supposedly retail for $649, while the iPhone 12 Pro Max will cost $1,099.
• This would be the first OLED iPhone to ever retail for less than $1,000.
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One of the smartest moves Apple has made in recent years was pricing the iPhone 11 at $699. Though the iPhone 11 Pro may have technically been the flagship of 2019’s iPhone slate, pricing a numbered entry of the ubiquitous product line under $1,000 paid off, and as a result, the iPhone 11 was one of the best-selling mobile devices of 2019 despite being on the market for less than four months. So why mess with success?

According to Jon Prosser, who leaked the release date of the second-generation iPhone SE earlier this month, Apple will once again start the pricing of its iPhone lineup well below $1,000 this year. In a tweet Thursday, the Front Page Tech host claimed that the cheapest iPhone 12 will cost $649 when it launches this fall. Not only would this be $50 cheaper than the iPhone 11, but it would also be the first OLED iPhone to sell for less than $999.

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• Apple today issued its earnings report for the March 2020 quarter.
• Revenue came in at $58.3 billion with EPS checking in at $2.55.
• iPhone revenue was down by about $3 billion year-over-year.
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Apple a few moments ago issued its earnings report for the March 2020 quarter and posted revenue of $58.3 billion and EPS of $2.55. As a point of contrast, Apple during the same quarter a year-ago posted revenue of $58 billion, a quarterly profit of $11.6 billion, and EPS of $2.46.

Ahead of Apple’s earnings, analysts were anticipating revenue to fall in the $54 billion range and EPS to be around $2.26. Clearly, it was a solid quarter for Apple relative to some of the more pessimistic expectations.

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• A National Institutes of Health (NIH) trial involving more than 1,000 patients revealed that remdesivir can help COVID-19 patients recover faster.
• Dr. Anthony Fauci said that the drug will become the standard of care for the novel coronavirus disease.
• The study hasn’t been published or peer-reviewed and some questions still remain, but the early results seem very promising.
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We’ve been talking about remdesivir for quite a while since the novel coronavirus pandemic started. It’s one of the proposed COVID-19 therapies that’s been used in all sorts of trials around the world, a drug that has been initially developed to fight the Ebola virus. In the past few days, we saw remdesivir studies that delivered not-so-great news, but also leaked research that revealed the drug is quite promising at treating some COVID-19 patients. But it was Dr. Anthony Fauci who gave the biggest remdesivir endorsement on Wednesday. The drug is good news for COVID-19 patients and will become the standard of care in the US, where a study delivered relevant data about the drug’s effectiveness against the novel virus. However, it’s not all good news, as the drug might not be able to reduce the mortality rate.

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