Google’s Zoom rival Meet is now free for everyone
- Google on Wednesday announced that its new video conferencing tool Google Meet will be available free of charge to anyone with a Gmail address.
- The premium version of Meet will roll out to all Gmail account holders in the coming weeks.
- Users will be able to enjoy secure, unlimited video calls until September 30th. The usual limit for free video conferences on Meet is 60 minutes.
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Video conferencing is one of the trends of 2020, and it’s all because of the primary trend of the year, the novel coronavirus pandemic. Billions of people are practicing some sort of social distancing right now, which involves using video chat apps more than ever. Those lucky enough to be able to work or study from home have to rely on video chat apps for work purposes. And everyone else uses the same apps to stay in touch with their friends and family now that face-to-face meetings aren’t possible.
Zoom quickly became the must-have video chat app. It works on all sorts of devices, it supports plenty of people, and it lets you share the screen o your computer with ease. But, as more people got on Zoom, it was soon discovered the app had various privacy and security issues that needed fixing. Several competitors emerged, looking to steal market share from Zoom, including products from Facebook and Google. And Google Meet premium is available free of charge to everyone.
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This credit card from Amex makes being a business owner so much easier
- American Express is currently running a welcome offer of 75,000 points as an enticement to sign up for its Business Platinum Card® from American Express, a card that offers a host of benefits and perks for small business owners.
- Small business owners may be especially reliant on plastic right now as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and the dramatic disruption to so many businesses that it’s caused.
- If you’re looking for the best credit card offers right now, in our opinion this is one of the most highly regarded business cards on the market.
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Having the right credit card for a small business owner is imperative during normal times, and all the more so right now with the global coronavirus pandemic still rampaging across the US. If you’re not satisfied with the current card you have or are in the market for a new piece of plastic for any reason, it might be helpful to know that one of the best business credit cards on the market is The Business Platinum Card® from American Express, due to its unparalleled perks and premium benefits. These benefits can make the card an excellent fit for business owners — especially those who frequently travel (not right now, of course) and who also charge thousands of dollars of monthly business expenses to their cards.
Even better: Since this is a business charge card, it sits on your business line of credit rather than your personal credit report. We’ll walk through some of the many reasons why the Business Platinum Card might be a perfect addition to your wallet at the moment, one of which is the fact that it’s currently offering a welcome bonus worth $1,500.
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NASA is going to fire lasers at the Moon in the hopes of finding water
- NASA will send a ‘Lunar Flashlight’ to illuminate the shadowy craters and depressions on the Moon’s south pole.
- The space agency hopes to find water ice hiding out in these permanently dark areas.
- Future crewed missions to the Moon could utilize this ice as a resource, allowing for extended stays.
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NASA is determined to send humans back to the Moon sooner rather than later. The first crewed mission of the Artemis program is scheduled to kick off by 2024. Now, there’s plenty of reason to think that date will be delayed significantly, but for now, let’s assume that everything lines up correctly and NASA pulls it off.
NASA is preparing for that exact scenario, of course, but getting humans to the Moon is really only part of a much larger challenge. As the space agency explains in a new blog post, it’s working on something it’s calling the Lunar Flashlight, which is actually a tiny satellite equipped with a powerful laser that will scan the lunar surface in search of valuable materials, like water ice.
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All the free Xbox One and Xbox 360 games you can get in May
- Microsoft has announced the free Xbox One and Xbox 360 games being given away in April.
- Xbox Live Gold subscribers can grab V-Rally 4 and Warhammer 40,000 Inquisitor on Xbox One.
- You can save about $120 by picking up all four Xbox games while they’re on sale for free.
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Microsoft announced the slate of free Xbox One and Xbox 360 games it will be giving away in May on Tuesday. The highlight of the Xbox Games with Gold lineup this month is V-Rally 4, which is an off-road racing game that released in September 2018, but Overlord II is worth adding to your collection as well. As always, in order to add the games listed below to your library, you will need an active Xbox Live Gold subscription.
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How to watch Thursday’s coronavirus-themed ‘Parks and Recreation’ reunion special
- NBC will air a coronavirus-themed Parks and Recreation reunion special on Thursday, April 30.
- Footage for the special was shot in the actors’ homes and shows them all as they’d be today, social distancing during the time of the coronavirus pandemic.
- Watch the episode at 7:30 CST/8:30 EST on NBC.
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It’s been five years since we said goodbye to NBC’s beloved mockumentary about a group of supremely likable civil servants from the small, fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana, which, come to think of it, doesn’t sound like a long time ago when you focus only on the number of years that have passed. But the truth of the matter is that Parks and Recreation, which took its bow in 2015, is in every way a throwback — a relic of a pre-Trump era that doesn’t really exist anymore, except in the form of a half-hour TV show that gave us, tucked inside a candy coating of slapstick, comedy, romance, and heart, a one-two combo of a mission statement that sustained the show for seven seasons. That statement is as follows: Government can be a force for good in the world, and that the people who make it so represented a reason to be more hopeful than not about America circa the mid-2010s.
Which is why it might strike you as a little incongruous that on Thursday night, April 30, NBC is broadcasting a quickly assembled Parks and Recreation reunion special. This will be the one-night-only resurrection of a show that once reflected the best about government, at a time when widespread government inaction has exacerbated the deadly coronavirus pandemic that’s now infected more than 1 million Americans, killed more than 58,000 Americans, wrecked economies at the local, state, and federal level, and left millions of people out of work. At a time when TV news is wall-to-wall coronavirus coverage, when the leader of the free world who you’d hope would remind you about the only thing to fear being fear itself instead of making sarcastic comments about injecting yourself with bleach, Parks and Recreation is coming back, one more time, to place the original cast of characters in our current timeline of social distancing.
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Coronavirus vaccine maker Moderna announces plans for phase 2 trial
- Moderna, one of the first companies to start clinical trials on humans for a coronavirus vaccine, is looking to move to phase 2.
- The mRNA-1273 vaccine candidate will be given to a larger cohort of patients in the second quarter of 2020 if regulators approve the next phase of the trial.
- Moderna previously said that the vaccine might be ready for emergency use as soon as this fall.
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Well over 70 coronavirus vaccine candidates are in development around the world in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO), and several of them have reached the first phase of human testing. Vaccines are supposed to be both effective against COVID-19 infections and safe for those inoculated. That’s why a vaccine can’t be hurried to market, and why conservative estimates sit at 12 to 18 months.
Some of these candidates might be deployed earlier than that, as soon as this fall, assuming regulators allow emergency use for these drugs. One of them is Moderna’s mRNA vaccine that already completed phase 1 of human trials. The company announced it’s ready to move forward with the next step, with stage 2 set to include 600 patients.
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CDC says social distancing guidelines now apply to pets
- Social distancing guidelines to fight the coronavirus pandemic — which has now infected more than 1 million Americans — don’t just apply to people.
- The CDC is now recommending that Americans keep their pets at least six feet away from other pets and people when outside.
- That’s because there have been a handful of instances the center has now identified of peoples’ pets contracting the COVID-19 coronavirus.
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One of the reasons the coronavirus pandemic has sparked such a dramatic response around the globe has to do with the comprehensive spread of the virus — the way it doesn’t limit itself to borders, genders, ages, or races. At this point, according to the latest numbers from Johns Hopkins University, more than 1 million people in the US (and almost 3.1 million around the world), have been infected with the COVID-19 virus.
“People” being the operative word. Because that number also doesn’t account for the fact that your pet dog or cat can likewise contract the virus, with the first instances of that happening now having been recorded in the US. In fact, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now saying that we need to apply the social distancing rules that have governed our lives for more than a month now to our pets, also.
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SpaceX found a way to make Starlink satellites less annoying
- SpaceX has a new plan for minimizing the visibility of its Starlink satellites from Earth.
- The company will use shaded “visors” to mitigate the reflection of sunlight off the satellites.
- Astronomers have voiced their concerns over the Starlink program, stating that the satellites interfere with their observations of space.
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It’s no secret that SpaceX is going to have to send a whole bunch of its Starlink satellites into space if it wants to develop the futuristic worldwide high-speed data network it has in mind. Unfortunately, astronomers have been rather outspoken regarding how easily visible the tiny satellites are, and how they can potentially interfere with observations of space from the ground.
SpaceX has been receptive of these criticisms to a certain degree, with head man Elon Musk stating that it might be possible to paint the satellites in a shade of flat black to make them less visible when gazing skyward. However, the company appears to have come up with an entirely new solution in the form of “shades” that will ideally prevent the satellites from reflecting sunlight.
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Social distancing may have to get more rigid to prevent an increase in coronavirus cases
- Social distancing guidelines and stay-at-home directives have helped prevent the coronavirus from spreading aggressively.
- More rigid social distancing measures, however, may be necessary to truly see a permanent decline in the number of coronavirus cases.
- The total number of coronavirus cases in the United States has now passed 1 million.
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While stay-at-home directives and social distancing guidelines have helped many states prevent the coronavirus from spreading more aggressively, the constant isolation is starting to get to some people. In some states, many people have started congregating in large groups with absolutely no regard for social distancing guidelines. In Chicago alone, this past weekend saw reports of massive house parties and even an outdoor wedding that attracted dozens of guests.
To a certain extent, this is to be expected. Especially with the coronavirus peaking in some large U.S. cities, some people now believe it’s safe to go back outside and hang out with friends. And while doing so may be slightly safer than it was a few weeks ago, the reality is that a second wave of the coronavirus is possible and may prove to be more deadly than the first.
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YouTube will host a virtual film festival starting on May 29th
- YouTube is teaming up with film festivals from all over the world to stream a virtual film festival that will take place from May 29th – June 7th, 2020.
- We Are One: A Global Film Festival will be free to watch, featuring films, shorts, and more.
- YouTube will ask viewers to donate to COVID-19 relief funds throughout the festival’s run.
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The film industry, like many other industries, has been hit hard by the novel coronavirus pandemic. Theaters around the world have been forced to close due to social distancing guidelines, and production on virtually every movie and TV show currently in development has been halted. As difficult of a transition as it has been, the pandemic has also forced studios to think on their feet, and it has been fascinating to watch them adapt on the fly.
Just this week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Trolls World Tour — which was released digitally on the same day that it was originally set to arrive in theaters — has made over $100 million. In three weeks, the animated sequel has already generated more revenue than the original did during its five-month theatrical run.
Resourcefulness like this is going to be necessary in the coming months, and to that point, YouTube will be hosting a virtual film festival this summer in coordination with some of the world’s biggest festivals.
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