• Crewed missions to Mars may rely on extinct lava tubes to provide shelter from radiation.
• Researchers tested how well lava caves on Earth block radiation and suggest that the same structures on Mars would make suitable homes.
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Humans are headed to Mars, and we might be going sooner than you think. Assuming NASA’s crewed Artemis missions to the Moon go well, we could see a push to explore the Red Planet in person within the decade, with missions getting off the ground as early as the 2030s.

Many problems will need to be solved between now and then, of course. Not least of which is the question of where astronauts would live after arriving. Now, a new study suggests that ready-built homes might already be waiting for astronauts when they get there, as long as they know where to look.

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• Bill Gates was among the stream of celebrities, business figures, and potential cabinet members comprising a steady stream of visitors to Trump Tower at the end of 2016 — with Donald Trump preparing to take office just a few weeks later.
• According to a new report, Gates delivered a warning to the president-elect during that December 2016: viral pandemics posed a grave threat to national security.
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The gold elevator doors closed, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates ascended up Trump Tower in December 2016 for what would no doubt be one of the stranger meetings of his career.

It was some private facetime with then-president-elect Donald Trump, who was making a show of receiving visitors — who included everyone from celebrities like Kanye West to cabinet hopefuls — at Trump’s namesake Midtown Manhattan skyscraper where the Trump Organization is headquartered. In a broad sense, Gates told people afterward, he wanted to talk to trump about “science and innovation.” However, Gates also delivered a stark warning to the president … and you can probably guess where this is going.

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• The Elder Scrolls 6 news is still years away, confirms one of Bethesda’s top-ranking executives.
• Bethesda officially confirmed The Elder Scrolls 6 at E3 2018, but it’s been radio silence ever since.
• We’ll hear more about the sci-fi RPG Starfield long before we learn more about The Elder Scrolls 6.
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In June 2018, at the E3 trade expo, Bethesda gave fans their first sneak peek at The Elder Scrolls 6. Skyrim, the fifth entry in the iconic franchise, first arrived on PS3, Xbox 360, and PC on November 11th, 2011, and fans had to wait for the better part of a decade to see even a glimpse of the long-awaited sequel. Bethesda higher-ups Todd Howard and Pete Hines made it clear in subsequent interviews that the new game was still in the earliest stages of development, but nearly two years later, it must be closing in on a release date? Right?

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• A detailed plot leak for the first three WandaVision episodes landed online.
• The purported plot reveals in great detail the storyline of the first half of the MCU Phase 4 TV series.
• The first three episodes will feature many cameos and focus on Wanda’s life in the aftermath of Endgame.
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After nearly two months of severe social distancing measures, several countries are looking to loosen restrictions and return to some sense of normalcy. The novel coronavirus has hardly been defeated, and new outbreaks are still possible. Some people have been lucky enough to be able to work from home, while others can’t wait to return to work. The entertainment business was put on hold as well, and several movie and TV series productions have been halted. The list includes several films and TV shows that Marvel is developing for MCU Phase 4.

While shooting has stopped for all projects that were in development in the past few months, post-production work has continued from home for some of them. The highly anticipated WandaVision TV series is one such project, but a new leak might spoil what happens in the show’s first three episodes.

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• The cast of The Office reunited on a Zoom call to help a couple celebrate their wedding.
• John Krasinski got ordained as a minister in order to marry a couple that modeled their engagement off of Jim and Pam, and invited the cast to join in for a familiar dance after they tied the knot.
• Krasinski also served as the best man, while Jenna Fischer was the maid of honor.
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Finding silver linings in the middle of a global health crisis can be difficult. This is one of the most challenging periods that most of us will ever live through, but the good news is that you can keep yourself and the people around you safe simply by staying inside. Of course, even that is easier said than done, but streaming services have made isolation far less daunting than it might have been otherwise. And over the past few weeks, some of the stars of our favorite series to stream have been doing their best to make our quarantines even more entertaining.

At the end of last month, the cast of Parks and Recreation reunited for a reunion special to raise money for COVID-19 relief. The special aired on NBC on April 30th and featured many actors that played big roles in the series, from Amy Poehler, Nick Offerman, and Chris Pratt to Ben Schwartz, Jon Glaser, and even Paul Rudd.

Unfortunately, the cast of The Office has yet to announce a reunion of their own, but they did team up for a very sweet surprise over the weekend in the latest edition of John Krasinski’s YouTube show Some Good News.

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• The Nintendo Switch game Animal Crossing: New Horizon has proven to be one of the dominant pop culture forces during the coronavirus pandemic, selling more than 11 million copies through the game’s first two weeks on sale.
• The game is so popular that there’s now an Amazon-like store called Nookazon that lets users buy, sell, and trade game items, in addition to leaving reviews, and it gets more than a quarter of a million active daily users.
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For a few weeks after the mid-March debut of Tiger King on Netflix, it seemed like that was the only pop culture story everybody was talking about. Now that the coronavirus pandemic has continued to grind on, though, there’s arguably an altogether different pop culture phenomenon now that everyone is fixated on — it’s a video game in which players decorate an island and develop it to suit their tastes over time. The game, of course, is Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and for some indication of how extraordinarily popular it’s become, partly as an oasis of calm while everyone quarantines at home, consider:

New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been visiting the game islands of her social media followers. Top fashion designers like Marc Jacobs and Valentino have launched new fashions in-game. And now the game also has its own Amazon-like store, called Nookazon, that allows players to buy, sell, and trade game items. And to leave reviews, making it all the more comparable to the real thing.

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• NASA’s Perseverance rover is now packed up and ready for its trip to Mars.
• The rover was attached to the descent stage of the spacecraft that will carry it through space to the Red Planet.
• The rover could launch as early as July 17th.
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Well, that’s (almost) a wrap for NASA’s Perseverance rover preparation procedures! The rover was recently put into its “launch configuration,” which is just a fancy way of saying that engineers gently crammed it into its enclosure that will serve as its temporary home as it makes the long journey from Earth to Mars.

Unsurprisingly, preparing a high-tech machine like Perseverance for a trip to another planet is a complicated affair. In a new blog post, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains what will happen once the tightly-packed rover actually makes it to the Red Planet.

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• Cable and satellite TV companies had their worst quarter on record in Q1 2020.
• In addition to all of the US households that are cutting the cord, many businesses, such as restaurants, bars, and hotels, are canceling their subscriptions because they aren’t open.
• Furthermore, without live sports, many businesses don’t see the point in paying for TV.
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As streaming video and over-the-top internet TV services continue to flood the market, traditional cable companies have struggled to keep their subscribers from cutting the cord. Subscriptions have been dropping at a steady clip for years now, and despite the fact that the novel coronavirus pandemic is forcing everyone to stay inside, the top cable and satellite TV companies just recorded their sharpest quarterly decline ever.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the biggest companies in the industry lost more than two million subscribers in the first quarter of 2020. AT&T and Dish Network have been hit especially hard, while Comcast and Charter suffered more modest losses. There are a number of factors contributing to this phenomenon, but the lack of live sports has perhaps been the single most influential driving force behind many of the cancellations.

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• Tesla filed a lawsuit against Alameda County over the weekend so that it can resume operations at its Fremont factory in California.
• Meanwhile, Tesla reportedly started manufacturing Tesla vehicles over the weekend.
• Frustrated with the imposed lockdown, Elon Musk recently threatened to move Tesla out of California.
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In a move that should surprise no one, The Verge is reporting that Tesla started manufacturing cars once again at its factory in Fremont, California.

“The company called back some of its workers and has completed around 200 cars Model Y and Model 3 vehicles, according to two current employees,” the report reads.

The legality of Tesla’s decision here remains up in the air and comes in the wake of a lawsuit the company filed against Alameda County for refusing to let it reopen its Fremont factory. Tesla’s lawsuit was filed shortly after California started loosening up restrictions regarding which type of businesses can resume operations. Note that Tesla’s Fremont factory has been closed since mid-March and Elon Musk isn’t happy about it. Hardly a surprise, Musk has long maintained that efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic have been too heavy-handed. In an internal memo sent out to Tesla employees a few weeks ago, Musk opined that “the harm from the coronavirus panic far exceeds that of the virus itself.”

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• A coronavirus patient named Gregg Garfield recently left a California hospital after spending more than two months battling the virus.
• Garfield’s symptoms were particularly severe as the virus attacked all of his vital organs.
• Work on a coronavirus vaccine is ongoing but there’s no telling when a vaccine will be available.
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With the coronavirus pandemic still raging, we’re constantly being bombarded by a seemingly endless stream of discouraging and heartbreaking news. People are dying, families and individuals are struggling to make ends meet, and there’s no telling when we’ll return to a sense of normalcy. And while scientists and researchers continue to work diligently on a vaccine or effective treatment, the number of coronavirus deaths in the United States is still rising and recently eclipsed 80,000.

In light of that, there are some coronavirus stories, however rare, that don’t center on disaster or heartbreak. Recently, 54-year-old Gregg Garfield was discharged from a California hospital after spending more than two months there with coronavirus symptoms. Originally brought to light by CBS Los Angeles, Garfield contracted the virus during a ski trip in Italy this past February and ultimately started exhibiting severe complications.

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