Facebook just made it easier to transfer all of your photos and videos to Google Photos

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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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These are the places to avoid to stay safe from coronavirus

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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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US intelligence concludes that the coronavirus wasn’t man-made

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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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Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are going to help NASA get to the Moon

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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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New leak suggests iPhone 12 pricing could start as low as $649

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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 posts Q2 earnings: Revenue hits an impressive $58.3 billion

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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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Coronavirus medicine remdesivir just got its most important endorsement yet

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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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Hubble spotted a comet in the midst of disintegrating, and it’s stunning

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The Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of a comet in the midst of fragmentation.
Observations of comets as they break up are incredibly rare, and scientists are eager to study and compare the Hubble images in order to learn more about how the process unfolds.
The comet, C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) was only just spotted in late 2019, so scientists seem to have caught it just in time to see it crumble.
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The Hubble Space Telescope, an aging workhorse for NASA and the European Space Agency, is great at capturing images of distance features of our galaxy and even other galaxies, but that doesn’t mean it’s always looking to the horizon for objects of interest. As evidence of that, the telescope just spotted something pretty special right here in our neck of the woods.

Comet C/2019 (ATLAS) is breaking up. Scientists haven’t had long to study the comet, as it was discovered in December 2019, but as a new set of Hubble images reveals, it’s now breaking up right before our very eyes.

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This coronavirus vaccine might be just a few months away from release

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A new coronavirus vaccine candidate from Germany has entered human trials, and it might be ready for emergency use as soon as this fall.
Vaccine candidate BNT162 was administered to volunteers in Germany, although healthy American adults will also be included in the trial.
BioNTech is working with Pfizer on the drug that has the potential of preventing a COVID-19 infection.
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Remdesivir may be the talk of the town right now because the anti-viral that was initially developed to treat Ebola will become standard care for COVID-19 patients, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci. The drug may not prevent deaths, but the preliminary findings of a massive study show it can reduce the recovery time in patients infected with the novel coronavirus. While COVID-19 complications can still appear, the drug may help patients recover faster and reduce their stays in hospitals. That could be of enormous help to both the patients and the medical centers treating large numbers of COVID-19 patients, especially once a second wave inevitably hits.

The anti-viral isn’t a “miracle cure,” but those drugs are also in the making. They’re vaccines, if you were wondering, and some 90 different candidates are already in the works. A brand new one from Germany just reached the human trials phase, and it could be available to millions of people as soon as this fall.

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Anova’s hot new sous vide cookers are finally in stock at Amazon

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Anova has long been one of the most popular brands on the market when it comes to sous vide cookers for home use.
The company’s new Precision Cooker and Precision Cooker Pro are by far the most impressive sous vide models Anova has released so far, and they’re both in stock right now on Amazon.
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It might seem like ages ago, but it actually wasn’t too long ago that sous vide cookers were only used by professional chefs in fancy restaurants. These days, however, anyone can cook delicious meals with a sous vide cooker right at home. There are a few brands that we have to thank for the boom in popularity of at-home sous vide machines, and there’s no question that Anova is at the top of the list.

Anova’s various sous vide models have been best-sellers for years, and each new generation is better than the last. That remains true of the latest and greatest new models that were just released in 2020. The Anova Sous Vide Precision Cooker and Anova Sous Vide Precision Cooker Pro take everything that’s great about Anova’s earlier models and improve upon it.

The Pro model is also the company’s first to feature an all-metal build and a new design with a rectangular display that shows much more information than earlier models. It also has 200W of extra power compared to the regular model, and it lasts twice as long with the ability to cook for 10,000 continuous hours. Both new models are in stock right now at Amazon, and either one will make your time in coronavirus quarantine much more delicious.

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Here are all the key details from the Amazon page:

PERFECT RESULTS EVERY TIME: Never over or undercook your food again. The Anova Precision Cooker sous vide (pronounced “sue-veed”) circulates water at the exact temperature required for perfectly cooked meals, no matter what’s on your menu. Use the Anova App to access thousands of free recipes and monitor your cook from anywhere via your smartphone.
WHAT TO COOK: Sous vide cooking guarantees the perfect level of doneness for nearly any food of your choosing. Chicken, fish, vegetables, eggs, beef, lamb, pork and more are all ideal candidates for sous vide circulation. The ability to lock in flavor and moisture during the cooking process results in texture and taste that is second to none. Temperature Accuracy is +/- 0.1˚C (0.2˚F)
NEW AND IMPROVED: Now with more power, faster heat up times, and improved WiFi connection all in a smaller and more durable body, the Anova Precision Cooker is the perfect option for any home chef. It easily attaches to any stock pot or container with a fully adjustable clamp, and is water resistant for when accidents happen in the kitchen.
EASY TO USE: Simply attach the Precision Cooker to your own pot or container, fill the pot or container with water, add your food in a sealed bag, and cook manually with the built-in controls or with the Anova App.
CUSTOMER PROMISE: Designed in San Francisco, CA with a 2 year warranty. Anova delivers thousands of sous vide receipes for free in the Anova App, created for cooks of every skill level by award-winning chefs and home cooks alike. The numbers speak for themselves – with over 60 million units sold to date and half a million #Anovafoodnerds worldwide, you could say people love cooking with Anova. Try it yourself and find out why with our 100-day money-back guarantee.

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