• The coronavirus pandemic notwithstanding, Samsung is apparently still planning to announce the Galaxy Fold 2 release date in a matter of months, ushering in the next chapter of a story that began last year with the release of Samsung’s first-ever foldable phone, the Galaxy Fold.
• A number of Galaxy Fold 2 leaks have been published on Twitter today, covering everything from the Fold 2 price to other specs like its camera setup and when buyers should expect to finally have the phone in their hands.
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In spite of the coronavirus pandemic that’s continuing to ravage the planet and disrupt the lives of consumers and businesses, it seems that Samsung is still pressing on with one of the more quixotic chapters in its storied history — its push to make foldable smartphones a thing.

Samsung still hasn’t quite succeeded in producing a foldable phone the average consumer would consider using as their daily driver in lieu of handsets from Apple and even other more established favorites from Samsung. Regarding the latter, the company has already tried with last year’s Galaxy Fold, as well as the Galaxy Z Flip, and now we’re learning some new details about the next generation of the Galaxy Fold that’s expected to arrive in just a few months’ time.

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• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will begin streaming on Disney+ on May 4th.
• Disney moved up the streaming launch of the movie by two months, to Star Wars Day, where The Rise of Skywalker will release alongside Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian.
• Disney will update Star Wars graphics on the Disney+ service to celebrate to event as well.
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There may never be a better time to marathon the entire Star Wars filmography from start to finish that during a global lockdown, and starting on May 4th, all the Star Wars movies will finally be streaming in one place. On Monday, Disney announced that Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will arrive on Disney+ on Star Wars Day.

The third movie in the third trilogy of the Skywalker Saga was initially set to hit Disney’s new streaming platform later this summer, but the company decided to move the release date up two months to celebrate Star Wars Day. May the 4th be with us all. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker hit theaters on December 20th, 2019, was available to purchase digitally on March 13th, and was then released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 31st.

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• The first known coronavirus death in the US happened on February 6th, much earlier than initially believed.
• An autopsy report for the 57-year-old woman has revealed that her heart “burst” as a result of the infection.
• The patient was in otherwise good health, but she had reported flu-like symptoms in the days before her death.
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Reports last week revealed that people were dying of coronavirus in the US weeks before the first registered death. The first COVID-19 death occurred on February 29th in Kirkland, Washington, according to previous statistics. But new test results from Santa Clara, California, show that people were dying of COVID-19 complications weeks before that, on February 6th and 17th. That means these patients may have been infected at some point in mid-to-late January, as the disease needs up to 14 days of incubation before patients exhibit symptoms.

New details about the February 6th victim have now come to light, revealing that the heart of the 57-year-old patient had “burst” as a result of the infection.

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• Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory built a ventilator for coronavirus patients in just 37 days.
• The ventilator, nicknamed VITAL, can be produced at scale more rapidly than traditional ventilators and could help boost the supply of life-saving hardware in areas hardest hit by the pandemic.
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For those with the most serious reactions to the novel coronavirus, assisted breathing is often vital. Unfortunately, the machines that efficiently provide that assistance are scarce in some areas, and hospitals with ventilator shortages have been struggling to ensure that all their patients get the treatment they need and deserve.

So, what kind of an organization would have the resources and knowledge to develop a complex machine like a ventilator in a very, very short amount of time? The same kind of organization that sends humans into space to live in orbiting laboratories, of course! NASA engineers working at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have developed a high-pressure ventilator specifically designed with coronavirus patients in mind, and they did so in a mere 37 days.

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• Apple’s iPhone SE, powered by the A13 Bionic, delivers better performance than top of the line Android smartphones.
• Priced at $399, the new iPhone SE offers users an incredible value proposition that rival Android handset makers simply can’t compete with.
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While you can argue that the overall look and feel of the iPhone has become a bit stale in recent years, the same can’t be said for the hardware that powers Apple’s smartphone lineup. Ever since Apple started designing its own processors, successive iPhone models dating back to the iPhone 4 have consistently delivered best-in-class performance that typically leave rivals struggling to keep pace.

The most recent Apple processor — the A13 Bionic — was introduced last year and can be found across Apple’s iPhone 11 lineup. Per usual, the A13 delivers huge performance gains compared to its predecessor. Just as important, Apple notes that the A13 is about 20% more power-efficient than the A12. Suffice it to say, Apple’s A13 is an absolute screamer, which makes it all the more impressive that it powers Apple’s brand new and budget-friendly iPhone SE.

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• A coronavirus vaccine being developed by Oxford University scientists entered Phase I clinical trials last week and could be ready to roll out by September.
• Six rhesus monkeys who were inoculated with the vaccine and exposed to heavy quantities of the novel coronavirus were still healthy 28 days later.
• 5,000 more participants will join the vaccine clinical trials in May.
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There has been one question on everyone’s mind since the novel coronavirus outbreak in China turned into a global pandemic: How long is this going to last? No one knows the answer to that question, but in all likelihood, life won’t go back to normal until a vaccine has been developed, tested, and produced at a large scale. The initial projections said that 12-18 months would be the best-case scenario for the development and rollout of a coronavirus vaccine, but the Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research at Oxford University is trying to speed up that timeline.

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• A phenomenon that you could describe as “quarantine fatigue” may be setting in around the country, according to researchers who’ve found that peoples’ patience with stay-at-home orders is starting to break, the longer the coronavirus pandemic drags on.
• That’s worrisome, of course, because social distancing remains one of the key tools we have to fight the spread of the virus since we’re still waiting on the launch of a successful coronavirus vaccine.
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I was wondering when we were going to reach this point in the coronavirus pandemic, and now it seems the moment may be at hand.

Stay-at-home orders were never going to be a perfect long-term solution to getting the coronavirus crisis under control, partly because they were never about “solving” the problem. They were, instead, simply a draconian failsafe that allows the nation’s healthcare system to buy time — to keep it from being swamped with cases of people suffering from the COVID-19 virus. That is an incredibly vital benefit the stay-at-home behaviors have provided, though it’s also come at a significant cost. Businesses have likewise temporarily shuttered, leading to historic levels of joblessness around the country. And the longer this goes on, the more some people seem to be taking a fatalistic view of it all, abiding by the stay-at-home mandates less and less, according to a new study from researchers tracking smartphone data.

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• WhatsApp recently introduced a new limit for forwarding viral messages on its platform.
• In the weeks since the limit was introduced, WhatsApp has seen “a 70% reduction in the number of highly forwarded messages.”
• WhatsApp is trying to stop the spread of misinformation during the coronavirus pandemic.
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One of the countless unforeseen consequences of social media’s ubiquity is the speed at which stories can spread, regardless of whether or not they have any basis in reality. No platform is immune to this issue, including WhatsApp, which last year introduced a new “double arrow” label for messages that had been forwarded in the app many times before. The label warned users that the message did not originate from one of their close contacts.

Attempting to keep users from unknowingly spreading misinformation has and always will be a challenge for platforms like WhatsApp and its parent company, Facebook, but as we all attempt to navigate this viral pandemic, ensuring that people aren’t led astray by questionable viral articles is more important than ever. And so, WhatsApp implemented a new limit so that these viral messages can only be forwarded to one chat at a time.

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• Apple’s top of the line iPhone 12 models might feature both Touch ID and Face ID.
• Credible reports have indicated Apple has been researching ultrasonic fingerprint sensor technology for some time now.
• There are conflicting reports regarding whether or not the feature will be part of the iPhone 12 or iPhone 13.
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When Apple abandons a technology, it’s usually gone for good. The 30-pin dock connector, for example, was effectively kicked to the curb the moment Apple introduced the Lightning connector. More recently, Apple ditched 3D Touch with the introduction of the iPhone 11, and it stands to reason we won’t see it on an Apple product ever again.

Touch ID, however, has managed to linger around a bit. Though Apple largely abandoned Touch ID when it introduced the iPhone X a few years back, the fingerprint authentication technology is alive and well and was included as part of the recently released iPhone SE.

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• Researchers around the world are racing to develop a successful coronavirus vaccine to finally conquer the deadly pandemic that’s ravaged the globe for months now, killing tens of thousands of people.
• One way that effort might be successful is through the use of antibodies from people like actor Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson, who’ve successfully beaten the COVID-19 virus and whose blood could be used to seed, in a way, the highly-sought-after vaccine.
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Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson were among the first celebrities to acknowledge receiving a positive diagnosis for the COVID-19 coronavirus, having contracted the virus in Australia where Hanks was shooting his role in director Baz Luhrmann’s new Elvis Presley biopic. The couple has since recovered, and now there’s at least an outside chance that they just might have at least a small role in saving us all from the disease that’s killed almost 55,000 Americans as of the time of this writing, according to the latest numbers from Johns Hopkins University.

That’s because, as part of their recovery, Hanks and his wife have both been found to carry antibodies to the coronavirus, and they’ve volunteered to let researchers who are racing to develop a vaccine for the virus use their blood in those efforts.

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