• OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro preorders come with a limited Launch Day Bundle that offers buyers free accessories worth $120.
• The OnePlus 8 Pro gets the better deal, as the bundle includes the brand new 30W Wireless Charger and Bullets Wireless Z earphones.
• The OnePlus 8 is paired with free earphones only, as the more affordable handset doesn’t support wireless charging.
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OnePlus on Tuesday unveiled the two phones we were expecting to see during the company’s online-only press event. The OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro are the best handsets the company made to date. They both come with 5G support and the Pro rocks features unseen before on OnePlus devices, including fast wireless charging, and water and dust resistance. The best thing about the OnePlus 8 series is the price. The OnePlus 8 starts at $699, which is $300 cheaper than the most affordable Galaxy S20. The OnePlus 8 Pro is more expensive, starting at $899, but it’s still a better bargain than the Galaxy S20 phones. And if you preorder one of the two OnePlus 8 phones, you’ll get to save up to $120 off thanks to the company’s Launch Day Bundle deal.

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• The toll from the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen in the US, which is now home to more cases than any other country in the world — more than 600,000, according to the latest numbers from Johns Hopkins University.
• To do deeper into the data, use this tool from Researchers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics to get the latest look at when the coronavirus is now expected to peak in your area (and every state around the country).
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This week is already proving to be one of the weirdest ones yet in the slow-rolling, deadly saga of the coronavirus pandemic that’s kneecapped daily life in the US like few catastrophes that have come before. Deaths and hospitalizations are still continuing their slow, steady rise in some states. Governors of some states are trying to formalize a process around deciding how to reopen their economies, while the CDC and FEMA have drafted a reopening blueprint of their own for the whole country. Meantime, President Trump on Monday claimed the decision was his, and that he has “total” authority as president. And down in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis, who’s drawn fire for moving too slowly in responding to the crisis in his state, has also raised eyebrows for trying to describe the WWE as an essential business.

In the real world, though? Most states still haven’t even hit their peak of hospitalizations and deaths from the coronavirus yet. We know that, because the latest modeling gives a pretty good indication of how soon you can expect the worst of the crisis to hit in your area.

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• The San Francisco 49ers loss to the Kansas City Chiefs during this year’s Super Bowl game back in February had an unintended consequence that’s actually connected to the COVID-19 coronavirus.
• San Francisco was just starting to see its first coronavirus cases back then, and it’s now believed that a massive championship parade in the city following a 49ers win would have served as a veritable breeding ground for the virus and turned into a super-spreader event.
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Nobody in the stadium realized it at the time, but while the San Francisco 49ers were in the process of losing the Super Bowl to the Kansas City Chiefs in Miami back in February, doctors were in the process of setting up a COVID-19 operations center at the University of California-San Francisco. That’s according to a new report which notes that the first confirmed coronavirus cases had started to show up in the Bay Area while the rest of the country was focused on the big game. So what does that have to do with the Super Bowl?

If the 49ers had won the game, there would have been a championship parade in San Francisco. That parade would have drawn tens of thousands of people, and would have taken place just as the coronavirus outbreak was poised to explode around the US. Turns out, that defeat probably saved countless lives.

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• Harvard researchers say we could be dealing with social distancing for years depending on how the coronavirus pandemic unfolds.
• We may be forced to adopt new social distancing mandates from time to time if the virus spread accelerates after this initial outbreak.
• These measures may be required up until the point where a vaccine or cure for the virus is widely available.
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It’s now been a few months since the novel coronavirus began making life a whole lot more complicated for people all over the world. We’ve been dealing with lockdowns, social distancing, and quarantine efforts ever since, with the hope that this would all be over sooner rather than later. The truth is far more complicated, and since there’s still so much we don’t know about this virus, predicting its future is incredibly difficult.

Now, Harvard researchers are suggesting that we may be dealing with this new way of life for far longer than anyone had anticipated. In fact, based on their report in the journal Science, it sounds like we may be dealing with the effects of the virus for years, depending on a few factors.

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• Sling’s new Happy Hour Across America program offers free live TV channels from 5PM to midnight.
• 50+ live channels, 50,000+ on-demand movies and shows, and free cloud DVR are all included.
• New customers can sign up for Sling’s Happy Hour Across America without providing any credit card information. Just enter your email address and zip code, and you’re on your way.
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In the age of streaming and cord-cutting, live TV doesn’t exist in the same rarified air it once did. I remember jumping out of bed on Saturday mornings to watch cartoons when I was younger, but in 2020, the only time I tune in for a live broadcast is when my team is playing. But sports are currently at a standstill as the novel coronavirus has upended our entire global society, and I find myself watching the news more often than I have in years.

If you’re one of the many people who have cut the cord in recent years, you might be pining for the familiar comfort of live TV. If so, you’re going to want to check out Sling’s new initiative: Happy Hour Across America. For the foreseeable future, Sling is giving new customers free access to its Blue plan — dozens of live channels, tens of thousands of on-demand movies and shows, and free cloud DVR — from 5PM to midnight every night.

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• A 44-year-old ER doctor in Seattle developed a life-threatening case of COVID-19 and was saved with the help of an experimental drug.
• The anti-inflammatory drug Actemra is believed to have reduced the “cytokine storm” and improved the condition of the coronavirus patient, who was discharged after nearly a month in the hospital.
• The drug has been used in China and might be tested on more COVID-19 patients.
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The infectious nature of the novel coronavirus is going to keep us in self-isolation for at least a few more weeks. Most people will only experience mild-to-moderate symptoms if they catch COVID-19, and some won’t have any symptoms at all. But older patients, people with underlying health problems, and others that defy age- and health-related statistics will experience a more severe, potentially life-threatening case.

Because there’s no treatment, there’s no guarantee you will survive the illness once respiratory complications appear, and access to a ventilator and oxygen therapy isn’t always enough to beat the disease. Doctors all over the world have been trying all sorts of cures using medicine devised to treat other medical conditions. The one you’ve probably heard of is hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine, but plenty of other lesser-known drugs are being tested as well.

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• A coronavirus map from Google and Stanford makes it easy to visualize the severity of coronavirus outbreaks in specific areas across the U.S.
• These coronavirus maps can easily be embedded, thus making it easier for local journalists to provide readers with up to date visualizations of coronavirus outbreaks in their area.
• The coronavirus pandemic is still impacting the entire country, but there are early signs that the virus may have peaked in some populated U.S. cities.
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With coronavirus statistics being updated on an hour by hour basis, it can sometimes be challenging to accurately interpret some data points. As an obvious example, the implications stemming from an outbreak of 15 coronavirus cases in a densely populated city like New York City isn’t the same as a similar outbreak occurring in a small suburban town.

One strategy researchers have come up with to better inform the public about coronavirus outbreaks is an immersive mapping tool that helps visualize the severity of the coronavirus pandemic across U.S. states and cities.

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• An Indiana man’s bank account showed a balance of $8.2 million after his government stimulus payment was deposited.
• The man, Charles Calvin, had to wait until Monday to contact his bank, which now says the money was never in his account to begin with.
• Calvin has two ATM receipts that show the massive balance, but now it’s nowhere to be found.
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Right now, millions and millions of Americans are eagerly awaiting deposits from the federal government as part of a massive stimulus effort in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Volunteer firefighter Charles Calvin of Indiana was one such individual, but when he took a quick trip to the ATM to withdraw some cash he saw an available balance that made his jaw drop.

As CNN/WGN reports, Calvin’s ATM receipt showed that he had received a sum far greater than the $1,700 he was expecting. Instead, the ATM showed that his account had a whopping $8.2 million sitting in it.

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• Apple Watch owners now have a new app that lets them keep in touch with their closest contacts via Facebook Messenger.
• It’s a new app called Kit, from an internal R&D team at Facebook. This is separate from Facebook’s Messenger app for Apple Watch and is meant to be a more dedicated space for users’ favorite contacts.
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If you’re one of those people who fit neatly in the Venn Diagram intersect that includes Apple Watch owners as well as Facebook loyalists, the social networking giant has released a new messaging app today just for you.

More specifically, it’s an R&D unit within Facebook (the company’s NPE Team) that’s released the experimental app, which is called Kit and stands for “Keep in Touch.” The idea here is to provide more Watch-specific functionality for users of Facebook’s Messenger service while using the app’s features — many of which can be activated with a single tap — to stay in touch with close friends. We should note that this is the NPE Team’s first app to launch on Apple Watch, and it’s free to download.

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• Movie theaters like AMC have been closed for almost a month due to the coronavirus.
• Movie theaters may re-open at the end of July in a best-case scenario. In turn, many summer blockbusters may see their release delayed by a few months.
• It may be challenging for theater chains to attract viewers as the prospect of sitting in close proximity with dozens of strangers may not be appealing.
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Amidst the coronavirus pandemic, the entire movie industry has come to a standstill. Movie productions are on hold for the foreseeable future and movie theaters themselves have been closed for about a month now. When AMC Theaters — which is the largest theater chain in the country — closed all of their theaters on March 17, the company said that they might re-open in about 12 weeks. A few weeks later, it now appears that that timeline was a tad too optimistic.

While the initial timeline might have seen AMC re-open their theaters in mid-June, the coronavirus has become more entrenched in large U.S. cities than many anticipated. Indeed, the United States has now seen more coronavirus deaths than any other country in the world. And though the coronavirus is seemingly peaking in major U.S. cities, stay-at-home directives may extend well into May and June.

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