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Octavia Spencer is doing her part to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. The 47-year-old Academy Award-winning actress donated Miku breathing monitors to both Baptist Health and the Montefiore Health System locations in Alabama, where she is from, and New York, the epicenter of the virus. “I, like many of you, have felt helpless in knowing …
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Shares of Zoom dropped as much as 7 percent Wednesday after Google announced that it will soon make its Meet video-conferencing service for businesses free for all users. Google’s move is a direct shot at Zoom, which has seen its user base soar 20-fold to more than 200 million during the coronavirus pandemic. Meet, which …
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Disney wants fans to be their guest again during the coronavirus quarantine. After the success of the “Disney Family Singalong” on April 16, which drew more than 10 million viewers, ABC announced Wednesday a Mother’s Day followup special, “The Disney Family Singalong: Volume II.” Ryan Seacrest will host the show starting at 7 p.m. ET …
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Hilarie Burton is ditching the hair dye during quarantine for a symbolic reason. In an emotional Instagram post on Tuesday, the former “One Tree Hill” star, 37, shared a close-up look at her natural gray hair. “The ‘silver lining’ is literally growing out of my skull,” she began her caption. “For all of our frontline …
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The US economy suffered its fastest contraction since the Great Recession as the coronavirus crisis put the country under lockdown, new federal data show. The nation’s gross domestic product — the value of all goods and services produced here — decreased by an annual rate of 4.8 percent in the first three months of the …
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Amazon is reportedly buying heat-sensing cameras to monitor its workers’ temperatures during the coronavirus pandemic from a firm that has been blacklisted by the US for helping China detain and monitor the Uighurs and other Muslim minorities. Under the deal with China’s Zhejiang Dahua Technology, Amazon is paying $10 million for 1,500 cameras, according to …
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Music streaming giant Spotify added another 6 million paying customers in the first quarter but lowered its revenue forecast as ad sales got hit by the economic fallout of the pandemic. The global health crisis began to slam Spotify’s business in late February, the Stockholm-based company said Wednesday, with steeper declines in hard-hit markets such …
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Billionaire Tesla boss Elon Musk lashed out Wednesday at lockdowns meant to contain the coronavirus in a series of early-morning Twitter posts echoing calls from protesters around the US. “FREE AMERICA NOW,” Musk tweeted at 2:15 a.m. The 48-year-old tech tycoon crowed “Bravo Texas!” in an earlier post hailing the Lone Star State for moving …
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The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the U.S. hit 1,000,000 Tuesday, with the death toll nearing 60,000 as various state governments debate when to reopen shuttered businesses and schools. New York remains an epicenter with 295,000 cases and 58,000 deaths. New York City alone accounts for 162,000 cases and 17,500 deaths, in an …
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) told Republican Senators that he would not support President Trump’s proposal for an infrastructure overhaul as part of any further coronavirus economic relief, according to multiple reports. “We need to keep the White House in the box,” McConnell told his caucus, according to Axios. ” . . . …
Octavia Spencer is doing her part to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. The 47-year-old Academy Award-winning actress donated Miku breathing monitors to both Baptist Health and the Montefiore Health System locations in Alabama, where she is from, and New York, the epicenter of the virus. “I, like many of you, have felt helpless in knowing …
