Bill Gates says COVID-19 drugs should go where needed, not just ‘the highest bidder’

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Microsoft founder Bill Gates said Saturday that drugs and a future vaccine to treat COVID-19 should go where they are most needed, not just to “the highest bidder,” Reuters reported.

“If we just let drugs and vaccines go to the highest bidder, instead of to the people and the places where they are most needed, we’ll have a longer, more unjust, deadlier pandemic,” Gates said (remotely) during a COVID-19 conference. “We need leaders to make these hard decisions about distributing based on equity, not just on market-driven factors.”

The World Health Organization said July 6th there were 21 candidate vaccines in clinical trials being tested on human volunteers. Public health experts have cautioned against “vaccine nationalism” —where...

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Fast & Furious Franchise Will Reportedly Go All In On The Sci-Fi Soon

The fact that the Fast & Furious franchise has never been beholden to the laws of physics, gravity, logic or even common sense has always been one of the most endearing aspects of the series, because the massive success enjoyed by the gang over the last decade just goes to show that not everyone wants their action blockbusters packed full of gritty realism.

Somehow, these movies keep raising the bar when it comes to ludicrous set-pieces involving almost every type of vehicle imaginable, and fans are mourning the fact that they have to wait until next year to see what Dominic Toretto and his crew get up to in the ninth installment, which looks to mark another major leap by having cars plucked out of the air by magnetized aircraft and revealing that Dom had a secret brother we’ve never heard of before that just happens to be a master driver, thief and assassin all at once.

One thing fans have always wanted to see is for the creative team fully embrace the madness of the Fast & Furious brand and send the team into space, something that Ludacris may have hinted will happen in the not-too-distant future. At this stage, you could put these guys in an Avengers movie and nobody would bad an eyelid, so interstellar travel wouldn’t exactly come as a surprise.

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However, we’ve now heard from our sources – the same ones that told us Han would return in Fast & Furious 9 and that John Cena is playing Vin Diesel’s brother, both of which were correct – that the franchise could be set to lean much heavier into science fiction than you might expect. And it sounds like they’ve got some pretty crazy ideas.

According to our intel, the idea of augmented humans being introduced in Hobbs & Shaw is just the first step towards embracing some truly outlandish concepts, with everything from super-powered cars, full-blown spaceships, frequent trips to beyond and possibly even aliens now being discussed for both F10 and future spinoffs. A space station is about the only thing that hasn’t been blown up in a Fast & Furious movie yet, and with the producers reportedly keen to go all-in on sci-fi in the future, it might only be the tip of the iceberg.

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Bill Gates says COVID-19 drugs should go where needed, not just ‘the highest bidder’

Photo by Saeed Adyani / Netflix

Microsoft founder Bill Gates said Saturday that drugs and a future vaccine to treat COVID-19 should go where they are most needed, not just to “the highest bidder,” Reuters reported.

“If we just let drugs and vaccines go to the highest bidder, instead of to the people and the places where they are most needed, we’ll have a longer, more unjust, deadlier pandemic,” Gates said (remotely) during a COVID-19 conference. “We need leaders to make these hard decisions about distributing based on equity, not just on market-driven factors.”

The World Health Organization said July 6th there were 21 candidate vaccines in clinical trials being tested on human volunteers. Public health experts have cautioned against “vaccine nationalism” —where...

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7 new trailers to watch this week

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I love when books and films take place over really short periods of time, and I recently watched two that work within a similar time frame back to back: Booksmart (which I was seeing for the first time) and Cloverfield (which, if I’d ever seen before, I had completely forgotten). Both take place mostly over the course of a single night, which kicks off after a short setup sequence introduces their cast of characters.

The movies aren’t particularly alike, but side by side, it was clear what a comparably amazing job Booksmart does in getting its events rolling. The main character is set up in all of 30 seconds with a glance over her bedroom, and nearly every other character in the movie is established over the next 15 minutes. Then the...

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Wells Fargo reportedly bars employees from using TikTok on company mobile devices

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Wells Fargo has reportedly instructed employees who installed TikTok on company devices to remove the app, The Information reported. The company said it had “concerns about TikTok’s privacy and security controls and practices” in a statement to The Information.

It’s the latest company to raise security concerns about employees using the popular video-sharing app, which hit 2 billion downloads in April. On Friday, Amazon said it sent an email “in error” to employees asking them to remove TikTok from mobile devices with Amazon email addresses. The company later clarified that there had been “no change to our policies right now with regard to TikTok.”

TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, was one of several apps recently...

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7 new trailers to watch this week

Photo: Hopper Stone / WarnerMedia

I love when books and films take place over really short periods of time, and I recently watched two that work within a similar time frame back to back: Booksmart (which I was seeing for the first time) and Cloverfield (which, if I’d ever seen before, I had completely forgotten). Both take place mostly over the course of a single night, which kicks off after a short setup sequence introduces their cast of characters.

The movies aren’t particularly alike, but side by side, it was clear what a comparably amazing job Booksmart does in getting its events rolling. The main character is set up in all of 30 seconds with a glance over her bedroom, and nearly every other character in the movie is established over the next 15 minutes. Then the...

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Wells Fargo reportedly bars employees from using TikTok on company mobile devices

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Wells Fargo has reportedly instructed employees who installed TikTok on company devices to remove the app, The Information reported. The company said it had “concerns about TikTok’s privacy and security controls and practices” in a statement to The Information.

It’s the latest company to raise security concerns about employees using the popular video-sharing app, which hit 2 billion downloads in April. On Friday, Amazon said it sent an email “in error” to employees asking them to remove TikTok from mobile devices with Amazon email addresses. The company later clarified that there had been “no change to our policies right now with regard to TikTok.”

TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, was one of several apps recently...

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This weekend, you can still save $30 on the Apple AirPods Pro at Verizon

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This weekend, you can still get the biggest discount we’ve seen yet on Apple’s AirPods Pro truly wireless earbuds. The sale is happening at Verizon, and you can save $30 on a set of Apple AirPods Pro online only. Most discounts for this model are in the $15 to $20 range, but this deal at Verizon brings them down to their best-ever price of $220. The AirPods Pro are the best truly wireless earbuds for people who own an iPhone, according to The Verge’s Chris Welch. They sound great and pack in active noise cancellation, and specifically for those who own an iPhone, Apple Watch, or other Apple tech, they can quickly switch between playing audio on different devices.

Another notable deal comes from Best Buy where the GoPro...

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This weekend, you can still save $30 on the Apple AirPods Pro at Verizon

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

This weekend, you can still get the biggest discount we’ve seen yet on Apple’s AirPods Pro truly wireless earbuds. The sale is happening at Verizon, and you can save $30 on a set of Apple AirPods Pro online only. Most discounts for this model are in the $15 to $20 range, but this deal at Verizon brings them down to their best-ever price of $220. The AirPods Pro are the best truly wireless earbuds for people who own an iPhone, according to The Verge’s Chris Welch. They sound great and pack in active noise cancellation, and specifically for those who own an iPhone, Apple Watch, or other Apple tech, they can quickly switch between playing audio on different devices.

Another notable deal comes from Best Buy where the GoPro...

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Another MCU Movie Appearance For Thanos Reportedly In The Cards

According to industry insider Jeremy Conrad, Marvel Studios is debating the possibility of having Thanos return for another movie in the near future.

For close to a decade, the Mad Titan’s nefarious grin and floating throne haunted the end credits of nearly every MCU film, leaving comic book fans excited and casual audiences confused. Then, in 2018, the galactic warrior opened a portal up to earth, and challenged the planet’s strongest heroes to a brawl for a set of primordial artifacts known as Infinity Stones.

The fiercest foe the Avengers have faced by far, Thanos remains one of the MCU’s most popular villains. And thanks to a menacing performance by Josh Brolin as well as state-of-the-art motion capture technology, his image has been etched into the minds of millions.

Given the character’s enormous popularity, it makes sense that Marvel wants to see him in yet another feature. And as one of the few bad guys who actually had a solid motivation for his heinous crimes, his narrative potential has certainly not been exhausted yet.

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How, where and when Thanos will return, Conrad does not know. All he knows is that “Marvel Studios is beginning to talk about some way to have [him] featured in a movie again in the future,” which isn’t terribly surprising, as We Got This Covered already told you several months ago that the villain will return at some point.

As Conrad goes on to say, execs have not named a particular storyline that interests them and since time travel is possible within the MCU, and the existence of multiverses all but a proven fact, the Mad Titan’s return can happen in any number of ways.

Tell us, though, would you like to see Thanos make a comeback in the MCU? Let us know in the comments section down below.

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