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Pinterest now showing custom search results for coronavirus to combat misinformation

Pinterest is introducing a “custom search experience” when you seek out information about the coronavirus on its platform, as a way to “connect Pinners with facts and myth-bust what’s not true with authoritative information from the [World Health Organization],” the company tells The Verge.

I searched “coronavirus” and “COVID-19” (the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus) on Pinterest and was taken to the following page, which has curated content from the WHO about how to protect yourself and others from getting sick, how to wash your hands, when to use a mask, and more.

Pinterest recommends following the verified WHO Pinterest account to see new information about health or wellness that it pins. The...

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Chinese Box Office Takes Massive Hit As Coronavirus Crisis Spreads

The Coronavirus crisis continues to get worse and shows little signs of slowing down. Now, it seems the Chinese box office has become infected, taking a considerable hit as a result of this alarming ordeal.

The Coronavirus has already started affecting the world’s economy, and it was only a matter of time before the film industry started feeling the effects. China, the second-largest moviegoing market on the planet, is now less focused on the next big release, having prioritized their concerns toward public health and safety. This has led to box office losses that have surpassed $200 million and counting.

According to Variety, since the COVID-19 virus first appeared two months ago in Wuhan, China, the country’s box office has lost an estimated total of $214 million. Part of the efforts to contain the spread of the Coronavirus involves shutting down movie theaters, which has lead to box office receipts totaling a measly $31.3 million for January and February. The deputy secretary-general of the Beijing municipal government, Chen Bei, had this to say on the situation:

“Judging from the current situation, the film industry is not equipped to resume business yet, and we have not approved industry’s demands to resume business as of now.”

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Films like Dolittle, Jojo Rabbit, 1917, Little Women and Sonic the Hedgehog have all had to delay their release because of the outbreak. Things will continue to get even more distressing, too, as Mulan, No Time To Die, A Quiet Place: Part II and Black Widow are all set to debut in the coming months and their final numbers could be drastically affected by this unfortunate series of events.

And it’s not just the releases that are being impacted, but the productions as well. Film crews consisting of 50 people or less are allowed to shoot in Beijing but under stringent conditions. Elsewhere, Mission: Impossible 7 recently delayed shooting in Italy because of the Coronavirus and the Falcon and the Winter Soldier reportedly had to do some rewrites because of the outbreak.

This frightening situation hasn’t been ruled as a pandemic just yet, but that could still happen if robust action is not taken to contain the virus. Let’s just all hope that this Coronavirus crisis comes to an end very soon before it can do any more damage than it’s already done.

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Here’s How Tom Holland Could Look In A Back To The Future Reboot

Popular fandom artist and Twitter user BossLogic has posted his take on what Tom Holland would look like as Marty McFly in a Back to the Future reboot.

Of course, the exceptionally convincing picture (seen below) isn’t the first we’ve heard about Holland in Back to the Future. A recent deepfake video cast the Spider-Man actor as Marty alongside fellow Marvel Cinematic Universe star Robert Downey Jr. as Doc Brown. As to be expected, this immediately created a significant online cry for Holland to star in a reboot of the popular 1980s sci-fi series. And it’s not the first time, either. Fans have been clamoring for more adventures with Marty and Doc for a while now.

Sadly, as much as we’d all love to see Hollywood’s favorite web slinger as Marty McFly, producer Bob Gale is a lot less enthusiastic about the prospect. Despite being consistently approached about rebooting or extending Back to the Future, Gale has remained adamant that the series not continue so long as he’s alive and breathing. During a recent BBC News discussion, he went on record stating:

You know, you don’t sell your kids into prostitution. It was the wrong thing to do. We put ‘The End’ at the end of part three… Plus Michael J. Fox isn’t in the shape to do a movie, and nobody wants to see Marty McFly having Parkinson’s disease, and nobody wants to see another actor playing Marty McFly if it’s supposed to be a continuation.

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Even Holland, who has stated that he’s had discussions about rebooting the franchise, has also made it very clear that Back to the Future is a “perfect movie” – one that he wouldn’t be interested in remaking.

While we may not see a full reboot of Back to the Future anytime soon, then, the incredible success of the original film spawned two solid sequels, a short-lived animated series, and even a Telltale game series. Not to mention that after a long time in development, John Rando’s Back to the Future musical opened at Manchester Opera House on February 20th of this year and will follow up with a run through London and then West End.

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The most disturbing video game cosmetic is this Call of Duty Tamagotchi that feeds off your kills

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Players of Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare are getting perhaps the most tonally jarring cosmetic option in the history of shooting games with the introduction of the “Tomogunchi,” a parody of the iconic Japanese digital pet watches launched back in 1996.

Similar to Bandai’s original Tamagotchi, these in-game wristwatches feature a virtual pet that hatches from an egg — the screenshots show a cat, a panda, and what looks like a dragon. You then have to take care of the creature, or else it may end up perishing due to neglect. You can feed it, keep tabs on its emotional state, and even help it grow and eventually evolve.

The dark comedy here is that all of this has to be done not on a physical product, but on a virtual version...

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The most disturbing video game cosmetic is this Call of Duty Tamagotchi that feeds off your kills

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The dark comedy here is that all of this has to be done not on a physical product, but on a virtual version...

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A Dell partner facility was damaged by the Nashville tornado

Over 20 Dead After Tornadoes Roar Across Tennessee, Including Nashville

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Monday night, a powerful tornado tore through Nashville, Tennessee and its surrounding counties, killing at least 23 people and leaving power and transportation systems in disarray.

Part of that damage included facilities working for Dell, which operates corporate offices and manages multiple fulfillment centers out of the region. Reached by The Verge, Dell confirmed that multiple partner facilities have sustained damage from the storm, though its own offices in Nashville remain intact.

“Our thoughts are of course with the Nashville community and Dell team members in the area as they begin to cope with the aftermath of this morning’s devastating storm,” said Dell in a statement to The Verge. “While we can confirm the Dell facility in...

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A Dell partner facility was damaged by the Nashville tornado

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Monday night, a powerful tornado tore through Nashville, Tennessee and its surrounding counties, killing at least 23 people and leaving power and transportation systems in disarray.

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Everything you need to know about the coronavirus

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Public health experts around the globe are scrambling to understand, track, and contain a new virus that appeared in Wuhan, China, at the beginning of December 2019. The World Health Organization named the disease caused by the virus COVID-19, which references the type of virus and the year it emerged.

You can see where and how many cases of the illness have been reported in this map. So far, there have been over 92,000 confirmed cases and 3,131 deaths. Over 48,000 people have recovered from the illness. The vast majority of the illnesses are still in China, but the rate of new cases there has slowed. The majority of new cases are appearing in other countries outside of China, and there are large outbreaks of the disease in South Korea,...

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Sports streaming service DAZN is expanding to more than 200 countries

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DAZN, a streaming service competing with ESPN+ to build a “Netflix for sports,” has announced aggressive international expansion plans. Ahead of Canelo Álvarez’s next fight on May 2nd, part of an 11-fight deal with the stratospherically popular Mexican boxer, the company says it will launch in more than 200 countries around the world.

DAZN (pronounced “da zone”) is currently available in the US and eight other countries including Japan and Canada, with differing content offerings in each. The current US service is heavy on boxing and MMA, but elsewhere it has a much broader lineup. In Japan, for example, DAZN now carries live streaming rights for the NFL, the MLB, the Premier League, and the domestic baseball, basketball, and soccer...

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Glenn Maxwell Re-Signs With Lancashire for T20 Blast

Australia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell has been re-signed by England county side Lancashire for the upcoming season of the T20 Blast starting here on May 28.

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Sports streaming service DAZN is expanding to more than 200 countries

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Virat Kohli Indicates 'Mini Transition' of Pace Bowling Battery in Near Future

With Indian team's packed schedule across formats, Kohli said that it's inhuman to "squeeze the life out of individuals".

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No Hand Shakes in Tour of Sri Lanka Due to Coronavirus Fears: Joe Root

England captain Joe Root said his players will not be shaking hands on their tour of Sri Lanka in a bid to avoid the coronavirus.

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Qualcomm confirms NavIC support for Snapdragon 865 phones, albeit with a catch!

NavIC which stands for Navigation with Indian Constellation is as the name suggests an indigenous alternative for GPS. Back in January, Qualcomm announced its collab with ISRO, the developer of NavIC. According to this, new phones running on Snapdragon 720G, Snapdragon 662, and Snapdragon 460 chipsets would support NavIC out of the box. But, now […]

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China’s largest private automaker is building a satellite network now, too

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The largest private automaker in China is getting into the satellite business. Chinese automotive giant Geely has broadened its reach to include everything from trucking, to high-speed trains, to passenger drones, to Volvo over the last decade or so. But its newest effort could tie those things all together, as Geely just announced it’s going to build its own satellite network to enable what it calls a “smart three-dimensional mobility ecosystem.”

Geely announced late Monday that it will erect a satellite production facility and testing center in the port city of Taizhou in the Zhejiang Province that the Chinese giant calls home. The facility will be capable of building a “variety of different satellite models,” some of which may be...

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China’s Geely is building a satellite network for its cars, trucks, and drones

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India vs New Zealand | Series Verdict: Indian Batting Unit’s Poor Show Leads to Whitewash

A tour of New Zealand that started with India whitewashing the hosts 5-0 in the T20I series ended with a whimper from the tourists’ point of view.

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India vs New Zealand In Numbers: India’s Third Worst Batting Show, Kohli’s Lowest Series Average

We look at some of the numbers that defined the series.

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ICC T20 World Cup | Injured Ellyse Perry Ruled out of Remainder of Tournament

Ellyse Perry has been ruled out of the remainder of the tournament after sustaining a hamstring injury against New Zealand on Monday.

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Mario Kart Tour is getting multiplayer on March 8th

Nintendo announced on Monday that Mario Kart Tour, the mobile iteration of the Mario Kart series, will finally be getting multiplayer this weekend, nearly six months after its late September launch.

You’ll be able to play with up to seven players locally or online starting Sunday, March 8th at 11PM ET.

Multiplayer for #MarioKartTour comes out on Mar. 8, 8 PM PT! You can compete against seven other players, whether they're in-game friends, nearby, or around the world. Are you ready to play? pic.twitter.com/IRwBONq560
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Chris Matthews just quit Hardball live on air

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Chris Matthews apparently just quit “Hardball With Chris Matthews” live on air. The abrupt exit of the MSNBC anchor happened after columnist Laura Bassett accused Matthews of sexually harassing her in 2016, and after a terse exchange with presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren about believing women in workplace disputes.

“Compliments on a woman’s appearance that some men, including me, might have once incorrectly thought were okay, were never okay,” Matthews said. “Not then, and certainly not today. And for making such comments on the past, I’m sorry.”

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Mario Kart Tour is getting multiplayer on March 8th

You’ll be able to play with up to seven players locally or online starting Sunday, March 8th at 11PM ET.

Multiplayer for #MarioKartTour comes out on Mar. 8, 8 PM PT! You can compete against seven other players, whether they're in-game friends, nearby, or around the world. Are you ready to play? pic.twitter.com/IRwBONq560
— Mario Kart Tour (@mariokarttourEN) March 3, 2020

Mario Kart Tour is a simplified version of Mario Kart built to be played on your phone. The whole game is controlled via touch, and you don’t even have to press an...

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Chris Matthews just quit Hardball live on air

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— Hardball (@hardball) March 3, 2020

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Oppo’s new smartwatch looks just like the Apple Watch

Oppo has given us its best look yet at its upcoming smartwatch on the way — and it looks almost exactly like an Apple Watch.

The new watch will be called the Oppo Watch, and more will be announced about it on March 6th at the company’s Oppo Find X2 launch event, according to a tweet the company posted on Monday.

It's time to say hello to #OPPOWatch.

Unveiled at the #OPPOFindX2 Launch Event March 6, 10.30am CET. ⏰ pic.twitter.com/IwbOJnHoyg
— OPPO (@oppo) March 2, 2020

There’s still a lot we don’t know about the device, including price or many of its features, but there are a few things we can speculate about from this one image. It looks like you can use the watch to make and receive calls. And if you look at the watch on the...

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X-Force Writer Reveals Plans For The Abandoned Fox Franchise

Prior to being taken over by Disney, there was no denying that Fox’s major comic book properties were in dire need of a refresh. The main installments in the long-running X-Men series were really starting to run out of steam following the disappointing Apocalypse and the disastrous Dark Phoenix, but spinoffs like Deadpool and Logan roared to critical and commercial success, likely because they were free from the studio-mandated shackles that dictated the creative direction of their fellow mutants.

While the group may have been introduced and played mostly for laughs in Deadpool 2, an X-Force movie was initially green-lit as far back as 2013, with Kick-Ass 2’s Jeff Wadlow set to write and direct. The idea was that the X-Men sequels would continue to churn out PG-13 blockbusters to keep the box office money coming in, while the likes of the Deadpool franchise and X-Force would take more risks and appeal to more mature audiences.

Unfortunately, the proposed X-Force spinoff remained in development hell, and never got off the ground before Disney’s acquisition of Fox. Wadlow eventually dropped out, and at one stage Ryan Reynolds was set to co-write the script alongside Joe Carnahan, although Drew Goddard was set to direct before the entire roster of mutants were taken off the table completely once the Mouse House had acquired their newest toy.

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In a recent interview, Wadlow offered some details on how he planned to approach his version of X-Force, and it certainly sounds a lot more interesting than anything Bryan Singer or Simon Kinberg managed to bring to the dying embers of the X-Men franchise.

“What I can share about my take on the property, is that it asked if X-Men was about mutants who get to go to private school with Wolverine and Professor X, and have the Blackbird swooping down to pick them up, what about the mutants that have to go to public school? What about the ones who don’t have the benefactor looking out for them, and what about the kids who have to figure it out on their own? We then would have introduced the darker, more militant mentor in the form of Cable.”

Focusing the X-Force movie on a group of disenfranchised young mutants with Cable in charge would have been a unique spin on the established X-Men template, and would have looked to have emulated the more mature tone of Logan, but Fox’s final effort instead wound up being one of the biggest box office bombs in recent memory.

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