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• A 90-year-old British grandmother is the first person in the West to receive a COVID-19 vaccine outside clinical trials, as the UK starts inoculating its citizens

  08-12-2020 09:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Margaret Keenan speaks to nurse May Parsons shortly before receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine at University Hospital, Coventry, England, on December 8, 2020.
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  On Tuesday, the UK became the first Western nation to begin administering the COVID-19 vaccine to its citizens.
  The first to get the shot was Margaret Keenan, a grandmother of four who turns 91 years old next week.
  Keenan said she felt "so privileged" to be the first person to take the vac
  
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• Trump reportedly called Pennsylvania House Speaker Bryan Cutler in another unsuccessful attempt to overturn battleground state results

  08-12-2020 07:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  MIDDLETOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - SEPTEMBER 26: President Donald Trump speaks at a rally at Harrisburg International Airport on September 26, 2020 in Middletown, Pennsylvania. Trump announced that Amy Coney Barrett is his choice to be the new Supreme Court justice, replacing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who passed away last week.
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  President Trump called Republican Pennsylvania House Speaker Bryan Cutler, in an attempt to have him overturn the state's election results,
  
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• Gen. Chuck Yeager, 'The Right Stuff' test pilot who broke sound barrier, has died at 97

  08-12-2020 06:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  General Chuck Yeager, the first person to break the sound barrier, speaks to a crowd December 16, 2003 during the weeklong First Flight Centennial Celebration that is taking place at the Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
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  Gen. Chuck Yeager died on Monday at the age of 97. 
  He was the first person to break the sound barrier.
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  Chuck Yeager, the steely "Right Stuff" te
  
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• SpaceX's next Starship rocket may soar 15 kilometers high on Tuesday, but Elon Musk says there's a 2-in-3 chance the flight could fail

  08-12-2020 05:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, is building and launching Starship prototypes in Boca Chica, Texas.
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  SpaceX is planning to fly a Starship rocket prototype to its highest altitude yet this week, according to government notices.
  The spacecraft should fly 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) into the air as soon as Tuesday. Previous prototypes have only made short hops of about 150 meters (492 feet).
  SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk said there's lot that could g
  
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• A second US judge just ruled to block the Trump administration's attempt to ban TikTok

  08-12-2020 03:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
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  A second US judge issued an injunction blocking the US Commerce Department from banning the mobile video app TikTok. 
  US District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington issued the injunction more than a month after a Pennsylvania judge delivered a similar ruling. 
  In September, Nichols also separately blocked the Commerce Department from banning Apple's and Google's app stores from offering TikTok for downloads by new users. 
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• A Kansas radiology technician slept in an RV outside his hospital for over a week after coworkers got sick with COVID-19 and no one else was available to take X-rays

  08-12-2020 03:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
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  A Kansas radiology technician slept in an RV parked in his hospital's parking lot after his coworkers caught COVID-19, the Associated Press reported.
  He was the only one able to run X-rays, and without the service, the ER was at risk of closing. 
  Hospitals all across the country are facing challenges as COVID-19 cases surge. 
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• Trump is hosting a 'vaccine summit' to discuss the 'success' of Operation Warp Speed. The governors of Florida and Texas will join, Moderna and Pfizer declined the invite.

  08-12-2020 03:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  President Donald Trump delivers remarks on Operation Warp Speed.
  Shealah Craighead, White House
  Senior administration officials revealed details of President Donald Trump's December 8 "vaccine summit" during a call Monday evening.
  At the summit, Trump will sign an executive order stating the US would provide vaccines to Americans before aiding other nations.
  Moderna and Pfizer declined invitations to the summit.
  Administration officials said the companies did not think it would be "appropriate"
  
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• Photos show how countries around the world are preparing to distribute COVID-19 vaccines as the pandemic rages with ferocity

  08-12-2020 02:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Woman holds vials labelled "COVID-19 Coronavirus Vaccine" over dry ice in this illustration taken, December 5, 2020.
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  The world is preparing to move past the global COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 1.5 million people as vaccines begin to roll out to the public.
  The UK is expected to distribute Pfizer's vaccine for the novel coronavirus this week after British authorities approved it for emergency use on December 2.
  Photos show how different countries ar
  
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• Biden picks retired US Army Gen. Lloyd Austin to head the Pentagon. If confirmed, he'd be the first Black man to lead the Defense Department.

  08-12-2020 01:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, addresses a crowd at Conmy Hall on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall. Arlington, Virginia, January 31, 2012.
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  President-elect Joe Biden has picked a retired US Army general to lead the Defense Department, according to multiple news reports.
  If confirmed, Austin would be the first Black defense secretary to lead the US military.
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  President-elect Joe Biden has picked a retired US Army
  
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• New satellite images show the Arecibo Observatory before and after its violent collapse in Puerto Rico

  08-12-2020 01:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Arecibo Observatory as seen by Maxar's WorldView-2 satellite on December 6, 2020.
  Satellite image ©2020 Maxar Technologies
  Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory violently collapsed on December 1.
  Engineers had been planning to dismantle the radio telescope since a support cable snapped in November. 
  But before that could happen, the telescope's 900-ton suspended platform crashed into the bowl-shaped disk below, destroying the facility.
  Maxar imaging satellites in low-Earth orbit photo
  
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• Marketing mix modelling set to pick up

  08-12-2020 01:00
  
  Almost a third of client-side marketers have no modelling in place to measure the impact of marketing investment across walled garden platforms, according to a survey for WARC’s Marketer’s Toolkit 2021, but that is set to change as the end of...
  
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• Key e-commerce trends in SE Asia post-pandemic

  08-12-2020 01:00
  
  Women in Southeast Asia contribute to 80% of all household buys, outshopping men by 20%, and spending 40% more time looking at online retailers, says a report from e-retailer Zalora.
  
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• Altagamma awards reveal luxury’s digital trends and growth areas

  08-12-2020 01:00
  
  The pandemic has fueled a surge in the proportion of luxury items being bought online rather than in physical retail stores, according to a report into the personal luxury goods sector released to coincide with the Altagamma Digital Awards.
  
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• In a first, SpaceX has 2 Dragon spaceships docked to the International Space Station at once - one image shows both

  08-12-2020 00:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In this image from NASA TV, a SpaceX Dragon capsule docks to the International Space Station (center), near the Crew Dragon capsule that flew astronauts several weeks prior (left), December 7, 2020.
  NASA via AP
  SpaceX's Dragon capsule docked to the International Space Station on Monday, carrying a load of cargo.
  The spacecraft docked next to the SpaceX Crew Dragon ship that ferried four astronauts into orbit last month.
  For the next 13 months, SpaceX will have at least one spaceship in orbit co
  
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• No, that's not Elon Musk in 'Cyberpunk 2077' - but he may still be in the game

  08-12-2020 00:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Elon Musk.
  REUTERS/Steve Nesius
  Many suspect Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will make a cameo in the upcoming video game, "Cyberpunk 2077."
  Some reviewers have been playing the game for a few days, and at least one thought they'd spotted Musk in the game.Despite a visual likeness, the character in question isn't Musk, representatives for "Cyberpunk 2077" confirmed to Business Insider.
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  Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk could still make a cameo in
  
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