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GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now The game industry continues to show off how it’s benefiting from the pandemic. This time, it’s mobile role-playing games bringing in more dough, according to analyst firm Sensor Tower. So far in 2020, mobile role-playing games have …

Here’s what you need to know: Hahn says F.D.A. decisions are based on science and the agency would ‘not permit any pressure from anyone to change that.’ Johnson & Johnson begins the final stage of clinical trials for its vaccine, sparking optimism. The Metropolitan Opera cancels its entire 2020-21 season. …

Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now University of Washington language researchers and legal professionals recently created a labeled dataset for detection of interruptions and competitive turn-taking in U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments. They then used the corpus of “turn changes” to train AI models to experiment …

Here’s what you need to know: Miami-Dade County, Fla., one of the largest school districts in the U.S., will reopen classrooms to students next month. The virus death toll in the U.S. surpasses 200,000. China and the U.S. square off over the virus at the General Assembly. Notre Dame pauses …

As the nation’s coronavirus death toll neared 200,000, top administration health officials on Sunday delicately sidestepped President Trump’s ambitious declaration last week that a coronavirus vaccine would be available for every American by April. Instead, Adm. Brett P. Giroir, who heads up national testing efforts, and Alex M. Azar II, …

Here’s what you need to know: High school parties force some Northeast schools in the U.S. to delay the return to classes. Trump defends his indoor rally, but some aides are concerned. L.A. begins a testing program expected to be among the most comprehensive U.S. school-based initiatives. A federal judge …

GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now The gaming audience in the United States showed up to spend money again last month. Consumers spent $ 3.3 billion on video game hardware, software, and accessories in August, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. That’s …

Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now AI has the potential to improve human lives and a company’s bottom line, but it can also accelerate inequality and eliminate jobs during the worst U.S. recession on record since the Great Depression. It’s that dual promise and peril that …

Here’s what you need to know: Memorial Day weekend gatherings caused case spikes. The U.S. caseload is nearly double ahead of Labor Day. Russian scientists report modest amount of antibodies in volunteers given the vaccine for the virus. Trump’s vaccine chief sees a ‘very, very low chance’ of a vaccine …