Manufacturers in the UK expect the government to give them the green light to move their facilities from normal operations to making medical supplies. Dyson is in one group, another group is led by Airbus. Both groups have announced that they have only to be given the go-ahead by the UK government by next week. In separate news, the UK's ALSO joined the EU effort to ramp up ventilator production worldwide.

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Plex is back with another long blog post, this one offering something free to all of the people who are stuck at home in quarantine. Among other things, the company is making its Live TV feature available to all of its users for free for the next three months. With this, anyone who has an HD OTA TV antenna can stream their region's broadcast television on their favorite (Plex-compatible) devices.

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Toyota is working on a heavy-duty fuel cell truck, that could use hydrogen to drive hundreds of miles while only emitting pure water. The project, a collaboration with fellow Japanese automaker Hino Motors Ltd, aims to tackle carbon dioxide emissions by targeting one of the biggest emitters: commercial vehicles.

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Polaroid is back with a new instant camera, one that builds upon its classic instant-print models: the Polaroid Now. This film camera features a classic design with small but obvious upgrades, including a smoother, rounder design. Users get access to the best of instant photography, as well as some useful features that include the maker's Accurate Flash and direct support for double exposures.

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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, in case you haven't heard, is set to get a second Fighters Pass containing six new DLC characters. Initially, the game's DLC was slated to be complete with the five characters in the first Fighters Pass, but given the reaction to Ultimate as a whole, Nintendo and Sora Ltd. decided to move ahead with a second round. Today, during Nintendo's Direct Mini, the company teased the first new character for Ultimate's second Fighters Pass.

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Shrink-wrapped and fresh from the belly of the Super Guppy, NASA's Orion spacecraft has returned to the Kennedy Space Center for the big assembly. Scheduled to head out to complete first an orbit of the moon, then land on Earth's satellite, before venturing out to Mars, the spacecraft has just completed some of the toughest testing imaginable.

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When Nintendo uploaded a surprise Direct Mini today, there was little doubt that we'd see something about Animal Crossing: New Horizons. After all, New Horizons is the biggest game on the Switch at the moment, and alongside DOOM Eternal and Half-Life: Alyx, it's been getting a lot of attention from gamers who are largely stuck at home. Sure enough, Nintendo did have something to announce concerning New Horizons, revealing when the first in-game seasonal event will happen.

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This week a pair of original Apple sneakers sold for just under 10-THOUSAND dollars. Given the relative rarity of these shoes, their notable history, and the fact that they've only come up for sale a few times in the last decade, the price isn't too far off what was expected. Compare this price to what's fetched for a pair of Back to the Future Nike Air MAG shoes, and you might be surprised how affordable these Apple sneakers ended up being.

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Earlier today, Nintendo dropped a surprise Direct Mini, detailing a number of games that will be heading to the Switch throughout 2020. Among the announcements was big one from 2K Games, which is bringing a lot of its big-name titles to the Switch. All of them are landing on the console on the same day, too: May 29th.

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Today we're looking at what's likely an internal testing device made by Apple for the near-future release of AR/VR experiences aplenty. This isn't the first we've seen of this sort of hardware - it's not particularly unlike hardware used by HTC and Oculus/Facebook for their own VR headsets. This new leaked look at Apple hardware is almost certainly meant for internal testing only, as it has a certain... unrefined sort of look.

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Despite the fact that Animal Crossing: New Horizons hasn't even been out a week yet, players have found and have been exploiting a particular item duplication glitch. Essentially, the glitch allowed pairs of players to duplicate items and then sell them off for hefty sums of bells, and of course, that's something Nintendo takes issue with.

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Huawei has officially revealed the P40 series, its flagship photography smartphones, and it now consists of three models with multi-camera arrays. The Huawei P40, P40 Pro, and P40 Pro+ span multiple sizes up to 6.58-inches, with a new "Nanotech Ceramic" body that the company claims has sapphire-like toughness.

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