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Today's topic is "Qatar Building 16 'Floating Hotels' for 2022 World Cup"

Qatar is building 16 floating hotels with more than 1,600 rooms as it prepares for the 1.5 million soccer fans expected to visit during the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Designed by the Finnish architecture firm, Sigge Architects, each floating hotel will be 72 meters long, 16 meters wide and four stories high, with 101 rooms, a restaurant and a bar. They will float off the coast of Qetaifan Island North, a 1.3-square-kilometer island with seven beaches. The island is just 15 minutes from Lusail Stadium, where the opening and final games of the World Cup will be played.

Large cruise ships, like the 2,700-room Symphony of the Seas — the world's largest cruise ship — can only stop at ports with at least 9 meters of water. But Qatar's floating hotels will need just 4 meters of water — which will allow them to be taken away and used on almost any other coast after the world cup is over.

Many of Qatar's World Cup facilities will be reusable. After the World Cup, most of the 80,000 seats at Lusail Stadium will be taken out and given to other sports projects, and the stadium will become a community space with schools, shops, cafes, sports facilities and health clinics.

The 40,000-seat Ras Abu Aboud, a proposed football stadium to be built in Doha, will be made from about 1,000 shipping containers that will become bathrooms, offices and other rooms. When the World Cup is over, the stadium can be taken apart to make several smaller facilities or moved to another country for another event.

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Today's topic is "Microsoft to Replace Journalists with AI"

Microsoft is laying off dozens of journalists from its news services. In their place, it will use artificial intelligence (AI) to find and share news stories.

The affected journalists have been told that they won't be needed after June 30. Some employees, who asked not to be named, told The Seattle Times that Microsoft plans to use AI for the work they had been doing.

The journalists did not write their own articles, but instead chose stories from other news organizations to share on Microsoft's MSN website and Edge browser news pages. They also edited some articles and headlines.

One of the journalists told The Guardian, "I spend all my time reading about how automation and AI is going to take all our jobs, and here I am — AI has taken my job."

They added that replacing humans with AI has some risks. For example, staff were careful to make sure users were not shown violent or inappropriate content when they opened their browsers. This is especially important for younger users.

The Guardian also wrote that having people choose news articles encourages the sharing of different opinions. It can also prevent the sharing of fake news, and help good articles from smaller news organizations get seen by more people.

MSN offered its own content when it started in 1995, but now only shares news from other organizations, sharing ad money with the original publishers.

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Today's topic is "Drones Deliver Medicine in Small Irish Town"

Manna Aero and Ireland's Health Service Executive are testing the use of drones to deliver medicine to people in a small town during the coronavirus pandemic.

After a video call with a patient, local doctors write a prescription and send it by email to nearby pharmacists, who prepare the medicine. The medicine is then put into a drone, which flies straight to the patient's address and uses cameras to find a safe place, like a garden or driveway, to lower the delivery.

To help stop the coronavirus, Ireland has told its citizens to only go out if they need to. It also asked people over 70 and other high-risk groups not to leave their homes at all, and get things they need from friends or family, or from delivery services.

Fidelma Gleeson, aged 70, received one of the drone deliveries, reports the BBC. "I thought I would never see the day that there would be such technology that I wouldn't have to be driving into town and back up to get my medicine — brilliant," she said.

Each drone can carry up to 4 kilograms, and Manna Aero says that one drone could make as many as 100 deliveries a day.

In March, the company had planned to test its drones for delivering ice cream and Thai food around University College Dublin. However, that plan was canceled because of the pandemic.

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Today's topic is "Facebook Announces First 20 Members of Oversight Board"

Facebook has announced the first 20 members of a new Oversight Board, which some are calling the social media giant's "Supreme Court." The board will make final decisions over what content can and cannot be posted on both Facebook and Instagram.

Later this year, the group of 20 will start hearing cases from people who feel their content was taken down unfairly, as well as cases referred to it by Facebook. In the months that follow, it will also start hearing from people who want content taken down.

The board's job will be to decide whether or not content is acceptable under Facebook and Instagram’s policies. And it will also take into account issues around freedom of speech and human rights.

"The cases we choose to hear may be contentious, and we will not please everyone with our decisions. Facebook and Instagram users come from all corners of the world, and the social or cultural context in which content is posted matters. We expect passionate discussion among members," the board wrote.

The 20 board members include a former prime minister of Denmark, a former editor-in-chief of The Guardian newspaper, and a former US federal judge.

Also on the board is Tawwakol Karman, who was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for her work in fighting for women’s rights in Yemen. She was the first Arab woman to be given a Nobel Peace Prize.

Board members come from all over the world, with Facebook writing that they have lived in 27 countries and speak at least 29 languages — though a quarter of them are from the US, where Facebook is based.

The Oversight Board says it will work independently of Facebook and all other social media companies. It notes that many of its members have been critical of how Facebook has handled issues around content in the past.

Facebook will not be able to remove members of the board, which is funded by a $130 million trust fund that is independent of the social media company.

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Today's topic is "1,900 Airbnb Employees Lose Jobs to Pandemic"

Airbnb is laying off 1,900 of its 7,500 workers as the coronavirus pandemic causes a huge decrease in global travel.

In a letter to its employees, CEO Brian Chesky said the company is also getting rid of parts of its business that don't directly support home-sharing. Those include its investments in hotels, air travel and movies.

Airbnb expects its revenues to fall by more than half this year. It is a private company, so it does not share its financial figures. But AirDNA, which monitors bookings with Airbnb and other similar companies, said new US bookings fell by 53% between February 3 and April 13. Some countries are also not allowing any non-essential travel or are only letting medical workers book with Airbnb.

Only a few months ago, the company was valued at $31 billion, and was planning an initial public offering. The 12-year-old company has around 7 million homes on its website.

Chesky said travel will return after the pandemic, but it will look different. For example, Airbnb expects travelers will want options that are cheaper and closer to home.

Chesky recently angered many hosts when he told guests they could cancel their bookings for free because of the pandemic.

In early April, Airbnb agreed to pay hosts $250 million to pay back some of the money they lost from cancellations. And it is now only letting people who were planning to check in by June 15 cancel for free.

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Today's topic is "World's Largest Soccer Stadium to be Built in China"

By the end of 2022, Guangzhou Evergrande, a professional Chinese soccer team, will have the world's largest soccer stadium as its new home. On April 16, work started on the 100,000 seat stadium, which will cost $1.7 billion and will be made to look like a lotus flower.

Guangzhou Evergrande are one of the best soccer teams in Asia. They were taken over by Evergrande in 2010, and have won the Chinese Super League eight times, and the Asian Champions Leagues twice.

The early idea for the lotus flower design of the stadium came from the Evergrande Group chairman Hui Ka Yan, and it was designed by American designer Hasan Syed, who lives in Shanghai. It refers to Guangzhou, Evergrande's home city, which is sometimes called the "city of flowers."

The CEO of Evergrande Group, Xia Hajun, said that the stadium would be "an important symbol of Chinese soccer going to the world," and compared it to famous buildings like Australia's Sydney Opera House and the United Arab Emirates' Burj Khalifa in Dubai.

The stadium will have a floor area of 150,000 square meters and will include 16 Very Very Important Person (VVIP) private areas, 152 Very Important Person (VIP) areas, as well as spaces for players and media.

"We hope the stadium will host the opening ceremony of the 2023 Asian Cup," Xia said. It could also be part of the FIFA Club World Cup that was going to take place in China next year, until FIFA decided to postpone it because of the coronavirus. A new date has not been set.

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Facebook will soon begin warning users when they interact with dangerous misinformation about the coronavirus.

A notice will be sent to users who have clicked on, reacted to, or commented on posts with harmful or false claims about COVID-19 after they have been removed by moderators. The notification, which will start appearing on Facebook in the next few weeks, will direct users to a site where the World Health Organization debunks misinformation about the virus.

Facebook said that in March it put more than 40 million warning labels on videos, posts or articles about the coronavirus that fact-checking organizations had determined to be false or misleading. Facebook says those warning labels have stopped 95% of users from clicking on the false information.

"It’s a big indicator that people are trusting the fact-checkers," said Baybars Orsek, director of the International Fact-Checking Network. However, Orsek also said that Facebook's data should be reviewed by outside editors or experts, and that the company should give regular updates about the impact of its fact-checking.

Facebook has recruited dozens of news organizations around the globe to check bad information. The Associated Press is part of that program.

Facebook will also begin promoting articles that debunk COVID-19 misinformation on a new information center called "Get The Facts."

Still, misinformation about the coronavirus continues to pop up on the site.

A study by Avaaz, a group that tracks and researches online misinformation, found more than 100 pieces of misinformation about the coronavirus on Facebook, and they were viewed millions of times even after the claims had been marked as false or misleading by fact-checkers. Other false claims on the site were not marked as misinformation, despite being found to be false by fact-checkers.

In its report, Avaaz said that coronavirus misinformation spreads faster than Facebook’s current system can track it. The group noted that it can take as long as 22 days for Facebook to label misinformation — giving it plenty of time to spread.

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Netflix has gotten nearly 16 million new subscribers during the first three months of the year, showing that it has become one of the world's most popular services in times of isolation or crisis.

During those three months, many governments around the world started telling people to stay home to stop the spread of the coronavirus. This appears to have made millions of people start using Netflix for entertainment.

Netflix more than doubled the growth that it had predicted for the first three months of 2020, with the company ending March with nearly 183 million subscribers worldwide. It was the biggest three-month gain in the 13-year history of Netflix's streaming service.

Netflix says it expects to get 7.5 million new subscribers between April and June 2020, nearly three times as many as the average 2.7 million it usually gets in spring.

Production has stopped on many of Netflix's films and series, but the company has promised that it will continue to release new content throughout the year.

"We don’t anticipate moving the [release] schedule around much, and certainly not in 2020," said Netflix's chief content officer Ted Sarandos.

Many upcoming Netflix series have already been completed, including the fourth season of The Crown — the popular series about the United Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth.

One of Netflix's main competitors is Disney+. The service, which launched last November, currently has over 50 million subscribers.

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Professional cyclist Davide Martinelli is using his bike to bring medicine to elderly people and others who need help during the coronavirus pandemic.

Martinelli's service is helping his hometown of Lodetto in the Lombardy region of northern Italy, which has been hit hard by the virus.

Lodetto doesn't have a pharmacy or a supermarket, so Martinelli goes to the nearby town of Rovato every day to get supplies. The trip is 10 kilometers, which Martinelli said is easy for a professional cyclist.

"I wanted to help the people who always support me during the season. It's time to give back to them," he said.

Martinelli joined a Facebook group called "Lodetto Solidale" (Supporting Lodetto) where those who need help can ask for it online, by phone or message.

Martinelli receives his orders each night and plans a route for the next day. When he gets to the pharmacy, he puts on gloves and a face mask. He says that by going to the pharmacy for three or four people at the same time, the virus is less likely to spread.

With only 1,500 people living there, everyone in Lodetto knows who Martinelli is, or at least they know who his father is.

That's because Giuseppe Martinelli is one of the most successful team directors in cycling, having helped people like Marco Pantani and Vincenzo Nibali win at the Tour de France.

Giuseppe said that what his son is doing now is even better than when his cyclists win.

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NASA will send two astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 27. This will be the first spaceflight with a crew launched from the US since 2011. For the last few years, NASA has been using Russian ships to send astronauts to the ISS.

"NASA will once again launch American astronauts on American rockets from American soil!" tweeted NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.

The two astronauts are Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley. Behnken has been an astronaut with NASA since 2000 and has completed two space flights. Before joining NASA, he was a flight test engineer with the US Air Force.

Hurley has also been with NASA since 2000, and has been to space twice. Before becoming a NASA astronaut, he was a pilot in the US Marines.

Behnken and Hurley will travel in SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft and will join 3 crew members who are already on the ISS. They are expected to stay on the ISS for several weeks or months.

Only three countries have launched people into space since 1961: Russia, the US and China, in that order. SpaceX would be the first company to do so.

NASA plans to use the Crew Dragon for research that will help with future travel to the Moon and Mars, starting with the Artemis program which aims to put the first woman on the Moon in 2024.

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