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BlackBerry on Wednesday sued Twitter, alleging it infringes on several messaging-related patents.
The big picture: Having seen its once-popular BBM service fade from the messaging scene, BlackBerry has launched a series of lawsuits against today's leaders. Last March, BlackBerry sued Facebook, along with Facebook-owned Instagram and WhatsApp. A month later, it sued Snapchat's parent company.
The U.S. confirmed at least 83,010 coronavirus cases on Friday, the country's highest daily total since the pandemic started, according to data from the COVID Tracking Project.
By the numbers: Friday's total surpassed the U.S.'s previous record set on July 17 when 76,842 cases were recorded.
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President Trump has not attended a White House coronavirus task force meeting in “several months,” NIAID director Anthony Fauci told MSNBC on Friday.
Why it matters: At the beginning of the pandemic, the task force, led by Vice President Mike Pence, met every day, but in the "last several weeks," members have held virtual meetings once a week, Fauci said, even as the number of new cases continues to surge in the country.
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