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Snap has now started selling its Spectacles camera glasses directly through Amazon, marking a change from the fall debut when Snap rebranded itself as a "camera company," per The Verge.
Why it matters: The commodity culture around them seems to have worn off. But for a camera company, Snap's struggling to sell its camera hardware — sales have been modest. Spectacles only accounted for about 8% of Snap's revenue in Q1 of this year.
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.