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Are we ready for more festival cancellations? January 22, 2021 [View Online]( | [Sign Up]( [Daily Brew]( [H&R Block]( Good morning. The prize for today's Mega Millions drawing is up to $970 million, the third-largest prize in US lottery history. You do not have a good chance of winning—the odds are one in 302,575,350. Still, we're sharing this news anyway so you can spend 10 minutes daydreaming about what you'd do with nearly a billion bucks, because that is a highly enjoyable activity. MARKETS NASDAQ 13,530.91 + 0.55% S&P 3,853.07 + 0.03% DOW 31,176.01 - 0.04% GOLD 1,869.90 + 0.18% 10-YR 1.113% + 3.10 bps OIL 53.03 - 0.39% *As of market close - Cryptocurrency: Bitcoin continued its swan dive to below $30,000. Perhaps not related to the dip, but on Tuesday, Treasury secretary nominee Janet Yellen warned about crypto's role in money laundering. - Economy: There was a lot of data dropped yesterday, so let's do it emoji style...job market , manufacturing , and housing . The coronavirus has [battered]( the services sector far more than it did manufacturing. - Markets: The Nasdaq and S&P [closed]( at record highs. TECH [Intel Drops a Beat]( [An Intel chip with some wear and tear ] Francis Scialabba Well, Intel’s Q4 earnings were pretty weird. First, the numbers: The Silicon Valley chip giant reeled in [$20 billion in revenue]( in Q4, and posted a record $78 billion in total sales for 2020. - Q4 stats were boosted by the pandemic. More WFH = more people buying laptops with Intel chips in them. Then, the hacking: Come again? Like most companies that report earnings “after the bell,” Intel was supposed to drop its numbers after the market closed at 4pm ET. But it said a hacker obtained an infographic with sensitive financial stats, and once it realized what had happened it released its numbers...six minutes before 4. It symbolizes a chaotic year Intel was once Jim Halpert, the unquestioned heartthrob of the $400 billion chip industry. But now it's struggling to keep up with rivals with extremely uncreative names such as AMD and TSMC, which are rapidly upgrading their processors while Intel has suffered delays. - Intel's latest chips [use]( a 14-nanometer process, while TSMC (short for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is working on downsizing to just 3 nanometers. - In the past year, the market capitalization of Nvidia, another Silicon Valley competitor, grew past Intel's. - Just a few months ago, Apple said it would [drop]( Intel's chips in favor of ones designed in-house and fabricated by TSMC. Other major Intel customers such as Amazon and Microsoft have indicated they plan to do the same. And those are just the external issues. An activist investor, Dan Loeb's Third Point, is pushing Intel to split up its design and manufacturing operations. Tackling those challenges will fall to Pat Gelsinger, who will take the CEO reins from Bob Swan on February 15. Gelsinger is currently the CEO of VMWare, but spent 30 years at Intel previously, including as CTO. The big question: Will Intel become Outtel? I.e., will it start outsourcing manufacturing? Gelsinger says nay. “I am confident that the majority of our 2023 products will be manufactured internally,” he said yesterday. But given the company’s recent slippage and fierce competition, he has little room for error. �  �  �  mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20this%20story%20from%20Morning%20Brew%21&body=Intel%20Beats%20Expectations%20in%20Q4%20Earnings%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.morningbrew.com%2Fdaily%2Fstories%2F2021%2F01%2F21%2Fintel-beats-expectations-q4-earnings%0A%0AWant%20more%20great%20content%3F%20Subscribe%20to%20Daily%20Brew%20%E2%80%94%20Delivering%20the%20latest%20business%20news%20from%20Wall%20St.%20to%20Silicon%20Valley%2C%20daily.%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.morningbrew.com%2Fdaily%2Fr%2F%3Fkid%3D4904f90a%26utm_source%3Demail_share%0A PUBLIC HEALTH [Biden to America: Mask Up]( Yesterday, just over one year after the US reported its first coronavirus case, President Biden signed 10 executive orders to escalate the national fight against this microscopic enemy. The priorities Make travel safer. Biden mandated mask-wearing on public transportation—including planes, buses, and trains—and is requiring negative tests for international travelers and quarantines on arrival. Testing and vaccinations. Biden [invoked]( the Defense Production Act to compel companies to manufacture critical equipment, including N95 masks and syringes. He ordered FEMA to set up 100 community vaccination centers and to use disaster relief funds to help reimburse states for certain pandemic costs. Reopening schools and businesses. Biden [directed]( the CDC and Department of Health and Human Services to create immediate guidance for reopening schools, and told OSHA to set worker safety guidelines. That's a lot of to-dos, and to get them to-done Biden is setting up a health equity task force and a White House Covid-19 Response Office, which will coordinate federal agency action, improve data collection and sharing, and communicate with state and local governments.  �  �  �  mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20this%20story%20from%20Morning%20Brew%21&body=Biden%20Signs%2010%20Pandemic-Related%20Executive%20Orders%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.morningbrew.com%2Fdaily%2Fstories%2F2021%2F01%2F21%2Fbiden-signs-10-pandemicrelated-executive-orders%0A%0AWant%20more%20great%20content%3F%20Subscribe%20to%20Daily%20Brew%20%E2%80%94%20Delivering%20the%20latest%20business%20news%20from%20Wall%20St.%20to%20Silicon%20Valley%2C%20daily.%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.morningbrew.com%2Fdaily%2Fr%2F%3Fkid%3D4904f90a%26utm_source%3Demail_share%0A SOCIAL MEDIA [Zuck Dealing With Trump's Account]( [A gif of Barry standing in a parking lot and saying ] Giphy If having to choose between the steak or fish entrée makes you sweat...being on Facebook's new oversight board isn't the job for you. Yesterday, the group was [handed the difficult decision]( of whether to restore former President Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts. - The company indefinitely banned him following the Capitol riots, arguing "the risks of allowing the president to continue to use our service...are simply too great." What's the oversight board? It was created last year as a "Supreme Court" to which users can appeal content moderation decisions, and not even Supreme Leader Zuck can overturn its decisions. Cases are heard by a five-person panel pulled from the board's members, an impressive lineup that includes a former prime minister and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient. - Trump will get to make a case for why he should be allowed back, and the public can submit comments next week. Then, the board has 90 days to decide. Big picture: Although it was set up as a public accountability mechanism, the board allows Facebook to hand off some of its most controversial moderation decisions. This Trump case may be its Marbury v. Madison. �  �  �  mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20this%20story%20from%20Morning%20Brew%21&body=Facebook%20Hands%20Decision%20to%20Replatform%20Trump%20to%20Oversight%20Board%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.morningbrew.com%2Fdaily%2Fstories%2F2021%2F01%2F21%2Ffacebook-hands-decision-replatform-trump-oversight-board%0A%0AWant%20more%20great%20content%3F%20Subscribe%20to%20Daily%20Brew%20%E2%80%94%20Delivering%20the%20latest%20business%20news%20from%20Wall%20St.%20to%20Silicon%20Valley%2C%20daily.%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.morningbrew.com%2Fdaily%2Fr%2F%3Fkid%3D4904f90a%26utm_source%3Demail_share%0A SPONSORED BY H&R BLOCK [DIY Haircuts, Sourdough, and Taxes](#) [H&R Block]( You heard that right. The latest thing you can add to your I-did-it-myself-during-quarantine list is filing your taxes. But unlike your first and last attempt to give yourself bangs, you can file your taxes this year with confidence with the help of [H&R Block](. Not ready to DIY? 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EVENTS [Covid Cancellations Enter Year No. 2]( [Glastonbury Music Festival] Matt Cardy/Getty Images "We'll just have to wait till next year"—Everyone when their favorite music festival was canceled in 2020 because of the coronavirus. Well next year is...now, but the cancellations keep coming. Yesterday, the Glastonbury festival in Britain said it [wouldn't hold]( its 2021 event, set for June. - Glastonbury is one of the premier stops on the music festival circuit. Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift, and Paul McCartney were supposed to headline last year's event. "In spite of our efforts to move Heaven & Earth, it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make the festival happen," organizers Emily and Michael Eavis wrote in a statement. Zoom out: The Glastonbury news is rippling across the live events industry, the [NYT reports](. Some music festivals across Europe are confident they'll proceed this summer, but others may follow Glastonbury's lead and punt until next year. + While we're here...the Art Basel fair in Switzerland was also [postponed]( for the second time due to the pandemic. It's planning to hold the event in September, when it expects "broad international participation" due to vaccines. �  �  �  mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20this%20story%20from%20Morning%20Brew%21&body=Glastonbury%20Music%20Festival%20Canceled%20for%20Second%20Straight%20Year%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.morningbrew.com%2Fdaily%2Fstories%2F2021%2F01%2F21%2Fglastonbury-music-festival-canceled-second-straight-year%0A%0AWant%20more%20great%20content%3F%20Subscribe%20to%20Daily%20Brew%20%E2%80%94%20Delivering%20the%20latest%20business%20news%20from%20Wall%20St.%20to%20Silicon%20Valley%2C%20daily.%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.morningbrew.com%2Fdaily%2Fr%2F%3Fkid%3D4904f90a%26utm_source%3Demail_share%0A QUIZ [Mittens and Quizzin'](#) [Weekly news quiz] Francis Scialabba The feeling of getting a 5/5 on the Brew's Weekly News Quiz has been compared to arriving at your house just as a song ends on the radio. It’s that satisfying. [Ace the quiz](. WHAT ELSE IS BREWING - [Legacy automakers]( Ford and GM are having a stock market run for the ages this month, as investors cheer the companies' investments in electric vehicles. - [Eli Lilly]( said its antibody drug prevented coronavirus infections among nursing home staff and residents in a clinical trial. - [Elon Musk]( tweeted he's giving $100 million toward a prize for the "best carbon capture technology." - [TV news](: Bridgerton is getting a second season on Netflix, and [HBO]( is reportedly working on a prequel to Game of Thrones. - [NYC's]( famously stunning Port Authority could get an overhaul. - [An Easter egg]( in the HTML code on the new White House website invites engineers to apply for a job. SPONSORED BY H&R BLOCK [H&R Block]( If DIY isn’t your thing, don’t force it with your taxes. [H&R Block]( knows taxes—so no need to D-I-Y if you D-I-Can’t. Block’s pros have an average of 10 years' experience to help you get your max refund and help keep your headaches to a minimum. [Let Block D-I-For-You](. BREW'S BETS Follow Friday: Take a break from Bernie memes and check out the viral [drumline sound]( on TikTok. A lot of those posts are about completing school assignments...so [here's a video]( for all you esteemed graduates in the workforce. - Okay fine, here's a [Bernie game]( to play. New films: A thriller starring Carey Mulligan, [Promising Young Woman](, is now streaming on-demand and earning solid reviews. See what [other movies]( are slated to debut this year (and next). Tech throwback: The [evolution of the scrollbar](. GAMES [Friday Puzzle](#) Below you'll find 22 different syllables and six clues. Group the syllables together to form words that match each of the six clues. The number in parentheses indicates the number of syllables that comprise each answer. And each syllable will only be used once. Good luck! 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