• Fast casual restaurant Chipotle Mexican Grill has now raised prices by about 4% in order to compensate for the cost of raising their worker’s wages
• This may, Chipotle has reported that they would raise hourly wages for their restaurant workers into reach their average of $15 an hour towards the end of June

• Customers of Starbucks are now allowed to use their own personal reusable cups again at all Starbucks location in the US starting June 22
• Other restaurants including Starbucks are now making efforts to returning their businesses back to normal after changing many policies due to COVID-19
• Back in March of 2020, Starbucks had paused their reusable cup program

• Boeing has logged 20 net orders for a new aircraft in may
• This was the company’s 4rth consecutive month to have positive orders
• The deliveries for the Boeing Dreamliner still remain suspended 

• Ford has recently unveiled their all new compact pickup today (Tuesday) which is their smallest vehicle in their pickup truck lineup
• This truck marks the first time a truck in America with a standard gas-electric hybrid engine ever to go on sale and wills start at $19,995

•  Relativity Space has raised $650 million from contributors known as Fidelity and other investors such as Blackrock and Tiger Global
• The company plans to work on a fully reusable rocket that will attempt to go against SpaceX’s rocket of similar goal in less than 3 years

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• CDC data has shown the 49.9% of the population in the U.S. has received at least one vaccine shot
• More CDC data shows that 40% of those have completed a full vaccination program
• 1.6 million vaccine shots have been reported administered each day for the average over the past week
• Average daily cases have fallen 5% or even more in 43 of the state in the nation along with DC (District of Columbia)

• Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said doses of the Janssen Covid-19 vaccine were expected to be available in the U.K. later this year
• The U.K. Health Minister Matt Hancock believes that the vaccine approval will accelerate the country’s “Hugely successful” vaccination program

• Microsoft has warned that Russian hackers have launched another attack through the U.S.A.I.D. (U.S. Agency for International Development) email system
• This warning has come 3 weeks before Joe Biden is scheduled to meet with the Russian President, Vladimir Putin in Geneva
• This hacking group is known as Novelium and has targeted over 150 organizations worldwide 

• The weekend of April 23 has been the highest-grossing weekend the box office has seen during the pandemic with ticket sales of $57 million
• Ore than 70% of theaters are now open, Heading into Memorial day weekend and Hollywood has two blockbuster releases
• The Hollywood releases that are expected to be among the most popular at the box office are “Cruella” and “A Quiet Place Part II”

• The company Relativity Space is pushing many boundaries of 3D-printing in order to build rockets and reach beyond the space industry
• The company’s CEO, Tim Elli says that the company is “.. reinventing the underpinnings of not just building rockets, but the whole stack of how you actually design, develop, and scale a company”

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