Campus Is Closed, So College Students Are Rebuilding Their Schools In Minecraft
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The day before University of Pennsylvania students were told that their college commence...
Regular exercise benefits immunity -- even in isolation
A new analysis highlights the power of regular, daily exercise on our immune system and the importance of people continuing to work-out even...
Hubble finds best evidence for elusive mid-sized black hole
Astronomers have found the best evidence for the perpetrator of a cosmic homicide: a black hole of an elusive class known as ''inter...
MIT Team Shares New $500 Emergency Ventilator Design With the Public
A group of MIT scientists has created an emergency ventilator, which is affordable, and easily made using regular hospital devices. Interest...
What Happens After the Lockdown?
BeerFartMoron writes: Recently there has been a proliferation of modeling work which has been used to make the point that if we can stay ins...
Marriott Discloses New Data Breach Impacting 5.2 Million Guests
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: Marriott International said Tuesday that names, mailing addresses, loyalty account numbers an...
Amazon Fires Worker Who Led Strike Over Virus
Chris Smalls, an Amazon fulfillment center employee, said the company fired him after he led a strike at a warehouse in Staten Island, New Y...
This app lets musicians remotely jam out on loops in real time
Image: Endlesss Collaborative music-making app Endlesss is now available for iOS . The app’s been in beta for quite a long time , so newco...
Architects and engineers are 3D printing medical gear during pandemic
Part of a 3D printed face shield sits on a 3D Printer | Jenny Sabin, Jenny Sabin Studio “We’re doing everything we can, and every single v...
Roku OS 9.3 adds faster performance, Spanish voice support, and more
Image: Roku Roku is today announcing the latest software update that’s coming soon to Roku streaming devices and Roku TVs. Roku OS 9.3 wil...
Grammarly now integrates directly with Microsoft Word’s Mac app
Image: Grammarly Grammarly, a service designed to give you advice on improving your writing, is getting an add-in for Microsoft Word’s Mac...
The Fitbit Charge 4 is a much more powerful fitness tracker disguised in its old body
The first Fitbit after the company was acquired by Google last fall looks... well, like every other Fitbit that came before it. And it’s a...
Google ends sales of the Pixel 3
Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Google has officially stopped selling its Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL smartphones, as spotted by Android Pol...
Microsoft’s Skype struggles have created a Zoom moment
Skype is missing out to Zoom and others during the coronavirus pandemic Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/2UU...
How to make your own yeast for baking
Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post As more people bake their blues away while stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, yeast is r...
Spotify is bringing its kids app to the US, Canada, and France
Spotify Spotify’s expanding the rollout of its kids app, just as more kids are at home with nothing to do. The company announced that it’s...
Samsung Display is getting out of the LCD business
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Samsung Display will stop producing LCD panels by the end of the year. The display maker currently runs t...
Intel has its laptop work cut out this year
Photo by Avery White / The Verge Even if you would never see yourself buying a gaming laptop, you should take the time to read Monica Chin...
Ford, GE To Produce 50,000 Ventilators In 100 Days
Ford Motor and GE Healthcare plan to produce 50,000 ventilators within the next 100 days at a facility in Michigan to assist with the corona...
Muto review: a near-perfect electric city bike
A near-perfect city bike with innovative ‘Click & Roll’ accessory system Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt...
The US government should disclose how it’s using location data to fight the coronavirus
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last week, we talked about the case for the government using location data gleaned from our smartp...
Huawei says US trade ban is a ‘big difficulty’ to selling phones
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Huawei’s revenue grew by 19.1 percent last year to around $121 billion, but the company says those...
The ACM Digital Library Is Now Open Access During Coronavirus Pandemic
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has made the ACM Digital Library open access to help support the computing community during th...
Authors, Publishers Condemn the 'National Emergency Library' As 'Piracy'
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Last week, when the Internet Archive announced its "National Emergency Library," exp...
Sony delays almost its entire movie lineup into next year
Sony is the latest movie studio to announce major changes to its release slate due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as reported by Variety . Tentp...
Dutch Museum Says Van Gogh Painting Stolen In Overnight Raid
The Singer Laren museum in Laren, east of Amsterdam, says thieves have made off with a prize Vincent van Gogh painting while the institution...
Microsoft Reports a 775 Percent Increase In Usage of Azure Cloud Services
Mark Wilson shares a report from BetaNews: This weekend, Microsoft has given an insight into the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on ...
Blood test detects over 50 types of cancer, some before symptoms appear
In a study involving thousands of participants, a new blood test detected more than 50 types of cancer as well as their location within the ...
Valve Will Delay Some Steam Auto-Updates To Preserve Bandwidth
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Valve announced today that it won't automatically update games in customers' lib...
FDA Issues Limited Emergency Use For Two Drugs Used To Treat Malaria
knorthern knight shares a report from CNN: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an emergency use authorization for chloroq...
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