Photo by Jay Peters / The Verge With much of the world stuck inside due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many people are turning to Animal Crossing: New Horizons to recapture the feeling of interacting with the outside world by spending time on the game’s virtual islands and their anthropomorphic animal residents. But the game’s easy-to-use
Read MoreMaingear is known for building custom, high-end gaming PCs, but it’s responding to the novel coronavirus pandemic in a noble way by developing ventilators to help patients who suffer from COVID-19. It has allocated a portion of its manufacturing capability specifically to aid New York City’s overwhelmed intensive care units. In a press release, it
Read MoreThe iPhone assembler will work with Medtronic, the medical device company’s CEO told CNBC. Foxconn will make ventilators at its Wisconsin plant – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMozilla has delayed new security features in case they break home users’ access to services during the pandemic. Mozilla: Firefox 75 gets this new address bar, but we're pausing features over coronavirus Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreCoronavirus has many people staying home and connecting with friends and coworkers through video chat. Here are two options for staying in touch. Zoom vs. Google Hangouts: Video chat apps for working and keeping in touch compared – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIn a world where we can’t go out, these virtual experiences can transport us elsewhere. The best VR games for escaping to other worlds – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt was only in service for 11 years 60 years ago, but the incredible Convair B-36 is still a wonder to behold. Six turning, four burning: a closer look at the enormous 10-engine B-36 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThese PC games will run on almost any laptop, because you can’t spend all day in Zoom meetings. Best games for your work-from-home laptop – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge We always have at least some reason to worry about the spread of misinformation, but we worry more about misinformation during a public health crisis. We are generally not well informed on public health issues even in good times, and so the emergence of new disease to
Read MoreThe pattern-recognizing power of machine learning is affecting players, teams, sports medicine and even betting. Want to Be Better at Sports? Listen to the Machines Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreMachine-learning applications are proving to be especially useful to the scientific community studying the planet’s largest bodies of water. A.I. Is Helping Scientists Understand an Ocean’s Worth of Data Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreScientists are exploring approaches that would help machines develop their own sort of common sense. Toward Computers That Teach Themselves Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreMachines are being trained to consider food the way a cook might, with attention to variations in shape and seasonality and qualities like sweetness or texture. Thanks to A.I., Machines Get a Taste for the Right Kinds of Food Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreAdvances in software applications that process human language lie at the heart of the debate over whether computer technologies will enhance or even substitute for human creativity. You Can’t Spell Creative Without A.I. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MorePhoto by Joshua Lott for The Verge Foxconn’s Wisconsin plant, the controversial recipient of billions of dollars in tax subsidies and the focus of multiple Verge investigations, will produce ventilators with medical device firm Medtronic. The partnership was announced by Medtronic CEO Omar Ishrak in an interview with CNBC, who said that Foxconn will be
Read MorePatrick Frater / Variety: Report accuses Baidu’s streaming site iQiyi of fraud “well before its 2018 IPO”, says it inflated 2019 revenue by ~$1.13B to $1.98B by overstating user numbers — U.S.-based securities analysis firm and activist investor Wolfpack Research has publicly accused Chinese streaming platform iQIYI of fraud. Report accuses Baidu's streaming site iQiyi
Read MoreAshley Stewart / Business Insider: Microsoft says it is pausing new hires except in some “strategic areas”, citing uncertainty due to the pandemic; sources: the company is still hiring for Azure — – Microsoft is “temporarily pausing recruitment” for some roles amid uncertainty caused by the coronavirus crisis, the company confirmed Tuesday. Microsoft says it
Read MoreDan Grover: Overview of how apps from Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and others are helping users in China check their exposure, get care, and more during the COVID-19 outbreak — Summary: China’s apps played a pivotal role in supporting some of the most effective tactics the country used in fighting Covid-19 … Overview of how apps
Read More{$inline_image} New York Times: SimilarWeb and Apptopia: amid quarantines, Americans increasingly use online platforms on computers, not smartphones; Nextdoor.com traffic is up 73% from Jan. — Stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic, with movie theaters closed and no restaurants to dine in, Americans have been spending more of their lives online. SimilarWeb and Apptopia:
Read More{$inline_image} Caleb Henry / SpaceNews.com: Australia-based Myriota, which is building a satellite constellation for connecting IoT devices, raises $19.3M Series B, bringing total raised to $37M — WASHINGTON — Myriota announced April 6 it raised $19.3 million to continue developing a constellation of at least 25 satellites to connect internet-of-things devices globally. Australia-based Myriota, which
Read MoreSupport for both protocols to roll out in two phases, with the last completing by the end of 2021. Microsoft to add DANE and DNSSEC support to Exchange Online servers Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreTim Dunk Lockdown has disrupted everyone’s lives to varying degrees, and wedding photographers are some of the unluckier ones in terms of the impact on their careers — there aren’t any weddings happening, and even if there were it’d be unwise or impractical to attend. Yorkshire-based photographer Tim Dunk, however, has found a way to
Read MoreA weeklong series of appreciation Doodles is honoring the heroes battling COVID-19. Google Doodle salutes police and firefighters on coronavirus front line – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Starting April 13th, Tesla is cutting pay for all salaried employees in the US and placing hourly workers who can’t work at home during the coronavirus pandemic on unpaid leave, according to an internal email that was viewed by The Verge. Salaried employees at the vice-president level and
Read MoreUFC President Dana White is bringing Enter The Dragon to life with UFC 249. UFC 249: Ferguson vs. Gaethje on an island — start time, how to watch, full fight card – CNET Source: CNet
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