Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom’s recent growth has put it in the spotlight over a series of privacy and security issues, and the company is now promising to address them over the coming 90 days. In a detailed blog post, Zoom CEO Eric S. Yuan explains how the company has been responding
Read MoreCommentary: Whether shaking trees on Animal Crossing or rising up the Botanist career ladder in The Sims 4, staying indoors has turned me into a virtual plant mom. From Animal Crossing to Viridi: Virtual plants are the only thing keeping me sane – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThis never-was mid-engined sports car could’ve competed with the Toyota MR2 Spyder and Mazda MX-5 Miata. 2001 Hyundai HCD6 Concept was designed to be an affordable exotic – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreMSI has announced some of the first laptops to include Intel’s new 10th Gen processors from its Comet Lake H series. The company has announced specs and release dates for its GS66 Stealth, GE66 Raider, and Creator 17, all of which were unveiled at CES earlier this year. The two gaming rigs will feature up
Read MoreThe Razer Blade 15 (advanced model) | Razer Razer’s new Blade 15 gaming laptop is a refresh both inside and out, with powerful new specs from Intel and Nvidia, as well as a few small and long-awaited adjustments to the chassis design. Two models will be available in May: the base model for $1,600 and
Read MoreImage: Gigabyte Gigabyte has introduced three new versions of its Aorus gaming laptops: the Aorus 15G, 17G, and 17X. Each features the newly announced Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake H-series processors, and you’ll be able to choose between the eight-core Intel Core i7-10875H and the high-end Intel Core i9-10980HK. These are also Gigabyte’s first gaming
Read MoreIt’s a big day in the mobile-computing world. Intel has unveiled its new H-series chips, Nvidia has announced its RTX Super GPU lineup for mobile devices, and just about every major laptop manufacturer is introducing new laptops incorporating that hardware. But Asus is releasing something unlike anything else that’s hitting shelves today: the Zephyrus Duo
Read MoreElectronics giant says it’s also helping retool factories that produce face masks. Samsung donates smartphones to quarantined coronavirus patients – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has put the industrialized world on lockdown, closing schools, shuttering stock exchanges, and temporarily turning our world into a containment zone. With companies everywhere telling employees to work remotely, the need for a manager who “checks on you” has suddenly evaporated. If anything, this outbreak proved to everyone that life is
Read MoreG-Mode, a company that churned out countless Java-based games for Japanese feature phones in the 2000s and beyond, has announced that it will be releasing some of those games on the Nintendo Switch as well. The first game in the new G-Mode Archives series, the 16-bit-ish JRPG Flyhight Cloudia, will come out on April 16th
Read MoreLast week, we reported about India building a coronavirus tracker based on your mobile location. Now, the government has officially launched the app with the name of Aarogya Setu (which translates from Sanskrit to ‘A bridge of health’). The core function of the app remains the same as the beta version: using your phone’s location data and
Read MoreMatthew Gault / VICE: Popular early internet meme site YTMND has been resurrected with the help of fans, a year after it went down — Almost a year ago, the popular early internet meme machine YTMND.com went down. According to Max Goldberg, the site’s creator, one of the site’s databases was running on eight year
Read MoreLooking for a set of inexpensive headphones? Here are some of the best budget models worth considering. Best cheap earbuds and headphones – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreOlivia Poh / The Business Times: Doctor Anywhere, a Singapore-based telemedicine startup, raises $27M Series B, says it will use the funds to expand into Malaysia and the Philippines — LOCAL telemedicine startup Doctor Anywhere on Tuesday announced it has raised US$27 million in a Series B round led by Square Peg, EDBI and IHH
Read MoreGoogle is killing another one of its experimental apps — Neighbourly. The company said it’s shutting down the app on May 12, as the project didn’t take off as expected. The search giant first unveiled the app in May 2018 as a test in the Indian city of Mumbai to let you explore your neighborhood
Read MoreDave Lee / Financial Times: Amazon is investigating claims of its contractors sleeping in “subhuman” conditions on makeshift beds in a Philippine call center due to travel restrictions — Claims workers left sleeping in close quarters on office floors as a result of travel ban Amazon is investigating claims of its contractors sleeping in "subhuman"
Read More{$inline_image} Ben Bergman / dot.LA: An inside account of how Bird laid off 406 employees in two minutes via a Zoom webinar; employees say they were locked out of their computers during the meeting — Last Friday morning, 406 Bird employees – who had been working from home for two weeks because of the coronavirus
Read MoreJason Aycock / Seeking Alpha: Snap says the time users spent calling on its app increased by 50%+ from February to March, and that Snaps between friends reached all-time high in that period — Snapchat (NYSE:SNAP) is reporting increased engagement over the past few weeks amid the COVID-19 pandemic – much of that coming between
Read MoreNeed more of the big-cat universe that’s captivated so many? Help is on the way. Tiger King: 4 ways to get more of Netflix's wildly popular documentary – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreEmail sent to employees cites “significant privacy and security concerns,” Reuters reports. SpaceX reportedly bans use of Zoom videoconferencing app by employees – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook and Fox News will be hosting a virtual town hall tomorrow at 7PM ET about the coronavirus pandemic using Facebook’s Portal video-calling devices, the two companies announced today. To allow people to participate virtually, Facebook is shipping a Portal Plus device to every audience member so
Read MoreThe April 23 decision could open up 1,200MHz of new bandwidth for next-gen, Wi-Fi 6E devices. The FCC sets a vote on opening the 6GHz band for unlicensed Wi-Fi use – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAmazon recently made a much-needed update to its Prime Video apps on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV: you can now purchase and rent videos directly from the app. Given how many people are using their streaming apps — such as Prime Video — to watch movies, this could not have come at a more welcome
Read MoreParanoid is a crazy gadget that keeps your Echo or Google speaker muted except when you want to talk to it, and it’s 20% off. Ensure your privacy around smart speakers with a Paranoid auto-mute device – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple on Wednesday confirmed the existence of a program for streaming video providers that allows those platforms to bypass its standard 30 percent App Store fee when selling individual purchases, like movie downloads and TV show rentals. The program first became public earlier today when Amazon updated its
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