Evergreen Health Medical Center, where two patients have died from the novel coronavirus | Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images A second person died of the coronavirus in Washington, according to local health authorities. It is also the second death from the disease in the U.S. Three more people in the county have also been hospitalized
Read MoreThe RealMe Login and Assertion Services will be transitioned from a custom-made, legacy platform to a cloud-based platform by 30 June 2020. NZ Internal Affairs shifts RealMe citizen digital identity services to Azure Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreA new system uses software to dictate quarantines — and appears to send personal data to police, in a troubling precedent for automated social control. In Coronavirus Fight, China Gives Citizens a Color Code, With Red Flags Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreBen Gilbert / Business Insider: Indie game developers and publishers say Stadia’s library is sparse because Google wasn’t offering devs enough money and may abandon the platform in the future — – Last November, Google finally launched a major gaming platform that was in development for years: Google Stadia. Indie game developers and publishers say
Read MorePhoto by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Billionaire Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign purchased primetime ad space Sunday night — reportedly worth at least $1 million — so the former New York City mayor could cosplay as the president of the U.S. He addressed the nation, vaguely, about the threat of coronavirus. Bloomberg’s ad ran around 8:30PM ET
Read MoreIt’s the fourth highest-grossing film of the year, but one of DC’s weakest performers. Birds of Prey: Harley Quinn approaches 0M at box office – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFrank McShan / MacRumors: Kuo: iPhone production will not significantly improve before Q2, as suppliers like lens manufacturer Genius Electronic Optical struggle to keep up amid COVID-19 — Apple’s iPhone production will not significantly improve until the second quarter of 2020, according to a research note … Kuo: iPhone production will not significantly improve before
Read MoreTalk about buried treasure: archeologists in Germany have – literally – unearthed a pristine Soviet spy radio, buried for decades outside of Cologne. While searching for artifacts from a Roman empire settlement, the archeologists found a pit containing the Soviet R-394KM transceiver, built in 1987 and apparently buried shortly thereafter without ever being used. It
Read MoreSophie Porter / MobiHealthNews: Cera Care, which provides home care for the elderly in the UK, raises $70M and launches SmartCare, a tool that uses AI to predict health deteriorations — The British company provides digitally-enabled care services for the elderly. — Technology-powered home care provider Cera Care … Cera Care, which provides home care
Read MoreThe novelization, explaining everything the movie didn’t, will be available for purchase at a store near you. We now know Palpatine was a clone in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Lendio, a Utah-based online marketplace for small business loans, raises $55M in equity and debt, bringing its total raised to $108.5M — Lendio, a Lehi, Utah-based free online marketplace for small business loans, has secured $55 million in capital. That includes $31 million in equity led … Lendio, a
Read MoreIf you’re a frequent traveler, then you may one day run into an offer for a souvenir passport stamp. Antarctica offers a stamp at some of its scientific stations, Machu Picchu offers a stamp at the entrance of the Inca ruins, and the town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in Wales offers a… Read more… Never Put a
Read MoreRobert Swan, who leads the world’s biggest chipmaker, is pushing his 110,000 employees to confront internal problems more openly. Intel’s Culture Needed Fixing. Its C.E.O. Is Shaking Things Up. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreIf a grizzled RF engineer who bears the soldering-iron scars of a thousand projects could offer any advice, it would be that microwave antennas are not a field to be entered into lightly. Much heartache is to be saved by using an off-the-shelf design, and only the foolhardy venture willingly down the stripline into the
Read MoreMike Isaac / New York Times: COVID-19’s impact on tech this week: cancelled conferences, supply chain and sales disruptions, murky business outlook for online travel firms, and rise of Zoom — Companies are telling investors that sales are slumping because of the outbreak, conferences are being canceled, and workers are being instructed not to travel.
Read MoreEven the most diligent of parents can unexpectedly lose track of their youngsters, especially in crowded and attention-grabbing places like amusement parks, fairs, and shopping malls. This week reddit user ChadNFreud made a great suggestion on what to do before you head into that crowded situation with a child or… Read more… Take a Quick
Read MoreRajiv Rao / ZDNet: How Apple, after languishing in India for years, became the fastest growing premium smartphone brand in the country in 2019 — For the first time in its brief history in India, the premium brand has gone all out to woo customers with big price cuts, and thanks to local manufacturing efforts,
Read MoreOne of the biggest problems of owning an older boat (besides being a money pit – that is common to all boats regardless of age) is the lack of parts and equipment, and the lack of support for those parts if you can find them at all. Like most things, this is an area that
Read MoreGilad Edelman / Wired: The Intuit-Credit Karma deal, driven by the latter’s stash of user data, poses an important test case for US regulators’ budding interest in data-driven mergers — Antitrust regulators say they’re interested in data-driven mergers. Intuit’s $7 billion deal to buy Credit Karma will show how serious they are. The Intuit-Credit Karma
Read MoreOn Tuesday I’m supposed to be flying to the Maldives. I say “supposed to” because on Friday I found out that my flight to the country had been canceled by the airline, thanks to the two-hour layover I was going to have in South Korea, currently one of the areas heavily impacted by COVID-19 aka
Read MoreIsaac Asimov, roboticist and science fiction writer, predicted in his novel I, Robot in 1950 that robots and artificial intelligence were going to be banned from Earth in the year 2030. Instead, we are seeing huge advances in AI and this is likely to continue within the next decade. The UK’s investment in AI recently reached a record
Read MorePerfect for rideshare drivers, this dashcam can record everything that happens inside and outside your car, complete with a GPS location and timestamp. Record it all: Add a dual front and interior dashcam to your car for just – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend. Tools like Twine have made it easier than ever to make interactive
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Elementor, a WordPress-focused graphical website building platform, raises $15M from Lightspeed Venture Partners — WordPress has become so ubiquitous, it’s easy to forget that it still drives a huge ecosystem of startups that build tools and services around the platform. Elementor, a WordPress-focused graphical website building platform, raises M from Lightspeed
Read MoreManufacturers of low-cost 3D printers that use the masked stereolithography (MSLA) process are able to build their machines so cheaply because they’re using repurposed smartphone or tablet LCD panels to mask off the UV backlight. Considering the quality you get out of even the entry-level MSLA resin printers, we certainly aren’t complaining about this bit
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