As use of the social media giant’s services surge, it could prove to be a moment of redemption for chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. Why the coronavirus pandemic is a test Facebook can’t afford to fail Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreWe are more dependent on technology than ever. Can it handle the strain? The Week in Tech: We’re Testing How Much the Internet Can Handle Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreLG’s 2020 lineup of OLED TVs will be among those to receive the service. | Image: LG Movies Anywhere — the Disney-owned movie locker service that combines your purchased films across digital stores including Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video, Vudu, and Google Play — is launching a native app for LG’s smart TVs. The app
Read MorePlus: COVID-19 has now killed more than 1,000 Americans, and the US Senate passes a $2 trillion stimulus package. Coronavirus updates: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson tests positive, US has most cases worldwide – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreLocated about 21 million light-years from our galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, NGC 4618 has a diameter of about one-third that of our Milky Way. Together with its neighbor, NGC 4625, it forms an interacting galaxy pair, which means that the two galaxies are close enough to influence each other gravitationally. Hubble Hooks a
Read MorePhoto by Johannes Simon/Getty Images The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropic arm, has committed $25 million to a research fund designed to help identify and develop treatments for the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, it announced today. CZI, managed by Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, is donating to the
Read MoreMicrosoft is rushing to release an out-of-band fix in early April for a Windows 10 connectivity bug. New Windows 10 bug hits home working: Outlook, O365, Teams can't access internet Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon Alexa users in the US can now use the voice assistant as a first step towards diagnosing cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, Amazon has announced. Queries such as “Alexa, what do I do if I think I have coronavirus?” or “Alexa, what
Read MorePhoto by Nilay Patel / The Verge Nilay Patel published his 2020 MacBook Air review yesterday. He calls it “the best Mac for most people” and I agree. After three iterations in its modern incarnation, the MacBook Air has finally been restored to its place as the default MacBook. When your computer goes haywire and
Read MoreThe Chinese companies will work on artificial intelligence and augmented reality together, according to Reuters. Huawei is reportedly working on cloud gaming platform with Tencent – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google says it’s now ready to resume work on Chrome, after briefly halting upcoming releases of the browser in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Daily canary builds of the browser, dev, and beta versions “have or will resume this week,” according to Google. The next stable channel update
Read MoreEveryone has heard of open source projects like Linux, Kubernetes, and MySQL. Far fewer have heard of ROS (Robot Operating System), Apache Flink, or InfluxDB, though these open source projects, too, are getting noticed. However, virtually no one has heard of open source Zeek or Jitsi, despite their having been around for eons. It’s high
Read MoreUpended by the coronavirus outbreak, nonprofits are laying off workers, seeking help from stretched donors and trying to stay alive. Nonprofits Built Themselves on a Dream. Their New Mission: Survival. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe head of a flying dinosaur that is hardly bigger than a bee hummingbird has been discovered in 99-million-year-old amber. The piece of polished amber, just 31mm by 20mm by 8.5mm, was found in Kachin Province of northern Myanmar, an area becoming increasingly well-known for its remarkable amber-encased fossils. This exciting little fossil micro-dinosaur named
Read MoreLooking to sterilize something? Give it a good blast of the old UV-C. Ultraviolet radiation in the shortest wavelength band breaks down DNA and RNA, so it’s a great way to kill off any nasties that are lurking. But how much UV-C are you using? [Akiba] at Hackerfarm has come up with the NukeMeter, a
Read MoreAs video calling services are growing more popular during the coronavirus crisis, Google is expanding the number of people you can chat within a group call on its Duo app from eight to 12. The company’s senior director of product & design, Sanaz Ahari, made the announcement on Twitter just a few hours ago. Thankfully,
Read MoreThe former Jedi apprentice gets into deep trouble with her new buddies. Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode 6 recap: Ahsoka Tano dives deeper into the underworld – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt was six times quicker to launch Rnwl, my current startup, than my previous one. The level of complexity, product novelty, and financial requirements are particularly similar between the two. Yet this time it took me just four months to build the product, the team and the funding to a satisfactory level whereas it took
Read MoreJoe Rossignol / MacRumors: Kuo: Apple to launch several Mac notebooks and desktop computers with its own custom Arm-based processors in 2021; USB4 support will come to Macs in 2022 — Apple plans to launch several Mac notebooks and desktop computers with its own custom designed Arm-based processors in 2021 … Kuo: Apple to launch
Read MoreZoom’s video conferencing app has grown more popular than ever lately, while people are staying home to flatten the curve. But you should know that there’s a major privacy concern with the service. Last night, Vice reported that Zoom‘s iOS app is nonconsensually sending data to Facebook — even if you don’t have a Facebook
Read MoreSometimes it feels as though all the good physical interactions with machines have disappeared. Given our current germ warfare situation, that is probably a good thing. But if fewer than ten people ever will be touching something, it’s probably okay to have a little fun and make your own interfaces for things. Fun definitely seems
Read MoreProposed new rules by the Trump administration may require foreign companies that use American chipmaking equipment to secure a license before supplying some chips to Huawei, a Reuters report says. US officials reportedly agree to cut off Huawei from global chip suppliers – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by Nilay Patel / The Verge The Mac’s long-rumored transition from Intel processors to Apple’s own ARM designs could be swifter and more extensive than you might have expected. According to a new research note from analyst Ming-chi Kuo, reported on by MacRumors, Apple is planning to release “several” ARM-based Macs in 2021 in
Read MoreSubscribe to this bi-weekly newsletter here! Welcome to the latest edition of Pardon The Intrusion, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter in which we explore the wild world of security. If you own a smartphone, you’re probably being tracked as part of a surveillance system. As the coronavirus pandemic accelerates, governments worldwide have turned to technology such as
Read MoreDirector Matt Reeves confirms the delay in a tweet. The Batman production shut down due to coronavirus – CNET Source: CNet
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