Finally something good has come out of the coronavirus pandemic: Stuck in quarantine, one teacher has resorted to VR to drop knowledge to his students. Oh, and he did it in Half Life: Alyx. Meet Mr. Charles Coomber, a San Diego-based teacher at Otay Ranch Academy for the Arts, whose latest lesson on angle vocabulary has gone viral on YouTube.
Read MoreAlex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: Fast, which is building platform-agnostic login and checkout services for e-commerce, raises $20M Series A led by Stripe — Early this morning, Fast, a startup building platform-agnostic login and checkout services, announced that Stripe has led a $20 million investment into its business. Fast, which is building platform-agnostic login and checkout
Read MoreIndia‘s largest video streaming service, MX Player, has expanded its content offerings in seven new countries including the US, Canada, and the UK. The app, which gained popularity as a local media player first, has more than 275 million monthly active users across the world. The platform will be free to watch with ads to
Read More{$inline_image}The UK government’s handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic has come under serious criticism, not just from citizens, but from leaders around the world. One of the reasons for this is because the government is using behavioral science to decide how to coordinate its response to the pandemic. In fact, more than 600 academics recently
Read MoreThe social network for neighbors, Nextdoor, is seeing an influx of helpful offers during the coronavirus outbreak, but still has its classic, less kind posts. Suddenly Nextdoor is filled with kind neighbors. But also new kinds of shaming. Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreThese are the starting point for Apple and Samsung’s marquee phone lines. Here’s how to figure out which one is right for you. iPhone 11 vs. Galaxy S20: Which phone should you buy? – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreStuck at home due to the coronavirus pandemic? Use these videoconferencing options to keep in touch with family, friends and your workplace. 10 free video chat apps to use if you're social distancing – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIllustration by William Joel / The Verge The tech story that made the biggest impact on me yesterday was Sam Byford’s “Living a Google-free life with a Huawei phone.” In the run up to the launch of Huawei’s new flagship P40 line, he got himself a Mate 30 Pro and used it to see what
Read MoreAndy / TorrentFreak: AMD confirms in Dec. 2019 someone claimed to have files related to its current and future graphics products and posted them online; the files have been removed — Graphics cards are big business and AMD is one of the leading brands with an estimated 32% share of the discrete desktop market. AMD
Read MoreFrom Google Hangouts to Houseparty, here are the apps that are most useful for happy hours, game nights and dance parties while self-quarantining. The ultimate guide to which socializing app is right for you, from Zoom to Netflix Party Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreA new consortium of top scientists will be able to use some of the world’s most advanced supercomputers to look for solutions. A.I. Versus the Coronavirus Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On March 5th, as COVID-19 began to reshape American life, I noted here that big tech companies had responded with unusual alacrity. Where they once had been loath to intervene in matters of fact, suddenly Facebook and Twitter were prominently featuring links to high-quality information from the Centers
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft Teams isn’t the only business-focused chat and communications app that’s seeing a spike in demand. Slack is revealing today that it has hit new user records for simultaneously connected users, thanks to a surge in demand for remote working amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. On Tuesday March
Read MoreAMD says that a hacker has obtained source files for some of its current and future GPUs, including details about the Xbox Series X. “In December 2019, we were contacted by someone who claimed to have test files related to a subset of our current and future graphics products, some of which were recently posted
Read MoreIn a report cited by Autocar, UK-based battery recycling firm Acleron says: “The EV revolution could create more than 11 million tonnes of battery waste worldwide a year in the next 20 years.” Indeed, EVs do present a new waste management challenge, but it’s only a problem if we — us humans — choose to
Read MoreWith people going online more in the pandemic, internet traffic has exploded. That’s taking a toll on our download speeds and video quality. Surging Traffic Is Slowing Down Our Internet Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreIf you’re struggling to stay focused during an online meeting whilst working from home, believe me when I tell you that you’re not alone. I mean, people are even skipping Zoom meetings by looping videos of themselves paying attention. I for one applaud this creativity, but if you have work to do and actually want
Read MoreWe are unabashed fans of [The History Guy’s] YouTube channel, although his history videos aren’t always about technology, and even when they are, they don’t always dig into the depths that we’d like to see. That’s understandable since the channel is a general interest channel. However, for this piece on James Clerk Maxwell, he brought
Read MoreThe company adds a wide-format model for home offices and a new generation of small-biz models to its lines of bottle-fed printers. Epson's EcoTank inkjet printers go big and go 'pro' – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe whole of our lives is comprised of a series of individual events threaded together by the decisions we make. One day we wake up and the sun is shining and there’s no stopping us. And on other days, like now, uncertainly and fear control our collective psyche and send everyone into disarray and confusion.
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: A self-reporting COVID-19 symptom app developed by Boston-based startup Zoe had 750k downloads in 24 hours in the UK; Zoe is working to bring the app to the US — One of the big challenges (among many) with the coronavirus pandemic is that overwhelmed health services do not always know how
Read MoreIt’s probably not the best time to launch a product, but this one can actually help people distract themselves during the lockdown. Google has brought its nifty podcast app to iOS — and yes, it’s free. The search giant first launched the app on Android in 2018. Google Podcasts supported playback on the web back then, but
Read MoreAnimal Crossing: New Horizons is on track to become one of the best-selling video games of all time in Japan, according to sales figures released by Famitsu. The game managed to sell 1.88 million physical copies in its opening three days in Nintendo’s home market, a number far bigger than any other Switch game or
Read MoreWe once saw a Romeo and Juliet production where the two families were modern-day mob families with 3-piece suits and pistols. If they made King Richard III set in this week, the famous line might be: “Hand sanitizer, hand sanitizer, my kingdom for hand sanitizer!” Even if you have a supply stashed in your prepper
Read MoreDue to coronavirus restrictions, the launch will be livestreamed on YouTube. How to watch the Huawei P40 Pro launch event livestream – CNET Source: CNet
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