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Man dressed as grim reaper to visit Florida beaches that reopen too early
9KMashable / 15h
While the coronavirus pandemic is far from over, some U.S. states have decided to reopen as soon as... well, right now Georgia was the first to ease restrictions , with businesses like gyms and salons opening Friday Michigan will soon follow suit , following protests from residents. Reopening worries some citizens, medical professionals, and elected officials, but one Florida man is dedicated to
Why I Still Use a 34-Year-Old IBM Model M Keyboard
1KHow-To Geek / 18h
In a world where rapidly changing technology feels increasingly disposable, one thing remains constant in my computer setup: my 34-year-old IBM 101-key Enhanced Keyboard, commonly known as the Model M. Here’s why I’ll never give up its clicky keys and ideal layout. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›
Covid-19 has blown apart the myth of Silicon Valley innovation
4KMIT Technology Review / 18h
The frustration in Marc Andreessen’s post on our failure to prepare and respond competently to the coronavirus pandemic is palpable, and his diagnosis is adamant: “a failure of action, and specifically our widespread inability to ‘build.’” Why don’t we have vaccines and medicines, or even masks and ventilators? He writes: “We could have these things but we chose not to—specifically we chose not
Unblock American Netflix from anywhere in the world
24Mashable / 25min
TL;DR: A one-year subscription to Ivacy VPN is on sale for £2.84 per month, saving you 65% on list price. VPNs are primarily used to boost online security and data protection, but that's not why you're here, is it? You're here because you're interested in accessing all the content locked away on American Netflix . With a VPN you can connect to an American server and spoof your IP to a U.S. addres
Amazon asks workers to request leave if they continue staying at home
100+Engadget / 1h
Amazon warehouse workers wanting to stay home to avoid COVID-19 will soon have to make a formal request. The online retailer is asking staff staying home to either report to their shifts starting May 1st or else request a leave of absence. A spokesperson told Bloomberg that the leave option would be available to both part- and full-time workers, while a company blog post made clear that leave wou
This 4TB PCIe SSD can make your Windows laptop feel more like a MacBook Pro
64TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 2h
The Apple MacBook Pro 16 still holds bragging rights when it comes to the maximum storage capacity available in a traditional portable laptop. Apple uses a proprietary approach, plugging memory chips directly into the motherboard to reach a whopping 8TB of storage, while only a handful of vendors even offer 4TB PCIe SSDs. OWC has recently joined Sabrent as only the second consumer vendor to offer
'Battlefield V' will get one last standalone update this summer
100+Engadget / 3h
DICE and EA are bringing Battlefield V’s steady stream of updates to a close. The developers have announced (via Rock Paper Shotgun ) that there will be one last standalone update to the WWII shooter this summer. It’s not clear what the update will contain besides a new Libya map (above), more weapons and “game tweaks,” but the team stressed that there won’t be a new chapter. The Pacific-themed “
Coronavirus: Can these robot roommates liven up lockdown?
200+BBC News - Technology / 5h
The BBC's Cody Godwin invites some robots to entertain her - and her dog Bogart - during lockdown.
China orders TikTok owner to pull work app that bypassed censors
200+Engadget / 5h
TikTok owner ByteDance has been accused of censorship abroad, but it’s facing just the opposite claims in its home territory. China’s Cyberspace Administration has ordered ByteDance to temporarily pull its collaborative work app Feishu for roughly a month after learning that it allowed content from banned sites like Facebook and Twitter in its news feed. The company had pulled the feed in March a
Banks Are Cutting Credit Limits
View from the Wing / 5h
A month ago I wrote that credit cards might soon become tougher to get as banks tightened lending standards. In a down economy there's more risk that banks won't get paid back, so it's logical they'd become careful about extending credit. Already we've seen what appears to be a tougher approach to new small business cards at Chase. When banks expect an increase in defaults, they take steps to lim
12 of the most fascinating subreddits for (mostly) true stories
48Mashable / 6h
Internet anonymity is both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, it makes people feel free to spew homophobia and racism; it can be like busting open a godawful piñata of hate. On the other, it also makes people feel safe sharing deeply personal, gripping anecdotes on places like Reddit. In order to help point you in the right direction, we've curated a few of the subreddits whose stories have suc
Amazon loses bid to resume selling non-essential goods in France
Amazon France French100+Engadget / 6h
In mid-April, a court in France ruled that Amazon can only fulfill orders for essential products to protect its workers from COVID-19. The e-commerce giant challenged the decision, but it has ended up losing (PDF) its appeal on Friday. According to The New York Times , the Versailles Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s ruling to limit Amazon deliveries to “health items, food, pet food and ele
Double-check those Zoom meeting invites. Hackers are faking them to steal your info.
500+Mashable / 7h
Zoom may have fixed many of its own security issues, but it’ll never be immune to hackers trying to trick the company’s users. Malicious actors are now targeting users with fake Zoom meeting emails in order to steal their personal information and login credentials, according to email cybersecurity firm Abormal Security . This particular phishing scheme uncovered by Abnormal Security weaponizes ma
Twitch has a problem with non-stop 'Valorant' streams
100+Engadget / 8h
Valorant has been a hit on Twitch , but it’s now clear that success isn’t always for the right reasons. Kotaku has documented a slew of Twitch streams that are running 24/7 solely to attract people looking for Valorant beta keys that drop after watching for at least two hours. Many of these streams do have honest-to-goodness live segments each day, but the remainders of each stream typically invo
How to watch Bad Education: stream new Hugh Jackman movie online from anywhere
86TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 8h
It's being hailed as Hugh Jackman's best performance since The Greatest Showman and reportedly cost HBO $20 million to secure the distribution rights to - quite the figure for a film about a suburban district school board scandal. Yet it's won the critics over and is finally ready for the public to pass its verdict - here's how to watch Bad Education online and stream the new movie no matter wher
Two American Airlines Award Improvements
View from the Wing / 8h
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Have a Sprint 5G phone? T-Mobile will force some of you to upgrade.
T-Mobile Legere Board200+Mashable / 8h
When T-Mobile and Sprint announced their merger, one of the main upsides touted for the "new" T-Mobile was its ability to build a better 5G network . For 5G phone owners and eager early adopters, that sounded great. But now we know the newly combined telco's 5G footprint doesn’t exactly work in the favor of those who currently own a Sprint 5G handset. Wireless customers with Sprint's 2019 5G phon
Recovered From Covid-19? WHO Says That’s No Guarantee You Can’t Get It Again
1KGizmodo / 8h
Over the past few weeks, one comforting idea that people recovered from covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, could think about was that they would probably not get it again. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) contradicted that assumption this week. Read more...
Review: Chris Hemsworth shows his dramatic acting chops in Extraction
91Ars Technica / 9h
Enlarge / Chris Hemsworth plays a ruthless mercenary whose latest mission calls for rescuing a drug lord's kidnapped son from Bangladesh. (credit: Netflix) Chris Hemsworth gets a chance to stretch his acting chops as a hardened mercenary hired to rescue the kidnapped son of a crime lord in Mumbai, India, in Extraction , a new original action thriller from Netflix. The film is produced by the Russ
Serenity in Southeast Asia: A review of the Four Seasons Resort The Nam Hai in Vietnam
The Points Guy / 9h
During the COVID-19 crisis, our team has temporarily ceased taking review trips. Instead, we have been publishing a selection of our most popular reviews from the past year. However, as of this week we have resumed the publication of new, previously unpublished flight , hotel and lounge reviews, from trips taken before the lockdown. We hope this will help you choose once we’re all ready to start
Grab This $20 Surge Protector and Get the Wires out of the Way
Gizmodo / 9h
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What does COVID-19 mean for car design? We ask Jaguar’s Julian Thomson
28Ars Technica / 9h
Jaguar recently moved into a massive new design studio packed with advanced technology. But currently, everyone's forced into working from home because of the coronavirus pandemic. [credit: Jaguar ] Adapting to the coronavirus lockdown and the move en masse to working from home has been easier for some professions than others. We've been doing it since day one here at Ars, because typing at a com
iPhone SE can take portrait photos of non-humans using an app
100+Engadget / 9h
The iPhone SE offers many things for the money, but a powerful portrait mode isn’t one of them. Much like the iPhone XR, you’re stuck taking portrait photos of people if you use the default camera app — a problem at a time when you’re supposed to avoid most human contact. You won’t have to settle for plain shots if you’re willing to get third-party tools, though. Halide (which also rescued the iP
8 features that would make the perfect airport lounge
The Points Guy / 10h
At a time when global travel is, for the most part, on pause, we’re finding ourselves dreaming of faraway destinations, business-class flights and, for some of us, even airport lounges . Many see a visit to the airport lounge as one of the things we look forward to about taking a flight — unless you’re TPG Travel Analyst Zach Griff , that is, who always skips the lounge and goes straight to the g
Michigan senator denies wearing Confederate flag face mask, then apologizes
500+Mashable / 10h
Michigan state senator Dale Zorn has apologized for wearing a mask appearing to be made from a Confederate flag at the State Capitol on Friday. Before apologizing, Zorn denied that it was the flag to local news outlet WLNS, stating, "It wasn't a Confederate flag. It was a mask that my wife made for me and she wanted me to wear it today." Zorn said he told his wife that the mask would raise eyebro
Happy birthday! TPG UK’s first year in numbers
The Points Guy / 10h
In April of 2019, a magical little switch in the digital world was flicked and thepointsguy.co.uk came to life. TPG UK kicked off with a bang with a four-day extravaganza in Covent Garden , and the pace has hardly let up since. It has been quite a year for me and the team, growing The Points Guy U.K. into the biggest site of its kind in the country. And what better way to look back than to break
Air Greenland breaks record with nearly 8-hour turboprop flight
The Points Guy / 10h
On Monday, Air Greenland operated a nonstop seven-hour and 52-minute flight from Copenhagen (CPH) in Denmark to Nuuk (GOH) in Greenland. What made the flight especially unusual was that it was operated by an Air Greenland De Havilland Dash 8-200 aircraft. As first reported by One Mile at a Time , the 23-year old aircraft, registered OY-GRP, completed the 2,208-mile journey as flight GL6493. This
Tesla rolls out Autopilot navigation for traffic lights and stop signs
Tesla Model Autopilot400+Engadget / 10h
Tesla has been developing Autopilot navigation for traffic lights and stop signs for quite some time, and now the feature is finally ready for the public. According to Electrek , the automaker has released a Traffic Light and Stop Sign Control feature for its Autopilot technology as part of the 2020.12.6 software update. It first rolled out to early access users for beta testing in March, but now
6 Reasons An “Immunity Passport” Isn’t Going To Work For Travel
View from the Wing / 10h
We do not need a vaccine to travel again. Widespread availability of a vaccine is probably two years away even if it's developed in a year, since it has to be manufactured and distributed at massive scale. However a gimmick like an immunity passport, given our limited knowledge of the virus right now, isn't likely to get us back in the sky. So don't get infected just because you think recovering
Startups Weekly: Investors are keeping terms friendly — instead they say ‘no’ more often
100+TechCrunch / 10h
[Editor’s note: Want to get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that startups can use by email ? Subscribe here .] Multiple liquidation preferences, full-ratchet anti-dilution clauses and pay-to-play provisions are some of the words that still haunt startup founders who survived downturns in decades past. So far in this downturn, though, investors seem to be sparing the brutal terms that te
Our love of the cloud is making a green energy future impossible
300+TechCrunch / 10h
Mark Mills Contributor Mark Mills is the author of the book, “Digital Cathedrals: The Information Infrastructure Era,” and is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a Faculty Fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering, and a partner in Cottonwood Venture Partners, an energy-tech venture fund. An epic number of citizens are video-conferencing to work in these lockdown
This Week in Apps: Facebook takes on Houseparty, Fortnite comes to Google Play, contact tracing API
100+TechCrunch / 10h
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $120 billion in consumer spending in 2019, according to App Annie’s “State of Mobile” annual report. People are now spending 3 hours and 40 minutes per day using
The Last Dance makes it hard to like the players at the heart of this documentary
61TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 10h
Sports documentaries, for the most part, need to do two things: be accessible to you even if you know nothing about the discipline, and give you someone to root for. You can’t beat an underdog story like Sunderland ‘Til I Die , but the drama is bound up in your support for the show’s subject, so even if they're global superstars, you’ve got to at least like them. Then that drama shouldn't be weig
Learn About What You're Drinking From Flaviar's 'School of Spirits'
40Lifehacker / 11h
Staying at home more and the pandemic, in general, has changed a lot of our habits. Maybe you’re taking an ivy league course online , or working out on your exercise bike a little more. Or, maybe you’re like me and you’re just drinking a lot more than you usually do. Read more...
JetBlue begins flying new “tag” routes in order to comply with CARES Act
66The Points Guy / 11h
Call it a sign of the times. As a condition of receiving federal money under the CARES Act, airlines must maintain “ a minimum level of service ” between city pairs that were served before the coronavirus pandemic broke out, reducing the demand for air travel to practically nothing. For more TPG news delivered each morning to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter . JetBlue, instead of main
Here's the best fabric combination for homemade face masks
300+Mashable / 12h
Many Americans are now advised to wear masks while outside to prevent the spread of COVID-19, according to the CDC — and this may be the case for quite some time . But highly protective yet scarce N95 and surgical masks need to be reserved for healthcare workers, so those who aren't on the frontlines should instead resort to buying or making masks with other fabrics. Researchers now suggest that
US blames China for hacks allegedly targeting COVID-19 research
200+Engadget / 12h
It probably won’t surprise you to hear that state-backed hacking is still going on during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the US is reportedly convinced that one country is mounting a large campaign. Officials speaking to CNN claim they’ve seen a surge of cyberattacks against American government agencies and pharmaceutical firms, and they’re pinning the campaign on China. The country is believed to be
These Lenovo Yoga laptop sales offer excellent price cuts this weekend
44TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 12h
Lenovo Yoga laptop sales are offering some fantastic discounts on stunningly powerful machines this weekend. That means you can pick up the laptop of your dreams without having to break the bank right now. From juicy 10th generation processors to massive SSDs, there's plenty to get your teeth into in the latest Lenovo laptop deals. The cheapest Lenovo Yoga ready to ship is this $779.99 15.6-inch
Saturday's Best Deals: Kindle Book Best-Sellers, ChiliPAD, Foot and Calf Massagers, and More
36Gizmodo / 12h
A sale on Kindle book best-sellers , a cooling mattress pad , Mother’s Day beauty deals , oddly-shaped surge protectors , and more are the highlights of today’s best deals. Read more...
Quibi streaming service will arrive soon on TVs, but only for some users
25SlashGear / 12h
Short-form video streaming service Quibi will soon be available to watch on TVs, but only for some users, according to a new report. The service launched in early April for smartphones and tablets, but lacked a TV app or casting feature. Soon after its launch, the company said that it was fast-
