Day: March 21, 2020

Apple pledges to donate 2 million masks to US coronavirus response – CNET

Vice President Mike Pence said Apple is working with the Trump administration to distribute them. …read more Source:: CNet


Coronavirus updates: Pence staffer tests positive, student loan payment suspension – CNET

Plus: Californian and Illinois go on lockdown, deaths in Italy surpass those in China. …read more Source:: CNet


Working from home? Add a portable second monitor to your laptop for $179 – CNET

Normally $250, the popular Duex Pro offers an ingenious slide-out screen. Plus, 10 Star Trek movies for $30 and a free Google Nest Hub with SiriusXM. …read more Source:: CNet


GNU Make 4.3 Speeds Up Linux Kernel Builds, Debugger/Profiler Fork Released

Linus Torvalds himself “changed around the kernel’s pipe code to use exclusive waits when reading or writing,” reports Phoronix. “While this doesn’t mean much for traditional/common piping of data, the GNU Make job-server is a big benefactor as it relies upon a pipe for limiting the parallelism” — especially on high-core-count CPUs. This drew an…


Headphone deal: Plantronics BackBeat Go 600 for only $25 – CNET

Amazon still has these really solid Plantronics over-ear Bluetooth headphones on sale for $75 off their list price of $100. That’s a bargain. …read more Source:: CNet


Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden Passes Away

“Former astronaut Alfred M. Worden, command module pilot on the Apollo 15 lunar landing, passed away March 18, 2020, in Texas,” reports NASA.gov. His son-in-law told the New York Times Worden apparently died of a stroke. “Al was an American hero whose achievements in space and on Earth will never be forgotten,” tweeted NASA Administrator…


If You Haven’t Read It, The Imperial College Report On COVID-19 Is Important

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Google Launches Coronavirus Website In The United States

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Covid-19 Spurs Facial Recognition Tracking, Privacy Fears

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Coronavirus News Being Used To Sneak Malware Past AV Programs

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