Get the Anova Precision Cooker Wifi for $135, and pair it with a $50-off bonus deal on a 7-piece knife block set. …read more Source:: CNet

Tom’s Hardware “put five of the most popular desktop environments up against each other in a no-holds-barred, seven-round face-off. We’ve rated GNOME, KDE, Cinnamon, Awesome and Regolith on a 10-point scale based on Installation, Applications, User Experience, User Documentation, Performance, Extensions and Configurability.” It’s a good read, with a detailed and thoughtful 3,700-word analysis, especially…

With its contact tracing app shoring up just 1.4 million downloads, Singapore now is making a new digital check-in system compulsory — from May 12 — at selected locations including workplaces, schools, supermarkets, and healthcare facilities. …read more Source:: ZDNet

It’s said that slow internet is worse than no internet at all, which is mainly a matter of continuously crushing all hope and sanity vs. finding peace in accepting a fate out of your control. Plus, you can easily pass the time of being catapulted back to the prehistoric ages by navigating a jumpy little…

An anonymous reader writes: You really can’t make this stuff up, but Americans across the country, out of fear of “murder hornets,” have begun killing all kinds of bees en masse. According to Doug Yanega, senior museum scientist for the Department of Entomology at UC Riverside, a national panic has led to the needless slaughter…

Long-time Slashdot reader gollum123 quotes CNBC: Nearly 43% of full-time American employees say they want to work remotely more often even after the economy has reopened, according to a survey released by business publishing company getAbstract. Of the more than 1,200 employees surveyed between April 16 and April 17, nearly 20% said their employer is…

“France is integrating new AI tools into security cameras in the Paris metro system to check whether passengers are wearing face masks,” reports the Verge: The software, which has already been deployed elsewhere in the country, began a three-month trial in the central Chatelet-Les Halles station of Paris this week, reports Bloomberg. [Alternate source] French…

The Apple iPhone SE was recently released and BodyGuardz quickly launched several case and screen protector options. The cases have unique features, including an integrated slide-out kickstand, enhanced audio performance, and more. …read more Source:: ZDNet

The Hackaday community has answered the call and put their computers put to work folding proteins found in the coronavirus. Team_Hack-a-Day ranks #44 in the world so far this month, and I’ve seen us rank as high as #19 on 24-hour leaderboards. Want to join the fight? Donate some of those computing cycles you’re not…

Microsoft has begun rolling out a new feature in Office 365 to help IT staff stop the scourage that is “Reply-All email storms.” ZDNet reports: The feature started rolling out this week to all Office 365 users worldwide. In its current form, Microsoft says the “Reply All Storm Protection” feature will block all email threads…