Day: June 24, 2020

Rotten Tomatoes editor Mark Ellis is obsessed with Michael Jordan’s The Last Dance – CNET

Ellis shares how being a comic on the road prepared him to shelter in place alone during the pandemic. …read more Source:: CNet


No Internet Access? Amid Protests, Here’s How to Tell Whether the Government Is Behind it

Government-mandated Internet shutdowns occur far more regularly than you might expect. …read more Source:: DarkReading


The impact of COVID-19: Customer service, digital transformation, and the new normal

Michael Maoz, senior vice president of Innovation Strategy at Salesforce, is a customer experience and customer engagement management expert. Maoz shares his thoughts on impact of COVID-19 pandemic. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Zoom hires Jason Lee from Salesforce to serve as new CISO

Lee to become Zoom’s new CISO starting June 29, next week. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Microsoft completes phase one of porting OpenJDK for Windows 10 on ARM devices

Java is important to Microsoft in developing many of its own products and services, as well as to its customers. That’s why it’s bringing OpenJDK to Windows 10 on Arm. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Perl 7 Announced As Evolving Perl 5 With Modern Defaults

Taking place this week is the virtual Perl + Raku “Conference in the Cloud” as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic causing the event to go virtual. A big announcement out of it is Perl 7. From a report: Perl 7 basically amounts to Perl 5 with more modern defaults and foregoing some of the…


NASA sunset simulations reveal haunting beauty of sundown on other worlds – CNET

You can’t visit Mars, Venus, Uranus or Titan in person, but you can enjoy their lovely sunsets. …read more Source:: CNet


Chime after chime: Apple restores iconic Mac boot sound removed in 2016

Triumphant F#-major to return with upcoming macOS Big Sur As the saying goes: Out with the old, in with the… old. After temporarily ditching the iconic Mac “chime” in 2016, Apple is finally bringing it back with the upcoming release of macOS Big Sur.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Sentry Water Gun Relies On LIDAR

As we head into summer, Super Soakers and their ilk become de rigeur ways to cool off in the heat. Not content with chasing targets himself, [Marcel] instead built a sentry water gun to do his bidding. The build is one that leverages typical 3D printer components to get the job done. A Minitronics 2.0…


Save up to $500 on a gaming laptop from Amazon – CNET

Models from Acer, Asus and Razer are marked down. …read more Source:: CNet