The “Stay home. Save Lives” message appears in popular games like Candy Crush Saga, Sniper Elite 4, Dirt Rally 2.0 and Farm Heroes. …read more Source:: CNet
Just cough into here, please: Cambridge-developed app collects sounds of COVID-19
No stethoscope needed – but you don’t get to know the results A team at the UK’s Cambridge University has created an application to collect the speaking, breathing and coughing sounds of participants in the hope of building predictive models to “contribute to the early diagnosis of COVID-19”.… …read more Source:: TheRegister
Some Users Experiencing System Crashes on macOS 10.15.4, Especially During Large File Transfers
A sizeable number of Mac users are experiencing occasional system crashes after updating to macOS Catalina version 10.15.4, released a few weeks ago. From a report: The crashing issue appears to be most prominent when users attempt to make large file transfers. In a forum post, SoftRAID described the issue as a bug and said…
Best iPhone portable chargers and power banks for 2020: Mophie, MyCharge and more – CNET
Looking for a pocket-size power bank for iPhone charging on the go? Here are some top picks. …read more Source:: CNet
Getting To Space Is Even Harder During a Pandemic
At this point, most of us are painfully aware of the restrictions that COVID-19 social distancing protocols have put on our daily lives. Anyone who can is working from home, major events are canceled, non-essential businesses are closed, and travel is either strongly discouraged or prohibited outright. In particularly hard hit areas, life and commerce…
Uber Connects Out-of-Work U.S. Ride-Hail Drivers To Delivery, Production Jobs
Uber said on Monday its app will list job openings in the delivery, food production and grocery industry that its U.S. drivers can access during a slump in ride-hailing demand due to the coronavirus. From a report: Beginning on Monday, drivers can find job listings of other companies in a new section of their app,…
From Amanda Holden to petrol-filled water guns: It has been a weird week for 5G
Gov.UK to ask social networks to do their part… Comment Amanda Holden is not an epidemiologist. She holds no degree in electrical engineering or physics. Her time is spent judging the (often self-contradictory) Britain’s Got Talent, or sitting next to Phil Schofield on the couch of This Morning, where she earned notoriety by asking Brit…
A Google Plan To Wipe Out Mosquitoes Appears to Be Working
An experimental program led by Google parent Alphabet to wipe out disease-causing mosquitoes succeeded in nearly eliminating them from three test sites in California’s Central Valley. From a report: Stamping out illness caused by mosquitoes is one of Alphabet unit Verily’s most ambitious public-health projects. The effort appears to be paying off, according to a…
Learn how to maintain remote scale, resiliency and intelligence with the Akamai Edge Live | Virtual Summit
From managing during unprecedented times to dealing with wider digital change, these are the sessions you need Promo Business continuity, cyber security, and maintaining customer experience are the order of the day as we all bed in to work from home for the near (or mid) future. The Edge Live | Virtual Summit 2020 has…
Brainstorming COVID-19 Hack Chat
Join us on Wednesday, April 8 at noon Pacific for the Brainstorming COVID-19 Hack Chat! The COVID-19 pandemic has been sweeping across the globe now for three months. In that time it has encountered little resistance in its advances, being a novel virus with just the right mix of transmissibility and virulence that our human…
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