With so many humans staying at home to avoid coronavirus, the air is cleaner, the water is clearer and animals are growing bold. …read more Source:: CNet

Long-term reader schwit1 shares a report: Missouri became on Tuesday the first U.S. state to sue the Chinese government over its handling of the coronavirus, saying that China’s response to the outbreak that originated in the city of Wuhan brought devastating economic losses to the state. In Beijing, a spokesman for China’s foreign ministry dismissed…

Flying right now may not be top of your to-do list, but what about later this year? …read more Source:: CNet

ESA chap on astronomy and demagoguery as SpaceX readies the next batch of satellites Interview SpaceX is due to fling another 60 Starlink satellites into orbit tonight. The Register spoke to ESA’s Senior Advisor for Science & Exploration, Mark McCaughrean, about the night sky and interstellar specks on the windscreen.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

The DoppelPaymer ransomware group is claiming that it launched a cyberattack against Torrance – and is now leaking the LA city’s data online. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Health officials have prioritised two clinical trials that will be supplied with blood from recovered Covid-19 patients in the hope that transfusions can help save the lives of people hospitalised with the infection. From a report: NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) has started to collect blood from recovered patients with a view to using the…

The famed activist, subject of a new National Geographic documentary, also talks about the connection between coronavirus and humans’ disregard for nature. …read more Source:: CNet

No plans to lay off staff or freeze recruitment, apparently Analysis On a call with financial analysts yesterday, the leadership team of Germany’s enterprise software giant SAP was measured and rational – and quite possibly at odds with the rest of the world’s response to the unprecedented challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.… …read more…

Catch a potential shooting star extravaganza. You probably don’t have anywhere else to go. …read more Source:: CNet

Google Cloud Anthos wants multi-cloud workloads and it is gunning to be the management plane for on-premise, cloud and edge deployments. …read more Source:: ZDNet