That’s 51% off multiplayer online gaming and monthly access to free games. …read more Source:: CNet

If you were selling computers in the early 1960s you faced a few problems, chief among them was convincing people to buy the fantastically expensive machines. But you also needed to develop an engineering force to build and maintain said machines. And in a world where most of the electrical engineers had cut their teeth…

“Invisible outbreaks sprang up everywhere. The United States ignored the warning signs,” writes the New York Times, in a detailed interactive data visualization. “We analyzed travel patterns, hidden infections and genetic data to show how the epidemic spun out of control.” By mid-February, there were only 15 known coronavirus cases in the United States, all…

Apple announced iOS 14 at the WWDC keynote. I tried out the developer beta version to get an early look at what’s coming to our iPhones in the fall. …read more Source:: CNet

Strider- (Slashdot reader #39,683) shares a story from Reuters: Canada’s Supreme Court on Friday ruled in favor of a driver in a gig economy case that paves the way for a class action suit calling for Uber Technologies Inc to recognize drivers in Canada as company employees. UberEats driver David Heller had filed a class…

Peacock will launch nationwide in the US July 15, and you can sample it free with ads. Preorder before launch unlocks a discount on the full-fledged premium version. Here’s everything to know. …read more Source:: CNet

Friday IBM Research updated their open source “IBM Differential Privacy Library,” a suite of new lightweight tools offering “an array of functionality to extract insight and knowledge from data with robust privacy guarantees.” “Most tasks can be run with only a single line of code,” brags a new blog post (shared by Slashdot reader IBMResearch),…

Quibi is a mobile-first streaming service for short-form video packed with stars, now widening itself to be watched on TVs. Here’s everything to know. …read more Source:: CNet

All by itself, a calculator based on an Arduino isn’t necessarily very novel. However, [Volos] has a nice board that, of course, looks like a calculator. There are 16 keys and an LED display. But it seems to us the real value would be using this as a base for other projects. As an inexpensive…

See how Apple’s newest iPhone SE stacks up against other budget phones you can buy in 2020. …read more Source:: CNet