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Mar 30, 2020
The social media giant gave $100 million to help local news during the pandemic, but still makes you hunt for trusted sources.
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Mar 30, 2020
Plus: What it means to 'flatten the curve,' and everything else you need to know about the coronavirus.
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Mar 30, 2020
With public libraries closed, the Internet Archive announced an initiative to offer 1.4 million books for free online—reopening a heated copyright debate.
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Mar 30, 2020
It alerts staff when a patient's condition changes, allowing people to be sent home and monitored remotely. Two hospital systems will begin testing it this week.
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Mar 30, 2020
Official advice has been confusing but the science isn't hard to grok. Everyone should cover up.
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Mar 30, 2020
Pop culture has been inundated with catastrophe porn for decades. None of it has prepared us for our new reality.
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Mar 30, 2020
If Regina King can't get you to wash your hands, who can?
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Mar 30, 2020
In this moment of need, let there be no judgments passed about screen time. Here are the tablets you should get your kids, and why.
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Mar 30, 2020
Several companies have built lithium-ion batteries that can fully charge in a matter of minutes. Their next goal: getting these into electric vehicles.
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Mar 30, 2020
Workers want more compensation and better protection against illness from companies that don't consider them employees.
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Mar 30, 2020
Epidemiologists are using complex models to help policymakers get ahead of the Covid-19 pandemic. But the leap from equations to decisions is a long one.
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Mar 30, 2020
Zoom from room to room on a vacuum.
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Mar 30, 2020
The watercooler comes to you.
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Mar 30, 2020
Bus and train systems are trimming schedules amid plummeting ridership and mounting losses. But riders are being forced to choose between health and financial security.
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Mar 29, 2020
Now that folks are sheltering in place, they're spending a lot more time online—talking about being sheltered in place.
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Mar 29, 2020
The French repurpose a high-speed TGV to ferry coronavirus patients, while engineers and automakers step up to help those on the medical front line.
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Mar 29, 2020
Beta Technologies' prototype helipad and base station for electric air taxis could also help route emergency supplies in a crisis.
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Mar 29, 2020
A tiny seaweed fossil from a billion years ago may help scientists understand how the first plants came ashore and evolved for life on land.
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Mar 29, 2020
No commitments\! No commutes\! No cares\! Admit it: The coronavirus apocalypse is actually kind of fun for you.
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Mar 29, 2020
Millions of people are staying inside for the indefinite future. Here are a few apps to help you socialize, exercise, and meditate from your own home.
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Mar 29, 2020
US companies have shifted production overseas, especially to China. We got cheaper products. But now we can't make vital health care supplies.
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Mar 28, 2020
In the show's first season, the aging explorer, played by Patrick Stewart, returns to the final frontier on a journey of remembrance.
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Mar 28, 2020
The Trump administration is adding environmental protection regulations to the list of temporary cancelations due to the pandemic.
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Mar 28, 2020
For "wedditors," a usually sunny subreddit has become a hotbed of anxiety as the pandemic derails dream days.
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Mar 28, 2020
Instead of likes, these snapshots provide teams with vital information about how spacecraft are faring on interplanetary surfaces.
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Mar 28, 2020
Plus: A Windows zero day, an iOS watering hole, and more of the week's top security news.
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Mar 28, 2020
To fill the aural vacuum left by the disappearance of the engine, BMW brought in a ringer.
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Mar 28, 2020
It's quite possible folks haven't been as skeptical of the myth of Sparta as they should be.
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Mar 28, 2020
Artificial intelligence has already played a vital role in the outbreak since day 1—a reminder for the first time in a while that it can be a tool for good.
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Mar 28, 2020
Artificial intelligence has already played a vital role in the outbreak since day 1—a reminder for the first time in a while that it can be a tool for good.
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Mar 28, 2020
Maybe a tiny vibrating device can remind you to sit up straight once and for all.
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Mar 28, 2020
Reductions in traffic and industry have lowered nitrogen dioxide levels—offering an accidental glimpse into what a low-carbon future might look like.
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Mar 28, 2020
Typefaces that be freely used and modified give others a chance to hone their craft—and share valuable feedback.
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Mar 28, 2020
Still stuck inside? So are we. Here are a few things that might make your self-isolation a little easier to bear.
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Mar 28, 2020
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers warns that trying to restart the US economy too soon would put countless lives in danger and risk far more economic damage.
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Mar 28, 2020
Need to take a break from the real world? Nintendo has you covered.
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Mar 28, 2020
Much of the research that emerges in the coming weeks will be turn out to be unreliable, even wrong. We'll be OK if we remember that.
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Mar 27, 2020
The novel coronavirus is hitting emergency rooms in the US—hard. Cedric Dark, a physician at the Baylor College of Medicine, recounts the struggle.
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Mar 27, 2020
The pandemic is wreaking havoc on milestones and celebrations across the nation.
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Mar 27, 2020
The company planned to put 650 internet satellites into orbit. But it only managed to launch 74 before its coffers ran dry, according to a report out today.
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Mar 27, 2020
These are our in-depth best practices for keeping yourself (and just about everything else) clean and virus-free.
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Mar 27, 2020
Don't: hoard toilet paper and medical masks. Do: make sure you have plenty of food, water, and indoor activities.
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Mar 27, 2020
People infected with the coronavirus try to cope as the crisis accelerates. The professionals taking care of them are quickly becoming overwhelmed.
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Mar 27, 2020
Amazon has emerged as an essential service during the coronavirus pandemic. Warehouse and delivery workers say they're risking their health to provide it.
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Mar 27, 2020
As doctors and nurses address the pandemic, they are facing an unprecedented global crisis, a lack of resources, and a fight to save their own lives.
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Mar 27, 2020
Apple kicked Alex Jones out of the App Store in 2018. The Google Play Store has finally followed suit.
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Mar 27, 2020
It's time to debunk the worst—and most dangerous—Covid-19 misinformation.
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Mar 27, 2020
But let's not get too attached to nifty tools that help us cope with isolation.
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Mar 27, 2020
The team developed its own software to coordinate volunteers and synthesize voter data. Now, it's posting the code to GitHub.
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Mar 27, 2020
With 'Insecure: The Come Up Game,' Glow Up Games hopes to reflect an audience underserved by the videogame industry. And yes, there will be rapping.
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Mar 27, 2020
Plus: Revisiting the birth of Alphabet's Loon, a defense of colorful language, and a faulty warning in Hawaii.
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Mar 27, 2020
This instant camera offers modern features like autofocus and a better flash in a classic, colorful package.
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Mar 27, 2020
You're not the only one who finds \#quarantinebaking so soothing. Turns out, it has a lot to do with the neuroscience of mindful meditation.
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Mar 27, 2020
This week on Gadget Lab, we discuss how misinformation about the pandemic is being handled by the government, the media, and social platforms.
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Mar 27, 2020
Accelerators like Y-Combinator have had online programs, but the pandemic might force even its elite core program to go entirely remote for the first time.
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Mar 27, 2020
Internet-beloved Portrait of a Lady on Fire is coming to the streaming service months before it was slated for a digital release.
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Mar 27, 2020
The new 13-inch Apple laptop doesn't reinvent the form, but at least you can type on it properly.
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Mar 27, 2020
Kitboga has built a following by trolling telemarketers. Covid-19 opportunists have given him a whole new crop of targets.
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Mar 27, 2020
Big companies are recalling workers, with safety precautions. Malls and restaurants are reopening to crowds.
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Mar 27, 2020
Donate, if you can. Everyone is trying to get by, but these nonprofits, retailers, and companies are directly helping make a difference against the novel coronavirus.
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Mar 27, 2020
Kids ask the darndest things.
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Mar 26, 2020
South Korea is a prime suspect for exploiting the secret software vulnerabilities in a sophisticated espionage campaign.
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Mar 26, 2020
The national railroad system converted a TGV high-speed train to move 20 Covid-19 patients from Strasbourg to calmer hospitals in the Loire Valley.
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Mar 26, 2020
The new album from Donald Glover's alter ego wants listeners to fill their long, lonely minutes with imagination.
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Mar 26, 2020
"We need global cooperation," says Min Pok-kee, who heads the response in the city of Daegu. "Top government leaders don't seem to get that yet."
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Mar 26, 2020
Wheat breeder Stephen Jones knows a lot about baking. His first tip? Don't strive for an Instagram-ready loaf. Also, sourdough starters are easy.
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Mar 26, 2020
Verizon and AT&T will drop mobile data overage charges for customers experiencing financial hardship as a result of the coronavirus.
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Mar 26, 2020
Laid-off workers struggle to file claims for unemployment benefits; economists say the situation will likely get worse.
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Mar 26, 2020
You'd need just the right arrangement, and the orbital motions would be insane, but the physics just might work\!
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Mar 26, 2020
Your phone's portrait mode is no match for a real point-and-shoot camera's portrait lens. These are the best pocket cameras we've tested.
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Mar 26, 2020
It should be simple to transfer your chat history from iOS to Android, but it's really not.
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Mar 26, 2020
When American whiskey evaporates, it leaves behind webs, or fingerprints of sorts, that could help sleuths identify counterfeit swill.
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Mar 26, 2020
Computer scientists reconstructed the image of a whole room using the reflection from a snack package. It's useful for AR/VR research—and possibly spying.
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Mar 26, 2020
For the first time, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is weighing in on autonomous vehicles with no driver behind the wheel—or no wheel at all.
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Mar 26, 2020
For the first time, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is weighing in on autonomous vehicles with no driver behind the wheel—or no wheel at all.
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Mar 26, 2020
I lived for four months with this snappy Google Assistant-powered smart display and found it useful for everything from cooking instructions to home security.
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Mar 26, 2020
An online furor over whether it's safe to use the fever reducer reveals how people are sharing incomplete—and sometimes bad—information.
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Mar 26, 2020
Man's best bot friend.
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Mar 26, 2020
Some manufacturers are racing to make ventilators, respirators, and face shields. But the situation is nothing like it was in the 1940s.
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Mar 26, 2020
After a hospital put out a call for protective gear, three friends developed a product in a few days. Their design is now being manufactured by Ford.
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Mar 26, 2020
It's dangerous to go alone! Take these apps and services to stay in touch and feel less isolated while you follow shelter-in-place or stay-at-home orders.
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Mar 26, 2020
Yes, it's because of coronavirus, which has also now infected the science advisor on *Contagion.*
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Mar 25, 2020
First deny the problem, then say the solution is too expensive? The playbook here is all too familiar.
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Mar 25, 2020
While it might seem wasteful to test the seemingly-healthy, tracking antibodies could show how widely the virus has spread—and who may now be immune.
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Mar 25, 2020
The serendipity of experiments is difficult to recreate on screens. But virtual labs can make science more accessible to students everywhere.
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Mar 25, 2020
Robots can help doctors distance from patients, and help those in isolation cope. But getting the machines into hospitals is fraught with difficulties.
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Mar 25, 2020
Social distancing can lead to adverse psychological and physiological effects. But there are things you can do to maintain your overall health.
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Mar 25, 2020
The little-known Postal Plan, which dates back to the Clinton era, charges mail carriers with delivering critical supplies—like vaccines—as a last resort.
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Mar 25, 2020
Wonder what the absolute best Android phone is right now? We have the answer, ranging from Google, Samsung, LG, and more.
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Mar 25, 2020
Worried your kids will rot their brains on movies and TV? Try these "edutaining" games instead for PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android phones.
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Mar 25, 2020
Talk of shifting supply chains away from China has quieted as illness spreads in the West. Reduced demand meets rebounding supply.
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Mar 25, 2020
They've created registries of people with chronic diseases who also have the new coronavirus, in order to track symptoms and find solutions.
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Mar 25, 2020
As the pandemic pushes work online, Zoom is the new office. Follow these tips to get the most out of those video meet-ups.
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Mar 25, 2020
The phone isn't broken, everything else is.
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Mar 25, 2020
Valve's latest epitomizes what virtual reality can do, but no game can make or break the medium.
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Mar 25, 2020
If you're lucky enough to have a job that lets you shelter in place while you work, here are some ways to stay productive in your downtime.
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Mar 24, 2020
Meanwhile, Microsoft and Sony plan to throttle game downloads during peak usage hours to help prevent internet congestion during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Mar 24, 2020
Due to Covid-19, Amazon is only accepting certain supplies at its warehouses. Small businesses are already feeling the pinch.
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Mar 24, 2020
Due to Covid-19, Amazon is only accepting certain supplies at its warehouses. Small businesses are already feeling the pinch.
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Mar 24, 2020
The US is desperate for hospital beds. The USACE can build thousands of them in a matter of days.
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