Запасные даты запуска — 22:22 мск 30 мая и 22:00 мск 31 мая.

Сейчас из дома работает 13 000 сотрудников группы.

Однако в целом ситуация на рынке сложная, говорят его участники: выручка крупнейших рекламодателей снижается на 10% и более.

Инвесторы переключили внимание на традиционных ритейлеров, круизные и авиакомпании.

Главные нововведения первого крупного обновления Windows 10 в 2020 году.

Открывать парикмахерские, рестораны и фитнес-клубы «ещё рано», заявил мэр.

От прямой трансляции NASA и русскоязычной Alpha Centauri до спецвыпуска National Geographic и Музея авиации.

Компания предложит пользователям счёт для управления средствами и дебетовую карту Samsung Money в партнёрстве с платёжной системой Mastercard.

Из-за приложения люди теряют работу и отношения, но за восемь лет его существования проблему так и не удалось решить.

И увеличить размер минимального пособия по безработице в три раза — до 4500 рублей.

Против слияния выступили депутаты НАО и местные жители. Секретарь Генсовета «Единой России» извинился за то, что «власти не посоветовались с людьми».

Компания приостанавливала их выпуск после двух авиакатастроф, в которых погибли 346 человек.

Против природы не попрёшь.

Дайджест за 27 мая.

Создатель Telegram перевёл 10 биткоинов проекту «Взаимопомощь».

Пропускной режим также сохранится.

Один из губернаторов суд проиграл, хоть решение Ельцина признали незаконным, а другой выиграл — и создал прецедент в судебной практике.

Чиновники вернули реке историческое название.

В городе также возобновляется вся непродовольственная торговля и оказание части бытовых услуг.

Новый закон распространяет эту обязанность и на агрегаторы приложений.

Обычно мы заранее не рассказываем, кто у нас будет, но ничего не мешает нам пойти против этой традиции и посовещаться.

Рады представить свой новый Open Source-проект. На этот раз мы сделали совсем небольшую, казалось бы, утилиту, но столь полезную буквально для любой инсталляции Kubernetes. В чем же её суть? K8s-image-availability-exporter — это Prometheus exporter, позволяющий проактивно предупредить пользователя об образах, которые прописаны в объектах Kubernetes (например, поле image в Deployment), но отсутствуют в реестре контейнеров (Docker Registry и т.п.). Читать дальше →

В прошлую пятницу, 22 мая, ракета Falcon 9 с пилотируемым кораблём Crew Dragon прошли проверку Flight Readiness Review — стандартную операцию для пусков ещё с эпохи шаттлов. Изначально предполагалось, что FRR закончится в четверг, но анализ продлился 2 суток. Сотрудники SpaceX, НАСА и ответственные за эксплуатацию МКС оценили безопасность космического корабля и ракеты-носителя. Администратор НАСА заявил, что разрешает запуск SpaceX. В тот же день SpaceX успешно провела огневые испытания ракеты. В выходные SpaceX провела генеральную репетицию старта. Экипаж корабля вышел на него в лётных скафандрах, персонал отработал основные процедуры — лишь ракету не заправили. В этот понедельник, 25 мая,…

Более 40 лет назад во Франции появились терминалы Minitel, а вместе с ними — многие блага, которыми мы привыкли пользоваться внутри современного интернета. Сложно представить себе, что в 80-х простая домохозяйка могла забронировать билеты в театр, заказать доставку продуктов, а между делом отрегулировать термостат в соседней комнате, сидя за клавиатурой. На самом деле, это лишь малая часть того, что «умели» терминалы Minitel. И всё это работало на базе французской телефонной сети и только внутри страны. Государственная поддержка Minitel официально прекратилась в 2012 году. Но любители ретро и поклонники Minitel по всему миру до сих пор запускают собственные маленькие серверы, а терминалы дл…

Привет, Хабр. Перевод этой статьи занял намного больше времени, чем ожидалось. Мне очень хотелось сделать всё качественно и без обмана, но если найдёте неточности, буду рад услышать о них. Также я буду сам перечитывать и исправлять ошибки предыдущих статей, если где-то оказался не прав. Мне предстоит перевести ещё около 4-5 статей такого объёма, поэтому прошу оценить мой труд, если вам понравилось. Читать дальше →

Если поразмышлять о том, какие качества характерны для того, кого можно назвать «хорошим программистом», то на ум тут же придут некоторые привычки. Такие привычки, которые, с чем согласится большинство разработчиков, иметь весьма полезно. Но, на самом деле, большинство таких разработчиков сами подобных привычек не имеют. Как все мы знаем, привычки определяют нашу жизнь. Тому, кто хочет вырасти над собой в сфере программирования, нужно попытаться сформировать у себя соответствующие привычки. Предлагаю поговорить о шести привычках, которые стоит постараться сформировать у себя тому, кто хочет выделяться из серой толпы. Читать дальше →

polargraph.co.uk Говорят, русские долго запрягают, но быстро едут. Идея собрать поларграф пришла мне 5 лет назад после прочтения статьи про плеер на флоппи дисководах. Сначала нашла drawbot на флоппи, а потом поларграф. Не спрашивайте какая между этим связь, ее нет. В основном пользовалась руководством с instructables. Читать дальше →

Всем привет! Мне 34, веду в меру правильный образ жизни (18 лет спортзала), не курю, мало и не часто пью. Все хронические болячки — следствия спортивных травм. В общем, здоровый :-) Тем интереснее было пройти текущий квест с COVID-19. Похоже, прошел успешно. Далее повествование будет по дням для структурирования рассказа. Читать дальше →

Радует, когда на диаграмме кроме новых созвездий находится нечто похожее на зависимость. В таком случае мы строим модель, которая хорошо объясняет связь между двумя переменными. Но исследователь должен понимать не только, как работать с данными, но и какая история из реального мира за ними лежит. В противном случае легко сделать ошибку. Расскажу о парадоксе Симпсона — одном из самых опасных примеров обманчивых данных, который может перевернуть связь с ног на голову. Читать дальше →

За несколько недель до 14 февраля системе Dodo IS немного поплохело под нагрузкой. Одной из причин стало то, что в backend’ах мобильного приложения и сайта не совсем корректно работали политики поверх HttpClient’а (Retry, Circuit Breaker, Timeout). В этой статье я хочу поделиться с вами потенциальными проблемами, которые могут возникнуть при неправильном использовании таких политик. Читать дальше →

Linux предлагает множество способов разбить окно терминала на несколько мини-экранов, что позволяет обеспечить в определенном смысле «многозадачный» режим работы. Это можно сделать как минимум пятью разными способами. Казалось бы, что может быть лучше тёплого мерцания терминала Linux? -)

Оказывается, вот что: тёплое мерцание двух терминалов! На самом деле, чем больше, тем лучше. Читать дальше →

В феврале мы выясняли секреты крутого митапа. В этот раз попросили поделиться советами трех хорошо знакомых Хабру лекторов. За их плечами сотни публичных выступлений, и им есть чем поделиться. Говорили про выбор времени, длительность, контент, подстраховку и прочие важные вещи. В итоге у нас опять набралось 16 пунктов. Читать дальше →

«Яндекс.Маркет» добавил в приложение сервиса контентную ленту, которая будет показывать отзывы и вопросы о товарах и ответы на них от магазинов и производителей.

Об этом говорится в сообщении сервиса.

«Яндекс.Маркет» добавил в приложение ленту с комментариями и отзывами

Маркетплейс goods.ru запустил бронирование лекарств с возможностью забрать их в партнерских аптеках.

Goods.ru работает как агрегатор аптек, к нему подключены 426 точек в Москве, Московской области, Санкт-Петербурге и Ленинградской области.

К концу года маркетплейс рассчитывает увеличить количество партнерских аптек до 5 тысяч точек.

По данным ЕГРЮЛ, контрольный пакет goods.ru принадлежит группе компаний «М.видео – Эльдорадо».

Бронирование лекарств с возможностью забрать их в аптечном пункте уже есть у apteka.ru, «Здравсити» и аптечных сетей,

Останется ли спрос на мобильные игры таким же высоким?

Тогда людям пришлось отказаться от походов в рестораны и на концерты в целях экономии.

Выбирайте актуальную тематику, чтобы обратить на себя внимание, но не пытайтесь «хайпить» на теме пандемииВо время пандемии в игровых чартах выстрелило несколько игр на тему медицины и докторов.

Поэтому не тратьте время на усовершенствование игры и добавление большего количества уровней в начале (это можно сделать в следующих релизах).

Благодаря этому издатель может понять игровую механику и схематическую визуализацию и оценить идею игры на самой ранней стадии.

Глава Facebook Марк Цукерберг в эфире телеканала Fox News раскритиковал Twitter за оценку сообщений.

Ранее Twitter пометил одно из сообщений президента США Дональда Трампа как содержащее неправду.

Цукерберг отметил, что политика Facebook в оценке достоверности высказываний пользователей отличается от той, что принята в Twitter.

«Я твердо убежден, что Facebook не должна выносить суждения о достоверности всего, что люди пишут в интернете.

Twitter отметил, что в этом сообщении содержится недостоверная информация.

Президент России Владимир Путин на совещании по ситуации на рынке труда объявил новые меры поддержки безработных.

Меры поддержки безработных:утроить минимальное пособие по безработице с 1 мая - с 1500 до 4500 рублей.

Пособие будет назначаться на несовершеннолетних;выплачивать ИП, закрывшим дело, максимальное пособие по безработице в размере 12 130 рублей.

Путин отметил на совещании, что наибольший рост рост числа безработных с 1 марта по 20 апреля зафиксирован в Тюменской, Калининградской, Вологодской областях, Чувашии и Бурятии.

В частности, потерявшие работу после 1 марта и обратившиеся в службу занятости могут получать с апреля по июнь пособие по безработице в размере 12 130 рублей.

Исследование AppDynamics показало, что 92% российских компаний пересмотрели свои приоритеты в сфере технологий во время эпидемии коронавируса.

Исследование «Отчет об агентах трансформации» было проведено в период с 22 апреля по 6 мая 2020 года и содержит ответы ИТ-специалистов высшего и среднего звена из 10 стран, включая Россию.

Выяснилось, что в результате развития пандемии 74% ИТ-специалистов в России испытали самую высокую техническую нагрузку в истории их компаний.

При этом были обнаружены различные слабые стороны технологических стратегий организаций и потребность в дополнительной поддержке со стороны руководства.

Основным приоритетом развития в сфере технологий стало повышение качест…

Исследователи из компании NCC Group опубликовали результаты аудита свободного проекта Zephyr, развивающего операционную систему реального времени (RTOS), нацеленную на оснащение устройств, соответствующих концепции "Интернет вещей" (IoT, Internet of Things). В ходе аудита было выявлено 25 уязвимостей в Zephyr и 1 уязвимость в MCUboot. Разработка Zephyr ведётся при участии компаний Intel.

Представлен релиз кроссплатформенного фреймворка Qt 5.15. Исходные тексты компонентов Qt поставляются под лицензиями LGPLv3 и GPLv2. В декабре будет опубликована новая ветка Qt 6, в которой ожидаются значительные архитектурные изменения. Для сглаживания будущего перехода на ветку Qt 6 в Qt 5.15 включены предварительные реализации некоторых новшеств и добавлены предупреждения о скором прекращении поддержки функциональности, намеченной для удаления в Qt 6.

Эдуард Шишкин анонсировал новые возможности, развиваемые в рамках проекта Reiser5. Reiser5 представляет собой существенно переработанный вариант файловой системы ReiserFS, в котором на уровне файловой системы, а не блочного устройства, реализована поддержка параллельно масштабируемых логических томов, позволяющая эффективно распределять данные по логическому тому.

Группа исследователей из Пекинского университета, Университета Цинхуа и Техасского университета в Далласе выявила новый класс DoS-атак - RangeAmp, основанный на использовании HTTP-заголовка Range для организации усиления трафика через сети доставки контента (CDN). Суть метода в том, что из-за особенности обработки Range-заголовков во многих CDN атакующий может запросить через CDN один байт из большого файла, но CDN загрузит с целевого сервера весь файл или значительно больший блок данных для помещения в кэш. Степень усиления трафика при такой атаке в зависимости от CDN составляет от 724 до 43330 раз, что может использоваться для снижения пропускной способности канала связи до сайта жертвы.

Представлен релиз свободного звукового редактора Ardour 6.0, предназначенного для многоканальной записи, обработки и микширования звука. Имеется мультитрековая шкала времени, неограниченный уровень отката изменений на всем протяжении работы с файлом (даже после закрытия программы), поддержка разнообразных аппаратных интерфейсов. Программа позиционируется, как свободный аналог профессиональных средств ProTools, Nuendo, Pyramix и Sequoia. Код Ardour распространяется под лицензией GPLv2.

Разработчики проекта Chromium проанализировали 912 опасных и критичкских уязвимостей, выявленных в стабильных выпусках Chrome, и пришли к выводу, что 70% из них были вызваны небезопасной работой с памятью (ошибками, при работе с указателями в коде на C/C++. Половина из данных пробоем (36.1%) вызвана обращениями к буферу, после освобождения связанной с ним памяти (use-after-free).

Опубликован релиз SQLite 3.32.0, легковесной СУБД, оформленной в виде подключаемой библиотеки. Код SQLite распространяется как общественное достояние (public domain), т.е. может использоваться без ограничений и безвозмездно в любых целях. Финансовую поддержку разработчиков SQLite осуществляет специально созданный консорциум, в который входят такие компании, как Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Bentley и Bloomberg.

После трёх с половиной лет с момента прошлого выпуска сформирован релиз дистрибутива GoboLinux 017. В GoboLinux вместо традиционной для Unix-систем иерархии файлов используется стековая модель формирования дерева каталогов, при которой каждая программа устанавливается в отдельную директорию. Размер установочного образа 1.9 ГБ, который также может применяться для ознакомления с возможностями дистрибутива в Live-режиме.

Компания Checkpoint представила механизм защиты Safe-Linking, позволяющий усложнить создание эксплоитов, манипулирующих определением или изменением указателей на буферы, выделенные при выполнении вызова malloc. Safe-Linking полностью не блокирует возможность эксплуатации уязвимостей, но при минимальных накладных расходах существенно усложняет создание некоторых категорий эксплоитов, так как помимо эксплуатируемого переполнения буфера необходимо найти ещё одну уязвимость, вызывающую утечку сведений о размещении кучи (heap) в памяти.

Исследователи безопасности из компании Cisco раскрыли детали уязвимости (CVE-2020-6096) в реализации предоставляемой в Glibc функции memcpy() для 32-разрядной платформы ARMv7. Проблема вызвана некорректной обработкой отрицательных значений параметра, определяющего размер копируемой области, из-за использования ассемблерных оптимизаций, манипулирующих знаковыми 32-разрядными целыми числами. Вызов memcpy() на системах ARMv7 с отрицательным размером приводит к некорректному сравнению значений и записи в области вне границ указанного буфера.

Организация GNOME Foundation объявила об успешном урегулировании судебного иска, выдвинутого компанией Rothschild Patent Imaging LLC, обвинившей проект в нарушении патента. Стороны пришли к соглашению, в котором истец снял все обвинения с GNOME и согласился не предъявлять больше исков, связанных с нарушением любых принадлежащих ему патентов. Более того, компания Rothschild Patent Imaging дала обязательство не предъявлять иски к любым открытым проектам, код которых поставляется под открытой лицензией, одобренной организацией OSI. Обязательство охватывает весь портфель патентов, принадлежащий Ротшильдам. Подробности об условиях заключения соглашения не сообщаются.

Группа исследователей из Тель-Авивского университета и Междисциплинарного центра в Герцлии (Израиль) разработала новый метод атаки NXNSAttack (PDF), позволяющий использовать любые DNS-резолверы в качестве усилителей трафика, обеспечивающих степень усиления до 1621 раз по числу пакетов (на каждый отправленный к резолверу запрос, можно добиться отправки на сервер жертвы 1621 запрос) и до 163 раз по трафику.

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High PerformanceNim is much faster than Python (not when comparing C libraries wrapped for Python of course).

Package ManagerNimble is a package manager which makes installing Nim libraries easy.

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I’m going to talk about a very specific antipattern that I see with some frequency: the use of class for things that should be simple free functions.

I originally wrote about this specific piece of code on Code Review StackExchange (February 2018).

It eliminates the data member done , whose whole purpose was to track that empty state.

What we should write is a simple free function countDominoTilings(w, h) :int countDominoTilingsImpl(int h, int w, std::string_view prevRow, int rowIdx) { if (h == 0 || w == 0 || (w*h) % 2 != 0) { return 0; } [...recursive solution omitted...] } int countDominoTilings(int h, int w) { return countDominoTilingsImpl(h, w, "", 0); } int main() { int tc = countDomin…

Analyses indicated that region-dependent alterations in glutamate were also correlated with different dimensions of ego dissolution.

Whereas changes in mPFC glutamate were found to be the strongest predictor of negatively experienced ego dissolution, changes in hippocampal glutamate were found to be the strongest predictor of positively experienced ego dissolution.

We found that the primary predictor of positively experienced ego dissolution was a decrement in hippocampal glutamate, with secondary contributions of mPFC glutamate and posterior DMN integrity.

Implications of these findings also extend far beyond understanding the neurobiology of the acute psychedelic experience and drug-induc…

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New CDC estimates of coronavirus death rates look suspiciously low and present almost no data to back them up, say public health experts who are concerned that the agency is buckling under political pressure to restart the economy.

For instance, estimates of New York City’s total death rate, 0.86% to 0.93%, are even higher than the CDC’s worst-case scenario.

Infection fatality rates vary with many factors, from location to population density to age to healthcare availability.

In Spain, a massive antibody survey of more than 60,000 people put its overall fatality rate at around 1.1% to 1.3%.

The low estimates and lack of transparency have frustrated scientists, who have been watching the cor…

This repository contains the source code of both OpenSilver (which compiles to WebAssembly) and CSHTML5 (which compiles to JavaScript).

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Vaya Africa, a ride-hail mobility venture founded by Zimbabwean mogul Strive Masiyiwa, has launched an electric taxi service and charging network in Zimbabwe with plans to expand across the continent. The South Africa headquartered company has acquired a fleet of Nissan Leaf EVs and developed its own solar powered charging stations. The program goes live […]

DHL has acquired a minority stake in Link Commerce, a turn-key e-commerce company that grew out of MallforAfrica.com — a Nigerian digital-retail startup. Link Commerce offers a white-label solution for doing digital-sales in emerging markets. Retailers can plug into the company’s e-commerce platform to create a web-based storefront that manages payments and logistics. With the […]

Dishcraft Robotics has a simple pitch to corporate kitchens and restaurants that could potentially save tons of single use plastic, non-compostable takeout containers, dishware and cutlery from ending up landfills. Use its cleaning service that will drop off all the clean, reusable dishware and cutlery a restaurant or corporate kitchen could possibly need in the […]

Gaming development startup Carry1st has raised a $2.5 million seed round led by CRE Venture Capital . That brings the company’s total VC to $4 million, which Carry1st will deploy to support and invest in game publishing across Africa. The startup — with offices in New York, Lagos, and South Africa — was co-founded in […]

After Twitter flagged a pair of President Trump’s tweets with a fact-checking label on Tuesday, tensions between the president and his favored social media platform are running high. On Wednesday night, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey—rarely one to pick a political fight—took to his own platform to clarify the company’s decision. Fact check: there is someone […]

The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the adoption of new technologies and cultural shifts that were already well underway. According to a clutch of heavy-hitting investors, this dynamic is particularly strong in gaming and extended reality. Unlike other segments of the startup and tech world, where valuations have been slashed, early-stage companies focused on building new […]

Regulatory consistency, legislation that tunes in with sector capabilities and forward-thinking agile startups will give continued growth and innovation the biggest chance of success.

The same day Donald Trump took to Twitter to threaten to regulate or shut down social media sites, the U.S. appeals court in Washington, D.C. dismissed a lawsuit accusing top tech companies of silencing conservative voices. Filed in 2018 by nonprofit Freedom Watch and right-wing gadfly Laura Loomer, the suit accused Apple, Facebook, Twitter and […]

WarnerMedia’s new streaming service HBO Max launched today with a couple of conspicuous absences from the list of supported devices — Max is not yet available on Roku or Amazon’s Fire TV. It sounds like this isn’t just a technical issue that will be fixed imminently. WarnerMedia’s vice president of communications Chris Willard told USA Today […]

Emmanuel Bamfo is used to fighting uphill battles. Still, his latest fight, with the city of San Francisco, may well destroy his business if he doesn’t win it and quickly. Bamfo is the cofounder and CEO of Globe, a year-old, six-person startup that connects customers with rooms in people’s mostly urban homes. Think Airbnb, except […]

Augmented reality filters on Instagram are picking up some new tricks with the latest update to Facebook’s Spark AR platform. Spark AR has been making pretty consistent updates to the feature sets developers can play with in creating AR filters since it exited closed beta on Instagram last year. Today, Facebook added some new functionality […]

HBO Max kinda-sorta replaces HBO Now, because the former has all the same content as the latter.

And if you were using HBO Now on Android or iOS, its app has simply turned into HBO Max.

The latter, meanwhile, includes hundreds of original Looney Tunes theatrical shorts throughout the years—but, gosh, HBO Max.

Beyond those issues, HBO Max has a paltry selection of newly created, "only for Max" content: six short series, each three episodes or less.

(The latter tap option only appears when using HBO Max on a desktop web browser.)

YouTube says it has "rolled out a fix" for an "error in our enforcement systems" that had led to the automatic deletion of comments that included two phrases critical of China's government.

Until Tuesday, YouTube was automatically deleting any comment that includes these phrases.

For example, maybe the phrases "五毛” and "共匪" appear frequently in heated arguments that include other abusive (but less political) Chinese phrases.

Or maybe a low-level employee with Chinese government sympathies slipped the phrases into a list of banned phrases without the knowledge or approval of their bosses.

Any of these explanations seem both more plausible and less damning than senior Google executives delibe…

More than 100,000 people in the United States have died from COVID-19 according to several pandemic-tracking efforts—and the pandemic is far from over.

So far, the US leads the world in the number of confirmed cases and deaths, with around 1.7 million cases and over 100,000 deaths.

It clusters with Belgium and Spain in terms of cases per million people—about 5,000 cases per million, according to tracking by the Financial Times.

The UK and Italy, by comparison, have seen around 4,000 cases per million so far, and Germany and France both have around 2,000 cases per million.

The US has fared better with its cumulative death rate per million people.

SpaceX and OneWeb have asked for US permission to launch tens of thousands of additional satellites into low Earth orbit.

OneWeb's application to launch nearly 48,000 satellites is surprising because the satellite-broadband company filed for bankruptcy in March.

Getting FCC approval to launch more satellites could improve the value of OneWeb's assets and give more options to whoever buys the company.

Other providers such as Telesat (1,671 satellites), Kepler (360 satellites) and Viasat (288 satellites) filed applications for smaller low-Earth-orbit constellations.

"Because of the use of combined orbits, the OneWeb satellites essentially pass over all parts of the Earth's surface and therefo…

But the Senate version differed from the House version, necessitating another House vote before it can become law.

The practical upshot of Trump's tweet is to make it less likely that any kind of Section 215 legislation will pass Congress.

In January 2018, the Trump White House was officially supporting legislation to renew another foreign surveillance power that was due to expire.

Wyden withdrew support for a House privacy amendmentMeanwhile, Sen. Wyden announced on Tuesday evening that he was withdrawing his support for the House search and browsing privacy amendment that's due for a vote this week.

Wyden is asking the House to vote on his own amendment—the one that got 59 votes in the Se…

In the case of the Chicxulub asteroid impact and the end-Cretaceous mass extinction 66 million years ago, there’s no mystery about the shooter.

The details actually matter, though, and precisely which rocks get vaporized—and which climate-changing gases they release—depends on that impact angle.

Put together, these results point to an impact angle closer to 60 degrees, ruling out some earlier ideas about a low-angle strike.

They show that the mantle high point marks the uprange direction and that the peak ring center marks the downrange side.

As it happens, this intermediate impact angle would maximize the climate impact of the event.

Samsung The Samsung Money Card.

Samsung The Samsung Money Card.

The Apple Card debuted 14 months ago, and right on cue, Samsung is today announcing "Samsung Money," a self-branded MasterCard debit card from SoFi.

Sign up for the account, and you'll get a physical "Samsung Money" card.

It doesn't seem like Samsung tried to compete with Apple's fanciful titanium card design—the Samsung card looks like a regular plastic credit card with "dark mode" toggled on.

And the researchers figured out how to optimize it so that its efficiency at splitting water to release hydrogen runs right up against the theoretical maximum.

Once the charges are at the surface, the material has to also act as a catalyst, breaking open water and releasing hydrogen and oxygen.

For the hydrogen-producing portion of the reaction, the researchers used a rhodium-based catalyst that will work for either oxygen or hydrogen production.

Find a material where electrons and holes take different routes through the material.

If that works with a better starting material, we could be producing hydrogen through an extremely simple system.

Now that humans are about to lift off from the United States into orbit again, the constraints surrounding launch weather are heightened.

However, this forecast does not include several other important considerations, most notably ascent abort weather.

Therefore the Crew Dragon spacecraft has a launch escape system, which SpaceX successfully tested in January.

Weather scrubsAnyone who followed the space shuttle program will remember a lot of scrubs due to poor weather.

The space shuttle did not have a launch escape system, but more than half of missions scrubbed at least once due to weather.

General Electric has finally found a buyer for its lighting business and will be selling off its last consumer-facing business after more than 120 years of operation.

Boston-based GE said today it would divest the lighting business to Savant Systems, a smart home management company also based in Massachusetts.

Acquiring a lighting business directly will allow it to take advantage of vertical integration and take more control over the physical equipment it installs in consumer' homes.

It merged its rail business, called GE Transportation, with Wabtec in 2018, in an $11 billion deal.

"Today’s transaction is another important step in the transformation of GE into a more focused industrial comp…

Wuhan Municipal Health Commission swabbed more than 9 million residents and tested more than 6.5 million of those swabs for coronavirus genetic material between May 15 and May 24, according to state media.

Laboratories in the city went from conducting 46,000 tests a day to as many as 1.47 million in the screening sprint, according to The New York Times.

Wuhan officials pulled off the mass screening in a staggered neighborhood-by-neighborhood sweep.

That is, they combined material from five to ten swabs and tested the pooled sample all at once.

So far, the testing campaign has identified 218 asymptomatic cases, Wuhan officials reported.

In earlier coverage pitting ZFS against Linux kernel RAID, some readers had some concerns that we had missed some tricks for mdraid tuning.

Blocksize 4KiBJim Salter Bitmaps have no impact on mdraid10's 4KiB write performance—but XFS turns in lower numbers than ext4.

Jim Salter Bitmaps have no impact on mdraid10's 4KiB write performance—but XFS turns in lower numbers than ext4.

Jim Salter mdraid10 performs the same for 4KiB sync writes whether XFS or ext4, internal bitmaps or no bitmaps.

Jim Salter Bitmaps still don't affect read speed—nor should you expect them to.

In 2018, an Israeli scientist named Oren Ableman used an infrared microscope attached to a computer to identify and decipher Dead Sea Scroll fragments stored in a cigar box since the 1950s.

Last year we reported on a study of the nearly 25-foot-long Temple Scroll, among the best preserved of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

University of Manchester Joan Taylor examining the Dead Sea Scrolls fragments in the John Rylands Library Reading Room.

The Manchester fragments never entered the antiquities market, where many forgeries originated.

In the meantime, the University of Manchester has the distinction of housing the only authenticated Dead Sea Scrolls in the UK.

This round-up is less about telling readers which authenticator backup is the most secure and more about helping readers think through all the various considerations.

Without the password, seeds can not be decrypted and are lost forever.

The result: Twilio has no ability to store or even see the backup password and hence has no ability to decrypt the seed data.

The user then enters the backup password on each device as the last missing piece to decrypt the seed.

This means that knowledge of the backup password and a SIM swap are all that’s needed to recover and decrypt the data.

Dubbed unc0ver, the exploit works only when someone has physical access to an unlocked device and connects it to a computer.

The inability for unc0ver to survive a reboot also makes it less likely it will be used in hostile situations.

The jailbreak, for instance, allows users to gain a UNIX shell that has root privileges to the iPhone.

The release of unc0ver comes eight months after the debut of Checkm8, a jailbreak that exploits an unpatchable flaw in the iOS bootloader.

The flaw the new jailbreak exploits is located in the OS kernel.

Nightdive Studios’ System Shock remake has been in the works for quite a while now that we wouldn’t be surprised if fans felt concerned about its future after Tencent took over System Shock 3’s development.

The project’s still definitely under way at Nightdive, though: in fact, the developer has just released a demo of the game with all its unlockable weapons for the first time.

The studio explained that the remake gives the game a new look and feel, but that it retains the story, style and gameplay of the original cyberpunk action-adventure title.

System Shock is set in the year 2072 and revolves around a hacker whose story begins when they were caught trying to access files about a space …

Microsoft is doing more to keep tabs on your kids’ digital habits.

It just released the preview version of an Xbox Family Settings app for Android and 10,000 iOS users that manages what, when and how children play on Xbox consoles.

You can set time limits on a day-by-day basis, set content filters for each child, restrict communications with other plays or review past activity.

Young gamers can make requests to extend their limits if they’ve been diligent with school work.

There’s a handy toggle to quickly unlock access to online play for the company’s world-shaping game without wading through the usual menus.

Apple is continuing its string of AI startup acquisitions, this time to improve Siri’s performance.

The company has confirmed to Bloomberg that it recently acquired Inductiv, a Waterloo, Ontario, Canada-based company that uses AI to correct data — which, in turn, improves machine learning.

The company didn’t elaborate on its plans and relied on its standard response that it “buys smaller technology companies from time to time,” but Siri appears to be the focus.

The iPhone maker appears to be focused on improving its voice assistant’s understanding as of late, most recently acquiring Voysis to boost natural language comprehension.

Cleaner data would go a long way toward that goal by reducing…

While Amazon didn’t officially elaborate on why it insisted on Prime Video Channels access, this is really about control.

“With a seamless customer experience, nearly 5 million HBO streamers currently access their subscription through Amazon’s Prime Video Channels.

Unfortunately, with the launch of HBO Max, AT&T is choosing to deny these loyal HBO customers access to the expanded catalog.

We believe that if you’re paying for HBO, you’re entitled to the new programming through the method you’re already using.

Our goal is to make HBO Max available on every platform possible to as many viewers globally as possible so they can enjoy beloved shows from HBO, the Warner Bros. movie and TV library …

Ninja (aka Tyler Blevins) is finally stretching his virtual legs months after jumping to Mixer.

He’s launching his first produced live series, Ninja Battles featuring Fortnite, on his Mixer channel starting May 28th at 3PM Eastern.

The weekly program will see 60 top Fortnite players and “gaming personalities” square off to win a slice of a $400,000 prize pool.

Loaded, Ninja’s management company, has confirmed that some competitors will include World Cup winner Bugha, fellow Mixer streamer Ewok, NickEh30 and others.

The six-week series should last through July, and you can follow along on individual broadcasters’ channels if you prefer their point of view.

Dubbed Twitch Gaming, the company says the channel will feature game reveals, developer interviews and Twitch drops, with the platform's streamers presenting the content.

One of the first things it will air is a Valorant tournament the weekend of the game's launch on June 2nd.

Also planned is exclusive coverage related to the ongoing Summer Game Fest.

Twitch says it's partnering with developers like Blizzard and CD Projekt Red to facilitate that part of its schedule.

At each stage, the site's users will be able to co-stream the channel's content to share the moment with their fanbase.

Then, in an interview with Fox News Wednesday morning, Kellyanne Conway singled out one Twitter employee by name: Yoel Roth, the company’s head of site integrity.

pic.twitter.com/H9ceUu6Ezv — Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) May 27, 2020Conway also claimed that Roth is “constantly attacking Trump voters,” an apparent reference to years-old tweets criticizing the Trump Administration.

Fox News also seized on the comments and stated that Roth was “in charge” of Twitter’s decision to fact-check the president.

Twitter confirmed that Roth was not singlehandedly responsible for the decision to fact check Trump.

But Twitter’s comments have done little to quiet the angry mob of Trump supporters, many of w…

In recent years, a number of private aerospace firms have designed and tested crew capsules of their own including Blue Origin’s New Shepard, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceshipTwo, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon.

SpaceX is expected to get $2.6 billion for six trips, while Boeing received $4.2 billion for a similar number of flights.

The Crew Dragon capsule is just the fifth crew transport vehicle ever deemed worthy by NASA, following the Gemini, Apollo, Mercury, and Space Shuttle.

The Crew Dragon capsule isn’t the only new equipment SpaceX will be testing on this mission.

"They don't have direct contact with anyone who has not been pre-cleared by NASA flight surgeons.

This afternoon NASA astronauts will take off from US soil for the first time since NASA’s space shuttle program ended in 2011.

The launch is historic for another reason too.

It will be the first time NASA launches astronauts in a SpaceX spacecraft, and it marks the beginning of what could be many crewed missions NASA astronauts will complete via SpaceX.

You can watch the launch via the NASA Live feed.

It’s scheduled for 4:33PM ET, with pre- and post-launch coverage, including the national anthem sung by Kelly Clarkson.

“America cannot afford to continue our decades-long underinvestment and expect to lead the world in advanced scientific and technological research.”Under the bill, the National Science Foundation (NSF) would be renamed the National Science and Technology Foundation (NSTF) and a new deputy director would oversee the funding.

The investment might be used to increase research spending at universities, create new scholarships, fellowships and training programs, develop fabrication facilities, coordinate with state and local economic development stakeholders and more.

Years ago, the Obama administration pushed for increased spending for AI research.

This isn’t guaranteed to pass in a Republican-…

The US has edged one step closer to securing the extradition of Huawei’s CFO over alleged Iran sanction violations.

If Meng’s case hadn’t met that baseline, the case would have been immediately closed.

There’s still a long way to go before a possible extradition when the hearing has been split into multiple phases.

This clears a significant barrier, though, and makes a US court battle more likely.

It has already retaliated against Meng’s arrest by detaining Canadians, and has demanded that Canada release Meng even though the government has no control.

The updated coronavirus tallies place the U.S. at over 28 percent of the 355,575 deaths confirmed worldwide from the virus, and at 1,699,000 confirmed cases, at just under 30 percent of the confirmed world total of 5,690,000 .

It’s likely that that these numbers are undercounts and the U.S. quietly slid past 100,000 deaths some time ago.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention didn’t even advise the public to begin wearing masks until April 6.

Arizona is just five percent Native American, but they accounted for 17 percent of deaths there, NPR wrote .

Advertisement“Back in March, I did not think this would be possible—I was not expecting 100,000 deaths,” Murray told NPR.

Beast of Prey, a new horror short from filmmaker Danny Donahue, runs just around three and a half minutes, and it’ll hook you in immediately.

Amid a snowstorm, a woman barricades herself in a bathroom and frantically tries to figure out what she should do about the thing on the other side of the door.

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Photo : Justin Sullivan ( Getty Images )General Electric is no longer in the light bulb business , the company announced on Wednesday.

The lighting division has been on the market for a buyer since 2017 and, by 2018, had become the company’s smallest division, accounting for under two percent of GE’s $122 billion in revenue.

Low prices for light bulbs, as well as a rapid switch to more efficient lighting technologies lasting far longer than traditional incandescent bulbs, turned the unit into a money-loser for GE.

As CNN noted, there’s a bit of a boomerang effect here, as GE was the company that invented LED lighting in 1962.

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Photo : NASA/Kim Shiflett ( FlickrDead Drop Our Slack is an ever-growing recycling bin of abandoned links.

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Prev Next View AllElon Musk was set to launch humans (NASA astronauts) into space today, but the flight was delayed due to weather.

“When did THIS become hotter than THIS?” Gizmodo senior reporter Bryan Menegus asked in Slack, with a side-by-side picture of the considerably sicker NASA Orion suit.

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The first-ever Star Wars game show is upon us.

Photo : LucasfilmNext week, every Star Wars fan will wish they were a kid again.

That’s because on June 3, Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge will finally be released to the world.

It actually works out better though, because Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge will instead live on the Star Wars Kids YouTube channel, which is free and available to all.

Two episodes of Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge will debut on June 3 with new episodes coming every week after that.

However, first they have to secure her extradition from Canada, where she was detained in 2018 and later put under house arrest.

That fell apart on Wednesday, per CNN, thanks to a ruling by British Columbia Supreme Court Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes.

Meng’s lawyers had argued that prosecutors hadn’t met the double criminality standard, as the sanctions are U.S. law, not Canadian .

AdvertisementMeng’s defense “would give fraud an artificially narrow scope in the extradition context,” Holmes wrote in the ruling, according to CNN.

Huawei, the world’s largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, is facing allegations that it could be spying for Chinese security services and its …

Image : Getty ImagesNew Zealand continues to be one of the few success stories during the covid-19 pandemic.

On Wednesday, health officials announced that the country’s sole remaining patient hospitalized with covid-19 was discharged.

AdvertisementAccording to New Zealand’s Ministry of Health, the patient was discharged Wednesday from a local hospital in Auckland.

The country now only has 21 active cases of covid-19, while there have been no new reported cases for five days straight.

During the entire pandemic, the country has reported around 1,500 cases, along with 21 deaths.

A leaked photo of a potential Apple Watch L eather L oop redesign from Reddit Photo : RedditIf there’s one thing Apple prides itself on , it’s design.

F or some reason, Apple keeps subjecting us all to some real unsightly Apple W atch bands .

Leaked images, first reported by 9to5 Mac and then again on Reddit, show off a potential new redesign for the Apple Watch Leather Loop.

Screenshot : AppleThe real gripe here is that none of the official Apple Watch straps look all that great, despite Apple claiming they make a “ f ashion s tatement” on its online shop.

As I continue to hold my breath, I’m begging you, Apple: Please, no more ugly, overpriced watch bands.

Photo : Josh Edelson/AFP ( Getty Images )Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington dismissed a lawsuit that claimed major tech companies including Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Apple worked together to “intentionally and willfully suppress politically conservative content” online.

According to Bloomberg, the federal appeals court said nonprofit group Freedom Watch and Laura Loomer, a right-wing YouTube personality, failed to provide enough evidence to prove that these companies “have entered into an illegal agreement to refuse to deal with conservative news and media outlets,” as the lawsuit claimed.

In the original filing, Freedom Watch alleged that its growth on social media platfor…

Artist’s depiction of the asteroid that that struck Earth some 66 million years ago.

Scientists have struggled to pinpoint the precise incoming direction and impact angle of the asteroid.

Carbon dioxide and water vapor are greenhouse gases, which also contributed to warming the planet.

AdvertisementSteve Brusatte, a paleontologist from the University of Edinburgh, said the new study shows just how random the asteroid impact really was.

Mammals would still be small and in the shadows, and we would have never had the opportunity to evolve.”AdvertisementAs if to add insult to injury, research from 2017 showed that the asteroid struck a rather unfortunate spot.

Photo : Sam Rutherford ( Gizmodo )Since the beginning, Quibi has been adamant that its streaming video service is a mobile- first endeavor.

AdvertisementIn a tweet Tuesday evening , Quibi chief product officer Tom Conrad said the latest update to Quibi (version 1.3) now includes the ability to stream its shows to your TV using Apple AirPlay.

That means anyone with an Apple TV can now watch Quibi shows on a big screen instead of being limited to mobile devices.

For those who don’t own an Apple TV, Conrad also mentioned that Quibi is working on adding Chromecast support, which should be available sometime in June.

The big question now is whether or not the ability to watch Quibi shows on a TV…

), officially declared a bill to reauthorize several key FBI surveillance powers would not be amended further.

Today, he issued an explicit threat—on behalf of “Republicans”—to violate the First Amendment rights of tens of millions of internet users.

AdvertisementThat was Adam Schiff, whose duty to provide oversight of the Intelligence Community suspiciously resembles lobbying on its behalf.

The fact that the GOP-controlled Senate has managed to pass more progressive privacy reforms than the Democratic majority in the House, which has introduced precisely none, should not go unnoticed.

But it may also be time to stop feigning surprise when things like this happen and accept that when it com…

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We’ve picked five of the best Android phones on the market today, from wallet-busting tech gems to budget-friendly devices that are still worth your time (and cash).

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The Galaxy S20+ bumps up to a 6.7-inch screen while the enormous Galaxy S20 Ultra has a 6.9-inch screen and expanded camera capabilities, including 100x zoom.

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Out of the hundreds of episodes created for the CW’s Arrowverse, HBO Max has the sole season of Batwoman.

(Bizarrely, Doom Patrol actually looks better on DC Universe where it streams in 4K HDR; HBO Max caps out HD SDR.)

With HBO Max existing, DC Universe didn’t seem like it would be as necessary.

And if you want HBO, well, generally you get HBO Max gratis if you already have an HBO, HBO Go, or HBO Now subscription.

Right now HBO Max feels garishly like some high- up execs looked at Disney+, rubbed their bellies, and shouted “us too!

Photo : Sam Rutherford ( Gizmodo )TCL makes everything from air conditioners to soundbars to washing machines, but here in the U.S., unless people are talking about TCL’s cheap TVs, no one really cares.

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On Wednesday afternoon, veteran astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley were scheduled to fly to the International Space Station in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.

The Demo-2 mission was going to be the first crewed mission for SpaceX and the first time NASA astronauts have launched from the US in nine years.

Just 17 minutes before launch, SpaceX scrubbed the mission due to bad weather around the launch site and along the capsule’s flight path.

Weather conditions have to be calm from the East Coast of the US all the way to Ireland for the mission to launch.

The Demo-2 mission is the last major test before NASA certifies SpaceX’s capsule for human spaceflight, and SpaceX isn’t taking any chance…

Stretchability is a powerful linguistic device that visually punches up a written word, imparting a wide range of emotions.

“That can convey basically anything, like ‘Duuuuude, that's awful,’” says University of Vermont applied mathematician Peter Sheridan Dodds, one of the study’s coauthors.

They've made a mistake.”All right, sooooo, we use stretchable words all the time to convey extra meaning—sadness, anger, excitement.

“You're taking what we would think of as the dictionary text and you're turning it into something visual,” says Danforth.

Gray wrote a program that searched the data for stretched words, specifically looking for repeated letters.

After years of debate about whether and how to push back on misleading claims from elected officials, social media platforms are still struggling to form a coherent response to the problem.

According to the spokesperson, these are experts on compiling social media posts and arranging them into a narrative.

It’s remarkable that, after having years to prepare for the portentous moment of calling out a false Trump tweet, Twitter couldn’t even bulletproof its own fact check.

Social media platforms—not just Twitter but also Facebook and YouTube—have a tendency to hide behind the judgment of third-party fact checkers.

The debate around fact-checking on social media platforms tends to dwell on tri…

Despite some pretty bold signage pointing to other games, don’t think of Crucible as reductive.

Crucible magicks the familiar into something entirely its own: a strategy-grounded team shooter with undeniable charm.

On a vast, lush-green map, players wind around trees and craggy rock formations to capture three hive hearts before the other team.

To gain an edge over the team fights that materialize around the hive hearts, players collect blue-glowing essence around the map to level up into upgrades.

If you’ve played a hero shooter, like Overwatch or Team Fortress 2, you’ll understand the theory behind the team fights.

More influencers are turning to video formats like Instagram Live to broadcast fitness classes, create informal cooking shows, or offer some form of entertainment to their increasingly bored followers.

On Instagram Live, many of these creators are recreating the work they did before, but for the small screen.

Instagram says it’s seen a jump in activity on Instagram Live—a 70 percent increase in views from February to March, according to a company blog post.

While the new monetization tools represent a big change for Instagram’s creator set, the features themselves aren’t original.

Instagram has made clear that its new monetization tools are meant as supplements to the way influencers make m…

Google’s Chrome web browser is the world’s most popular way for people to navigate the web.

This is Google’s business model and by using Chrome you’re agreeing to this data collection.

The next version of the Chrome browser, version 83, will include a bunch of updates that make it slightly easier to cleanse some of the data Google collects about you and reduce the chances of you getting hacked.

If you’re signed in to a Google account while you’re using Chrome, the system will be able to pull data from other Google apps you use: such as Gmail or Google Drive.

If Google spots a password that you’re using has been previously compromised it will prompt you to update it to something that’s more …

The plan at the time was to nab the show from Netflix, where it had amassed legions of new fans, and bring it to WarnerMedia’s new streaming service, HBO Max.

With the launch of HBO Max today, that's changing.

What's more, another streaming service, NBCUniversal’s Peacock, is scheduled to go live on July 15.

Which brings us to the other hurdle HBO Max now faces: market saturation.

HBO Max, though, does have a toehold here—lots of folks are already HBO cable subscribers (and HBO Go users) or have HBO Now subscriptions.

A combination of cabin fever, closed gyms, and the need for speed are driving many people to take to the streets—not to protest, but to run up and down sidewalks, along waterfronts, and into neighborhood parks.

I won't be stepping foot into a yoga studio anytime soon, but the roads are free (although if you're running in a crowded area, be sure to wear a mask).

If you're just starting on your running journey, I pulled together some of the gear that gets me out every day, along with a few starter tips.

Be sure to also check out our Best Fitness Trackers and Best Running Shoes guides—and all the gear that helped WIRED's editor in chief run faster marathons in his forties.

Updated for May 2020…

The Covid-19 pandemic has spurred what’s often called an infodemic, or the alarming spread of harmful information online.

In a race to create and share resources to weather the pandemic's challenges, communities have ushered in a golden age of a little-known economic concept: the knowledge commons.

Many knowledge commons, such as Wikipedia, GitHub, and SSRN, existed before the pandemic.

But in the last ten weeks, the creation and use of knowledge commons has exploded.

The gains of the burgeoning knowledge commons in response to Covid-19 are twofold.

If the participant couldn’t discern which hand was skin and bone and which was plastic and pneumatics, Elenoide would pass.

“I don’t think we should ever shake hands ever again, to be honest with you,” Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in April.

They may feel compelled to shake hands.

Imagine rebuffing a potential boss or employee’s handshake at the end of a job interview.

You might not experience the handshake as a Turing test the way Elenoide did, but they’re always something to pass or fail.

The internet security group Shadowserver has a vital behind-the-scenes role; it identifies online attacks and wrests control of the infrastructure behind them.

On Wednesday, the IT security company Trend Micro will commit $600,000 to Shadowserver over three years, providing an important backbone to the organization's fundraising efforts.

Shadowserver has quietly worked on numerous facets of internet security since 2005.

"The Internet depends upon voluntary, collective action to make us all secure," Internet Society president and CEO Andrew Sullivan said in a statement.

Though Shadowserver has been an unobtrusive presence in internet security for a long time, its consistent involvement in cr…

There are a lot of types of meditation, each with many subtypes: Zen, Vipassana, Samatha, Transcendental, mindfulness, guided meditation, and so on, and there's a lot of overlap.

The tenets of mindfulness, a less dogmatic approach to meditation than others, aren't all unique to mindfulness.

Guided meditation is most often bouts of quiet mindfulness punctuated by somebody's directions of what to focus on.

How you decide to set up your home meditation space is, in part, influenced by the type of meditation you plan to practice.

Try a Meditation CushionThe one piece of gear I recommend you go out and buy is a meditation cushion.

She needed some confidence: That day was the culmination of more than a year of hard work trying to convince her coworkers at Kickstarter to form a union.

Oriana Leckert, another member of Kickstarter’s outreach team, whose bouncy curls match her ebullience and enthusiasm, tried to count along but lost track.

Kickstarter employees had pulled off something historic: They were the first white-collar technology workforce to unionize in US history.

By paving the way and showing what it takes to unionize white-collar tech workers—and eventually, possibly securing a precedent-setting contract—Kickstarter employees hope they’ve started a trend in an area previously untouched by unionization.

“It j…

While governments around the world have launched nationwide Covid-19 contact-tracing smartphone apps over the last months, the United States has pointedly not.

But it increasingly seems that neither the Center for Disease Control, nor the Department of Health and Human Services, nor any other US federal agency will release a nationwide Covid-19 contact-tracing app.

The potential for privacy disasters from contact-tracing apps have already been well demonstrated.

India's contact-tracing app made it possible to locate some Covid-19-infected users by spoofing GPS locations.

And a flaw in Qatar's contact-tracing system leaked hundreds of thousands of users' personal data, including health statu…

With Covid-19 restrictions easing and people returning to restaurants, bars, and shopping malls, a new strategy is emerging to protect us: creating an antiviral infrastructure.

Scientists still don’t fully understand Covid-19’s transmission—how much risk there is in touching surfaces and then one’s face, or how long the virus persists in aerosols.

Each person who has Covid-19 can re-seed rooms with the virus, even if they don’t know they have it.

In a 2019 study, Gerba and his colleagues seeded doorknobs with a tracer phage—a virus that attacks bacteria but doesn’t affect humans—and similarly found rapid spread.

After disinfecting commonly touched surfaces and encouraging the office workers…

President Donald Trump will reveal an executive order designed to "regulate" social media on Thursday, after Twitter applied its fact-check label to two Trump tweets containing false claims about mail-in ballots.

"Fact check: there is someone ultimately accountable for our actions as a company, and that’s me," Dorsey tweeted.

— jack (@jack) May 28, 2020Dorsey clarified that Trump's tweets were fact-checked because they "may mislead people into thinking they don’t need to register to get a ballot."

Roth also confirmed earlier this month that Trump's tweets would be no exception to the site's rules about coronavirus misinformation.

The fact-check applied to Trump's tweets this week about mail…

Whether you’re promoting one video project or building a portfolio for all your work, these Squarespace templates have you covered.

SEE ALSO: The best parental control software for your familyFirst, know that Squarespace supports embedding videos, but not uploading them directly to your site.

You should also know that 360-degree videos aren’t supported at all by Squarespace — so if that’s what you want to show off on your site, you’re best going elsewhere.

Some templates allow you to add background videos, which means they play behind page content, while others also support video banners at the top of the page.

Ishimoto could be the best option if you’re a mixed media artist looking to show…

It turns out that narwhals don't just look like electric drills.

In a wonderfully serendipitous turn of events, it turns out the big-toothed whales sound like drills as well.

Geophysicists worked with Inuit hunters last July to record rarely heard narwhal sounds in Greenland, collecting the various clicks, whistles, and pulsed tones these mammals emit.

According to a study published in AGU on Tuesday, narwhals make a clicking sound to find food through echolocation, speeding up to an excited buzz the closer they get to their meal.

Less relatable is the fact that whistling at strangers is much more socially acceptable amongst narwhals than humans, as they use these sharp chirrups to communic…

According to a new report by cybersecurity firm Sixgill, many offline dealers flocked to the dark web amid the coronavirus lockdowns as the streets emptied and people hunkered down in their homes.

The dark web, for those who may be unfamiliar, is an online ecosystem filled with websites, forums, and other platforms that aren’t visible by search engines or your regular web browser.

The report found that the underground online drug market faces the same economic uncertainty as other, legal businesses do during this time of crisis.

Shipping delays and concerns surrounding sterilization of deliveries hobbled drug sales early on.

Dark web posts discovered by Sixgill show fears from both buyers a…

Wednesday marked the official launch of HBO Max, a hyped-up new streaming service that is entirely separate from HBO Go and HBO Now.

You read that right: HBO Max and HBO Now have the exact same price, but Max has significantly more content.

HBO Max more or less makes HBO Go and Now obsolete.

In summary: HBO Max more or less makes HBO Go and Now obsolete.

Roku and Amazon streamers can't access HBO Max right now, but they can watch in a web browser or game console.

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HBO is no longer available as an Apple TV Channel for people who want to subscribe to it though the Apple TV app (via 9to5Mac).

Now, though, it seems HBO wants to push users to watch HBO Max content on the HBO Max app instead of through Apple’s.

If you subscribed to HBO through Channels, you’ll have access to HBO MaxIf you already subscribe to HBO through Apple TV’s Channels, you can apparently still see it in the Apple TV app, but it won’t be updated to include content that’s exclusive to HBO Max, according to 9to5Mac.

When that deal was struck, Deadline reported that HBO Max would be integrated into the Apple TV app, but it appears that hasn’t happened yet.

We believe that if you’re payin…

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has filed a lawsuit against Google over allegations the company illegally tracked Android users’ location without their consent and even when the location tracking features had been manually disabled, according to a report from The Washington Post.

The suit argues Google kept location tracking running in the background for certain features, like weather and for web searches using its search engine and Chrome browser, even after the user disabled app-specific location tracking.

Only when a user dug further into the Android system settings and turned off broader system-level tracking did Google stop surreptitiously siphoning location data, the complaint …

HBO Max has arrived, bringing with it a precious few new original shows and an absolutely stuffed back catalog of terrific TV and movies.

These problems are clearest in the big, non-HBO umbrellas you find titles gathered under on HBO Max.

It’s not unique to HBO Max, but it makes it harder to understand what HBO Max is or what it’s supposed to be.

As a service, HBO Max offers you a lot but promises little.

But those collections are only samples because a streaming service must also have a revolving door: new titles coming, old ones going.

Nvidia announced a new policy for its GeForce Now cloud gaming service on Wednesday that means publishers and developers will have to opt into the platform to have titles remotely playable via Nvidia servers.

“Going forward, only the games that are opted in will be available on the service, providing confidence in the GeForce Now game library.

As of today, publishers that do not opt in GeForce Now by May 31st will have their games removed.

GeForce Now already has lost or will soon lose games from these major publishers: Activision Blizzard, Bethesda, Capcom, Crytek, Konami, Xbox Game Studios, Rockstar, Sega, Square Enix, Take-Two / 2K Games, and Warner Bros.

But Nvidia says its platform off…

Boeing said it would resume manufacturing the troubled 737 Max airplane after a nearly five-month hiatus.

Boeing continued to manufacture the airplane, but in December 2019, the company announced plans to halt production at its Renton, Washington manufacturing plant.

“We’ve been on a continuous journey to evolve our production system and make it even stronger,” said Walt Odisho, vice president and general manager of the 737 program, in a statement.

Boeing recently announced it would be laying off nearly 7,000 employees as the novel coronavirus continues to hammer the airline industry.

The Chicago-based airplane manufacturer — the biggest exporter in the US — had already announced it would t…

Despite this, people keep filing lawsuits claiming they’ve been censored on social media — and today, courts handed down another defeat.

Loomer argued that Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Apple had all colluded to suppress conservative content, violating Loomer’s First Amendment rights in the process.

As legal expert Eric Goldman discusses here, a California appeals court said the exact logic of Taylor’s suit didn’t matter.

A West Virginia court ruled against this argument just a few weeks ago, saying Twitter was clearly a private forum.

Laura Loomer v. Google, Facebook, Twitter, and AppleLaura Loomer made one of the most complicated cases against Silicon Valley.

Sony and Naughty Dog showed off nearly 24 minutes of new footage for the highly anticipated The Last of Us Part II in a State of Play video today.

The video also showed Ellie swimming — something the character didn’t know how to do (and was actively scared of) in the first game.

The Infected look as scary as ever, and you’ll have to watch out for new types of creatures in The Last of Us Part II.

Joel has appeared in some prerelease footage, but it’s unclear if you’ll play as him.

The Last of Us Part II will finally be out for the PlayStation 4 on June 19th, after numerous delays.

Congress may begin writing letters, and new laws will be proposed, so that such a bad post never again appears on the internet.

Put another way, when an average person sees a really bad post, their instinct is to react with anger.

And when a tech person sees a really bad post, their instinct is to react practically.

For the most part, they thought Trump’s Scarborough tweets should stay up.

If something similar happens as a result of the Scarborough tweets, Twitter will face criticism for failing to act.

The annual Pokémon Go Fest will be held online from July 25th to July 26th this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The event is usually held in select cities across the globe, allowing players to meet up at physical locations like large parks and play the popular AR title.

The first Pokémon Go Fest was held in Chicago in 2017 to celebrate the game’s one-year anniversary, but future festivals would expand to other countries, including Japan and Germany.

This marks the first time Pokémon Go Fest attendees will be allowed to attend both days of the event — previously players could only attend one out of the two days.

Pokémon Go is an augmented reality game that relies heavily on outdoor exp…

Just 17 minutes before its planned launch, SpaceX postponed its first crewed flight to space on Wednesday afternoon due to bad weather over the launch site in Florida.

The two passengers on board SpaceX’s capsule — NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley — will try again on Saturday, May 30th.

Mission controllers predicted that the weather would have cleared up 10 minutes after launch.

However, the weather just wasn’t cooperating during the planned launch time of 4:33PM ET.

SpaceX will now try again to launch Behnken and Hurley at 3:22PM ET on Saturday.

GOG.com has kicked off its summer sale on DRM-free PC games, filled with deals on new and old titles.

A few of the highlights include Metro Exodus for $20 and Prey: Digital Deluxe Edition, which includes the base game, its soundtrack, and the Mooncrash DLC for just $12.

In addition to discounting many more standalone games than we listed above, GOG is doing something interesting with this summer’s sale by letting you save even more on games that share a theme.

For instance, buying three RPG titles or action games knocks an extra 5 percent off the already-discounted final cost, while getting five or more games takes 10 percent off.

GOG is also using its summer sale celebration as an excuse t…

The Trump administration was sued by attorneys general from 23 states and the District of Columbia over the controversial rolling back of Obama-era fuel standards.

The Trump administration has argued that the Obama-era standards would have made cars more expensive, forcing people to stick with older, less-safe models.

“What makes [Trump’s] rule so offensive is [that the Obama-era standard] is not a rule where people can say it was a disconnect.

“it is a job-killer and public health hazard”Car companies are split over what fuel efficiency standards should be.

Volkswagen, Ford, Honda, and BMW last year committed to year-over-year gains in fuel economy that exceed Trump’s weakened standards.

Apple is acquiring Fraggle Rock’s past TV seasons ahead of a new reboot set to land on Apple TV Plus, signaling a potential strategy shift for a service that has thus far relied entirely on original content.

A Fraggle Rock reboot isn’t too surprising; Apple cited the “global fandom” around its Fraggle Rock: Rock On!

Still, having a show with a recognizable name like Fraggle Rock as part of its entertainment lineup makes sense for Apple.

Apple bringing licensed content onto Apple TV Plus — something the company adamantly didn’t incorporate into its original strategy — could help solve some of the streaming service’s issues.

Apple TV Plus launched without any licensed content, and CEO Tim Coo…

Level Ex, the maker of surgery games popular with medical professionals, has released new levels that virtually train doctors to treat patients with COVID-19.

The COVID-19 levels are available for free through the Airway Ex and Pulm Ex mobile games on Google Play, coming soon to other platforms.

He said more than 600,000 medical professionals currently play the Level Ex games (users list their profession when they register).

Level Ex’s COVID-19 levels are based on clinical guidelines, industry recommendations, and insights from physicians on the front lines of the pandemic.

Glassenberg said that half of the medical students in the country have Level Ex games on their phones.

Industrial VR headset maker Varjo unveiled a collaboration with MeetinVR at the online-only Augmented World Expo today.

I held a meeting in the VR app on the Oculus Quest with Cristian Anton, CEO and founder of MeetinVR.

Image Credit: MeetInVRCopenhagen-based MeetinVR offers tech akin to Spatial, Breakroom, and Spaces, designed to use the 360-degree immersion of VR for meetings and events.

Anton calls these “superpowers.”“We’re actually trying to make meetings better than in real life in many ways,” Anton said.

“But others can spend hours in their VR meetings.”

I wasn’t looking forward to Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition, largely because my opinion of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has soured so much since I’ve played it.

The original Xenoblade Chronicles came out for the Wii in 2010.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 came out as one of the first major JRPGs for the Switch in 2017.

But, man, the further I get away from that playthrough, the less fondly I think of Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

But Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition is really making the sequels faults stand out.

VB Deals is here to disinfect your home and personal space with eight amazing online deals.

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Protect yourself from harmful bacteria and pick up your Mini UV Light Bar today for just $29.99, a nearly 70 percent discount.

Like those in many public restrooms, this soap dispenser eliminates the need for contact, thereby keeping you safe.

While federated analytics is closely related to federated learning, an AI technique that trains an algorithm across multiple devices holding local samples, it only supports basic data science needs.

It’s “federated learning lite” — federated Analytics enables companies to analyze user behaviors in a privacy-preserving and secure way, which could lead to better products.

“The first exploration into federated analytics was in support of federated learning: how can engineers measure the quality of federated learning models against real-world data when that data is not available in a data center?

The answer was to re-use the federated learning infrastructure but without the learning part,” Goog…

Described as the “mother’s milk” of wireless technology, cellular radio spectrum is either licensed in blocks to specific companies for narrow geographies or shared between multiple companies subject to stringent restrictions.

But PAWR’s project could let two companies share the same 180kHz block of spectrum, using AI to determine the optimal use of that spectrum each millisecond.

The spectrum optimization AI technology is called the Zylinium Spectrum Exchange, developed within an emulation environment by Zylinium Research for DARPA’s Spectrum Collaboration Challenge, an initiative designed to maximize the use of finite wireless spectrum using real-time computer processing.

Once deployed, t…

Microsoft AI assistant Cortana is getting a dedicated app today for Windows 10 PCs.

Cards in the dedicated Cortana app deep link back to other Microsoft apps and can display rich information like a to-do list or calendar event details.

However, Cortana will instead be more deeply integrated with native Microsoft apps, starting with Microsoft Teams in 2018 and Outlook last fall.

A dedicated Cortana app for Windows 10 was first unveiled by Microsoft roughly one year ago.

Photos and videos for the Cortana app on Windows 10 could also be introduced in the future.

Tyler “Ninja” Blevins today announced Ninja Battles featuring Fortnite, a new competitive gaming series, premiering May 28 on Microsoft’s Mixer streaming platform.

Confirmed participants include Nick Eh 30, Bugha, Ewok, NateHill, Reverse2K, among many others who will be competing against Ninja each week.

Ninja defected from Twitch, a platform that he helped cement as the largest livestreaming platform, to Mixer in August 2019.

Fans will get to watch livestreams of six online tournaments through July in shows featuring top-tier gaming and celebrity competitors.

Ninja Battles featuring Fortnite is the first produced series from Ninja for Mixer since he joined the platform.

Autonomous vehicle (AV) startup Aurora today announced it’s roughly doubled its workforce to 500 people (up from 250 as of May 2019) and committed to hiring workers across the company as it welcomes 22 remote interns and a trio of executives.

Analysts predict the pandemic and its effects, like testing delays, will result in consolidation, tabled or canceled launches, and shakeups across the autonomous transportation industry.

Assuming Aurora can overcome AVs’ public perception problem, the company stands to enter whatever market emerges post-pandemic from a position of strength.

… We’re positioned with enough runway to get through the other side of this and be a beacon for some of these gre…

Animal Crossing: New Horizons surpassed all other games as the leader in social engagement during March as shelter-in-place rules began, according to data from social media measurement firm Spike Trap.

Spike Trap said Animal Crossing was all the rage as people found new ways to interact in a virtual environment while sheltering at home.

The enthusiasm around Animal Crossing exceeded even the surprise announcement of Apex Legends in the first quarter of 2019.

In social engagement, Animal Crossing shot past Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft during the month of March.

And in hours watched, Warzone far exceeded that of other titles, including Animal Crossing.

“Before the November news about the company, it was still a developer company,” said Justin Graham, Docker’s vice president of products.

As application development moves from the desktop to the cloud, developers often have to duplicate various steps.

This can be complex and cumbersome, but Docker and Microsoft hope integrating their development tools will help streamline the process.

Docker’s main products now are Docker Desktop, its development application, and Docker Hub, a shared container resource repository.

To make money, Docker created tools to help enterprises manage their container deployments, most notably its orchestration platform Docker Swarm.

The PlayStation 5 is just months away from its holiday 2020 launch, but we still don’t know everything about the device.

Sony is planning a PS5 event for June 3, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans.

Sony wants to launch at a competitive price tag, but it also doesn’t want to take a loss on hardware.

Expect it to focus on what is possible in next-gen games with the PlayStation 5.

In response, Sony wants to rely on PS5 games that are actually running on real hardware.

Baidu today announced Quantum Paddle, an open source machine learning toolkit designed to help data scientists train and develop AI within quantum computing applications.

Paddle Quantum supports three quantum applications — quantum machine learning, quantum chemical simulation, and quantum combinatorial optimization — and developers can use it to build quantum models from scratch or by following step-by-step instructions.

“Since Baidu announced the establishment of [the] Institute for Quantum Computing in March 2018, one of our primary goals [has been] to build bridges between quantum computing and AI,” Baidu said in a statement.

The unveiling of Paddle Quantum follows the release earlier t…

SmartRent, which provides smart home automation for property owners, managers, developers, and residents, today announced that it has raised $60 million.

SmartRent’s flagship product is Alloy Access, a cloud-based access control system that enables property managers to streamline the move-in and move-out process.

SmartRent works with property managers to inspect unit door locks and common area access points, as well as electrical, water, and network infrastructure.

SmartRent’s platform is fully compatible with assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant.

It brings Scottsdale, Arizona-based SmartRent’s total raised to over $100 million, following a $32 million series B in June 2019.

Arq Group, formerly Melbourne IT, has emerged from its annual general meeting with another new name, moving forward under the branding of Webcentral Group Limited.

"The board considers the change of company name to Webcentral Group provides maximum flexibility to support multiple possible futures for the company," the company told shareholders.

After years of sustained organic growth, our Enterprise division encountered market headwinds in the second half of 2019."

RELATED COVERAGEArq Group finds AU$35m Enterprise Division buyer to help reduce debtThe company has sold its Enterprise Services Division, and its name, leaving only the SMB Division.

Melbourne IT rebrands as Arq Group in the nam…

For the quarter, the associates collectively grew pre-tax profit by 20.5% to SG$505 million and post-tax profit by 17% to SG$386 million.

Much of the gain was thanks to Airtel turning its SG$12 million operating loss from India and South Asia into a SG$86 million operating profit, while its African business increased its operating profit by 9% to SG$89 million.

When taken together and after applying tax, Airtel reduced its SG$90 million post-tax loss from last year to a SG$23 million loss this quarter.

Back on Singtel's Singaporean home turf, the consumer group saw operating revenue fall by 14% to SG$465 million while EBITDA increased 5% to SG$181 million.

"We have witnessed the accelerated…

"I'm happy to report we're ahead of plans right now in 5G in the United States," he told ZDNet.

As we move into 5G and the great benefits that 5G brings, video is going to be very important when you bring those capabilities out.

Malady believes the pandemic just reinforced the company's efforts to date, particularly as it has driven the need for remote working.

"We keep moving the technology forward with our 5G network and our intelligent edge network, and all the modernisation we're doing to make the connectivity even better," he said.

Malady added ultimately it would be up to enterprises to figure out how they adopt new technologies, such as 5G.

The Windows 10 May 2020 update, also known as Windows 10 2004, has started rolling out to users today.

Windows Sandbox improvementsLast year, Microsoft introduced the Windows Sandbox on all Windows versions with the release of v1903.

The Windows Sandbox component allows users to launch a virtual machine running a stripped down version of Windows 10.

New security baselinesWe also have new security baselines (drafts for now) for Windows 10 and Windows Server installations.

Security baselines are basic OS configurations that system administrators can deploy across their computer fleets and ensure that basic security features are enabled.

First observed in late 2019, Valak was once classified by cybersecurity researchers as a malware loader.

A WinExec API call is then made and JavaScript code is downloaded, leading to the creation of connections to command-and-control (C2) servers.

Additional files are then downloaded, decoded using Base64 and an XOR cipher, and the main payload is then deployed.

Functions include a system information grabber that harvests local and domain data; the "Exchgrabber" function which aims to infiltrate Microsoft Exchange by stealing credentials and domain certificates, a geolocation verifier, screenshot capture, and "Netrecon," a network reconnaissance tool.

This creates a very dangerous combinati…

Lowe appeared before the Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 on Thursday, discussing mostly the economic impact coronavirus will have on the Australian economy.

"Most of the analysis that's being done on [the tax] system through the various reports come to the conclusion that it's not optimally designed for growth.

The way we tax consumption, income, and land, is not optimal from a growth perspective," Lowe said.

"We stopped the downside through regulation but the culture that's coming together with that regulation is limiting the upside and the dynamism in the economy.

But he said reinvigorating the dynamism in Australia's economy would have to be a critical issue over the next few years t…

The operators of the NetWalker (Mailto) ransomware have announced today that they've infected the network of Michigan State University, one of the US' oldest educational institutes.

The ransomware gang has given MSU administrators a week to pay an undisclosed ransom demand to decrypt their files.

NetWalker operators have already published five images on the site to support their claims.

These include two images showing a directory structure allegedly from the university's network, a passport scan for a student, and two scans of Michigan State financial documents.

Past victims of the NetWalker group include Australian shipping giant Toll and the government network of Austrian city Weiz.

When combined with Optus closing the accounts of inactive users, its mobile customer base shrunk by 95,000 accounts over the quarter.

It was also during Optus' fourth quarter that it experienced "delivery disruptions from a major logistics supplier", with Toll Group experiencing its first ransomware infection of the year.

Enterprise mobile services for the quarter also fell 8.5% to AU$39 million, while equipment sales rose 4% to AU$20 million.

In total, revenue for the Optus enterprise group was down 11% for the quarter while EBITDA was smashed from AU$51 million a year prior to AU$21 million.

For its Singtel parent, annual operating revenue was down 5% to SG$16.5 billion, EBITDA fell 3% to…

"Through these deceptive and unfair acts and practices, Google makes it impractical if not impossible for users to meaningfully opt-out of Google's collection of location information, should the users seek to do so," the complaint said.

The consumer lawsuit is the culmination of an Arizona investigation into Google's practices that commenced in late 2018, following an Associated Press investigation into the company's tracking behaviour.

Arizona's investigation [PDF] looked into how Google handled storing consumer location data, tracked consumer location, as well as other types of consumer tracking.

Arizona's top prosecutor reportedly investigating GoogleArizona Attorney General Mark Brnovic…

Dell Australia has reported an after-tax profit of just over AU$31 million for the financial period ending 31 January 2020, slightly down from AU$33.6 million recorded in 2019.

Dell Australia's revenue for the 12-month period was just shy of AU$326 million, up 11% from last year's AU$293 million.

The immediate parent entity of Dell Australia is Dell International LLC and its ultimate parent entity is Dell Technologies, both of which are incorporated in the United States.

All up during the year, Dell Australia had 1,049 employees.

Dell Australia scored itself a AU$2.1 million contract to supply new the tax agency with its Dell Latitude 5400 laptops.

The company generates the vast majority of its revenue through its massive advertising operation, which is buttressed by personal information Google collects when people use its products.

But users were "lulled into a false sense of security" because Google led users to believe they disabled settings for location data gathering, when they were still turned on, Brnovich wrote on Twitter.

"Google collects detailed information about its users, including their physical locations, to target users for advertising," Brnovich wrote.

Today we filed a consumer fraud lawsuit against Google for deceptive and unfair practices used to obtain users’ location data, which Google then exploits for its lucrat…

A legacy American brand does what it didn't know it could do.

ZDNet's Larry Dignan reports on the 2020 remote workforce disruption.

Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order on Thursday about social media, according to tweets by several White House reporters on Wednesday.

No other details about what the executive order will contain have been released.

The White House referred CNET to "pool reports" about the executive order.

On the flight back to Washington, press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters President Trump is going to sign some kind of executive order on social media.

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) May 27, 2020White House says Trump will sign an executive order "pertaining to social media" tomorrow, but provides no details on what it might say or d…

BoeingBoeing on Thursday said it's resumed production of the 737 Max after previously suspending the plane's production following two crashes that killed 346 people.

"We've been on a continuous journey to evolve our production system and make it even stronger," Walt Odisho, vice president and general manager of the 737 program, said in a statement.

"These initiatives are the next step in creating the optimal build environment for the 737 MAX."

All of Boeing's 737 Max planes were grounded worldwide last March following deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

The company says the 737 program will gradually increase production this year.

Getty ImagesFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday explained how the launch a new cryptocurrency called Libra could help the social network rake in more ad dollars.

During the company's annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, Zuckerberg was asked how Facebook will make money from Libra, which hasn't launched yet.

Facebook and its partners have promoted Libra as a way to help people who don't have access to financial services or have to pay high fees to send money overseas.

During the meeting, Zuckerberg answered various questions including how the company approaches content moderation.

Facebook held its annual shareholder meeting on the same week that a whistleblower's complaint against…

Chris Monroe/CNETSavant Systems Inc., a Massachusetts-based maker of professionally-installed smart home systems, has struck a deal with General Electric to purchase the GE Lighting brand, the companies announced today.

No financials were disclosed for the GE Lighting sale, but the Wall Street Journal reports that it cost Savant "about $250 million."

Together with Savant, GE Lighting will continue its legacy of innovation, while we at GE will continue to advance the infrastructure technologies that are core to our company and draw on the roots of our founder, Thomas Edison."

Savant, which sells smart home systems centered around security, entertainment, comfort, and lighting through a netwo…

CNET host Richard Hart visited Netscape just after the company went public and was taking on Microsoft in the browser wars. Here's our profile of founder Marc Andreessen from 1995.

Today's major tech stories include a report that predicts a 14% drop in device shipments in 2020, Android phones possibly getting a speed boost in the near future and Facebook's launch of a voice calling app called CatchUp.

By retrofitting an existing small plane, Magnix's goal is to show that commercial electric flight is possible now, even if a greener flying future with 100-passenger aircraft is still decades away.

Video: Pushing for the future of electric flight, one small plane at a time"It's a niche market.

"So it was very exciting to see an actual airline fly an actual electric aircraft."

A few companies, Uber included, are promising a not-so-distant future of electric air taxis and plenty of others are developing both electric motors and the airframes to use them.

Advantages and challengesGanzarski is eager to describe the advantages of electric flight.

Seth Rosenblatt/CNETYouTube on Tuesday said it has been deleting comments critical of the Chinese Communist party from its platform, according to multiple reports.

The company said the removals were due to an "error" in the company's systems for taking down content that violates YouTube's rules.

"This appears to be an error in our enforcement systems and we are investigating," the company told multiple news outlets in a statement.

YouTube also told the outlets that the company is looking into the issue, and said the removals were not part of any policy change.

They included Chinese phrases that translate to "communist bandit" and "50-cent party," which are insults to the nationalist governm…

It's the first time that Twitter has added a label to Trump's tweets.

Twitter's actions against Trump's tweets will also likely increase tensions between the company and conservative users, who allege that the social network suppresses conservative speech.

Timothy Klausutis, Lori's husband, wrote a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on May 21 asking the company to pull down Trump's tweets, but the company said that it didn't violate its rules.

Twitter has been using automated technology to add labels to misleading tweets about the coronavirus too.

Both of Trump's tweets about mail-in ballots were retweeted more than 37,600 times and garnered roughly 131,800 likes combined as of Tuesday after…

Stephen Shankland/CNETGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai told employees Tuesday that the search giant is targeting July 6 to reopen offices for workers that want to come back to in person.

For people who want to continue working from home, Pichai said the company will allow employees to expense up to $1,000 for equipment and furniture, such as standing desks or ergonomic chairs.

Google has been more vocal about employees returning to the workplace while other tech giants have touted permanent telecommuting options.

Pichai had previously said most employees will work remotely for the rest of 2020.

Pichai told Wired last week that remote working won't impact those projects.

Timothy Klausutis, Lori's husband, wrote a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on May 21 asking the company to pull down Trump's tweets.

The New York Times shared the letter in an opinion piece with the headline "Twitter must cleanse the Trump stain."

Calls to remove Trump's tweets aren't new, but the pressure has been increasing amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Twitter generally removes tweets that violate its rules, but might leave them up for public interest if they're posted by a high-profile user.

The company didn't respond to questions about whether Trump's tweets violate its rules.

A quarter of a century has passed since CNET, a fledgling cable news channel about technology, launched its very first website.

Video: Celebrating 25 years of CNETCNETWithin a few short years, CNET's website evolved to eclipse the cable channel, and CNET became the media brand where anyone could come to get a trusted, honest, interesting perspective on technology products and the industry that creates them.

CNET made it our mission to give the most salient, helpful news and advice during a time of rapid change.

Video: A look back at the launch of CNET.comBrett Pearce/CNETOver the next month, we'll take you on a walk back through the past 25 years of technology, media and change.

We'll bring…

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Here is why the next frontier of enterprise sales growth will be AI-powered.

AI-powered tools for enterprise sales are likely to be a big part of the solution for leading organizations.

Let’s explore a few reasons why the moment is right for more sales organizations to embrace the opportunity of AI-powered customer intelligence for enterprise sales growth.

Even during the pre-crisis days, according to Salesforce , 57% of sales reps expected to miss quota this year, and 28% of sales reps expected to reach only 75% or less of their quotas.

AI-powered customer intelligence is the answer to the biggest challenges of today’s enterprise sales teams.

Here are five SEO writing tools for optimizing your content.

Content and search engine optimization go hand in hand because people use search engines to find content that meets them at their points of need.

You should understand that there is a very big difference between creating relevant content for your audience, and optimizing your articles for SEO.

Understanding the Meaning of SEO-Friendly ContentBefore you can write impressive content that is optimized for SEO, you first need to understand the meaning of SEO-friendly content.

Optimizing content for search engines is not a complex endeavor as many might assume.

A shortlist of the home connected devices include connected consumer electronics, connected health devices, smart locks, thermostats, security cameras, sprinkling systems, and more.

But long-range wireless power promises less waste and lower cost with these smart home systems.

Infrared beams can travel with little degradation over a distance, efficiently and safely providing wireless power across a room.

The long-range technology will innovate and prepare for a new way of charging the growing prominence of smart devices in our daily lives.

Just like WiFi-enabled a new class of products — long-range wireless charging can usher in the next generation of powered, eco-friendly smart devices.

Coway UAA offers a line of smart home health products, including the Airmega air purifier and the Aquamega water purifier.

Now available, the Coway Bidetmega 150 is a budget-friendly version of its existing smart bidet.

Bidetmega 150 Key FeaturesThis new Bidetmega uses the same unique i-wave cleaning technology that its other bidet model uses.

The Bidetmega 150 has an eco-friendly mode, which reduces energy consumption when it’s not in use.

Where to BuyThe Coway Bidetmega is priced at $399 (compared to its $600 Bidetmega 400), which makes it far more accessible to a larger audience.

This “democratized” stock trading could completely change how we think about investing—and how the average person performs economically.

The Benefits of Democratized Stock TradingAlready, democratized stock trading has had a number of positive effects, which should increase even further in the future:Stock investing for all.

Repercussions of Democratized Stock TradingAre there any repercussions or side effects as a result of higher access to stock trading?

In a world of democratized stock trading, individual investors are left to their own devices to perform due diligence and assess risk.

In a world of democratized stock trading, individual investors are left to their own devices to perform…

What are the advantages that artificial intelligence can give your SME?

The term artificial intelligence can be used on all tasks that solve human intelligence foibles, and they are solved, quickly, by machines.

We see that artificial intelligence is linked to business, and companies are taking advantage of artificial intelligence to do their tasks faster and at a lower cost.

The results of a Vistage survey of SME leaders make clear that the benefits of artificial intelligence are becoming very important to the business.

A chatbot with artificial intelligence is another of the most common examples in business intelligence.

Considering how disruptive technologies like Big Data have reached their maturation, big data can be made a beneficial part of the financial industry.

With this data-driven approach, let’s take a look at how Big Data is transforming the financial industry.

Essentially, it means that Big Data technologies handle vast quantities of data in a static and real-time environment while supporting multiple data types.

Final ThoughtsIn the years to come, it is clear that Big Data will revolutionize how we perceive the financial industry.

It is only a matter of time until Big Data emerges as a second currency in the financial industry.

Does it seem impossible to shake off stress and anxiety at the moment?

For many, it may appear impossible to shake off stress and anxiety at the moment.

With that in mind, let’s explore four out-of-the-box ideas that will help you feel less stressed during the quarantine.

ExerciseMaintaining a stable exercise routine has worked before for your troubled mind; it will work again this time.

Putting these issues out of your mind is how you will survive the spiraling negative thoughts that coronavirus uncertainty has precipitated.

But does dropshipping actually work in 2020?

To get started, find the manufacturer, supplier, drop shipper, and create a website (group in social networks) with an offer to purchase something.

Working on the dropshipping system, you will be able to quickly form a customer base than if you were involved in promoting products that you produce yourself.

The Dropshipping system can bring a good income and become an excellent method of earning.

Each entrepreneur must independently decide whether or not to work with dropshipping suppliers.

Smart cities, micro-drones, Internet of Things, connected logistics, artificial intelligence, etc.

We have talked about improving the connectivity and conditions of our cities by turning them into truly ‘smart cities’.

We must learn and adapt using the intrinsic smart city concepts to better equip all cities.

Smart cities have been historically more adept at collating and pushing actionable insights.

Smart cities with emerging and innovative tech applications have witnessed faster and effective testing and reporting.

That’s why we decided to look at a supposedly unproductive activity – online shopping during office hours.

Many studies confirm what you may have already suspected to be true – most people engage in online shopping at work.

First of all, we confirmed that office workers indeed use online shopping to procrastinate during work hours.

1: Online shopping is one of the least harmful unproductive activitiesOnline shopping is far from being the biggest productivity threat to companies.

3: Shopping at work can actually make people more productiveImagine yourself in a situation where you just did some shopping during work hours.

Recent events have reminded all of us how much we rely on smart connected devices to accomplish daily tasks, get work done, and stay in touch with our families and friends.

Specifically, we need to look at the current forecasts that say we will have 75 billion devices connected to the Internet of Things by 2025.

Do the numbers understate the potential growth in the amount and, more importantly, the use of connected devices?

We’ll only realize the full potential of smart, connected devices if we can trust and rely on them to be safe and secure.

And we have at least 75 billion reasons to build a safer IoT world.

It’s also had a significant impact on thousands of small businesses across hundreds of industries and niches.

Economists are projecting that more than 100,000 small businesses have permanently shut their doors since the pandemic began escalating in mid-March.

For millions of other small businesses, the struggle to remain profitable, recoup losses, and grow becomes a very big challenge moving forward.

Why Website Traffic Matters More Than EverTraffic has always been an important metric for business owners.

This means website traffic will be one of the foundational building blocks for all small businesses moving forward.

As the window wrappings fell this week, the balconies of Apple Sydney looked onto a George Street transformed as much as the store itself.

Every Apple Store in Australia is now open following temporary closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Just inside the front door is a staple in every redesigned Apple Store: a Today at Apple Forum with an 8K video wall.

Every surface at Apple Sydney has been given attention down to new stainless steel panels.

Apple Sydney will be waiting when it’s time to get together again.

Heart Analyzer is a powerful app that taps into the heart rate data tracked by your Apple Watch.

Following a massive update to the Apple Watch app last November, today’s update to Heart Analyzer focuses on revamping the iPhone version of the app.

On the Heart Analyzer Dashboard, you can see a variety of different statistics and reports, including your average heart rate, your trends for the day and the week, your resting heart rate, and much more.

Meanwhile on Apple Watch, Heart Analyzer now offers improved Infograph complications and more.

A refined Apple Watch experience with better heart rate charts on complications: Features including heart rate charts, metrics for the week, LiveHR and …

Under the deal, Paramount would still distribute the film.

Marin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are set to play the lead roles in the film alongside Robert Di Niro.

This will mark the second major feature film deal for Apple TV+ recently.

Last week, Apple TV+ secured the rights to the upcoming World War II film Greyhound which was written by and stars Tom Hanks for $70 million.

A report in April first indicated Apple’s interest in funding the Martin Scorsese film, which is based on a best selling book of the same name.

We’ve heard rumors about a new Apple TV for a while, but the company still sells two different Apple TV models, which leads some customers to wonder which one they should buy or whether they should wait for the next generation.

The current lineupIf you’re planning to buy an Apple TV today, you have two options: the Apple TV 4K (5th generation) and the Apple TV HD (4th generation), but neither of them are brand new models.

What we know about a new Apple TV9to5Mac has found references to a new Apple TV model in the tvOS 13.4 beta code.

The codes reveal a new Apple TV with the codename “T1125”, while the current Apple TV 4K is named “J105a” and the HD model is “J42d”.

If you want an Apple TV r…

Apple has acquired the machine learning startup Inductiv Inc., according to a new report from Bloomberg.

The report explains that the engineering team from Inductiv has joined Apple “in recent weeks” to work on several different projects including Siri, machine learning, and data science.

Having clean data is important for machine learning, a popular and powerful type of AI that helps software improve with less human invention.

In 2016, Apple acquired the Seattle-based startup Turi as part of its efforts to build out its machine learning and artificial intelligence teams.

Apple went on to release the Turi Create framework for simplifying the development of machine learning models.

Tired of using the low-res 720p FaceTime camera built-in to your MacBook Air, Pro or iMac?

Canon just expanded its beta software to macOS today that lets you use an EOS or PowerShot camera as your webcam for much-improved video quality.

Well if you have a compatible Canon EOS or PowerShot camera, you can now use it for high-quality webcam video with your Mac.

Unfortunately, there are some limitations since the EOS Webcam Utility is in beta like no support for FaceTime or Safari, and you need to use the web versions of Zoom, Skype, etc.

How to use a Canon EOS camera as a high-quality Mac webcamDownload the EOS Webcam Utility Beta from Canon (check that your specific EOS or PowerShot camera i…

Apple last week released iOS 13.5 to everyone, bringing new features such as the Exposure Notification API and Face ID upgrades.

Now, Apple has stopped signing iOS 13.4.1, which means users can no longer downgrade from iOS 13.5 to iOS 13.4.1.

Of note, there is currently a jailbreak available for iOS 13.5, so there’s no need to downgrade to iOS 13.4.1 to take advantage of it.

Now that Apple has stopped signing iOS 13.4.1, it means that no one can downgrade from iOS 13.5 to that version via iTunes/Finder.

As for right now, iOS 13.5 is the latest version of iOS, and it’s still being signed and supported by Apple.

This morning, HBO launched its new expanded streaming service: HBO Max, which is a superset of the existing HBO Now offering.

You can get the HBO Max app on all Apple devices, but it comes at a price: the HBO partnership with Apple TV Channels is being wound down.

Starting today, the HBO channel has been removed from the Apple TV app if you don’t already subscribe to it.

The HBO Apple TV channel now features a carousel advertising the Max service.

If you are coming to HBO Max afresh, you can use Apple In-App Purchase to subscribe inside of the HBO Max application.

What could an iPhone without any ports look like, and is it likely that Apple would ever adopt USB-C for the iPhone?

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Apple could be planning a redesign for the Apple Watch Leather Loop.

A tipster shared a variety of images of a new Apple Watch Leather Loop with 9to5Mac earlier this month, and now similar images have surfaced on Reddit.

Apple currently sells the Leather Loop for Apple Watch in four different colors: peacock, Meyer lemon, saddle brown, and black.

The Apple Watch Leather Loop shown in the leaked images certainly looks to be more sporty.

As of right now, it’s unclear when Apple might unveil the new Leather Loop for Apple Watch, and it’s possible that plans are scrapped.

Now for the first time, IGTV will gain ads and the company will share a cut of the revenue with creators.

Additionally “Badges” arrive as a way for fans to donate to creators in Instagram Live videos.

Today we’re announcing new ways for creators to make money through Instagram Live and IGTV.

The video ads will be built for mobile and up to 15 seconds long.

We recently announced Live Shopping, which will let creators and brands tag products during their live videos.

Today’s best deals include Apple’s latest 13-inch MacBook Pro at $100 off, plus previous-generation iPhones are on sale, and Logitech’s Slim Folio for iPad Pro gets a discount.

Apple’s new 13-inch MacBook ProTrusted Apple retailer Expercom is taking up to $100 off the new 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro.

We’ve only seen Apple’s new 13-inch MacBook Pro discounted once before.

iPad Pro Slim Folio sports a keyboardAmazon is currently offering the Logitech Slim Folio Pro Keyboard Case for 12.9-inch iPad Pro at $98.

Best trade-in deals9to5Mac also keeps tabs on all the best trade-in deals on iPhone, iPad, MacBook, Apple Watch, and more every month.

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Build-to-order Macs (BTO) are finally available in India through Apple Authorized Resellers.

Customers in India, a key overseas market for American technology giants, have long requested this feature, which Apple offers in several regions.

Prior to this, Apple only offered select variants of its Mac computers in India and gave no option to customers to ask for specific upgrades.

“Previously, there was no real way to get a built-to-order or configure-to-order Mac in India.

Currently, Apple has a website in India, but as soon as you click a Buy button you are directed to authorized resellers.

Apple Inc. has nabbed director Martin Scorsese’s next film, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, according to people familiar with the matter.

The project will be the tech giant’s biggest foray into film yet as it beat out other interested companies, including Netflix Inc., which produced Mr. Scorsese’s last film.

Twitter Inc.’s move to label two tweets by President Trump as misinformation highlights a widening divide among big tech platforms on how they handle political speech, an increasingly contentious issue as the U.S. presidential election approaches.

The messaging platform’s decision to slap a fact-checking label Tuesday on the two tweets, in which Mr. Trump said vote-by-mail would lead to rampant fraud, contrasts sharply with the position by larger rival Facebook Inc., which reviewed the same claim from the president on its...

A Canadian judge ruled that the U.S. met a key legal test to seek the extradition of a senior Huawei Technologies Co. executive who has been at the center of a fight between Washington and Beijing over the giant telecom-equipment maker.

The decision released Wednesday marks the first major court ruling on the fate of Huawei finance chief Meng Wanzhou.

Ms. Meng, 48, is the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei and has been detained in Vancouver on bail since she was arrested at the city’s airport in December 2018.

Tammy Sun, the quintessential Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur, fired off an uncharacteristically low-tech Tweet recently.

“Zoom fatigue has me wanting a landline and a rotary phone,” wrote the founder and CEO of Carrot, a startup that provides fertility benefit plans for companies.

Ms. Sun likes Zoom a lot.

In fact, she says she’s a “power user,” spending nine out of 10 conversations on it, six days a week.

The hours aren’t the problem, she says, it’s the real-time image of herself on the Zoom grid, reflecting her every...

An electrical transformer built in China and bound for Colorado arrived at the Port of Houston last summer, before U.S. authorities diverted it to a national laboratory.

Loren Elliott/ReutersWSJ News Exclusive U.S. Seizure of Chinese-Built Transformer Raises Specter of Closer Scrutiny Federal officials haven’t said publicly why they sent the transformer to a national lab, but experts said the move signaled possible grid-security concerns

HBO Max, AT&T Inc.’s new streaming service, launched Wednesday but remains unavailable to Amazon.com Inc. Prime Video subscribers, as both companies remain at loggerheads over where the content will reside and who will have access to user data.

Amazon has about 5 million customers who get HBO through its Prime Video Channels platform, all of whom aren’t able to access HBO Max, which is being offered to existing HBO customers at no extra charge.

Amazon subscribers who want the new version would have to drop HBO from their...

Two of China’s most valuable U.S.-listed companies are pushing ahead with multibillion-dollar share sales in Hong Kong, amid growing pressure from U.S. lawmakers on Chinese companies to disclose their financial information or delist.

The listing plans of NetEase Inc., an online games company, and JD.com Inc., the operator of an e-commerce website, will be reviewed on Thursday by the listing committee of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, people familiar with the situation told the Wall Street Journal.

SpaceX is scheduled to launch two NASA astronauts into orbit this afternoon—weather permitting—to kick off a new era of corporate-driven space missions.

No company has ever flown commercially developed hardware carrying humans and linked up with the international space station.

If Space Exploration Technologies Corp. reaches that goal, it will be the first human launch from U.S. soil since 2011 and mark a major shift in the country’s space endeavors.

It also would represent a long-awaited milestone for NASA and a resounding...

The latest mega streamer is now open for business, with a sales pitch that the name HBO Max translates to quality and quantity.

But with so many competing services out there, how does the new platform’s 10,000 hours of movies and TV shows stack up, considering that at $15 a month, it’s pricier than most rivals?

The value proposition is obvious for people already paying for HBO—for no extra charge, most get instant access to the new platform, which includes everything in the HBO catalog.

(The upgrade process varies based on...

But some companies and their employees don’t want to leave everything about the office behind, it turns out, and are replicating their offices in “SimCity”-like simulations online.

Some virtual office spaces predate the pandemic.

Unlike real estate, there is no standard formula to calculate the price of a virtual office.

Marc Lewis, the college’s dean, has committed to spending £10,000 on testing virtual office products to host lectures and keep connected to students.

WeTransfer plans to keep the virtual office once its physical equivalents reopen.

An estimated 67% of workers at U.S. technology companies are concerned about losing their jobs to digital capabilities powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotic software, KPMG said in a report Friday.

That compares with 44% among workers at companies outside the tech sector.

Beyond automation, 70% of tech-sector workers are worried about having their jobs eliminated as a result of the economic fallout from the crisis, compared with 57% of workers employed by companies in other industries.

“Workers in the tech industry are closer to the technology and thus have a unique understanding, more so than other industries, of technology and its capabilities,” said Mr. Zanni.

T…

Amazon.com Inc. is in advanced talks to buy Zoox Inc. in a move that would expand the e-commerce giant’s reach in autonomous-vehicle technology.

The companies are discussing a deal that would value Zoox at less than the $3.2 billion it achieved in a funding round in 2018, according to people familiar with the matter.

An agreement may be...

WASHINGTON—Twitter Inc. on Tuesday turned down a widower’s request to delete tweets by President Trump floating baseless theories about his wife’s death, but for the first time applied a fact-checking notice to a different unsubstantiated claim the president made on the platform.

The social-media company didn’t explain its decision early in the day not to remove Mr. Trump’s tweets falsely suggesting that former lawmaker and current MSNBC host Joe Scarborough had played a role in the 2001 death of a former congressional aide.

Streaming service Quibi is beginning to feel the pinch of its lackluster performance since launching last month, as major advertisers seek to defer payments and the company looks to cut costs, according to people familiar with the situation.

The advertisers, which include PepsiCo Inc., Yum Brands Inc.’s Taco Bell, Anheuser-Busch InBev SA and Walmart Inc., have asked for the changes because of concerns about the service’s low viewership or the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on their businesses, one of the people said.

After all, when it comes to capturing the public imagination around space travel, style matters.

“Suits are the charismatic mammals of space hardware,” said Cathleen Lewis, the curator of international space programs and spacesuits at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution.

“They evoke the human experience.”

These updates are in addition to the expanded Instagram Live shopping features announced last week.

Influencers are an asset to social platforms.

They drive engagement, but platforms that hope to retain top creators must help them do one thing well: make money.

Influencing is a career, after all, and if creators aren’t getting paid, they will eventually stop showing up for work.

After a ruling from the Supreme Court, the case would move to the political arena, with the justice minister of Canada making the final decision on whether she must be sent to the United States to stand trial.

Tracy Sherlock reported from Vancouver, British Columbia, and Dan Bilefsky from Montreal.

Raymond Zhong contributed reporting from Taipei, Taiwan.

Footprint was born of Mr. Swope’s work for 15 years as an engineer at Intel, where he became an “accidental environmentalist.” He saw firsthand the many different elements of plastic packaging that accompanied Intel products and was stunned by the amount of waste in the shipping and in the supply chain in general.

He was even more alarmed that silicon wafers, elements of Intel’s processors, were considered contaminated after being transported in plastic that was similar to the tubs of cut fruit from the grocery store.

There is NO WAY (ZERO!)

that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent.

Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed.

The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone.....

Twitter said it would not remove Mr. Trump’s posts about Ms. Klausutis, even as her widower called them “horrifying lies,” because they did not violate its terms of service.

That echoed what the social media company has repeatedly said about its lack of action on Mr. Trump’s posts: That while his messages may skirt the line of what’s accepted under Twitter’s rules, they never cross it.

Already, two companies have announced plans to buy launches in SpaceX’s capsule, the Crew Dragon, to take non-NASA passengers to space.

Those missions might fly as soon as a year from now.

One would take space tourists on a visit to the International Space Station; the other would be a trip on an elliptical orbit around Earth that might view the planet from an altitude two to three times as high as the space station’s orbit.

Tom Cruise has even expressed interest in using the space station for a film.

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The most helpful shopping ideas right now are coming from blah big box stores like Walmart and Lowe’s.

It’s surprising, yeah.

And Amazon, the company that’s determined to reinvent everything, is kinda boring.

Fans find Ms. Ong relatable and say that her success feels like their own success.

“Melissa, as our leader, is not afraid to show people that she is not perfect, and as followers that look up to her, we do not feel like we have to be.

We are us, we are ourselves, we are the Step Chickens and we are special,” Danny said.

If possible, choose a window seat.

A study from Emory University found that during flu season, the safest place to sit on a plane is by a window, as people sitting in window seats had less contact with potentially sick people.

Disinfect hard surfaces.

If the seat is hard and nonporous or leather or pleather, you can wipe that down, too.

(Using wipes on upholstered seats could lead to a wet seat and spreading of germs rather than killing them.)

If possible, choose a window seat.

A study from Emory University found that during flu season, the safest place to sit on a plane is by a window, as people sitting in window seats had less contact with potentially sick people.

Disinfect hard surfaces.

If the seat is hard and nonporous or leather or pleather, you can wipe that down, too.

(Using wipes on upholstered seats could lead to a wet seat and spreading of germs rather than killing them.)

If possible, choose a window seat.

A study from Emory University found that during flu season, the safest place to sit on a plane is by a window, as people sitting in window seats had less contact with potentially sick people.

Disinfect hard surfaces.

If the seat is hard and nonporous or leather or pleather, you can wipe that down, too.

(Using wipes on upholstered seats could lead to a wet seat and spreading of germs rather than killing them.)

If possible, choose a window seat.

A study from Emory University found that during flu season, the safest place to sit on a plane is by a window, as people sitting in window seats had less contact with potentially sick people.

Disinfect hard surfaces.

If the seat is hard and nonporous or leather or pleather, you can wipe that down, too.

(Using wipes on upholstered seats could lead to a wet seat and spreading of germs rather than killing them.)

Mr. Hart said that day that the weather looked favorable for the test.

The company had planned to attempt the launch on Sunday, but the day’s attempt was called off because of a problem with a sensor.

The order, a draft copy of which was seen by Reuters, could change before it is finalized.

On Wednesday, officials said Trump will sign an executive order on social media companies on Thursday.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The draft order also states that the White House Office of Digital Strategy will re-establish a tool to help citizens report cases of online censorship.

Called the White House Tech Bias Reporting Tool, it will collect complaints of online censorship and submit them to the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

FILE PHOTO: Tik Tok logo is displayed on the smartphone while standing on the U.S. flag in this illustration picture taken, November 8, 2019.

REUTERS/Dado RuvicWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fourteen Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives wrote to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday to urge it to consider probing the short video app TikTok for “blatant disregard” of a consent decree related to children’s privacy.

“The blatant disregard for the consent decree could encourage other websites to fail to adhere to settlements made with your agency, thereby weakening protections for all Americans,” the letter said.

Earlier this month, two Republicans on the same committee wrot…

FILE PHOTO: A hooded man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017.

REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration(Reuters) - Security experts at Alphabet Inc’s Google sent 1,755 warnings in April to users whose accounts were targets of government-backed attackers, following a resurgence in hacking and phishing attempts related to the coronavirus outbreak.

Google said on Wednesday its Threat Analysis Group saw new activity from “hack-for-hire” firms, many based in India, that have been creating Gmail accounts spoofing the World Health Organization (WHO).

(bit.ly/2M2k9UA)Google said it continued to see attacks from hackers on medical and…

REUTERS/Aly SongHONG KONG (Reuters) - Tencent Holdings Ltd has raised $6 billion in debt, the Chinese technology company said on Thursday, in the largest debt deal by an Asian corporate in 2020.

The deal was finalised early on Thursday in which Tencent raised $1 billion in five-year debt, $2.25 billion in 10-year, $2 billion in 30-year and $750 million in 40-year debt, a term sheet showed.

It was the first time Tencent raised 40-year money in its history.

The transaction was the largest by a non-financial company in the Asian region so far this year, data compiled by Refinitiv showed.

Before the Tencent deal, the biggest was a $4 billion junk bond by Scenic Journey in January and a $2.9 bil…

REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/Files(Reuters) - Apple Inc has secured a deal for Hollywood veteran Martin Scorsese’s next film, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” U.S. media reported on Wednesday, citing sources.

“Killers of the Flower Moon” will star Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.

It is the second major film that Apple has acquired after “Greyhound,” starring Tom Hanks, last year.

Apple beat rivals such as Netflix Inc that were also interested to produce the film, the WSJ reported.

“Killers of the Flower Moon” is an adaptation of the non-fiction book of the same name, by David Grann.

FILE PHOTO: Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, U.S., October 23, 2019.

REUTERS/Erin ScottWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc’s Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, commenting on U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats against social media companies, said on Wednesday censoring a platform would not be the “right reflex” for a government worried about censorship.

“I’ll have to understand what they actually would intend to do, but in general I think a government choosing to censor a platform because they’re worried about censorship doesn’t exactly strike me as the right reflex there,” Zuckerberg said in an interv…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on social media companies on Thursday, White House officials said after Trump threatened to shut down the platform he accused of stifling conservative voices.

The American Civil Liberties Union said the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution limits any action Trump could take to regulate social media platforms.

In the tweets tagged by Twitter, Trump made unsubstantiated claims about mail-in voting.

“Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices.

The White House circulated drafts of a proposed executive order about anti-conservative bias last year which never gained any tract…

FILE PHOTO: The Google logo is pictured at the entrance to the Google offices in London, Britain January 18, 2019.

REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo(Reuters) - Arizona on Wednesday filed a consumer fraud lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s Google alleging that the company used “deceptive” and “unfair” practices to obtain the location data of users.

"Google collects detailed information about its users, including their physical locations, to target users for advertising.

Often, this is done without the users' consent or knowledge", Attorney General Mark Brnovich said here in a tweet on Wednesday.

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit.

U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One as he departs Washington for travel to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., May 27, 2020.

REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order shortly regarding social media companies, a White House spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

Spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany made the remark to reporters aboard Air Force One, traveling with Trump to Washington from Florida a day after Twitter Inc attached a warning to some of his tweets prompting readers to fact-check the president’s claims.

FILE PHOTO: Micron Technology's solid-state drive for data center customers is presented at a product launch event in San Francisco, U.S., October 24, 2019.

REUTERS/Stephen Nellis(Reuters) - Micron Technology Inc (MU.O) raised its revenue forecast for the third quarter on Wednesday to a range of $5.2 billion to $5.4 billion from $4.6 billion to $5.2 billion, sending its shares about 3% higher.

The memory chipmaker said in a regulatory filing www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/723125/000072312520000053/mu-20200527.htm that it expected adjusted earnings between 75 cents per share and 80 cents per share.

Micron also saw increased sales of laptop memory chips for work and education at home…

VANCOUVER/TORONTO (Reuters) - Huawei Technologies Co’s Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was dealt a setback by a Canadian court on Wednesday as she tries to avoid extradition to the United States to face bank fraud charges.

Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou leaves her home to attend a court hearing in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada May 27, 2020.

But British Columbia’s Superior Court Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes disagreed, ruling the legal standard of double criminality had been met.

Reid Weingarten, a U.S. lawyer for Meng, said Meng should “not be a pawn or a hostage” in the China-U.S. relationship.

Shortly after the ruling was released Meng, 48, ar…