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The science behind your loneliness
a day ago –
Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you
facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the technology trying
to stop its spread. You can subscribe here. As I mentioned during last
week’s Big Spam takeover, I’m Tristan. I write for TNW and I’m the
editor of Neural, but ...
Online marketplaces are tanking worldwide – except for Amazon
2 days ago –
Last week, Amazon announced it’ll open 100,000 new roles to
“support people relying on Amazon’s service in this stressful time.” The
new hires are set to bring the company’s workforce to over 900,000
worldwide. While Amazon is thriving in the coronavirus crisis, though,
the situation looks grim f...
I’m so bored I got excited about installing the iOS 13.4 update
18 hours ago –
It shows the state I’m currently in that when I saw the iOS 13.4
update on the iPhone this morning I did a little fist bump in bed. Am I
proud? No, but if I’m going to survive this lockdown, I need to take
the little victories where I can. But yeah, Apple’s iOS 13.4 update is
here, so go download...
9 tips to perfect your ‘working from home’ morning routine
19 hours ago –
If you work from home, getting your morning routine down to a
tee will have a huge impact on how you work — and feel — for the rest of
the day. Ultimately, it’s about doing what works for you, but here are a
few pointers that will hopefully help you start your day right. Wake up
at the same time ...
Facial recognition and AI will invade public privacy — but it can be done ethically
15 hours ago –
We live in an age where we have unprecedented access to almost
any information we need. With the emergence of new technology
like artificial intelligence (AI), facial recognition, big data, and
more, the human experience is being changed forever. Almost anything you
need is just a tap away; but t...
3 ways IoT is disrupting insurance
15 hours ago –
Insurance is one of the oldest practices of human societies,
practiced even before the first coins were minted. Chinese and
Babylonian traders in the second and third millennia BC used very crude
methods to protect their cargo against sunken ships and theft. Since
then, the insurance industry has...
How to keep your internet from slowing to a crawl while working from home
4 hours ago –
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice
on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other
stuff. Given that we’re all sick, stuck indoors, and not able to
socialize in person, we’re relying on the internet to keep us from going
stir-crazy. And given that w...
How to keep your internet from slowing to a crawl while working from home
4 hours ago –
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and
advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and
other stuff. Given that we’re all sick, stuck indoors, and not able to
socialize in person, we’re relying on the internet to keep us from going
stir-crazy. And given that w...
Marshall’s tiny new Uxbridge speaker comes with Alexa built-in
8 hours ago –
Thanks to the popularity of Amazon‘s Echo family, people have
begun to expect voice assistant capabilities from their smart speakers,
even ones meant primarily for audio. To that point, Marshall just
announced the Uxbridge Voice, its latest Alexa-enabled speaker. As with
Marshall’s previous wirel...
Tech Crunch
Oxford Uni academics launch a tracker for COVID-19 policy interventions
13 hours ago –
Oxford University academics have launched a project to track
government responses to the coronavirus pandemic. The tool, called the
Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT), tracks 11
indicators to generate an index that compares the stringency of policy
responses around the world. Na...
Spotify adds fundraising features and a COVID-19 news hub to address the health crisis
13 hours ago –
Spotify this morning announced a series of new initiatives to
address the COVID-19 health crisis across its platform. The company is
launching a financial relief effort for those in the creative community
who have been heavily impacted by the virus, which includes the addition
of a public donatio...
Mammoth Media launches CatchUp, an app that summarizes the latest news and trending content
13 hours ago –
A new app called CatchUp might be useful for anyone who’s
struggling to keep up with the latest headlines, podcasts and Netflix
shows. CatchUp is the latest offering from Mammoth Media, the startup
behind chat fiction app Yarn and social polling app Wishbone. Founder
and CEO Benoit Vatere told me...
Longtime LP Chris Douvos shares how COVID-19 could shake up venture industry
11 hours ago –
Chris Douvos runs a fund of funds called Ahoy Capital that
manages assets on behalf of numerous nonprofit institutions, endowments
and foundations throughout the U.S. Outfits that want exposure to
startups — but aren’t large enough to contemplate funding them directly —
count on Ahoy and funds li...
Online marketplace OfferUp raises $120M, acquires top competitor letgo
11 hours ago –
OfferUp, a top online and mobile marketplace app, announced this
morning it’s raising $120 million in a new round of funding led by
competing marketplace letgo’s majority investor, OLX Group, and others.
As a part of the deal, OfferUp will also be acquiring letgo’s classified
business, with OLX G...
Self-reporting app for COVID-19 symptoms for UK research sees 650K downloads in 24 hours
11 hours ago –
One of the big challenges (among many) with the coronavirus
pandemic is that overwhelmed health services do not always know how best
to deploy the limited resources they have to meet the demand of people
falling ill with COVID-19. For example, we know that more ventilators
and beds will be needed...
Twitter pulls The Federalist’s dangerous ‘pox’ coronavirus tweet
9 hours ago –
A tweet by conservative online magazine The Federalist, which
suggested people should deliberately infect themselves with the
coronavirus strain COVID-19, has been pulled after it “violated”
Twitter’s rules. The infringing tweet, posted on Wednesday morning,
said: “It is time to think outside the...
Prototype thrusters designed for use on the Moon undergo key hot-fire testing
9 hours ago –
NASA’s renewed efforts to return to the Moon may be impacted by
the COVID-19 pandemic, but work still proceeds on a number of projects
related to the effort, including a series of hot-fire test of thrusters
designed by NASA and partner Frontier Aerospace. These tests, more than
60 in total perfor...
Tencent launches $100M fund to fight COVID-19
9 hours ago –
Tencent this week announced the launch of the Global
Anti-Pandemic Fund, a $100 million effort designed to help curb the
devastating spread of COVID-19. The news follows the launch of $100
million funds from fellow tech giants Netflix and Facebook. In the case
of the Shenzhen-based corporation, ...
Helm.ai raises $13M on its unsupervised learning approach to driverless car AI
7 hours ago –
Four years ago, mathematician Vlad Voroninski saw an opportunity
to remove some of the bottlenecks in the development of autonomous
vehicle technology thanks to breakthroughs in deep learning. Now,
Helm.ai, the startup he co-founded in 2016 with Tudor Achim, is coming
out of stealth with an annou...
Why key performance indicators are crucial amidst a (public health) crisis
7 hours ago –
Day after day, the burden of COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2
mounts further. As of this writing, nearly 400,000 patients worldwide
were confirmed for the disease, including over 46,000 cases spanning
every state in this country.
Study behind updated FDA guidance shows self-swab tests are as effective as those done by clinicians
7 hours ago –
Earlier this week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
announced that it would be updating its guidance to allow self-swab
tests for COVID-19, in which a patient collects a sample from their own
nose for a health professional to test. On Wednesday, UnitedHealth Group
revealed the results ...
Netflix is currently down for many users around the world
an hour ago –
Netflix is currently experiencing outages around the world, but
affecting mostly users in the United States and Europe. According to
Down Detector, users began reporting issues around 12PM Eastern Standard
Time on Wednesday, and many people are still unable to connect to the
streaming service on ...
3D-printing company Formlabs expects its swabs to receive FDA exemption
3 hours ago –
Formlabs, the privately held, Massachusetts-based 3D-printing
company, will soon receive an exemption from the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration for its swab designed for use in COVID-19 test kits,
TechCrunch has learned. Global supply chains for test kit components
including swabs and chemical r...
Plastiq raises $75M to help small businesses use credit cards more
4 hours ago –
When Eliot Buchanan tried to use his credit card to pay his
Harvard tuition bill, the payment was rejected because the university
said it doesn’t accept credit. Realizing the same problem exists for
thousands of different transactions like board, rent and vendor
payments, he launched Plastiq. Pla...
The Verge
Facebook says coronavirus is pushing usage through the roof, but its business is hurting
a day ago –
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Facebook is seeing an extreme spike in usage across the globe due to
the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the company outlined in a blog post on
Tuesday. But most usage is concentrated among private messaging and
video calling, products the company does...
How to watch movies with friends online
16 hours ago –
FG Trade / Getty Images
Even a favorite stay-at-home activity like watching TV can get lonely
sometimes, especially if you’re used to hanging out with your friends
and watching together. And although you can stream and text, FaceTime,
or share your screen on Zoom, sometimes that just doesn’t c...
16 hours ago –
The app lets you mirror your iOS device’s screen onto your
Dell PC. | Image: Dell
If you’re an iPhone user with a modern Dell computer, you can now
mirror your phone’s screen to your PC and control it using Dell’s Mobile
Connect app. Version 3 of the iOS app lets you control your phone using
y...
Nook Miles is my favorite addition to Animal Crossing: New Horizons
12 hours ago –
In my first weekend playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons, I had
grand designs to pay off my initial mortgage and plant a robust orchard
of fruit — but I didn’t expect my proudest accomplishment to be picking
more than 6,250 weeds. I was driven to complete that herculean feat
because I was reward...
How to choose a free videoconference app
8 hours ago –
Photo by Stefano Guidi/Getty Images
Most people are currently relying on videoconferencing to keep in
touch with work colleagues, family, and friends — and if they’re facing
financial difficulties, free is best. While Zoom seems currently to be
the most popular videoconferencing app, there are...
Apple says customers must wait to pick up repairs locked inside its retail stores
3 hours ago –
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Apple customers who didn’t pick up devices dropped off for repairs
within two days of the company closing all of its retail stores will
have to wait to pick them up until the stores reopen, an Apple
spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider.
When A...
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