Twitter locks account encouraging coronavirus ‘chickenpox parties’
Photo by J. Conrad Williams, Jr./Newsday RM via Getty Images On Wednesday, Twitter briefly locked conservative site The Federalist’s account
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Month: March 2020
Qualcomm’s latest chips could make noise cancellation standard on new wireless earbuds
Qualcomm is announcing a pair of new Bluetooth chips designed for wireless earbuds, the Qualcomm QCC514x and QCC304x SoCs. Both
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COVID-19 anxiety taking a toll? There’s a subreddit for that
COVID-19 is all anyone can talk about in real life, which means it’s all anyone can talk about on the
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Lyft is offering free and discounted bike-share passes for workers fighting the coronavirus
Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images Lyft is offering free or discounted bike-share trips to workers fighting the coronavirus. The ride-hail
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Fox will broadcast NASCAR’s substitute sim racing ‘season’ on television
Image: NASCAR / iRacing Fox and its sibling channel, FS1, are going to broadcast a “season” of virtual races that
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Quarantine is emotionally challenging, but there are ways officials can make it easier
Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images When China placed a series of cities under lockdown in January to
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Impossible CEO says it can make a meat ‘unlike anything that you’ve had before’
Plant-based meat products are bigger than ever, with the fast-food industry, grocery stores, and upscale restaurants coming on board. A
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Europe turns off instruments on some of its deep-space probes during coronavirus pandemic
An artistic rendering of ESA’s Solar Orbiter. | Image: ESA The European Space Agency is putting four of its space
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Personal voice assistants struggle with black voices, new study shows
Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Speech recognition systems have more trouble understanding black users’ voices than those of
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Telecoms are sneaking ‘stay home’ messages onto customers’ smartphones
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Some mobile phone operators, including Vodafone and Orange S.A., have started inserting
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