April 16, 2020 This Office Noise Simulator Makes Working From Home Less Soul-Crushingly Lonely The cutely designed microsite Reichenbergerstr 121 simulates office noise—handy if you’re working from home and you miss the sounds of working in an office,…
April 16, 2020 10 Shows I’m Too Lazy to Watch, and You’re Gonna Hate Me for It We all have a list. You know the one. It’s your list of TV shows friends or family have recommended with every ounce of…
April 16, 2020 Apple and Google look like problematic heroes in the pandemic A GovTech staff member demonstrates Singapore’s new contact-tracing smartphone app, called TraceTogether. Apple and Google’s contact-tracing tool has better privacy, but it isn’t perfect….
April 16, 2020 ‘Crysis Remastered’ is coming to PC, PS4, Xbox One and Switch But can it run Crysis? When it comes to new hardware, it’s a question almost as old as time itself. If you ever wondered…
April 16, 2020 Amazon releases long-form speaking style for Alexa skills Amazon released a long-form speaking style developers can use in Alexa voice apps. It also made available new Amazon Polly voices for those same…
April 16, 2020 Gmail is blocking 18 million malicious coronavirus emails a day Google has intercepted 18 million malicious emails related to COVID-19 each day in the past week, representing nearly 20% of all nefarious messages blocked.Read…
April 16, 2020 Facebook’s global currency plans were always doomed The Libra Association, the Facebook-backed cryptocurrency outfit with plans to own the future of money, has had a change of heart. After almost a…
April 16, 2020 Google bans apps with deceptive subscription offers from the Play Store Google is joining Apple in requiring honesty with app subscriptions. A newly instituted Google Play policy bans apps that use deceptive language or imagery…
April 16, 2020 Jump in U.S. Covid-19 Death Tally Expected as CDC Changes Counting Practices The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has changed how it will officially count the number of people sickened and killed by covid-19 in…
April 16, 2020 The West Is Facing Its Worst Megadrought in at Least 1,200 Years Nearly 1,000 years ago, a megadrought ravaged the southwestern U.S., swiftly wiping out a thriving indigenous culture and rendering once-arid land unusable. Scientists have…