June 16, 2020 NBA restart plan includes using Oura rings to catch COVID-19 symptoms While the NBA continues to move toward restarting its season with players and other personnel isolated at Walt Disney World in Orlando, details of…
June 16, 2020 Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 690 chipset brings 5G to cheaper phones As far as 5G smartphone chipsets go, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865 might be the best known, but there's one issue: It's as expensive as it…
June 16, 2020 Google will default to phone notifications for two-factor sign-ins Many will tell you that two-factor authentication is more secure without using phone numbers, and Google is putting that wisdom into practice. The internet…
June 16, 2020 Humble’s racial justice bundle offers $1,200 in games and books for $30 Itch.io’s recent mega-bundle won’t be your only option to buy games in return for contributing to the quests to solve racial inequity and inequality….
June 16, 2020 SpaceX plans seaborne spaceports for Mars missions and hypersonic flights Don’t think SpaceX is toning down its spaceflight ambitions in light of the pandemic — if anything, the company is ramping things up. Elon…
June 16, 2020 T-Mobile reportedly plans to lay off hundreds of former Sprint employees Two months after completing its $26 billion merger with Sprint, T-Mobile plans to lay off a portion of the workers that came to it…
June 16, 2020 Bose shuts down AR development Yet another company’s augmented reality strategy is running into trouble. Protocol reports that Bose is winding down its AR program after it fell short…
June 16, 2020 Xbox One update streamlines your game library management Your Xbox One game collection can come from a variety of services, which can make it a pain to manage your library. Which games…
June 16, 2020 Researchers taught a robot to suture by showing it surgery videos Stitching a patient back together after surgery is a vital but monotonous task for medics, often requiring them to repeat the same simple movements…
June 16, 2020 CommStar will launch a relay satellite to talk to astronauts on the Moon NASA plans to return humans to the Moon by 2024, but there are still plenty of questions about how that will work. One challenge…