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Mayor Bill de Blasio: Musk Offered to Make Ventilators, So Let’s See ‘Em

Late last night, Elon Musk promised a fan that Tesla “will make ventilators if there is a shortage.” Several hours later, Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed that there is a national shortage, took him up on his offer, and now it’s time for Musk to pay up. “@elonmusk New York City is buying!” he tweeted,…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Sick Days: Stories From People Keeping the World Running

This is the first edition of Sick Days, a new series documenting how jobs are changing during the coronavirus pandemic, as told by workers themselves. This week, we hear from a healthcare worker, a small-business owner, an airline worker, and more. If you’d like to submit a story, use this Google form, and read this post…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Shaun of the Dead Gets a Coronavirus Update Thanks to Simon Pegg and Nick Frost

…Right. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are the latest celebrities to take to social media with a clever coronavirus-themed video, but theirs has way more going on than most of the others. If you remember, back in the pair’s 2004 film Shaun of the Dead, directed by Edgar Wright, Shaun (Pegg) and Ed (Frost) discuss…

Movies Germain Lussier

Trump’s Trade Adviser Pushing ‘Buy American’ Order on Drugs, Medical Supplies During Pandemic

White House trade adviser and arch-protectionist ideologue Peter Navarro is trying to include buy-American provisions in the Trump administration’s coronavirus relief package that could disrupt the medical supply chain while the U.S. is already ill-prepared for a projected surge in cases, the Daily Beast reported on Thursday. The Beast reviewed a draft order of Navarro’s…

Health Tom McKay

Civil Rights Groups Cancel Twitter’s ‘Birthday,’ Say CEO Is Giving Nazis a ‘Megaphone’

In case you forgot somehow, Twitter’s “birthday” is once again upon us. As of Saturday, 14 years will have passed since its founder, Jack Dorsey—who hilariously thought people might actually pay to use Twitter at the time—tweeted the very first tweet ever. Not everyone’s coming to the party. Dozens of civil rights organizations are instead…

Tech News Tom McKay & Dell Cameron

Microsoft Just Made It a Lot Easier to Port Cool PC Games to Xbox [UPDATE]

Today, Microsoft announced a new DirectX standard that it claims will not only sync the graphics improvement process in games across both PC and console, but will also be backwards compatible with older PC hardware. If it works as explained it’s going to be a lot easier to port games from PC to Xbox and…

Tech News Joanna Nelius

The EU Wants Netflix to Lower Streaming Video Quality to Prevent the Internet From Breaking [Updated]

With people self-quarantining in order to help stop the spread of covid-19, many are turning to streaming video services to pass the time while they are cooped up inside. But now, due to a massive spike in users and bandwidth, the EU is asking companies like Netflix and home users alike to lower streaming video…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

Real Number of U.S. Coronavirus Cases Could Be as High as 150,000, New Estimates Suggest

The official tally of covid-19 in America is climbing steeply as more people are finally being tested, with at least 80,000 people tested and more than 8,000 reported cases as of March 19. But preliminary forecasts created by epidemiologists paint a far grimmer picture of the novel coronavirus’s spread in the U.S.: We may already…

Health Ed Cara

Just Opening a Plastic Bottle Can Send Microplastic Pollution Into the Air

Coronavirus is Earth-shatteringly scary, and social distancing sucks. To distract myself and pull my brain out of the depths of speculative despair, I’ve been drinking a ton of seltzer, mostly from plastic bottles. I know that’s bad because plastic is an environmental nightmare, but seltzer water gives me more pleasure than many other things, so…

Conservation Dharna Noor

Vampire Bats Will Share Blood With a Friend, but Only After Vigorous Grooming

To prevent starvation, vampire bats will share their blood meals with an underfed friend. New research uncovers the steps leading up to this remarkable prosocial behavior and the importance of mutual grooming. Vampire bats share their blood meals, but they don’t do this with just any ol’ bat. These flying mammals are known to form…

Biology George Dvorsky

Jumanji Director Jake Kasdan on How Next Level Continued to Pay Homage to the Original

The Jumanji franchise is both surprisingly simple and subtly unique. The simple part is that its two most recent films stand together as one story. Boom. Got it. However, those two films also serve as subtle sequels to the 1995 Jumanji film that, besides the title, seems completely unrelated. So when you’re talking about Jumanji:…

Movies Germain Lussier

For the First Time Ever, Toei Is Releasing Subtitled Classic Tokusatsu for Free Online

Himitsu Sentai Gorenger. Space Sheriff Gavan. Space Wolf Juspion. They’re all icons of Tokusatsu, the Japaneseeffects-driven genre that has given us iconic, cult sci-fi superheroes for decades. And, for the most part, impossible for people outside of Japan to experience in an official capacity. That’s about to change in a huge way. After this week’s…

io9 James Whitbrook

This U-Shaped Window AC Unit Looks Nifty If You’ve Got Noodle Arms

Summer is still a few months away, but for many of us lacking upper body strength, installing a window AC unit is righteous torture. There’s installing brackets, sealing your window, and if you’re in an apartment, doing all that while praying your noodle arms don’t give out and crush pedestrians below. That’s why Midea’s U-Shaped…

Tech News Victoria Song

The Samsung Galaxy S20+ Is the Best Android Has to Offer Right Now

After checking out the Galaxy S20 Ultra, it’s difficult to forget it’s brawny build, avalanche of specs, and the impressive reach of Samsung’s Space Zoom. Unfortunately, at $1,400, it’s also a bit too expensive to love. At that price, the S20 Ultra has to be head and shoulders better than every other phone on the…

Smartphones Sam Rutherford

The Delicious Mutant That Set Off a Seedless Gold Rush

Fenced off and wrapped in mesh, a single orange tree sits at a busy intersection in Riverside, California. In a region famous for its citrus industry, you wouldn’t think much of this tiny grove flanked by strip malls. But if you enter the 7-11 across the street—or any supermarket in the country—and buy yourself a…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Disney+’s Loki Show Could Introduce a Very Interesting Marvel Comic Throwback

Raise a one-fingered salute to a new look at Lorcan Finnegan’s Vivarium. Shawn Levy talks shutting down Stranger Things during the covid-19 pandemic. Plus, a few more very familiar faces return in new Supernatural pictures, and Alex gets downright superheroic in a new look at Supergirl. Spoilers, away! Vivarium Bloody-Disgusting has several new images from…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

How to Stay Fit While Social Distancing

The gyms are closed. The snacks are now always within reach. Venturing outdoors is recommended, so long as you maintain six feet of distance between you and other humans. But if you’ve tried running at a park recently, there are a whole lot of people who clearly have no concept of what six feet looks…

Gadgets Victoria Song

Picard Enters Its Endgame With a Classic Star Trek Moral Argument

No matter how grandiose, science-fictional, or even just flat out bonkers it gets, deep down at its very core, Star Trek has always been a morality play. And so, as Picard sets up the fight to end all fights between its Romulan foes and the android paradise our titular hero has uncovered, it has become…

io9 James Whitbrook

All the Free Streaming Services That Just Might Be What You’re Looking For

Many of us right now are spending more time at home than we normally do, hunkering down as we shelter-in-place or limit the amount of time we traditionally spend outside of our homes. And there’s a good chance we may be turning to our various streaming services to keep ourselves occupied—Nielsen estimates that staying inside…

Gadgets Catie Keck

USDA Fights to Take Away Food Stamps From 700,000 Americans Despite Pandemic

The Trump regime is continuing to argue in federal court that it should be allowed to take away food stamps from roughly 700,000 Americans on April 1, according to a new report from the Associated Press. The news comes as covid-19 has already sickened at least 9,415 Americans and killed 150, with many cities going…

Tech News Matt Novak

Mayor Bill de Blasio: Musk Offered to Make Ventilators, So Let’s See ‘Em

Sick Days: Stories From People Keeping the World Running

Shaun of the Dead Gets a Coronavirus Update Thanks to Simon Pegg and Nick Frost

Trump’s Trade Adviser Pushing ‘Buy American’ Order on Drugs, Medical Supplies During Pandemic

Civil Rights Groups Cancel Twitter’s ‘Birthday,’ Say CEO Is Giving Nazis a ‘Megaphone’

Microsoft Just Made It a Lot Easier to Port Cool PC Games to Xbox [UPDATE]

The EU Wants Netflix to Lower Streaming Video Quality to Prevent the Internet From Breaking [Updated]

Real Number of U.S. Coronavirus Cases Could Be as High as 150,000, New Estimates Suggest

Just Opening a Plastic Bottle Can Send Microplastic Pollution Into the Air

Vampire Bats Will Share Blood With a Friend, but Only After Vigorous Grooming

Jumanji Director Jake Kasdan on How Next Level Continued to Pay Homage to the Original

For the First Time Ever, Toei Is Releasing Subtitled Classic Tokusatsu for Free Online

This U-Shaped Window AC Unit Looks Nifty If You’ve Got Noodle Arms

The Samsung Galaxy S20+ Is the Best Android Has to Offer Right Now

The Delicious Mutant That Set Off a Seedless Gold Rush

Disney+’s Loki Show Could Introduce a Very Interesting Marvel Comic Throwback

How to Stay Fit While Social Distancing

Picard Enters Its Endgame With a Classic Star Trek Moral Argument

All the Free Streaming Services That Just Might Be What You’re Looking For

USDA Fights to Take Away Food Stamps From 700,000 Americans Despite Pandemic

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