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ABC News Reporter Caught With His Pants Down During TV Segment From Home

ABC News reporter Will Reeve gave a report on the future of pharmacies from his home on Tuesday morning, as so many TV journalists are being forced to do during the coronavirus pandemic. And Reeve was truly living the dream, based on photos that are now going viral on Twitter. While some reporters joke that…

Tech News Matt Novak

16 Tools to Block Out Online Distractions When Working From Home

Working from home has its advantages, but one of the problems is the increased number of distractions—not only is it more likely that your brain will wander on to something else (Netflix, the leak in the shower, whatever your kids are doing), it’s less likely that there’s an authority figure watching over you (unless your…

Gadgets David Nield

Journalist Allegedly Spied on Zoom Meetings of Rivals in Hilariously Dumb Ways

Financial Times reporter Mark Di Stefano allegedly spied on Zoom meetings at rival newspapers the Independent and the Evening Standard to get scoops on staff cuts and furloughs due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report from the UK’s Independent. And he did a comically bad job of covering his tracks. Di Stefano reportedly…

Tech News Matt Novak

DJI Claims the Mavic Air 2 Is Its Smartest Drone Yet, But It’s Definitely Not Its Lightest

Two years after the Mavic Air wowed us with a drone so small it could be shoved in a (very large) pocket DJI is back with the Mavic Air 2, and this time the size is similar, the weight is heavier, but the drone sounds a whole lot smarter. While retaining a similar folding design…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

Diamond and Silk Axed From Fox News’ Streaming Service for Asinine Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories

Fox News has cut ties with pro-Donald Trump media personalities Diamond & Silk—who have repeatedly appeared with the president at rallies and White House—after they pushed headache-inducing conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic, the Daily Beast reported on Monday. Diamond and Silk, whose real names are Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, have become well-known in…

Tech News Tom McKay

Corporations Are Hoping Computer Vision Cams Will Limit Their Coronavirus Liability

Aside from figuring out when to end their shutdowns as quickly as possible, one of the main concerns on the minds of large and small businesses is how they can avoid litigation once they do reopen. And it turns out that these business’s mission to avoid getting the pants sued off of them might inadvertently…

Privacy & Security Shoshana Wodinsky

Pass the Time and Soothe Your Mind With Google’s Legacy Doodle Games

Many of us are spending considerably more time at home than we were just a few months ago, and that means looking for ways to pass the endless time we suddenly all have on our hands. If you’ve got a soft spot for puzzles and low-level gaming, Google’s coming through with a handful of legacy…

Tech News Catie Keck

Verizon Will Give You a Bit More Time to Come Up With the Cash

Verizon won’t make you pay late fees—or cut off yourself altogether—if you can’t pay due to coronavirus-induced financial hardship. The carrier announced today that it will extend its new non-payment and late fee policy through the end of June for individuals and small businesses. The main caveat is that customers will need to let Verizon know…

Tech News Joanna Nelius

Organize Your Cords, You Godless Monsters

Few things make the eyes bleed more than a messy nest of errant cords. They just sit there, a trap for pet hair and dust bunnies, an ugly eyesore in the middle of your room just begging to be tripped over. You’d assume a blog full of tech nerds would be in agreement that messy…

Tech News Victoria Song

New Zealand Says It Has Successfully Managed to Stop Covid-19 Community Spread

Several weeks after New Zealand instituted a strict covid-19 lockdown, the country’s prime minister says that its measures helped curb untraceable community spread but stressed that the country must continue adhering to a new standard of social distancing in order to keep the disease contained. “There is no widespread, undetected community transmission in New Zealand,”…

Tech News Catie Keck

In a Flood of New Demand, Shipt Is Letting Gig Workers Drown

The coronavirus pandemic has put many low-wage workers at increased risk, gig workers especially. For Shipt customers, it no doubt came as a relief that the Target-owned platform had “secured protective equipment for all Shipt Shoppers” and was “showing [its] appreciation with increased pay (30% on average),” according to an email signed by the service’s…

Tech News Avery Ellis

CVS and UPS Now Delivering Prescription Drugs Via Drone in Florida

Something as simple as going to the grocery store or picking up prescription medication has become a more serious activity for persons who are at a higher risk of contracting covid-19. But grocery deliveries and special shopping hours are sometimes easier to come by than getting prescriptions delivered to your front door or your mailbox.…

Tech News Joanna Nelius

When Your Freedom Depends on an App

On the day Layla got out of prison and back to her home in Georgia, she was told she would need to purchase a smartphone—not an insignificant task for someone who’d just completed a sentence, but Layla was lucky to have a friend who could buy one for her. She says she was at home…

Tech News Dhruv Mehrotra & Molly Osberg

The Official White House Flickr Page Is Like a Trump Presidency From an Alternate Universe

The official White House Flickr page publishes new photos of President Donald Trump and his devious band of halfwits almost every day. And if you scroll through the photos, all taken by the official White House photographer, it starts to feel like an alternate universe. Why? When you strip away the context of what’s being…

Tech News Matt Novak

You’ll Likely Have to Wait a Month Longer for the iPhone 12

Surprising no one, it looks like Apple is delaying production on its flagship iPhones for 2020 due to weaker demand and supply chain disruptions stemming from the global pandemic, according to a Wall Street Journal exclusive. Analysts and Apple prognosticators have been speculating on some kind of delayfor a while now, the Wall Street Journal…

Tech News Victoria Song

How to Make the Most of an Ultrawide Monitor

We’ve long been champions of the dual-monitor setup—it’s one of those upgrades that you don’t really appreciate enough until you actually invest in it—but expanding to an even larger ultrawide monitor can be way more beneficial. Here’s why they can work so well and how to get the most out of one. If you’ve not…

Gadgets David Nield

Why Do We Use Dark Humor to Deal With Terrifying Situations?

Life’s hard for the humorless—loved ones die, hurricanes and infections ravage the planet, and all they can do is sit around and grieve about it. Some of us, meanwhile, watching our houses burn down and our spouses succumb to hazily-understood pancreatic ailments, can at least leaven the pain with a well-timed joke. As distraction, coping…

Tech News Daniel Kolitz

French Court Halts Amazon’s Delivery of Non-Essential Products During Pandemic to Protect Workers

A French court has ruled that Amazon will only be allowed to deliver health items, food, pet food and electronics in France in order to protect the safety of its workers during the coronavirus pandemic. The company will be banned from delivering nonessential products for the time being. The ruling was issued by the Versailles…

Commerce Jody Serrano

Coursera Makes Online Catalog Free for Unemployed Workers

On Friday the online education company Coursera announced it’s pulling down the paywall on its 3,800-course catalog for workers who now find themselves unemployed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Federal, state, and local government agencies that serve the unemployed can apply here to provide free access to Coursera’s courses—an offer that typically costs…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Report: Over 100 Militant Groups Have Been Promoting Second Civil War on Facebook [Updated]

God help us if Mark Zuckerberg’s next congressional hearing is on the subject of the Bloody Insurrection of 2020. As HuffPost first reported, a scourge of far-right extremist accounts on Facebook appear to be gearing up for a meme-inspired civil war amid the covid-19 outbreak. The Tech Transparency Project (TTP), a research group focused on…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

ABC News Reporter Caught With His Pants Down During TV Segment From Home

16 Tools to Block Out Online Distractions When Working From Home

Journalist Allegedly Spied on Zoom Meetings of Rivals in Hilariously Dumb Ways

DJI Claims the Mavic Air 2 Is Its Smartest Drone Yet, But It’s Definitely Not Its Lightest

Diamond and Silk Axed From Fox News’ Streaming Service for Asinine Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories

Corporations Are Hoping Computer Vision Cams Will Limit Their Coronavirus Liability

Pass the Time and Soothe Your Mind With Google’s Legacy Doodle Games

Verizon Will Give You a Bit More Time to Come Up With the Cash

Organize Your Cords, You Godless Monsters

New Zealand Says It Has Successfully Managed to Stop Covid-19 Community Spread

In a Flood of New Demand, Shipt Is Letting Gig Workers Drown

CVS and UPS Now Delivering Prescription Drugs Via Drone in Florida

When Your Freedom Depends on an App

The Official White House Flickr Page Is Like a Trump Presidency From an Alternate Universe

You’ll Likely Have to Wait a Month Longer for the iPhone 12

How to Make the Most of an Ultrawide Monitor

Why Do We Use Dark Humor to Deal With Terrifying Situations?

French Court Halts Amazon’s Delivery of Non-Essential Products During Pandemic to Protect Workers

Coursera Makes Online Catalog Free for Unemployed Workers

Report: Over 100 Militant Groups Have Been Promoting Second Civil War on Facebook [Updated]

Should We Be Hyped—or Freaked Out—About Nuclear Microreactors?

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Epstein Victims Sue Google, Claim AI Mode Exposed Personal Information

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The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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