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Tesla’s furlough calls begin with delivery and sales taking a hit 3 days ago – Tesla started Friday to furlough its sales and delivery workforce — with the least experienced employees bearing the brunt of the action — days after a companywide email announced salary cuts and reductions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Several employees, who work in sales and delivery and spoke ...
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San Jose will build ‘up to 500’ tiny homes for coronavirus-affected homeless residents 4 days ago – San Jose plans to build up to 500 tiny homes to house its coronavirus-stricken homeless population. According to The Mercury News, San Jose, nestled in the heart of the Silicon Valley, should have many of these units ready within a few weeks. The move should ease the strain of a city that’s curre...
I won’t buy Sony’s A7R IV (even though it made me a better photographer) 4 days ago – When I was doing research for my very first camera, the Fujifilm X100F, I didn’t know much about the differences between crop (also known as APS-C) and full-frame cameras. I mean, I got the gist of it — but only hypothetically. You’ve probably heard of the upsides of full-frame sensors already: C...
Amazon warehouse worker tests positive for coronavirus day after Bezos visit 4 days ago – Amazon is building in-house testing labs for the coronavirus (COVID-19) to track the disease as it spreads through the e-commerce giant’s warehouses. The Seattle-based company said Thursday it had already begun “assembling the equipment” required to build its first lab. Amazon plans to start test...
The best way to manage your inbox is to send fewer emails 4 days ago – Is your email inbox taking over your work-life? Are you unable to get any “real” work done because you’re too busy responding to emails? Do you feel stressed, distracted, and overwhelmed when you see new emails pop up in your email inbox? You’re not alone. The average office-dwelling professional...
Facebook just introduced a ‘Quiet Mode’ to help you stop using Facebook 3 days ago – ‘Digital wellbeing,’ the movement to limit our times on devices so we can focus on other things, has been one of the biggest tech buzzwords in the past year or two. The concept has permeated so far that now even Facebook is trying to get you to stop using Facebook. The company recently announced ...
Apple and Google team up to build a coronavirus tracking system 3 days ago – Apple and Google today announced they were partnering up on a contact tracing system that works on both iOS and Android that alerts people when they’ve had contact with someone who’s contracted coronavirus. This collaboration between the two big smartphone companies would help health officials ef...
Many of India’s IT employees are still working from offices amid coronavirus to keep the world turning a day ago – Last month, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared a 21-day lockdown to help quell the spread of coronavirus, critical IT services backing important operations such as banking and security were exempt from it — which is resulting in roughly a third of India’s four million techies still ...
Why you need to stop thinking of willpower as a ‘limited resource’ a day ago – You come home after a long day of work and you immediately curl yourself up on the couch and binge the latest Netflix craze for hours, while you scroll and scroll through your social media feeds and snack on potato chips even though you’re “on a diet.” You look around and see that the garbage nee...
Scientists find 78% of people don’t show symptoms of coronavirus — here’s what that could mean 13 hours ago – The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, with 1.4 million cases and almost 75,000 deaths reported worldwide as of April 7. To slow down the spread and reduce mortality, governments across the world have put in place social distancing measures. When such measures are lifted, the “flattened epide...
Scientists don’t know if viral load is linked to severity of coronavirus symptoms 16 hours ago – Healthcare workers are likely to be in contact with many COVID-19 patients every day. Being in contact with more people with the disease means that, in theory, they will be exposed to higher doses of the coronavirus over time. Does that mean they are at greater risk of contracting the disease, as...
Tesla’s furlough calls begin with delivery and sales taking a hit 3 days ago – Tesla started Friday to furlough its sales and delivery workforce — with the least experienced employees bearing the brunt of the action — days after a companywide email announced salary cuts and reductions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Several employees, who work in sales and delivery and spoke ...
3D-printed ‘bionic corals’ mimic a reef’s powers of photosynthesis 3 days ago – The mass die-off of coral reefs is a catastrophe of global proportions, but the sheer scale of their success as organisms has lessons for science. Case in point: these 3D-printed "bionic corals."
Virgin’s VOX Space snags $35 million Space Force launch contract and prepares for final test flights 3 days ago – VOX Space, the Virgin space subsidiary dedicated to government launches, has scored a valuable new contract with the U.S. Space Force and is about to move from testing to full operations, the company announced today. The Space Force contract is for three launches and is valued at $35 million. The...
Google unveils Maps, Search and YouTube features in India to help people combat coronavirus 18 hours ago – Google has launched a website dedicated to coronavirus updates in India and tweaked its search engine and YouTube to prominently display authoritative information and locally relevant details about the pandemic from the nation’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the company said on Monday. A...
FDA clears N95 decontamination process that could clean up to 4 million masks per day 18 hours ago – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has provided an emergency use authorization (EUA) for a decontamination process provided by company Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP) that could see as many as 4 million N95 respirators per day sterilized for re-use. That’s a significant potential d...
Former Uber exec raises $31M for his Jakarta-based logistics startup Kargo, announces relief fund to battle coronavirus 20 hours ago – Kargo, a Jakarta-based logistics startup co-founded by veteran Uber Asia executive Tiger Fang, has raised $31 million to scale its business and help firms in the Southeast Asian nation fight the coronavirus. Silicon Valley-based Tenaya Capital, Sequoia India, Mirae Asset Management and Intudo Ven...
Recap: Roblox, SuperAwesome and Fingerprint execs discuss kids’ media 15 hours ago – Consumption of all types of kids-focused digital media has soared with a large portion of the world’s children home from school right now. At all times of day, children are playing games, watching shows and using edtech tools — often in a social context with friends online. This only accelerates ...
Intuitive Machines picks a launch date and landing site for 2021 Moon cargo delivery mission 15 hours ago – The first private company scheduled to make a delivery of scientific cargo on behalf of NASA has specified a landing site and a target date for its mission. Intuitive Machines will seek to land its Nova-C lunar lander at a site called the Vallis Schröteri, which is the largest valley found on the...
Virgin Orbit completes key final test prior to first orbital demo launch 15 hours ago – Virgin Orbit is closer than ever to its goal of launching orbital satellites from a platform carried aboard a modified 747 aircraft. The company flew a successful cryogenic captive carry test of its LauncherOne rocket, carried by the Cosmic Girl carrier aircraft. This test marks the first time th...
Price Technologies adds product availability feature for items experiencing COVID-19 shortages 11 hours ago – Price Technologies, the operator of the comparison shopping website Price.com and its related browser extension, is adding a feature to show product availability for a few essential items that have had supply issues caused by the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. Products like aspirin, acetaminophen,...
Frank raises $5M more in its quest to get students max financial aid 11 hours ago – Frank, a New York-based student-facing startup, has raised $5 million in what the company described as an “interim strategic round” that Chegg, a public edtech company, took part in. According to Frank founder and CEO Charlie Javice, previous investors Aleph and Marc Rowan took part in the round ...
Frank raises $5M more in its quest to get students max financial aid 11 hours ago – Frank, a New York-based student-facing startup, has raised $5 million in what the company described as an “interim strategic round” that Chegg, a public edtech company, took part in. According to Frank founder and CEO Charlie Javice, previous investors Aleph and Marc Rowan took part in the round ...
Driverless vehicles in the age of the novel coronavirus 11 hours ago – The COVID-19 pandemic has led to different outcomes for different businesses. While some have stood to benefit (think Zoom, Facebook and bidet startup Tushy), others have been hit hard and laid off employees in order to survive. But there are some that fall somewhere in the middle. Autonomous dri...
India’s lockdown is making life hard for its most popular apps 2 hours ago – The coronavirus pandemic, which has forced billions of people to stay home, has led to a surge in new downloads of several consumer and enterprise focused apps in the west. But in India, the biggest open market globally, things have taken a slightly different turn. Daily downloads for several pop...
One month after White House pledges, access to testing and equipment still lags 5 hours ago – One month after President Trump declared a national emergency and announced commitments from some of the nation’s largest companies to help expand testing capabilities in the U.S., most regions still lack access to the necessary tests and equipment they require. When the president stepped to the ...
Layoffs are disproportionately impacting startup satellite offices 7 hours ago – Layoffs have struck the startup world swiftly, hurting hospitality and travel startups, as well as recruitment and scooter companies. New data shows that some of those layoffs, brought on by COVID-19, might be disproportionately impacting satellite campuses. By nature, satellite offices are secon...
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Disney is remaking its classic 1973 Robin Hood film as a CGI Disney Plus exclusive 3 days ago – Following The Lion King, Mulan, and Aladdin, to name a few, Disney’s 1973 classic animated film Robin Hood is the latest movie to get a live-action remake. This one, however, is going straight to Disney Plus. Much like The Lion King, the new version of Robin Hood will “feature the characters as ...
Best Buy’s one-day sale knocks as much as $1,500 off the 15-inch MacBook Pro 2 days ago – Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Best Buy is hosting a one-day sale on tech, including big discounts on a few different models of the 15-inch Apple MacBook Pro, which Apple no longer sells. Just to make sure it gets mentioned right up front, this model doesn’t have the improved keyboard found...
3 days ago – Around here we say that The Interface comes out Monday through Thursday, and on particularly newsy Fridays. Well, today was a particularly newsy Friday. Here’s your emergency newsletter ... On Thursday evening I wrote about some of the limitations in using the Bluetooth chip in your smartphone to...
Amazon puts new Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods delivery customers on waitlist amid surging demand 16 hours ago – Photo by Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images New customers signing up for Amazon Fresh or Whole Foods Market home delivery will now need to make it through a waitlist before they can order groceries. Amazon announced the new procedure yesterday, adding that the company is “increasing capaci...
16 hours ago – Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon is launching a new tool to help customers troubleshoot issues remotely, the company announced on Monday. The tool should allow Verizon to support customers without requiring a field technician to step inside their home. Verizon told The Verge it ...
Instagram redesigns IGTV with creators as the focus 13 hours ago – Instagram Instagram is updating its IGTV app today, likely in the hopes of getting more people to use the service and promote creators making longform videos. The company tells The Verge today that it’s completely redesigned the homepage to feature a creator up top, tailored to each user based...
13 hours ago – Image: ESRB The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), which is the organization that rates the content of video games, announced a new label today to indicate that a game will offer in-game purchases of loot boxes or similar types of items that provide a player with randomized rewards. “...
Android phones will get the COVID-19 tracking updates via Google Play 6 hours ago – Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has confirmed that it will use the Google Play Services infrastructure to update Android phones with the upcoming COVID-19 contact tracing system it is building in collaboration with Apple. It should ensure that more Android phones will actually g...