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Amazon’s Fire HD 8 tablet is back down to its lowest price ever today
Dealmaster also has offers on Doom Eternal, Nvidia and Roku streamers, and more.
Going for speed: The load-busting, lag-limiting tech of the Xbox Series X
Prettier graphics are nice, but we're most excited about opening gaming's bottlenecks.
Uber is shutting down Uber pool to “flatten the curve” of the coronavirus
Shutdown starts in US and Canada, other markets on a case-by-case basis.
NASA spent a decade and nearly $1 billion for a single launch tower
"NASA exacerbated these issues by accepting unproven and untested designs."
Firm wielding Theranos patents asks judge to block coronavirus test [Updated]
Legal expert calls it "the most tone-deaf IP suit in history."
Doom Eternal is a masterful twitch shooter symphony with one sour note
Almost uniformly excellent, fast-paced action is hampered by one pace-breaking flaw.
Plot Against America: HBO’s alternate-history series is too stuck on the present
Philip Roth's novel, interpreted by ex-The Wire writers, got our hopes up. Alas.
AMD’s 7nm Ryzen 4000 laptop processors are finally here
Ryzen 4000 brings the Zen 2 architecture to mobile form factors.
As US fumbles COVID-19 testing, WHO warns social distancing is not enough
The US is still struggling to ramp up testing as disease continues to spread.
Tesla surprises everyone by delivering the Model Y ahead of schedule
Model Y is built on the Model 3 platform, saving time and development costs.
The Internet is drowning in COVID-19-related malware and phishing scams
Emails and websites promise info about the pandemic. In reality, they're shams.
US starts safety testing of coronavirus vaccine
The vaccine relies on a novel technology that hasn't been used at scale yet.
Xbox Series X eschews storage standards for proprietary expansion “card”
USB hard drives can still be used for backup storage, though.
F1 drivers and other pros switch to esports in the age of the coronavirus
Stars of F1, NASCAR, and IndyCar went digital on Sunday in three esports events.
Trump reportedly offered $1B to poach coronavirus vax for US use only
A vaccine made in Germany would be "for the whole world," health minister said.
French antitrust watchdog hits Apple with its biggest fine ever: $1.2 billion
Two wholesalers that worked with Apple were also fined. Apple plans to appeal.
Verily’s COVID-19 screening site goes live, is already over capacity
There's an extremely simple three-question survey and only two testing sites.
The virus has gone global—so what happens to the launch industry?
"At this time, we do not expect an impact to the launch of AEHF-6."
Why is Meetup helping people organize meetings during a pandemic?
Meetup could help save lives by suspending in-person meetings.
Microsoft Teams went down for two hours as Europe logged in
MS Teams seems unprepared for the unprecedented high number of remote workers.
Amid pandemic, T-Mobile gets emergency access to Dish’s 600MHz spectrum
FCC grants 60-day access to 600MHz spectrum controlled by Dish and Comcast.
How do we stop people from blinding other drivers with aftermarket LEDs?
Good headlights make you safer, but bad ones actively hurt other road users.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons review: A quarantined life has never been cuter
Nintendo's answer to unfamiliar times is a very familiar, and very dense, sim game.
Stuck at home? Binge on some “War Stories” gaming videos!
Beat those lockdown blues with some fascinating tales of game-design challenges.
The Powerbeats are the latest workout-friendly headphones from Beats (and Apple)
New exercise buds arrive on March 18 after extensive leaks.
What a WoW virtual outbreak taught us about how humans behave in epidemics
Revisiting a seminal 2007 paper modeling WoW's Corrupted Blood incident.
Westworld S3, episode 1: O brave new world, that has such hosts in it
Spoilers: A look at what we learned in the season premiere, and what might be yet to come.
Google and Verily clarify their roles in the US coronavirus response [UPDATED 3/15]
The portal, developed by a different Alphabet company, is not ready for national use.
Suddenly working at home? We’ve done it for 22 years—and have advice
Your productivity, your health, and your sanity: We have your home office covered.
How alternative Egyptology and scientific archaeology were born on the Giza Plateau
The analog world still has plenty of wonders in this excerpt from The Analog Antiquarian.
High-stakes security setups are making remote work impossible
Some staffers at power grids, intelligence agencies, and more can't work from home
What Monty Python’s Ministry of Silly Walks can teach us about peer review
Reducing the time it takes for peer review by 80 percent wouldn't affect funding levels.
Sea turtles think plastic smells like food
New explanation for why sea predators are eating so much plastic
Review: The Hunt is every bit as bad and offensive as we suspected
But at least it's an equal-opportunity offender. And Betty Gilpin is terrific.
Could we have already imaged a ringed exoplanet?
"Super puff" planets are either extremely low density, or just block a lot of light.
Comcast and T-Mobile upgrade everyone to unlimited data for next 60 days
Comcast also opens Wi-Fi hotspots to all and T-Mobile boosts mobile-hotspot data.
Red Magic 5G gaming smartphone has 144hz display, internal cooling fan
Plus it comes in some ridiculous color combinations.
Bill Gates steps down from Microsoft board
Microsoft co-founder exits the board 45 years after starting the company.
Chelsea Manning is out of jail after almost a year
Manning sought to challenge the legitimacy of the grand jury process.
COVID-19 is a national emergency, Trump declares
The declaration frees up $50 billion in response funding.
Italian cave makes sense of the change in Earth’s ice age rhythm
About a million years ago, ice ages got much longer—what changed?
Scientists draw inspiration from shark skin for novel new smart material
“Acoustic metamaterials” can mimic key components of a sound “computer.”
After deregulatory blitz, FCC scrambles to prevent ISP abuse during pandemic
ISPs agree to waive late fees and service disconnections, but data caps remain.
Ice Lake GPU underperforming? Put it in powersave mode. Wait, what?
Linux users discovered Ice Lake laptops were actually faster in powersave mode.
Why are U-2 jet pilots wearing Garmin satellite navigation smartwatches?
They're useful flight- and pilot-monitoring tools, says the Air Force.
Apple’s WWDC is happening this year after all—but it has a new format
The company still plans to announce its slate of new features for iOS and macOS.
Pentagon to “reconsider” parts of controversial $10 billion JEDI contract
Amazon says it lost deal because Trump hates Bezos; DoD will now review.
Niantic updates Pokémon Go in effort to limit coronavirus spread
Cheap incense, quick-hatching eggs, and more updates encourage less real-world wandering.
OLED-power link jumps from useless 50Mb/s to useful 1Gb/s
Tuning tiny OLEDs' fabrication results in faster switching times.
Singapore was ready for COVID-19—other countries, take note
Singapore built a robust system for tracking and containing epidemics after SARS and H1N1.
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