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upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Court rules grocery store's inaccessible website isn't an ADA violation:

Freeman writes:Microsoft acquires Nuance—makers of Dragon speech rec—for $16 billion:

canopic jug writes:Developer Tim Bray, of XML fame, has written an ode to The Sacred "Back" Button.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Chinese government fines Alibaba $3.7 billion for anti-competitive behaviour - ABC News:

takyon writes:Google starts rolling out "Heads Up" in Digital Wellbeing to stop distracted walking

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Critical Zoom Vulnerability Triggers Remote Code Execution Without User Input:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Amazon's Twitch will punish users for certain harmful offline behavior like engaging in deadly violence:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Here's Why Our Brains Solve Problems by Adding Things, Not Removing:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:US colleges will require students to be vaccinated, despite state policies:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Why are CEOs of U.S. firms paid 320 times as much as their workers?:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Could Mario Kart Teach Us How to Reduce World Poverty and Improve Sustainability?:

Anti-aristarchus writes:Live Science has an article on large balls of mucus, a subject of much interest to Soylentils:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Vostok 1: 60th anniversary of historic first human spaceflight:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Straight from NASA we have word of a delay in the first flight of Ingenuity on Mars.Mars Helicopter Flight Delayed To No Earlier Than April 14 - Nasa Mars:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:Natural brilliant blue food coloring wrung out of red cabbage:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:SpaceX COO says Starlink is just five launches away from "full global connectivity":

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Watch a monkey equipped with Elon Musk’s Neuralink device play Pong with its brain – TechCrunch:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:34% of WFH (work from home) workers say they'd rather quit than return to full-time office work:

DannyB writes:Fun While It Lasted, Falcon 9 Telemetry Now Encrypted

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/windows-and-linux-devices-are-under-attack-by-a-new-cryptomining-worm/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/the-amazon-union-drive-in-alabama-appears-headed-for-defeat/

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Japanese doctors perform world's first living donor lung transplant to a Covid-19 patient:

Rice, Intel Optimize AI Training for Commodity Hardwarehendrikboom writes:Researchers claim they can get do deep learning faster and cheaper on a commodity CPU than with a GPU.The press release actually contains links to the original papers!

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Water being pumped into Tampa Bay could cause a massive algae bloom:

Eratosthenes writes:Testing Our Fundamental Understanding of the Universe: Muon G-2 Experiment Hints at Mysterious New Physics :

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Fnord666:Google Now Supports Rust For Android Os Development - 9To5Google:

takyon writes:Apple to Pay $3.4 Million USD to Settle Planned Obsolescence Lawsuit

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Decentralized DNS Project Handshake Patches Inflation Bug - CoinDesk:

An Anonymous Coward writes:AMD Zen 3 CPUs vulnerable to Spectre-like attacks via PSF feature

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:US and Canada gear up for another Asian 'murder hornet' season:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:SpaceX landed a rocket on a boat five years ago:

MrPlow writes in with a submission, via IRC, for TheMightyBuzzardMore than half of people with strong Covid infection are asymptomatic, new figures show:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Blood Test Developed to Detect Depression and Bipolar Disorder:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Fnord666:IBM creates a COBOL compiler – for Linux on x86:

Anti-aristarchus writes:NASA reports, via NASA, that OSIRIS-REx is leaving Bennu.

MostCynical writes:Study shows a third of COVID survivors suffer neurological or mental disorders:

Anti-aristarchus writes:Source: Dark Energy Survey physicists open new window into dark energy:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:Eye tracking can reveal an unbelievable amount of information about you:

NPC-131072 writes:Cosmic rays causing 30,000 network malfunctions in Japan each year:

NPC-131072 writes:Ars Technica

takyon writes:SpaceX does not plan to add 'tiered pricing' for Starlink satellite internet service, president says

Fnord666 writes:Cruise industry salty over CDC plan to keep travelers safe from COVID at sea:

takyon writes:Pandemic to cost NASA up to $3 billion

takyon writes:Google Posts Initial Code For Lyra Speech Codec

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Colorado Denied Its Citizens the Right-to-Repair After Riveting Testimony:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Android sends 20x more data to Google than iOS sends to Apple, study says:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Most loved programming language Rust sparks privacy concerns

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/04/uk-report-recommends-regulating-all-loot-boxes-as-gambling/

takyon writes:Dragon Resilience performs port relocation to clear way for future vehicles

mrpg writes:LG TO CLOSE MOBILE PHONE BUSINESS WORLDWIDE: