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Steam Limits Game Auto-Updates to Manage Peak Demand
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:Steam limits game auto-updates to manage peak demand:
Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Air pollution linked to dementia and cardiovascular disease:
2019 Saw Over 60 Gigawatts of Wind Power Installed
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:2019 saw over 60 gigawatts of wind power installed:
Physicists Develop New Photon Source For Tap-Proof Communication
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Energy-Harvesting Design Aims To Turn Wi-Fi Signals Into Usable Power
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Rheumatic Diseases: The Cost Of Survival During the Little Ice Age
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Microsoft Sees 775% Increase From Microsoft Teams' Users in Italy (Updated)
evilcam writes:Forbes are reporting on a recent Microsoft Blog post, claiming a 775% increase in Cloud Services uptake from regions that are enforcing social distancing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.In addition, there's been a 3x surge in Remote Desktop use and the Number of Teams users has more than doubled to 44 Million since November 2019.How has your use of on-line meetings changed since the pandemic hit?takyon: Apparently Microsoft's Claim of 775 Percent Surge in Cloud Services Wasn't Really Accurate
Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers
DannyB writes:Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers
Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic
martyb writes:Professional Ventilator Design Open Sourced Today By Medtronic
Geopolymer Concrete: Building Moon Bases with Astronaut Urine and Regolith
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Neanderthal Diet Included Seafood
takyon writes:Neanderthals ate sharks and dolphins
2020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup
This story is a merge of 30 story submissions. Given that it was well over 17,000 words of original source material (excluding HTML markup!), a great deal of pruning was performed to get it to a manageable size. I strongly encourage folks to read the linked articles for more information.For latest statistics, and finer granularity, see https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/.As of 20200330_151936 UTC, it reported these world-wide totals:
How WordPress Changed the Internet - 17 Facts about WordPress
canopic jug writes:WordPress, the most common content management system (CMS) on the Web, has about 60% market share. It is even found on nearly a third of all web sites, not just those running a CMS. Given this enormous presence,WordPress has changed the Web quite a bit through its existence. Here are seventeen trivia about WordPress.
Enigmatic Circles Of Mammoth Bones In Eastern Europe Date To Ice Age
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
"Watermarking" to Protect Control Systems from Hackers
fliptop writes:From the IEEE, an algorithm that creates "background noise" during data transmission that alerts officials to hacking:
Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking
Bob Cringely is running a new prediction at https://www.cringely.com/2020/03/25/2020-brings-the-death-of-it/
Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Grsecurity Maker Finally Coughs Up $300k to Foot Bruce Perens' Legal Bill
requerdanos writes:From The Register:
Novel Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) Is Potential Next-Gen Semiconductor
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Junior Scientists at the University of Rostock Invent a Funnel for Light
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
A New Approach to Achieving Stable, High-Repetition-Rate Laser Pulses
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:'A game changer': FDA authorizes Abbott Labs' portable, 5-minute coronavirus test the size of a toaster:
Low Code and No Code: Looming Trend in Mobile App Development [Updated]
[20200330_130145 UTC: It appears the author's native language is not English; any mistakes seen here were in the original.--martyb]fliptop writes:Will Low-Code and No-Code merge into a single market segment for both enterprise-class and user-friendly developers?
More Than 4,000 Android Apps Silently Access Your Installed Software
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable?
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
The Ingenious Way TV Logos Were Made Before Computers
An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.fastcompany.com/90125752/the-ingenious-way-tv-logos-were-made-before-computers
U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei
takyon writes:US poised to restrict TSMC's chip sales to China's Huawei
Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients:
Powerful Ion Engine Will Be Flying On NASA's Dart Mission To Try And Redirect An Asteroid
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Using an App to Track Your Bike Ride Could Result in Your Becoming a Suspect
Rich26189 writes:About a year ago, Zachary McCoy took a bike ride around his neighborhood in Gainesville, Florida. It may have been forgettable to him, but not to history. Because McCoy used an app to track his mileage, the route was forever etched in the Google-verse and attached to his name.On the day of this ill-fated bike ride, McCoy passed a certain neighbor's house three times. While this normally wouldn't raise alarm, the neighbor happened to be the victim of a burglary that day, and had thousands of dollars worth of jewelry stolen. The Gainesville police had zero leads after a four-day investigation, so they went to the county to get a geofence warrant. Thanks to all the location data McCoy had willingly generated, he became the prime suspect.From hackaday:
Internet Archive Suspends E-Book Lending "Waiting Lists" During U.S. National Emergency
takyon writes:Internet Archive offers 1.4 million copyrighted books for free online
HBO’s 'Kill Chain' Documentary Highlights Flaws in US Election Machines
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:HBO's 'Kill Chain' doc highlights the flaws in US election machines:
Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0
martyb writes:Announcing The Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0:
Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Now that everyone's using Zoom, here are some privacy risks you need to watch out for:
Cyber Insurer Chubb Had Data Stolen in Maze Ransomware Attack
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:Cyber insurer Chubb had data stolen in Maze ransomware attack – TechCrunch:
Seven Stages of Open Software
DannyB writes:Seven Stages of Open Software
Plasma Bigscreen is a New Smart TV Experience Powered by Raspberry Pi 4 and KDE
DannyB writes:Plasma Bigscreen Is A New Smart TV Experience Powered By Raspberry Pi 4 And KDE
NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions
DannyB writes:SpaceX has won a big NASA contract to fly cargo to the Moon
A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
SpaceX Encounters Problem Just Before Crew Dragon Parachute Test
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:SpaceX encounters problem just before Crew Dragon parachute test:
Two Perspectives On James Clerk Maxwell And His Equations
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
School Quits Video Calls After Naked Man ‘Guessed’ the Meeting Link
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AndyTheAbsurd:School quits video calls after naked man 'guessed' the meeting link – TechCrunch:
Amazon Says It Unintentionally Hid Some Competitors’ Faster Delivery Options
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:Amazon says it unintentionally hid some competitors' faster delivery options:
Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe
martyb writes:How stable is deep ocean circulation in warmer climate? Altered circulation might have cooled northern areas of North America and Europe
Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret About Uranus
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm
martyb writes:Microsoft staff giggle beneath the weight of a 52,000-person Reply-All email storm:
10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
DannyB writes:10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages:
Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed
martyb writes:Coronavirus: Six heartening stories you may have missed:
Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats)
martyb writes:Foods you can freeze besides meat and produce:
Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know
[Ed. note: This is the 40,000th story submission to SoylentNews.org (Thanks everyone!) --martyb]DannyB writes:Microsoft Defender for Linux is coming. This is what you need to know:
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