Month: May 2020

Amazon customers in nearly a dozen more U.S. states are now able to use their SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits to purchase groceries online, the retailer announced on Thursday. The news represents a significant expansion of a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) pilot program introduced in 2019 that aimed to open up online grocery shopping to those on public … Continue reading Amazon expands use of SNAP benefits for online grocery to 11 more states Continue Reading →

Yamaha’s app is, effectively, a soundboard with very large remote speakers. This week, Yamaha announced a plan to put fans back in the stadiums for major sporting events this summer—virtually, at least. The company’s new smartphone application, Remote Cheerer, is designed to allow sports fans to cheer from home in a way their teams can hear in … Continue reading Yamaha’s “Remote Cheerer” brings fan applause back to empty stadiums Continue Reading →

Preventing misinformation is good, apparently, unless it makes the president mad. Almost exactly two weeks ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was touting the success his platform has had with fact-checking and false-content warnings on posts. This week, however, Zuckerberg told Fox News that, really, he doesn’t think Facebook should be in the fact-checking business at … Continue reading Zuckerberg dismisses fact-checking after bragging about fact-checking Continue Reading →

Exposure notification and contact tracing are two related but distinct measures many public health authorities are either considering or already implementing. Contact tracing is a practice almost as old as epidemiology itself, but today’s technology means the way that we go about tracking the spread of a contagious illness within and between communities is changing very … Continue reading Join us June 3 for a contact-tracing and exposure-notification app development and deployment forum Continue Reading →

The System Shock remake is still on Fortunately for diehard System Shock fans, the tides have seemingly turned as Nightdive recently published a new demo for the remaster. The alpha demo reportedly remains “true to the classic experience, keeping all the things you loved while giving today’s gamers the modern look and feel expected from a … Continue reading Nightdive Studios drops new System Shock remake demo Continue Reading →

Sandworm group uses emails to send root commands to buggy Exim servers. A Russian hacking group tied to power-grid attacks in Ukraine, the world’s most destructive data wiper worm, and other nefarious Kremlin operations is exploiting a vulnerability that allows it to take control of computers operated by the US government and its partners. In … Continue reading Russian hackers are exploiting bug that gives control of US servers Continue Reading →

But NOAA is fiercely opposed to the controversial salvage mission. When RMS Titanic struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912, crew members sent out numerous distress signals to any other ships in the vicinity using what was then a relatively new technology: a Marconi wireless telegraph system. More than 1,500 passengers and crew perished when the ship sank a few … Continue reading US court grants permission to recover Marconi telegraph from Titanic wreckage Continue Reading →

Get Valve Index-like features for $600 The virtual reality market is finally starting to become exciting again, thanks to system sellers like Half-Life: Alyx and the much wider range of headsets available on the market today. Whether you only have a few hundred dollars to spend, or nearly $1,000 burning a hole in your pocket (and … Continue reading HP collaborates with Valve and Microsoft on ‘breakthrough’ Reverb G2 VR headset Continue Reading →