Apple details its plan to safely reopen retail stores
Apple’s head of retail Deidre O’Brien has posted a letter on the company’s website detailing how it plans to safely restart operations at its retail stores.
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Day: May 17, 2020
Supercomputers across Europe have fallen to cryptomining hacks
Supercomputers across Europe have fallen to cryptomining hacks
If this is a concerted attack, the motivations aren’t completely clear. This could be a pure cash grab that relies on the power of supercomputers to mine digital currency more effectively than regular PCs.
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Immersive Violence
Immersive Violence
According to the World Health Organization, almost one-third of women in the world have been victims of intimate or domestic partner violence.
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Flat Earthers Are Flat Wrong
Flat Earthers Are Flat Wrong
On February 22 “Mad” Mike Hughes died when his self-built steam rocket crashed shortly after takeoff. Hughes was a famous flat-earther, one of a growing group who do not accept that Earth is an oblate spheroid (which it is).
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The Monster That Expands Our Mathematical Imaginations
The Monster That Expands Our Mathematical Imaginations
On a recent episode of our podcast My Favorite Theorem, my cohost Kevin Knudson and I had the opportunity to talk with Ben Orlin, a math educator and author of the popular blog Math With Bad Drawings as well as two books, Math With Bad Drawings and Change Is the Only Constant.
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Panasonic resumes work at Tesla’s Nevada Gigafactory, but not in New York
Panasonic resumes work at Tesla’s Nevada Gigafactory, but not in New York
Panasonic has resumed its work making battery cells at Tesla’s Gigafactory outside Reno, Nevada, the company tells The Verge. But Panasonic will not return to work at Tesla’s Buffalo, New York solar panel factory this weekend as planned.
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Panasonic resumes work at Tesla’s Nevada Gigafactory, but not in New York
Panasonic resumes work at Tesla’s Nevada Gigafactory, but not in New York
Panasonic has resumed its work making battery cells at Tesla’s Gigafactory outside Reno, Nevada, the company tells The Verge. But Panasonic will not return to work at Tesla’s Buffalo, New York solar panel factory this weekend as planned.
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Google unifies all of its messaging and communication apps into a single team
Google unifies all of its messaging and communication apps into a single team
In October of last year, Google hired Javier Soltero to be the VP and GM of G Suite, its set of office apps and — importantly for today’s news — Google Meet and Google Chat. Now, the company is putting him in charge of yet another set of products: Messages, Duo, and the phone app on Android.
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