Helena Price Hambrecht and Woody Hambrecht always had plans for Haus, their direct-to-consumer low-alcoholic drink, to land white-label partnerships with local restaurants. But when coronavirus spread across the country and hurt thousands of local restaurants…
Welcome to a look back at the past week in security and what it means for you. Each week we’ll look at the big news of the week and why it matters. What will the world look like after the coronavirus pandemic subsides? Some of us are now in our fifth week o…
The last community of Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan is seeking asylum in the U.S. after suffering an attack by Islamic State extremists, posing a test of the Trump administration’s pledge to protect and support religious minorities world-wide. The Islamic State attack targeting a Sikh temple in Kabul last month killed 25 people, while dozens…
Americans shell out nearly $20 a month in pay-TV fees to watch sports programming, but the main attractions—live events—are all canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. So can you get a refund? In short, no. Pay-TV providers say they are still paying to carry sports channels in their packages despite the lack of live games,…
Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have teamed up to launch their first product together since leaving the Facebook mothership. Rt.live is an up-to-date tracker of how fast COVID-19 is spreading in each state. “Rt” measures the average number …
Cognizant, one of the largest tech and consulting companies in the Fortune 500, has confirmed it was hit by a ransomware attack. Details remain slim besides a brief statement on its site, confirming the incident. “Cognizant can confirm that a security incid…
An Orthodox priest blesses traditional Easter cakes and painted eggs in preparation for Easter, outside a church in Minsk, Belarus on Saturday. Sergei Grits/AP hide caption toggle caption Sergei Grits/AP An Orthodox priest blesses traditional Easter cakes and painted eggs in preparation for Easter, outside a church in Minsk, Belarus on Saturday. Sergei Grits/AP Updated…
Kelly Tyko, IzodNews Published 11:41 a.m. ET April 18, 2020 | Updated 3:58 p.m. ET April 18, 2020CLOSE If you can’t purchase a mask, here’s how to make one from a t-shirt. USA TODAYWalmart and Sam’s Club will require all employees to wear masks or other face coverings starting Monday to prevent the spread of…
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has started to use thermal cameras at its warehouses to speed up screening for feverish workers who could be infected with the coronavirus, employees told Reuters. The cameras in effect measure how much heat people emit relative to their surroundings. They require less time and contact than forehead thermometers, earlier adopted…
Kepler-1649c (Photo Courtesy: NASA) Kepler-1649c (Photo Courtesy: NASA) WASHINGTON — A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star’s habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water. Scientists discovered this planet, called Kepler-1649c, when looking through…
Fifty years ago, on April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. Like Apollo 11 and Apollo 12, the goal of the mission was to land on the Moon. However astronauts Jim Lovell, John Swigert, and Fred Haise would face a nearly fatal issue with their capsule. Just…
(Ignacio Palacios/Stone/Getty Images) An ambitious “cloud brightening” experiment has been carried out over Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in an early-stage trial that scientists hope could become a futuristic way to protect coral from global warming. In an attempt to cool waters around the reef by making clouds reflect more sunlight, researchers said they used a…
SCIENCE A SpaceX ‘satellite train’ is the most likely explanation, says KGW meteorologist Matt Zaffino. PORTLAND, Ore. — KGW got dozens of reports into our newsroom of strange lights in the sky both Thursday and Friday night. From Longview to Lake Oswego, people counted dozens of objects pass overhead, from the Southwest to the Northeast.”Just counted…
Quasar jets imaged by the Earth Horizon Telescope (EHT) show galactic movements in unprecedented detail. Movements of vast quantities of gas, racing away from Quasar 3C 279 at speeds near the speed of light, reveal signs of a violent past. In 2019, the The Earth Horizon Telescope (EHT), a network of radio telescopes, released the…
Astronomers have discovered a planet so similar to Earth in size that it could be our planet’s twin. The planet, Kepler-1649c, is in the habitable zone of its star, raising the possibility of habitability. The planet’s star is a red dwarf, which are known to produce flares that could extinguish life. Visit BGR’s homepage for…
Cities around the world have become home this decade to distributed tech teams and homegrown startup successes. Each of these additional layers of experience and specialization help to make each local community stronger, like what began happening in Silicon V…
We discussed our initial impressions of “Devs” on an episode of the Original Content podcast a few weeks ago, shortly after the show launched on FX/Hulu. At the time, we observed that even the show made time for bits of Silicon Valley satire, the mood was mos…
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads in 2019 and $120 billion…
Jason Ojalvo, CEO of direct-to-consumer bidet company Tushy, knew that America’s backsides couldn’t wait. Watching demand skyrocket on his online sales dashboard as America’s great toilet-paper crisis of 2020 left store shelves bare and shoppers panicking, he decided to take drastic measures to guarantee ongoing supply. He would ship bidets directly from China by air.…
Democratic lawmakers were left furious and dissatisfied after a conference call Friday with White House officials over the Trump administration’s inability to test large swaths of the public for the novel coronavirus, characterizing the federal government’s national testing capability as “inadequate.”The conversation was between Senate Democrats and Vice President Mike Pence, along with additional members…
Americans have grown increasingly concerned over the last two weeks about consumer access to meat and poultry as processing plants began shuttering in response to COVID-19 cases among employees.But the North American Meat Institute (NAMI), which represents companies responsible for 90 percent of red meat production and 70 percent of turkey production in the U.S.,…