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Apple acquires popular weather app Dark Sky and will shut down the Android version
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Apple has acquired popular weather app Dark Sky and will be shutting down the Dark Sky Android and Wear OS apps in July, Dark Sky announced in a blog post today...
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Valve will delay some Steam auto-updates to preserve bandwidth
Jay Peters//37 views
Valve announced today that it won’t automatically update games in customers’ libraries as regularly as before to help preserve bandwidth during the novel corona...
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative commits $25 million to a fund researching COVID-19 treatments
Jay Peters//34 views
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropic arm, has committed $25 million to a research fund designed to help identify a...
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Apple launches COVID-19 screening app and website
Jay Peters//31 views/1 comments
Apple today launched a website and a new app dedicated to COVID-19 screening. The resources offer an online screening tool, information about the disease, and s...
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Duolingo is launching an iOS app to teach young kids how to read
Jay Peters//37 views/1 comments
Duolingo is launching a new iOS app on Thursday that is designed to teach young children how to read English. The app, called Duolingo ABC, uses short lessons m...
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Nomad is expanding its manufacturing to make masks for medical workers
Jay Peters//38 views
Nomad, typically known for making smartphone accessories, has reprioritized operations and is expanding its manufacturing to make medical supplies like face mas...
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Apple says customers must wait to pick up repairs locked inside its retail stores
Jay Peters//32 views/1 comments
Apple customers who didn’t pick up devices dropped off for repairs within two days of the company closing all of its retail stores will have to wait to pick the...
gaming
Nook Miles is my favorite addition to Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Jay Peters//37 views
In my first weekend playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons, I had grand designs to pay off my initial mortgage and plant a robust orchard of fruit — but I didn’t...
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iOS and iPadOS 13.4 are out now with mouse and keyboard support for iPads
Jay Peters//35 views/1 comments
Apple has released iOS 13.4 and iPadOS 13.4, which add full mouse and trackpad support to iPads, iCloud Drive folder sharing, new nine new Memoji stickers, and ...
science
New study aims to use health data from a smart ring to identify coronavirus symptoms
Jay Peters//35 views/2 comments
A new study will evaluate a smart ring that takes people’s temperatures in an attempt to identify people who have the new coronavirus early, the San Francisco C...
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Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy arms work to bring at least 1,000 COVID-19 tests per day to Bay Area
Jay Peters//32 views
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropic groups are working to help increase the number of tests for the novel coronavirus in the Bay Area by at least 1,000...
gaming
Esports are back: how to watch the top League of Legends and CS:GO competitions
Jay Peters//36 views
Esports leagues all over the world have been significantly affected by the ongoing spread of the novel coronavirus. Many have been briefly suspended as the orga...