Month: April 2020
Quibi experienced an outage on launch day
Mobile video app Quibi, which just launched today, experienced a one-hour outage this afternoon, the company confirmed. Quibi first announced on Twitter that there were problems at 2:07PM ET and said it was fixed at 3:07PM ET. While the outage was going on, one Verge staffer saw the below error…
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Supervised self-driving shuttles are moving COVID-19 tests in Florida
Autonomous shuttles are being used to move COVID-19 tests from a Jacksonville, Florida testing site to a nearby Mayo Clinic processing location, in what the medical nonprofit is calling a “first” for the US. But as is often the case with autonomous vehicle pilot programs, there’s a catch: during each…
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‘Saints Row: The Third Remastered’ will debut May 22nd
It’s been almost seven years since the last true entry in the bombastic Saints Row series, and a new one probably won’t be coming anytime soon — publisher THQ mentioned that a new game was in development as of last year, but has yet to reveal more d… Source
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Bose investigation concludes QC35 firmware update didn’t break noise cancellation
Bose is bringing an end to the long-running saga of complaints regarding noise cancellation issues with its Quiet Comfort 35 and Quiet Comfort 35 II Bluetooth headphones. After spending months looking into reports of reduced NC performance — something many customers have blamed on firmware updates — Bose has concluded…
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National Geographic launches a homeschool hub for parents and teachers, NatGeo@Home
The COVID-19 outbreak has closed schools across most of the U.S., impacting over 55 million students who are now learning at home. That’s created an increased demand for homeschool resources. Today, National Geographic is responding to that need with the launch of a new online hub, NatGeo@Home, which pulls together…
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Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson on shifting a 3,000-person company to fully remote
‘It’s not without its hiccups, but it has worked pretty well’ Greg Kumparak @grg / 13 hours What’s it like to take a company with 3,000 employees distributed across 25 offices and make it fully remote with just a few weeks’ notice? I hopped on a call with Twilio CEO…
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