Month: April 2020
Lyft is offering free e-scooter trips to health care workers fighting COVID-19
Lyft will provide free electric scooter rides to essential workers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. While most scooter-sharing programs in the US have temporarily ceased operations in response to the pandemic, Lyft is still operating scooters in a handful of cities, and the company wants to support the transportation…
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The Right Gear for Your Home Tool Kit: Hammers, Screwdrivers, and More
Here’s all the gear you need to handle any DIY job, from basic repairs to more ambitious home improvement projects. Source
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Apple brings its hardware microphone disconnect feature to iPads
Apple has brought its hardware microphone disconnect security feature to its latest iPads. The microphone disconnect security feature aims to make it far more difficult for hackers to use malware or a malicious app to eavesdrop on a device’s surroundings. The feature was first introduced to Macs by way of…
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Longtime VC Neil Sequeira: funding founders without in-person meetings is ‘quite difficult’
Neil Sequeira was a managing director with General Catalyst for more than 13 years before co-founding early-stage firm Defy several years ago with another veteran of the industry, Trae Vassallo, who’d spent the dozen years prior with Kleiner Perkins. We caught up with Sequeira yesterday afternoon and discussed whether he’s…
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In Dr. Fauci we stan
The Anthony Fauci Fan Club Twitter account wants you to know one thing: “If you don’t have a crush on this man, do you even care about public health?” The account, which quickly skyrocketed to over 13,000 followers in just the past few days, was launched by three Maryland-based microbiologists…
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Engadget Podcast: Keeping fit with tech at home
We’re weeks into stay-at-home life, and some of us are atrophying. Devindra and Cherlynn have spent the last few weeks looking into how tech has enabled us to work, get medicine, see doctors, find sanity and sustain our mental health from home. This… Source
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