Month: May 2020
EVO 2020 will be an online-only event due to the pandemic
The annual Evolution Championship Series (EVO) fighting game tournament will be held as an online event this summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event’s organizers announced today. EVO had been scheduled to take place from July 31st to August 2nd at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. All tickets and…
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Apple Considers a Face ID Workaround for Users Wearing Masks
Your iPhone can’t read your face if half of it is covered. While the new iOS 13.5 update won’t fix that, it’s likely to make logging in less of a nuisance. Source
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People Want To Go Back To Normal. Delivering Pandemic Groceries Made Me Question Whether We Should.
Caroline O’Donovan / BuzzFeed News The journalists at BuzzFeed News are proud to bring you trustworthy and relevant reporting about the coronavirus. To help keep this news free, become a member and sign up for our newsletter, Outbreak Today. Every time we go to the grocery store during quarantine, we…
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Mindy Kaling’s new teen sitcom Never Have I Ever is an empathetic exploration of grief
If you told everyone exactly how high school would play out, odds are many would opt the hell out. High school in America is a bizarre and unkind time, a collective coming-of-age story that has as much room for variety as there are people who go through it. Never Have…
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Powerful House committee demands Jeff Bezos testify after ‘misleading’ statements
Amazon is in hot water with a powerful congressional committee interested in the company’s potentially anticompetitive business practices. In a bipartisan letter sent Friday to Jeff Bezos, the House Judiciary committee demanded that the Amazon CEO explain discrepancies between his own prior statements and recent reporting from the Wall Street…
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An already struggling smartphone market takes a big hit from COVID-19
After a rocky quarter, companies and analysts fear the worst may still be ahead Brian Heater @bheater / 7 hours Quarter after quarter, familiar stories have appeared. The smartphone market, once seemingly bulletproof, has suffered. The list of factors is long, and I’ve written about them ad nauseam here, but…
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