Month: August 2020
They were incarcerated firefighters, now they want to change how California fights fires
The pandemic isn’t the real reason why California’s firefighting force is spread so thin this year, some formerly incarcerated firefighters and advocates tell The Verge. Formerly incarcerated firefighters who want to keep working have been locked out of careers in firefighting because of their criminal records. Some people coming out…
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Asus’ LED-filled gaming laptop with a 144Hz refresh rate display costs just $880
If you’re looking to do some PC gaming at respectable frame rates, Asus’ ROG Strix G15 gaming laptop seems like an affordable way to go about doing that. Usually $1,000, it’s $880 today. Despite its low price, it has some high-end features, like Intel’s 10th Gen Core i7-10750H six-core processor,…
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The fast-growing cloud storage business is going public cloud storage
Snowflake Inc., which advertises itself as “The Cloud Data Platform”, has caught the attention of Silicon Valley pundits and investors by filing an IPO. If all goes to plan, the company will soon be trading under the abbreviation “SNOW” on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The cloud-storage software maker…
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Diplo previews his new album in the meditation app Calm
This year has been a roller coaster of emotions for a variety of reasons, and as such apps for mental well-being have been in the spotlight quite a bit. Calm, one of the most popular meditation and sleep apps out there, scored a somewhat unexpected b… Source
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Facebook’s OASIS-style VR playground Horizon enters public beta
Did you forget that Facebook was building the OASIS? The company has been working on its multiplayer virtual reality social space, Horizon, for a while now, which is comparable in concept if not scope to the fantastical VR world of Ready Player One. This week the company announced it’s expanding…
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Prisoners at San Quentin are dying from COVID, and help isn’t coming
When the test came back positive, Quinn* felt like he was getting a second sentence. “I believe that they sent COVID here to kill us. Simple as that,” he says. He’s a father living at San Quentin State Prison and one of over 2,200 inmates who’ve tested positive for COVID-19.…
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