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Square’s Cash App details how to use its direct deposit feature to access stimulus funds
Payments platform Square is now suggesting users deposit their COVID-19 stimulus payments through its Cash App for faster and easier access to the funds, in the event someone doesn’t have access to a traditional bank account. The app has started showing users a pop-up explaining how to go about getting…
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An old programming language is threatening global stability
In addition to ventilators and face masks, US state governments are now in dire need of COBOL programmers to help out during the global pandemic. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy recently put out a call for volunteers who know how to code the decades-old computer programming language as many of…
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‘Call of Duty: Warzone’ already has 50 million players after one month
Just a month after launch, Activision’s new battle royal entry Call of Duty: Warzone has topped 50 million players. The free-to-play add-on for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has launched at an interesting time, and appears to be roughly on pace with t… Source
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Leica and Olympus are offering free virtual courses and talks for photographers
Camera makers Leica and Olympus have announced initiatives to offer free courses and talks for photographers amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Many companies that cater to creative fields have opened up resources for those currently stuck at home, and last week Nikon made its entire curriculum of online photography classes free…
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Tesla’s furlough calls begin with delivery and sales taking a hit
Tesla started Friday to furlough its sales and delivery workforce — with the least experienced employees bearing the brunt of the action — days after a companywide email announced salary cuts and reductions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Several employees, who work in sales and delivery and spoke to TechCrunch…
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3D printed ‘bionic corals’ mimic a reef’s powers of photosynthesis
The mass die-off of coral reefs due is a catastrophe of global proportions, but the sheer scale of their success as organisms has lessons for science. Case in point: these 3D-printed “bionic corals” from Cambridge researchers that are more than scaffolds for fragile microorganisms — they’re built out of them.…
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