Techlife News
Teams, Toddlers and Cabinets: The Joys of Working from Home
In the early days of working from home to prevent spread of the COVID-19 disease, some Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers talking strategy on a video chat couldn’t help but get distracted by their team leader’s kitchen cabinets.
4 min |
March 28, 2020
AppleMagazine
VIRUS SPURS UNEXPECTED TEST FOR US SCHOOLS: ONLINE LEARNING
The coronavirus shutdowns have launched an unplanned, unprecedented experiment with online education at schools across the U.S., and the nation’s largest school system plunged in Monday as New York City asked over 1.1 million students to log in and learn.
5 min |
March 27, 2020
AppleMagazine
NETFLIX'S ‘SELF MADE' TELLS OF FIRST FEMALE MILLIONAIRE
Madam C.J. Walker may be one of America’s most successful “pull yourself up by your own bootstrap” stories, but many have never heard of her. However, that’s changing, thanks to the recent release of a Netflix limited series starring Octavia Spencer.
2 min |
March 27, 2020
AppleMagazine
NO FAMILY, FANFARE FOR NASA ASTRONAUT LAUNCHING NEXT MONTH
A NASA astronaut who’s about to leave the planet for six months will blast off without any family or fanfare because of the coronavirus.
3 min |
March 27, 2020
AppleMagazine
MANY AIRLINE FLIGHTS NEARLY EMPTY AS VIRUS UNDERCUTS TRAVEL
Airline service in the United States is teetering on the brink of collapse, with near-empty planes and coronavirus outbreaks that have left some air traffic control towers empty.
4 min |
March 27, 2020
AppleMagazine
8 EUROPEAN SPACECRAFT PUT IN HIBERNATION AMID VIRUS LOCKDOWN
The European Space Agency said that it is putting eight of its spacecraft into hibernation as it scales down operations during the coronavirus outbreak.
1 min |
March 27, 2020
Bloomberg Businessweek
Broadband's Big Breakdown
This was supposed to be the year of superfast wireless 5G. Instead, providers are battling to keep the creaky old internet online.
4 min |
March 30 - April 06, 2020
AppleMagazine
Can Blood from Coronavirus Survivors Treat the Newly ILL?
Hospitals are gearing up to test if a century-old treatment used to fight off flu and measles outbreaks in the days before vaccines, and tried more recently against SARS and Ebola, just might work for COVID-19, too: using blood donated from patients who’ve recovered.
4 min |
March 27, 2020
Stereophile
Vimberg Mino - LOUDSPEAKER
JOHN ATKINSON
8 min |
April 2020
Stereophile
ProAc Response D2R - LOUDSPEAKER
Between the mid-1980s and late 2000s, Stereophile published 14 re-views of loudspeakers from England’s ProAc Limited.
10+ min |
April 2020
Stereophile
MY BACK PAGES
From 78 to 24/384
4 min |
April 2020
Stereophile
Jadis Orchestra Black - INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER
I am the world’s worst consumer.
10 min |
April 2020
Stereophile
Introducing the New BRX from GoldenEar Technology ®
Introducing the New BRX from GoldenEar Technology ®
2 min |
April 2020
Stereophile
Innuos Statement - MUSIC SERVER
Put these two quotes together, shake vigorously, and you’ve got the essence of a music server. Unless your container isn’t tightly sealed, in which case you’ve got a mess.
10+ min |
April 2020
Stereophile
FOLLOW-UP
Kalman Rubinson very favorably reviewed the three-way, active Dutch & Dutch 8c1 in the August 2019 issue of Stereophile.2
10+ min |
April 2020
Stereophile
Döhmann Helix One MK2 - TURNTABLE
Designing and building a turn-table isn’t all that difficult.
10+ min |
April 2020
Stereophile
Being There
Reflections on ways of experiencing jazz
10+ min |
April 2020
Stereophile
As We see it – Hi-fi Arcana I
Some Stereophile readers will surely remember—some may even have in their collections—Christian Marclay’s 1985 vinyl release Record Without a Cover, surely one of the oddest records ever, right up there with the dying-rabbit record and the seven-inch single that’s tinted yellow by the band’s actual urine.
4 min |
April 2020
PC Gamer US Edition
WORLD OF WARCRAFT: SHADOWLANDS
WoW’s game director reveals what awaits us in the afterlife
6 min |
May 2020
PC Gamer US Edition
RESIDENT EVIL 3
Jill Valentine returns. And so does her relentless stalker
3 min |
May 2020
PC Gamer US Edition
NEW WORLD
An MMO worth attention for its combat and PvP wars
3 min |
May 2020
PC Gamer US Edition
GET THE PARTY STARTED
Our first look at BALDUR’S GATE III’s opening act.
9 min |
May 2020
PC Gamer US Edition
MANEATER
A shark RPG that aims at more than just novelty
2 min |
May 2020
PC Gamer US Edition
INFINITE GAME JAM
Meet SOKPOP COLLECTIVE, the indie studio releasing two new games every month.
9 min |
May 2020
PC Gamer US Edition
COUNTER - STRUCK
VALORANT, Riot’s first departure from the League of Legends universe, is a surprisingly traditional competitive shooter.
10 min |
May 2020
PC Gamer US Edition
CHIVALRY 2
This medieval warfare sequel comes out swinging
2 min |
May 2020
PC Gamer US Edition
COUNCIL CULTURE
How HI-REZ is tapping into its community for game insights
5 min |
May 2020
PC Gamer US Edition
A DIFFERENT LEAGUE
Generous and innovative, LEGENDS OF RUNETERRA is a great alternative to Hearthstone.
7 min |
May 2020
Techlife News
GOVTS PLEDGE AID AS GLOBAL COMMERCE SEIZES IN FACE OF VIRUS
Governments and central banks are scrambling to find ways to keep businesses from going bankrupt as the virus outbreak grinds the world economy to a halt.
8 min |
Techlife News #438
Techlife News
SPACEX PUTS 60 SATELLITES INTO ORBIT DESPITE ENGINE FAILURE
SpaceX launched 60 more of its internet satellites into orbit Wednesday despite an engine failure shortly after liftoff on a recycled rocket flying a record five times.
1 min |