Techlife News
LAS VEGAS REOPENS FROM HISTORIC CORONAVIRUS CASINO CLOSURE
The casino coronavirus closure has ended. Cards are being dealt, dice are rolling and slot machines flashed and jingled for the first customers who started gambling again early Thursday in Las Vegas and throughout Nevada.
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June 6, 2020
Techlife News
FARM-TO-TABLE DINING TAKES ON NEW MEANING AMID PANDEMIC
Eric Pray is used to shipping seafood all over the country. But since the coronavirus took hold, he has shifted his focus closer to home — selling lobsters from a homemade tank in his garage.
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June 6, 2020
Techlife News
DOCUMENTARY ABOUT ELECTRIC RACING HOLDS LITTLE SPARK
For proof that Leonardo DiCaprio can’t save every film he touches, look no further than “And We Go Green,” a languid documentary about the electric car racing circuit.
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June 6, 2020
Techlife News
EPIDEMIC OF WIPES AND MASKS PLAGUE SEWERS, STORM DRAINS
Mayor Jim Kenney kicked off a recent briefing on Philadelphia’s coronavirus response with an unusual request for residents: Be careful what you flush.
4 min |
June 6, 2020
Techlife News
Snapchat To Stop 'Promoting' Trump Amid Uproar Over Tweets
Snapchat will stop “promoting” President Donald Trump on its video messaging service, the latest example of a social media platform adjusting how it treats this U.S. president.
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June 6, 2020
Techlife News
‘Welcome Back' Several Famed Museums Reopen Across Europe
In the Netherlands, the intimate gaze of the Girl with the Pearl Earring can once again startle and entice visitors. Down in Spain, the rusty maze of steel sheets by Richard Serra is a wonderland anew for art lovers. And at the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam can drop jaws like it has done for ages.
2 min |
June 6, 2020
AppleMagazine
SPACEX CAPTURES THE FLAG, BEATING BOEING IN COSMIC CONTEST
The first astronauts launched by SpaceX declared victory Monday in NASA’s cosmic capture-the-flag game.
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June 05, 2020
AppleMagazine
INTERVIEW: FRENCH MINISTER CONFIDENT IN VIRUS TRACING APP
As France is easing most virus-related restrictions this week, the French government is confident its contact-tracing app will be effective in the process to contain the spread of the pandemic, despite skepticism and worries about privacy.
3 min |
June 05, 2020
AppleMagazine
THE AMERICAN STORY, SPLINTERED, AND THOSE VYING TO TELL IT
What does the United States of America mean?
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June 05, 2020
AppleMagazine
FUTURE OF STADIUMS, ARENAS PROMISES HIGH TECH, LOW CAPACITY
The smell of barbecue wafts through the parking lots hours before kickoff at Arrowhead Stadium, and when the first salvo of fireworks explode overhead, thousands of Chiefs fans begin to march en masse toward the entrance gates.
6 min |
June 05, 2020
AppleMagazine
IN VIRUS-HIT SOUTH KOREA, AI MONITORS LONELY ELDERS
In a cramped office in eastern Seoul, Hwang Seungwon points a remote control toward a huge NASA-like overhead screen stretching across one of the walls.
4 min |
June 05, 2020
AppleMagazine
Zoom Booms as Pandemic Drives Millions To Its Video Service
Zoom Video Communications is rapidly emerging as the latest internet gold mine as millions of people flock to its conferencing service to see colleagues, friends, and family while tethered to their homes during the pandemic.
3 min |
June 05, 2020
AppleMagazine
Blast-Off: The New Era Of Private Space Exploration
The future of space exploration has never been so exciting.
7 min |
June 05, 2020
Techlife News
AN OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD EXPERIMENT IN ‘SPACESHIP EARTH'
During lockdown, have you taken a moment to appreciate that at least you’re not quarantined with eight free-thinking adventurers in a terrarium of depleting oxygen levels?
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Techlife News
FRANCE DEPLOYS $8.8 BILLION TO RESCUE AILING CAR INDUSTRY
France’s government is injecting more than 8 billion euros ($8.8 billion) to save the country’s car industry from huge losses wrought by virus lockdowns, and wants to use the crisis to make France the No. 1 producer of electric vehicles in Europe.
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Techlife News
41 MILLION JOBS LOST; HOMEBOUND GEAR UP TO GET OUT, WAY OUT
The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed. Following are developments related to the national and global response, the workplace, and the spread of the virus.
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Techlife News
IN PANDEMIC, USING DRONES TO DROP MEDICAL SUPPLIES FROM SKY
With a loud whir and a whoosh, a fixed-wing drone slingshots out of a medical warehouse, zips through hazy skies at 80 mph, pops open a belly hatch, and drops a box of medical supplies. Slowed by a little parachute, the box drifts downward and lands with a plop, less than 8 minutes after launch.
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Techlife News
BRANSON'S VIRGIN ORBIT FAILS ON FIRST ROCKET LAUNCH ATTEMPT
Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit failed Monday in its first test launch of a new rocket carried aloft by a Boeing 747 and released over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California.
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Techlife News
ORDERS FOR US BIG-TICKET FACTORY GOODS DROP 17.2% IN APRIL
U.S. orders for big-ticket factory goods plunged for the second straight month in April as the coronavirus pandemic hammered the economy.
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Techlife News
PANDEMIC A BOON FOR THE BICYCLE AS THOUSANDS SNAP THEM UP
Joel Johnson hadn’t owned a bicycle since he was 15, but the pandemic changed all that.
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Techlife News
PATRONS UNDER PLASTIC: RESTAURANTS GET CREATIVE IN VIRUS ERA
Dining at a table where each person is enclosed by a clear plastic shield might look and sound futuristic, but it could be one way for some restaurants to reopen. It also might help out if your companion orders escargots, heavy on the garlic.
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Techlife News
VANISHING JOBS FOR YOUNG COULD CREATE ‘LOCK-DOWN GENERATION'
Bashar Ali Naim used to work in a perfume and accessories store in Baghdad, earning $480 per week on average. About three months ago, the coronavirus outbreak swept into Iraq, and the 28-year-old father of two has been out of work ever since.
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Techlife News
WORRY, HASTE, RETAIL THERAPY: WHAT HAVE WE BOUGHT AND WHY?
Between technical glitches and food worries, retail therapy, and sheer amnesia, something has happened to shopping during the pandemic that can be summed up thusly: rubber chickens.
4 min |
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AppleMagazine
JUDGE STRIKES DOWN US ENERGY LEASING RULES IN BIRD HABITAT
A U.S. judge has dealt another blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to increase domestic oil and gas output from public lands, saying officials failed to protect habitat for a declining bird species when it issued energy leases on hundreds of square miles.
2 min |
May 29, 2020
AppleMagazine
WALT DISNEY WORLD PRESENTING PLANS FOR REOPENING PARKS
Walt Disney World is presenting its plans for reopening after being shuttered along with Florida’s other theme parks since mid-March because of the new coronavirus.
1 min |
May 29, 2020
AppleMagazine
FIRST COMMERCIAL SPACE TAXI A PIT STOP ON MUSK'S MARS QUEST
It all started with the dream of growing a rose on Mars.
5 min |
May 29, 2020
AppleMagazine
CONSUMER CONFIDENCE UP SLIGHTLY BUT REMAINS NEAR 6-YEAR LOW
U.S. consumer confidence inched up this month, showing signs of stabilizing, but remained near a six-year low in the face of the widespread business shutdowns that have sent the economy into recession.
2 min |
May 29, 2020
AppleMagazine
TECH GIANTS ARE EMBRACING REMOTE WORK
For a preview of the future of office work, watch how the biggest tech companies are preparing for a post-pandemic world.
4 min |
May 29, 2020
AppleMagazine
WADA LOOKS TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO CATCH DOPERS
With sports around the world shut down by the coronavirus pandemic, the World Anti-Doping Agency is looking to artificial intelligence as a new way to detect athletes who cheat.
2 min |
May 29, 2020
AppleMagazine
KIRK 2.0: CAPT. PIKE OF NEW ‘STAR TREK' A WELCOME NEW ICON
In the beginning, in the “Star Trek” universe, there was only Captain Kirk. At least to the general public.
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