Science, Tech and Gadgets

DoorDash 'Pizza Arbitrage' Shows the FUBAR Economics of Delivery Apps Another sign of how fundamentally screwed the economics underlying the app economy are: It is possible to take advantage of exploitative food delivery platform DoorDash’s efforts to sign up restaurants without their consent to engage de facto “pizza arbitrage,” according to a report by Margins.Read more... Go to Source

Only 45 Percent of Businesses Plan to Rehire the Same Workers Once They Reopen, Facebook Survey Finds A new Facebook survey of small- and medium-sized businesses has found that, among those who have shut down amid the global covid-19 health crisis, only 45 percent plan to rehire the same employees when they reopen.Read more... Go to Source

Verizon Closes Deal for BlueJeans, the AOL of Video Conferencing Apps With most of the U.S. quarantined and many people working at home, Verizon has officially finalized its acquisition of video conferencing platform BlueJeans. Read more... Go to Source

Monday's Best Deals: Branch Home Office Furniture, Sega Genesis Mini, Magic Chef Air Fryer, Garmin Forerunner 645 Music, and More A work-from-home sale on Branch premium office furniture, a Sega Genesis Mini gaming console, a 5.6qt Magic Chef air fryer, and a Garmin Forerunner 645 Music smartwatch round out Monday’s best deals.Read more... Go to Source

Harley Quinn Finally Did the Thing, and Did It Right As bloody, curse-laden, and generally bawdy as DC Universe’s Harley Quinn show is, it’s always displayed a surprising level of emotional intelligence in the way that it’s handled the complicated, interpersonal relationships that have shaped the lives of its characters. Read more... Go to Source

Illinois Unemployment Portal Made Specifically for Gig Workers Exposed Addresses, Social Security Numbers Unemployment claims are reaching record highs, taxing each state’s digital systems like never before. But in at least one state, a laggy site or unreachable offices aren’t the only issues that resident are facing while trying to file for benefits. Read more... Go to Source

It's Another Terrible Week to Be Uber Even under normal economic conditions, labor arbitrage racket and venture capitalist money pit Uber barely made sense; during an economically devastating global pandemic, the company looks to be flailing. Read more... Go to Source

Garmin Forerunner 645 Music Smartwatch Falls to Shockingly Low $230 Garmin Forerunner 645 Music | $230 | Amazon Gold BoxRead more... Go to Source

China's Air Pollution Is Now Worse Than Pre-Coronavirus Levels Last month, China finally ended its coronavirus lockdown. While air quality improved dramatically during The Quiet Time, new data shows it was short-lived. What’s more, air pollution is coming back at higher levels than during the same period last year. Read more... Go to Source

108 Million People in China Put Into Lockdown After 34 New Coronavirus Cases Detected The Chinese province of Jilin has placed about 108 million people into lockdown on Monday after roughly 34 new cases of coronavirus and one death were identified in the region over the past few weeks, according to a new report from Bloomberg News. The new lockdown demonstrates widespread fear in China of witnessing…Read more... Go to Source

Old Nukes, Hot Dog Toasters, and Dr. Phil: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week As we all try to adjust to our current new reality, I have some thoughts to share with you all. I have come to realize that it is likely that for the next few months, or year, we will have to learn to live with dry, papery hands. At least, that’s what my hands feel like because of all the soap and hand sanitizer in my…Read more... Go to Source

FDA Issues Emergency Authorization for Coronavirus At-Home Sample Collection Kit The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Saturday announced that it had issued an emergency use authorization for an at-home coronavirus sample collection kit. The kit allows consumers to self-collect a nasal sample and then send it off to be tested for the novel coronavirus, which causes the disease covid-19.Read more... Go to Source

Sunday's Best Deals: Blue Yeti Microphones, Skillets, Animal Crossing: New Horizons Guides, and More A streaming microphone bundle, a sale on Kindle eBooks, a useful pole saw for $50, cast iron skillets, and more headline Sunday’s best deals.Read more... Go to Source

These Social Distancing Posters Are the Best Thing the Trump Administration Has Done for Parks As we all know, the Trump administration isn’t the best thing that’s happened to parks in this country. Some might say even that’s an understatement. Nonetheless, even it can manage to do some good things for parks every now and then. We’re talking about the marvelous new social distancing posters being rolled out by…Read more... Go to Source

Trump Says He Is Thinking of Restoring Some U.S. Funding to the World Health Organization President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he was considering restoring some funds to the World Health Organization (WHO). Trump froze funding for the WHO in April after he criticized the organization for its response to the coronavirus pandemic and accused it of being biased in favor of China. Read more... Go to Source

In Bid to Make Passengers Feel Safer, TSA Prepares to Screen Temperatures at Airports The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is preparing to possibly add a new element to its pre-boarding screening procedures in the U.S. airports: checking temperatures. If approved, the new measure could be rolled out at about a dozen airports as soon as next week, the Wall Street Journal reported.Read more... Go to Source

Saturday's Best Deals: Joker, Soulcalibur IV, Short-Sleeve Button-Ups, and More A dress sale at Express, a copy of Soulcalibur VI and the season pass, short-sleeve button-ups at JACHS NY, a sale on One-Punch Man manga, and more rise to the top of Saturday’s best deals.Read more... Go to Source

'I'm Scared': Study Links Cancer Alley Air Pollution to Higher Death Rates From Covid-19 Louisiana is starting to reopen on Friday, but that doesn’t mean much to 66-year-old Myrtle Felton. She lives in St. James Parish in the southeastern portion of the state where there’s not much business at all except the refineries and chemical plants that surround her home. Read more... Go to Source

Trump: Look Out World, America's Developing 'Super-Duper' Missiles On Friday, President Donald Trump unveiled the official flag of the United States Space Force and, in his latest display of unparalleled oratorical excellence, touted a new “super duper missile” from the Department of Defense that’s sure to make the likes of China and Russia pee their pants.Read more... Go to Source

Everything You Can and Can't Do with Facebook's New Avatars I hate rollouts. I really do. Whenever a company announces some new, awesome feature, but drops the phrase “rolling out” into the description, I can’t tell you how annoyed I get. Invariably, it means I have to wait a week or more to try something out while seeing everyone I know get their special access before me.Read more... Go to Source

The Best True Wireless Earbuds That Won't Break the Bank When Apple killed the headphone jack and introduced AirPods, they changed the earbud game forever. Today, “true wireless” earbuds have trickled down to the budget realm, and the market is flooded with affordable alternatives.Read more... Go to Source

U.S. Feud With China Brings Dramatic Expansion of Sanctions on Huawei In yet another escalation of the ongoing U.S.-China feud over Chinese tech giant Huawei, Donald Trump’s administration took steps to greatly expand punitive trade sanctions against the company on Friday, Reuters reported.Read more... Go to Source

Discord Becomes an Even Better Zoom Alternative For Gamers with the Addition of 1-Button Video Chat Discord has already taken a few steps to help people stay connected during The Quarantine, but with its latest update, Discord may have just given gamers a true replacement for competing video chat apps like Zoom, Hangouts, and others. Read more... Go to Source

Facebook Shovels Giphy Into Its Salivating Maw It grows: Facebook has acquired the wildly popular gif-sharing service Giphy in a deal reportedly worth at least $400 million, even as it stares down an increasingly hostile reception in official DC and antitrust probes by feds and the states.Read more... Go to Source

No, the OnePlus 8 Pro Does Not Have X-Ray Vision Back when I reviewed the OnePlus 8 Pro, I said the phone’s built-in color filter camera felt gimmicky considering it only offered four different filter effects. But as it turns out, the OnePlus 8 Pro’s color filter camera is way more gimmicky that I had thought now that people are claiming it has X-Ray vision. Read more... Go to Source

Looming Landslide in Alaska Could Trigger Enormous Tsunami at Any Moment, Scientists Warn The collapse of an unstable mountain slope in Alaska could trigger a catastrophic tsunami in Harriman Fjord. A retreating glacier is producing this precarious situation, highlighting yet another type of hazard caused by climate change. Read more... Go to Source

It's Official: Another Star Trek Spinoff Is on the Way With Captain Pike and Spock Sorry, Star Trek: Enterprise was already taken. Welcome aboard, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.Read more... Go to Source

Friday's Best Deals: Fenty Beauty Sitewide Sale, Anker Projectors, Conair Grooming Set, SanDisk 2TB External Hard Drive, and More A Fenty Beauty sitewide sale, a SanDisk 2TB portable hard drive, a Conair grooming set, and a pair of Anker projectors lead Friday’s best deals.Read more... Go to Source

U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages The U.S. government proposed manipulating information about whether N95 masks worked to fight the spread of coronavirus in the general public, according to Dr. Richard Bright, a whistleblower who testified publicly for the first time on Thursday. The deception was an effort to avoid shortages and keep masks available…Read more... Go to Source

Google to Start Kicking Resource-Heavy Ads Off Chrome in August Google’s planning to instate a resource cap on all Chrome advertisements after finding that a tiny contingent of resource-heavy ads is responsible for more than a quarter of all ad-related network data and CPU usage. On the user-end, these ads can “drain battery life, saturate already strained networks, and cost…Read more... Go to Source