Google is giving the world a clearer glimpse of exactly how much it knows about people everywhere — using the coronavirus crisis as an opportunity to repackage its persistent tracking of where users go and what they do as a public good in the midst of a pandemic. In a blog post today the tech ...
Corie Mattie, an LA-based artist, has been making murals and canvasses to give people hope during these uncertain times. Read more...More about Mashable Video, California, Artist, Murals, and Coronavirus ...
With California on lockdown to quell the spread of the coronavirus, Conan O'Brien has seen a lot of reporters covering the empty streets by dramatically walking down them.
So, while making the show without an audience and from home, he thought he... ... Startups continue to find new ways to contribute to ongoing efforts to fight the global spread of COVID-19 during the current global coronavirus pandemic, and personal health hardware-maker Oura is no exception. The smart ring startup is working with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) on a new study to see if its device ...
The state of California, normally full of sun bathers and wilderness explorers, restaurant goers and entertainment venue attendees, is empty.
On Thursday, California governor Gavin Newsom issued a state-wide "stay at home" order to slow the spread of... ... Rivian, the buzzy electric vehicle startup that is backed by Amazon and Ford, is shutting down all of its facilities due to the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus. Rivian employs more than 2,000 workers across several locations, including its headquarters in Plymouth, Mich., a factory in Normal, Ill. as well as operations ... NASA and SpaceX issued a media accreditation invitation on Wednesday for their Demonstration Mission 2 (aka Demo-2) commercial crew launch – the first in the commercial crew program that will carry actual astronauts to space. The invite includes the current proposed timeframe for the mission, listed as no “no earlier than mid-to-late May.” Reports from ... As COVID-19 forces much of America to work from home, the United States Congress — whose 535 members have an average age of 60 — is still operating from Capitol Hill. Why this population (deemed high-risk to the coronavirus) isn’t yet doing legislative business remotely comes down to process, tech and political will. “The House ... SpaceX has won the launch contract for NASA’s 2022 mission to explore the mineral-rich asteroid known as Psyche, the space agency announced today, including launch services and other mission-related costs valued at $117 million — remarkably low for a mission of this scale. The Psyche mission will use a falcon Heavy rocket which will launch ... Automated license plate readers, ALPRs, would be controversial even if they were responsibly employed by the governments that run them. Unfortunately, and to no one’s surprise, the way they actually operate is “deeply disturbing and confirm[s] our worst fears about the misuse of this data,” according to an audit of the programs instigated by a ...
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Google is now publishing coronavirus mobility reports, feeding off users’ location history
This artist is using her murals to help motivate people during the pandemic
Conan O’Brien reports from an empty street to show you how empty it is. Empty, right?
Oura partners with UCSF to determine if its smart ring can help detect COVID-19 early
Photos show an empty California on ‘stay at home’ coronavirus order
Rivian shuts down all facilities over COVID-19 pandemic concerns
NASA and SpaceX targeting mid-to-late May for first astronaut launch, despite coronavirus pandemic
Why Congress isn’t working remotely due to COVID-19
SpaceX wins the $117 million launch contract to explore Psyche’s heavy metal asteroid
Surprise! Audit finds automated license plate reader programs are a privacy nightmare