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Elevating Construction Management with Real-Time Job Costing
We Haven’t Heard The Last Of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope
Could You Be an Asymptomatic COVID-19 Carrier? Here's What You Need to Know
ICANN board has voted to reject the sale of the .org registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital (ICANN)
Reddit has disabled its chat room feature, Start Chatting, a day after launch due to "several errors" in rollout and moderators' concerns over lack of control (Monica Chin/The Verge)
Generative Design Helps Quebec Wood Export Bureau Plan, Ship Multi-Use Disaster Shelters
Now Is The Perfect Time To Read Samuel Pepys’ Diary From 1665
Can COVID-19 Spread Via The Eyes? Science Remains Unclear, Says Ophthalmologist
Labs Across U.S. Join Federal Initiative to Study Coronavirus Genome
April 2020 Was The Deadliest Month For Tornadoes Since May 2013
Study Shows Your Short-Term Memory Is Totally Lying, But For an Important Reason
IDC: Global smartphone shipments dropped 11.7% YoY to 276M during Q1 2020, the largest YoY decline ever (Aimee Chanthadavong/ZDNet)
How To Detect Signs Of Life From Planets Circling Dying Stars
One Supermoon, Two Meteor Showers And Three Eclipses: A Stargazer’s Guide To Looking Up In Lockdown
Are ‘anti-virus’ cars in China just a gimmick?
Here's Why You Really Should Clean Your Gross Smartphone Daily, Researchers Say
Amazon tells its Seattle and Bellevue employees already working from home since early March that they "are welcome to do so until at least October 2" (Benjamin Romano/The Seattle Times)
Pandemic highlights role of digital readiness in mitigating supply-chain risks
Don't Believe The Headlines: Children Can Transmit COVID-19, Say Researchers
The UN's social distancing app, 1point5, is largely ineffective at monitoring distance between people, indiscriminately picking up any Bluetooth signals (Joseph Cox/VICE)
How To Watch Adorable Baby Peregrine Falcons Online
Walmart is piloting a 2-hour "Express" grocery delivery service for an extra $10 fee; plans to expand to 1K stores in May, using its 74K+ "personal shoppers" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Pandemic conspiracy theories are being spread using Wayback Machine links of content already discredited by fact-checkers and even deleted (Bobbie Johnson/MIT Technology Review)
There’s A Deeper Meaning To Those Colorful Severe Thunderstorm Forecasts
Changing a Single Gene Lets Syphilis Lurk Hidden in The Body For Years
Coronavirus Live Updates: Pandemic Sends World’s Poor Scrambling
Emissions Declines Will Set Records This Year. But It’s Not Good News.
Here’s Some Good News About The Coffee You’re Drinking During The Coronavirus Lockdown
Renewable power surges as pandemic scrambles global energy outlook, new report finds
Dozens of tracking apps for smartphones are being used or developed to help contain the pandemic, despite concerns about security, privacy, and effectiveness (New York Times)
Researcher: major sites like Wish and Mailchimp were leaking email addresses to ads and analytics companies including Facebook and Twitter via URL query strings (Zach Edwards)
Groundbreaking Spinosaurus Discovery Just Made It The First Known Swimming Dinosaur
Google introduces new rules for the Chrome Web Store to cut down on spammy extensions, says developers must comply by August 27 or extensions will be delisted (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
A Closer Look: What the CARES Act Education Stabilization Fund Means for Schools
A Strange Dinosaur May Have Swam the Rivers of Africa
Motorola Edge and Edge Plus: Price and release date (Update: Coming to India)
Here Are Simple Expert Tips For Staying Safe While You Shop For Groceries
Coronavirus: Serena Williams among stars to compete in Mario Tennis tournament
Booking Holdings' Priceline, OpenTable, and Kayak, along with Blix and others, form the lobbying group App Coalition, touting independence from Apple and Google (Bloomberg)
Remdesivir Just Became The First Drug to Show a 'Clear-Cut' Effect in Treating COVID-19
Are you more likely to die of covid-19 if you live in a polluted area?
Reddit launches Start Chatting, a new tool that lets users start a chat room with up to seven randomly selected users within a subreddit (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
Large trial yields strongest evidence yet that antiviral drug can help COVID-19 patients
Scrutinized malaria drug purchase to be refunded in Utah
SteelSeries Arctis 1 Wireless review: Modern versatility
Zuckerberg: 3B+ MAUs across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp, with FB and IG Live video views up 2x and group video call time up 10x in recent weeks (Lucas Matney/TechCrunch)
NASA Needs A New 'Giant Leap' To Replace Its Dead, Dying, And Dated 'Great Observatories'
A Sting In The Tail From 1986’s Halley’s Comet Will Next Week Battle A ‘Super Flower Moon’
Hungarian competition watchdog GVH fines Booking.com £6.1M for unfair business practices, including misleading ads and psychological pressure on consumers (Reuters)
Convict in LA Times hack again accused of attacking media
Sources: e-commerce giant JD.com has filed confidentially for a second listing in Hong Kong, which could raise at least $2B (Bloomberg)
These Shark Relatives May Not Escape Extinction
Roc Nation files copyright claim over deepfake YouTube videos which use AI to impersonate Jay-Z's voice, raising new copyright and fair use questions (Andy Baio/Waxy.org)