The other day we learned that Boston Market is making a comeback and is on pace to open two new locations per week in 2021. Along with that interesting bit of information, we also learned that it would be joining the fried chicken sandwich brawl by releasing a Nashville-style hot chicken sandwich of its own. The…
Source: Kotaku – Boston Market enters the fried chicken sandwich wars, might want to rethink that decision
The third season of Serial is being turned into a TV series. HBO is adapting the nine-episode run, which examined multiple cases handled by the Cleveland justice system. According to Deadline, writer and director Shola Amoo (The Last Tree) is involve…
Source: Engadget – ‘Serial’ season three is being turned into a HBO series
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Source: Kotaku – Come On and Slam If You Want to Jam in NBA 2K21 on Xbox Series X for
Sony unveiled two pro-level devices yesterday, starting with a $2,500 smartphone (no, it doesn’t fold or roll up). Teased in early 2020, the Xperia Pro is for video professionals working in the field, especially those who might use its mmWave 5G conn…
Source: Engadget – The Morning After: Sony’s ,500 A1 camera has a matching ,500 smartphone
Feature development on LLVM 12.0 has ended along with associated sub-projects like Clang and libc++. Feature work now shifts to LLVM 13.0 while the LLVM 12 stable release should be out in just over one month’s time…
Source: Phoronix – LLVM 12 Ends Feature Work With Better C++20 Support To Intel Sapphire Rapids + AMD Zen 3
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Source: Kotaku – Keep Your Nintendo Switch Safe and Stylish With Slim Travel Cases for
Lime is adding electric mopeds to its range of rentable vehicles. The company, best known for scooters and bicycles, will start with pilot schemes in Washington, DC and Paris, before expanding to “a handful of cities” sometime this spring. For now, t…
Source: Engadget – Lime begins trialing shared electric mopeds
Pretty smartwatches are no longer novel (thankfully), but that doesn’t mean we can’t welcome more attractive options. Garmin unveiled its latest wearable today, calling the Lily the “small and fashionable smartwatch women have been waiting for.” I’m…
Source: Engadget – Garmin’s daintiest watch ever is designed for small wrists
Starting today, the JR Yumesaki train line in Osaka is covered in Mario and friends to celebrate Super Nintendo World, which was supposed to open February 4. However, it has since been delayed. Again.
Source: Kotaku – Japan Now Has A Super Nintendo World Train
Enlarge / Masks and distancing work in the classrooms, too. (credit: MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)
Can schools be kept open safely even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues largely unchecked? So far, the data has been mixed. Studies of spread in schools seem to suggest they’re not a major source of infections. But when countries that shut their schools as part of a package of pandemic restrictions were compared to those that didn’t, the ones that had schools shut down had a lower overall rate of infection. So, the record on opening schools seems a bit mixed.
Yesterday, the CDC released a detailed look at the spread of SARS-CoV-2 within a single school system in rural Wisconsin. While the results come from a time before the new, more easily spread strains had evolved, they show that some of the measures laid out in guidelines on how to safely reopen schools work. Thanks to those precautions, infections in the school were down by 37 percent compared to infections in the community at large, and there were very few infections that occurred within the school. But it also raises an obvious question: if these measures work, why aren’t we all using them?
The study started at the end of August 2020 and continued on through to the end of November. It focused on the schools of Wood County, Wisconsin, and tracked infections that took place among its faculty and staff as well as comparing those to the spread of the pandemic in the county as a whole. Overall, there were 4,876 students and 654 staff members included in the data.
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Source: Ars Technica – Basic pandemic safety limits spread in schools
Scientists have expressed that cats and dogs may eventually need to be vaccinated against Covid-19 to help stem the spread of the virus back to people.
Source: TG Daily – Researchers Say Cats and Dogs May Eventually Need Covid-19 Vaccines
Beijing and some hotspot regions like Shanghai will undergo rectal swab testing, as China detects 2 cases of the new Coronavirus variant.
Source: TG Daily – China Conducts Anal Swab Mass Testing for Covid-19
One of the best third-party Twitter clients now requires a subscription. Tweetbot 6, the latest version of developer Tapbots’ app, now costs 99 cents per month, or $5.99 annually. The old Tweetbot 5 client meanwhile, demanded a single $4.99 purchase…
Source: Engadget – Tweetbot 6 arrives for iPhone and iPad with a subscription model
Do you like chocolate? What about ramen? Well, this Valentine’s Day in Japan, people can eat chocolate ramen.
Source: Kotaku – Nothing Says Valentine’s Day Like Chocolate Ramen
Nearly a decade ago we were intrigued by Unvanquished as one of the most interesting open-source game/engine projects of the time. It was peculiar in going through dozens of alpha releases prior to drying up a few years ago. There hasn’t been any major release yet past the prior alpha state but the project is in fact still moving along and issued their first new (point) release of the year as well as rolling out a new online updater…
Source: Phoronix – Unvanquished Open-Source Game Still Pushing Slowly Ahead In 2021
Health authorities in China have deployed anal swab tests to detect covid-19 in the lead up to the Lunar New Year celebrations, according to the Chinese state media outlet the Global Times, a technique that some claim might be more accurate than traditional nasal swabs, throat swabs, and antibody tests. But not…
Source: Gizmodo – China Deploys Anal Swabs For Covid-19 Testing, Says It’s More Accurate
Last year, Facebook finally banned Holocaust denial content, after tacitly allowing it to fester on its site for years. And today on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the company touted efforts to connect people to “credible information about…
Source: Engadget – Facebook criticized for not doing enough to enforce its Holocaust denial policy
To mark the release of Monster Hunter Rise this March, Nintendo is releasing a special emblazoned Switch in Japan.
Source: Kotaku – In Japan, The Nintendo Switch Covers Itself In Monster Hunter
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will soon bid asteroid Bennu farewell. NASA has announced that OSIRIS-REx will start its journey back to our planet on May 10th, two-and-a-half years after it rendezvoused with the near-Earth asteroid. The agency launched th…
Source: Engadget – NASA’s asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx probe will head back to Earth in May
A late change to GCC 11 is recognizing the -std=c++23 compiler option but without actually enabling any new features of this next major version of the C++ programming language…
Source: Phoronix – GCC 11 Will Let You Use -std=c++23 But Without Turning On Any New Features
