Google says thank you to the emergency services personnel, such as firefighters and police officers, who are battling the coronavirus. Google For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website . As the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage populations around the world, with more than 1.3 million cases
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn will make ventilators with U.S. firm Medtronic Plc to help patients afflicted by the coronavirus outbreak, the company said on Wednesday. Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, is best known for assembling Apple’s iPhones at factories in China. In a statement released
BEIJING (Reuters) - China’a internet regulator ordered search engine Baidu to clean up improper information and halt spread of “low-brow content.” China’s all powergul internet regulator, Cyberspace Administration of China, said in a post published on Wednesday on its official WeChat account that Baidu’s content review on some of its news feed channels
Tony Ferguson, who's carrying a baseball around for some reason. He's a unique guy. Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC UFC 249 will go down in history, no matter what. Mainly because it's the plot of Enter The Dragon and Mortal Kombat come to life. As a result of the coronavirus canceling pretty much every sporting event you can think of, UFC President Dana White
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - California’s Santa Clara County, the technology hub hit hard by some of the first American cases of the coronavirus, dramatically slowed the illness with early and aggressive shelter-at-home rules, public health officer Sara Cody said on Tuesday. The county of about 2 million people, located south of San Francisco, was
So the PlayStation 5 controller is here ... and it's very, very white. And maybe because it's of all the white, but the initial reactions to the DualSense have been: Is this a Switch Pro Controller? How long is it going to stay white? And what the hell does the "Create" button do that the "Share" button didn't? The first main response to the DualSense's
These Nintendo remakes are getting out of control. And while, yeah, this is very much Just Two Things , I also want to point out the restraint/folly in not going for the more obvious route and making Yoshi the bounty hunter and Mario the weird, powerful baby. These are all the work of concept artist and illustrator Mauricio Abril, whose portfolio you
Despite the current situation the world is dealing with, phone companies still plan to release new phones this starting this month and well into the summer. While some of us might be tightening the belt right about now, manufacturers like Apple and Samsung are at this very moment still building phones and they still want you to buy them. I guess we'll
(Reuters) - Computer chip makers are banking on less disruptions to their factories from this week’s strict lockdown in Singapore than the havoc wreaked on their supply chains last month when Malaysia and the Philippines imposed vague restrictions about “essential” operations. In the United States, chipmakers are considered essential businesses and
Capcom isn’t just remaking Resident Evil 3 as a video game . There’s also a board game adaptation in the works. It’s being made by Steamforged Games, and a Kickstarter will go live later this month. You may think this is a weird time to be running a board game Kickstarter, and you’d be right ! But they’re obviously hoping, as other big Kickstarters
GIF: Twitch (xQc) Australians can't get into the Valorant beta just yet, but we'll have a whole bunch of tricks at our disposal when we do. The first to know: you can practically rocket jump over or around corners. The trick was used by former Overwatch pro and full-time streamer xQc, playing as character Raze. After being faced with an enemy stuck
Valve put out a big announcement today broadcasting the fact that “there’s been a continuous increase in the number of games achieving success on Steam”. Of course Valve would celebrate their own platform, but in sharing the success stories, it’s easy to lose sight of the increasing number of games that are failing. In a community post called Data
You know what you don't want to be caught doing only weeks after New Zealand officially recognised esports as an official sport , and in a period where esports is getting more attention than ever? Throwing Rocket League matches. The match on April 5 was part of the US$105,000 LPL Pro Rocket League Oceanic Championship, currently the biggest Rocket
Researchers from Boston University captured a detailed image of a jet of plasma powered by a supermassive black hole . The image was taken by the Event Horizon Telescope from a distance of over 5bn lightyears, from the M87 radio galaxy. With the one-year anniversary of #EHTblackhole around the corner, the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration has some
The 2020 iPhone SE is widely speculated to be modeled after the iPhone 8 (pictured above), but with upgraded internals. Eric Franklin/CNET Apple is expected to launch a more affordable phone , in the coming days, called either the iPhone SE or the iPhone 9 . This device would be a long overdue update to 2016's much-loved iPhone SE . If the rumors are
Screenshot: Gearbox Ever felt guilty about playing video games while the world crumbles around you? Well, you’re in luck, because Borderlands 3 now includes a special mini-game that lets you contribute to real-world scientific research while earning in-game rewards. Borderlands Science can be found in the infirmary of Sanctuary III, the spaceship that
The 2010s have come and gone, with the passage of time once again showing that we live in a meaningless universe where we ultimately die. But hey! There were some cool video games along the way. Caught in that catalogue were countless games that were woefully misunderstood, never getting the limelight they deserved. This is an arbitrary list of the
"Good splashdown of Dragon confirmed, completing the 20th and final Space Station resupply mission for SpaceX’s first iteration of the Dragon spacecraft!" the company tweeted on Tuesday. The unmanned Dragon CRS-20 spacecraft was released from the ISS robotic arm on Tuesday morning as both spacecraft traversed above Vietnam , Space X said. The @SpaceX
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative spearheads several philanthropic efforts. James Martin/CNET For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website . Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, said Tuesday that a new lab built by the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub and UCSF to expand coronavirus
Very excited for no one to succumb to the Black Rage at the worst possible time, that never happens when the Blood Angels are around, no siree. (Image: Games Workshop) I mean, it’s the grim dark future of the 41st Millennium. There’s bound to be a lot of the red stuff splashing about. Especially when the Blood Angels are involved. Over the last weekend,