When Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced the extension of the circuit breaker until June 1, there’s one thing that’s running through the minds of those in the Malay-Muslim community: there’s no Hari Raya this year. It’s only the second week of Ramadan — a holy month when Muslims observe …
Read More »These Clothes Were Made For Lounging
The setting: Your living room. [You enter the room and begin scrolling through your phone. You land on an old photo where you’re wearing a pair of jeans. You laugh.] “Jeans?” [You take a long drag of an imaginary cigarette for the drama.] “Haven’t heard that name in weeks, possibly …
Read More »Researchers find actively exploited iOS flaws that were open for years
(Reuters) — Apple is planning to fix a flaw that a security firm said may have left more than half a billion iPhones vulnerable to hackers. The bug, which also exists on iPads, was discovered by ZecOps, a San Francisco-based mobile security forensics company, while it was investigating a sophisticated …
Read More »‘We’re in Disaster Mode’: Courage Inside a Brooklyn Hospital Confronting Coronavirus
It was not even 9 in the morning and Dr. Sylvie de Souza’s green N95 mask, which was supposed to form a seal against her face, was already askew. In freezing rain on Monday, she trudged in clogs between the emergency department she chairs at the Brooklyn Hospital Center and …
Read More »Facebook: 90% of those who got a Quest for Christmas were new to Oculus
During the introduction video for the Facebook: Game Developers Showcase, Oculus’s Chris Pruett revealed an interesting stat regarding just how popular the Oculus Quest has been since its release in May. “We look at the folks that turned on their devices around Christmas [in 2019] and 90% of those people are …
Read More »Valve president Gabe Newell: ‘We’re way closer to The Matrix than people realize’
Think we’re far off from The Matrix? Gabe Newell says you should think again. In a rare interview with IGN ahead of next week’s release of Half-Life: Alyx, Newell reasoned that more advanced forms of VR might not be too far out. “We’re way closer to The Matrix than people realize,” he stated. …
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