Tech giants are fighting to become the de facto videoconferencing tool for remote workers in the time of COVID-19. Zoom rose to the top fast, but thanks to various security and privacy issues, was pegged back by competitors. But rivals have their flaws too, as evidenced by a weakness discovered in Microsoft’s collaboration and videoconferencing tool Teams, as revealed on Monday.
Just finding space to park can be a problem, and idle planes require a surprising amount of work, from maintaining hydraulics to stopping birds from nesting.
Octopuses have long arms and plenty of smarts, but they don’t point. Nor do chimps, gorillas or other apes, at least not in the wild.
As countries put in place lockdowns to combat the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, people turned to video games in droves, pushing digital revenue to $10 billion and making March the best month ever for digital spending, according to Nielsen’s SuperData.
The unprecedented global shutdown has had some surprising effects on the environment. On the upside, less commerce and commuting has resulted in lower pollution. On the downside, the lockdown has translated into fewer volunteers for conservation efforts and a serious lack of ecological law enforcement. So as we pause, amid this great pause, to celebrate Earth Day, here are some of the pandemic’s less obvious effects on our common home.
To borrow and slightly modify a famous quote from Napoleon “The Greeks’showed themselves worthy of victory, but the Romans showed themselves worthy of being invincible.”
The Romans were the most powerful fighting force the world had ever seen. There was simply no stopping their expansion.
Wouldn’t you say that it just looks like a blurry picture of Albert Einstein? Maybe even ghostly with the shadowing.
Only if you do not mind contaminating the pool
…and in the process pissing off a lot of people for it.
SINGAPORE – A man appeared in a district court on Friday (April 24) after he allegedly left home about 30 minutes before his period of isolation ended during the coronavirus outbreak.