Pixel 5 release date reportedly delayed
- The Pixel 5 release date has been postponed due to “market conditions,” a leaker said on Twitter.
- The same person said the Pixel 4a will be unveiled in early July, more than a month later than expected, and that the phone will launch in August.
- The Pixel 5 launch event should take place in October, considering what Google did with previous Pixel launches.
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Google is struggling to sell Pixel phones, but the new Pixel phones are highly anticipated devices every year. The Pixel is the closest thing Android has to iPhone, especially the high-end models that pack flagship specs and run the latest operating system release. However, this year’s new Pixels have been delayed, a leaker said. The release dates of both the Pixel 4a and the Pixel 5 have been pushed back significantly, and the novel coronavirus health crisis is the obvious explanation for the move. The evolution of the pandemic is expected to impact the iPhone 12 launch as well and might hurt other new products supposed to launch this year, including the Xbox Series X and PS5 consoles.
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Bumblebees can trick plants into flowering early
- There’s a secret bumblebee trick that can trigger plants to flower a month earlier than they would otherwise.
- Researchers in Switzerland discovered that when bumblebees chew a specific pattern into the leaves of a plant, it flowers up to 30 days early.
- Attempts to replicate the phenomenon by damaging the plants in a similar manner didn’t work.
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Bumblebees are pretty cool. They’re not nasty like wasps, and while they can sting if they are threatened, they’re usually content to just live their lives and avoid humans as much as possible. Now, a new study published in Science reveals a secret trick that bumblebees use to fool plants into flowering early. This makes them even cooler.
The research, which was conducted by scientists in Switzerland, blows the lid off of a technique the bees use when pollen is scarce. It seems all they have to do is let the plants know they’re waiting, and they do that by chewing a very specific pattern into the leaves.
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Bumblebees can trick plants into flowering early originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 21 May 2020 at 23:13:37 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Facebook Messenger’s new security features should protect you from scammers
- New Facebook Messenger security features will improve protections for minors as well as adults when it comes to unwanted chat requests.
- Facebook developed new safety tips powered by machine learning that will still work after the service gets its promised end-to-end encryption.
- The new safety features will offer users tips on how to handle suspicious people contacting them over Messenger.
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Facebook just launched Messenger Rooms, a video chatting feature that works just like Zoom, and you don’t even need a Facebook account to use it.
That’s not the only new trick coming to Messenger users, though, as Facebook on Thursday announced brand new security features meant to protect users against unwanted chat requests, whether they’re from predators targeting minors or scammers looking for new victims. The new features are powered by machine learning, and they will work even after Messenger gets end-to-end encryption.
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Equifax is paying $5.5M to banks, but nothing to victims of the 2017 data breach
- As surprising as it might sound, victims of the Equifax data breach from back in 2017 still haven’t received their share of the $700 million Equifax settlement with the FTC yet.
- Be that as it may, however, the credit reporting agency has gone ahead and reached a $5.5 million agreement to pay banks that issued credit cards that were identified in the Equifax hack.
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A cruel twist of irony has emerged as a kind of coda to the major 2017 Equifax data breach that resulted in hackers nabbing more than 200,000 payment card numbers and expiration dates and Equifax agreeing to a $700 million settlement with the FTC.
The original plan had been to offer victims of the data breach up to $125 as part of the settlement, along with an alternate offer of free credit monitoring. However, the portion of that $700 million dedicated to the direct cash payments to victims only totaled $31 million, and there were so many victims that the kitty quickly ran dry. But while plenty of victims have come up short in the Equifax settlement, banks (big surprise) are still getting paid — to the tune of $5.5 million.
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Astronomers think they just watched a planet be born
- A baby planet was just spotted by scientists using the Very Large Telescope in Chile.
- The object, a swirling mass of matter surrounding a central point in space, is believed to be the first in-progress planet spotted by scientists.
- As telescope technology improves, our ability to study and understand what is happening in other star systems will grow.
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Planets don’t just pop out of nowhere. They can form in different ways but one thing is consistent about all of them: All the matter that makes up a planet was, at some point in the past, drifting free of all the other particles that now surround it.
Now, astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope have spotted what they think is a planet in the midst of being born. A central point in a swirling mass of dust and gas, it may be the first baby planet ever spotted by humans.
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CDC: Babies born to mothers with coronavirus need to be tested
- The CDC updated its website this week to offer guidance for doctors in cases where a pregnant woman who has tested positive for the coronavirus gives birth.
- The data is limited, but infants may be at higher risk for a severe case of COVID-19 than older children, and they need to be tested twice within 48 hours of their birth.
- The CDC also recommends that the mothers are kept six feet from their newborn children.
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Living through the novel coronavirus pandemic has been a challenge for all of us, but as I sit here, working from home and able to limit my exposure to the outside world, I can’t help but think about how much more complicated this ordeal must be for countless individuals and families who have much more to worry about than whether or not Rite Aid down the street will finally be stocked with name brand toilet paper this week.
To that point, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidelines this week for pregnant women who have tested positive for COVID-19 or are suspected to have caught the disease. The guidelines suggest that any babies born to COVID-19 confirmed or suspected women should be tested for the virus at 24 hours and 48 hours of age, regardless of whether or not the babies themselves show any symptoms.
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T-Mobile is giving away the iPhone SE for free with a trade-in
- T-Mobile launched its Connecting Heroes initiative this week, giving free service to first responders.
- T-Mobile also started offering a free iPhone SE with eligible trade-ins for the next few days.
- If you don’t want an iPhone SE, you can also get a Galaxy S20 for up to half off.
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On Thursday, T-Mobile committed to providing free service and 5G access to first responder agencies for the next ten years, which the mobile carrier says will save them over $7 billion.
Through the Connecting Heroes initiative, T-Mobile wants to give back to fire, police, and EMS departments that put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe. Agencies that are interested in signing up for the initiative can visit t-mobile.com/connectingheroes for more information. But the news doesn’t end there. T-Mobile and Sprint customers are also being given the opportunity to get a free iPhone SE or up to $500 off of a Galaxy S20.
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Jupiter could have easily become a star, and Earth would have been doomed
- The massive gas giant Jupiter could have potentially become a star in the earliest days of the solar system.
- If Jupiter had become a star, the odds of Earth hosting life (or existing at all) are slim.
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Jupiter is the mighty king of our solar system. It’s by far the largest, most massive planet, and the swirling storms that dominate its atmosphere make it instantly recognizable. It’s big. So big, in fact, that it’s actually not crazy to imagine our solar system shaking out in a way that caused Jupiter to grow large enough to become a star.
In a new piece on Universe Today, Paul Sutter proposes an interesting thought experiment using our knowledge of Jupiter as well as what scientists have learned about star formation. The short version of the story is that we should be very happy that Jupiter isn’t any bigger.
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If you don’t wear a face mask in one of these states, you’re breaking the law
- Wearing a face mask whenever you’re in public these days is starting to become a fact of life as Americans adjust to a reopening of their states and learn to live with the coronavirus until a vaccine is developed.
- However, the rules vary from place to place. For some businesses, a face mask is a requirement. For others, it’s a strong suggestion. And in some states, you’re technically breaking the law if you’re not wearing one.
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Face masks have become one of the most enduring — and surprisingly controversial — images of the coronavirus pandemic that’s been tearing through the US for more than two months now. Anyone who takes a flight on a major US airline right now, for example, will find face masks required for both airline employees as well as passengers. Increasingly, such face coverings are also required when you shop at retail stores, as a complement to other coronavirus-related protections that include also asking that people continue to socially distance inside and to limit how many people can actually be in the store at one time. My local Target store, for example, now keeps customers lined up outside the front door, welcoming in people gradually to keep that number limited inside.
At the same time, we’re starting to see vehement protests of the requirement to wear face masks, with airlines offering a good example of the line that companies are trying to straddle. They want customers — no, they actually desperately need customers right now, with the economy still a mess. They also want those customers to wear a face mask, which can limit the spread of your germs to other people. But for some airlines, the face mask rule is a requirement without any enforcement. You have to wear one during your flight … but there’s no “or else.”
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This is how the CDC wants to reopen the US
- The CDC has issued guidance for “reopening the country” even as the coronavirus timeline remains unclear.
- Many of the recommendations are things we’ve heard before, like maintaining social distancing and avoiding contact with just about everyone.
- The document covers the reopening of schools, bars, restaurants, and more.
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The novel coronavirus pandemic is still in full swing here in the United States. Some states are faring better than others, but if you bother to glance at the daily tallies of new cases it’s clear that we’re not out of the woods yet. Despite that, the powers that be have decided it’s time to start “reopening the country.”
It’s going to be a slow process, with individual states and even cities issuing their own timelines for when things will reopen and services will return to normal. For its part, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued its own lengthy document detailing its guidelines for getting the country back on its feet.
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