Google’s coronavirus screening website is live, but it’s not the resource you want

Posted on March 16, 2020March 16, 2020 by Authcom

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Google sister site Verily opened a limited COVID-19 screening site that lets people in two Bay Area counties register for testing.
Verily’s screening and testing site doesn’t seem to be the nationwide resource President Trump promised from Google, and which Google then said it was developing.
Certain conditions apply, and not everyone registering for a free test will qualify, with patients who are already showing coronavirus symptoms being advise to seek medical care.
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One of the measures that President Trump announced on Friday when he declared the coronavirus national emergency was a website that Google was supposedly developing to facilitate the access to coronavirus testing. Google had 1,700 engineers working on the project, he said. But it turned out that Google didn’t really know it was making such a website. Instead, Google-sister company confirmed that a more limited site was in the works and that it wasn’t the nationwide project Trump referred to. Since Friday Google confirmed it’s working with the US government on a nationwide site, stopping short from revealing any specific details about it. Verily, meanwhile, launched its coronavirus screening site, proving this isn’t the COVID-19 website you expect.

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The Amex Platinum is the perfect credit card in almost any scenario, including emergencies

Posted on March 16, 2020March 16, 2020 by Authcom

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Emergencies, preparedness, uncertainty and the like are what’s on everybody’s mind right now thanks to the relentless spread and effects of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
As all of us practice more social distancing and even quarantining, it might be increasingly less practical to visit a bank or ATM to withdraw cash. We recommend keeping The Platinum Card® from American Express handy — and to sign up for the card if you haven’t already and you’re looking for a new piece of plastic.
This guide will tell you everything you need to know about the Amex Platinum.
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When you’re on the hunt for a credit card that comes with generous rewards and perks, it might be tempting to zero in on cards that offer big five- and six-digit welcome bonuses right up front. Indeed, for many consumers, it might be super-enticing to see a card like The Platinum Card® from American Express with its welcome offer of 60,000 points (after using the card to spend $5,000 in your first three months) and pretty quickly think about signing up.

In actual fact, though, the Amex Platinum also offers a ton of other reasons to think about signing up for this premium card, perks for which you’ll pay a $550 annual fee but which mount up quickly. Such that they more than offset the fee and give travelers, as well as anyone who wants a card that lavishes them with luxe benefits, plenty of opportunities to enjoy the finer things in life. But this isn’t merely the card to help you enjoy VIP-level benefits — In our opinion, this is an excellent card to keep on hand for emergencies and in lieu of cash, something that’s especially relevant thanks to the spread of the coronavirus right now.

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Coronavirus panic-buying even hits Amazon hard, where many essentials are out of stock

Posted on March 16, 2020March 16, 2020 by Authcom

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Coronavirus panic has sent consumers racing to find and stock up on household essentials to prepare for the virus, like Purell and toilet paper — items that have been all but stripped from the shelves of most major physical retail locations at the moment.
Even Amazon, the so-called Everything Store, has not been immune to the effect of consumer panic-buying. Many items that consumers are currently desperate to find right now are listed as out-of-stock.
The retailer penned a blog post on Sunday to address what it’s doing to meet this challenge, at a time when the US is continuing to ratchet up its response to the coronavirus that’s now a global pandemic.
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The COVID-19 coronavirus has, at least temporarily, succeeded in doing something unprecedented to one US company otherwise thought to be all but unstoppable: It’s turned Amazon from the so-called Everything Store into the Everything You’re Desperately Trying to Find Right Now is Out of Stock Store.

The Internet retail giant on Sunday acknowledged via a company blog post what many of you are no doubt discovering on your own right now, that products ranging from Purell hand sanitizer to digital thermometers are either scarce, on backorder, or listed as out of stock right now. At a time when panicked buyers have stripped essentials like those and others from brick-and-mortar retail store shelves, leading to widespread unavailability of household staples like toilet paper, hand soap, sanitizer, and other essentials — and causing many people to turn (unsuccessfully) to Amazon as a last-resort source for those goods.

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Xbox Live is down at the worst possible time

Posted on March 15, 2020March 15, 2020 by Authcom

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Xbox Live is down for everyone on Sunday, March 15th as of around 4:30 PM EDT.
This is the second time that Xbox Live has gone down in the last week, just as people all over the world attempt to avoid their exposure to others and the outside world due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Microsoft is aware of the Xbox Live sign in and matchmaking issues and is investigating.
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Everyone on the planet is trying to cope with the new post-outbreak reality that we live in, and for many of us, that involves sitting down on our couches and playing video games. Unfortunately, if you want to play those games with your a friend online (the friends you can’t see in person because of social distancing), you can’t do so on Xbox Live right now, as the platform went down on Sunday, March 15th at around 4:30 or 5:00 PM EDT.

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NASA fixed its Mars mole problem in the most unusual way

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NASA’s InSight lander might have finally fixed its mole problem.
A new strategy to push the mole probe into the surface appears to be working, NASA teased in a tweet.
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NASA’s InSight lander has performed a lot of great work since its arrival on the Red Planet many months ago. It’s provided scientists with insights (no pun intended) into the planet, revealing that marsquakes frequently rumble across its rocky surface, and even sent back timely weather reports. Just about everything is going well for the high-tech robot. Just about.

The one instrument that has seriously failed to meet expectations is the self-hammering “mole” tool that was supposed to dig itself up to 16 deep. Its first attempts were lackluster, and even when NASA tried new techniques, Mars barfed the probe back up again. Now, NASA is pulling out all the stops, and its newest plan appears to be working.

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Google says it’s building Trump’s coronavirus website it didn’t know it was building

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Google this weekend announced that it’s working with the US government on a nationwide COVID-19 coronavirus information website.
The company was caught off-guard by Trump’s revelation during Friday’s national emergency announcement that Google was developing such a website.
Google said at the time that the only website in development was actually made by Verily, and it wasn’t supposed to be a service available nationwide. Now, however, Google says it is indeed building a site like the one Trump described.
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President Donald Trump said on Friday that Google was working on a new coronavirus screening site part of the administration’s measures to combat the COVID-19 epidemic in the US. The revelation that some 1,700 Google engineers were developing the site came after Trump declared the novel coronavirus a national emergency. Google was caught off-guard at the time, and reports that followed revealed that Google wasn’t working on any sort of site and was surprised to see Trump’s detail anything like it. Trump’s claim seemed to be partly true, as Alphabet sister company Verily was indeed working on a triage tool for COVID-19 testing, but the site was in the early stages of development. It wasn’t supposed to be a nationwide tool for COVID-19 testing, either.

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The smallest dinosaur ever was found encased in amber

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Scientists say they’ve found the tiniest dinosaur ever, and it was encased in amber.
The fossil, found in Myanmar, is so small that it’s comparable to the smallest bird species alive today.
The researchers believe that despite its size, it was a carnivore that feasted primarily on bugs.
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A tiny chunk of fossilized tree sap holds the tiniest dinosaur ever discovered, according to a team of researchers. As BBC News reports, the fossilized sap, called amber, was found in Myanmar and holds what looks a bit like a tiny bird skull. Dating back some 99 million years, the ancient remains are from the Cretaceous period, and offer us a window into the past we rarely enjoy.

The discovery, which is the subject of a new research paper published in the journal Nature, doesn’t include a full skeleton, but scientists can estimate the size of the dinosaur based on its skull alone. They believe it may have been as small as the tiniest species of bird alive today.

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Netflix arrivals and departures for the week of March 15th, 2020

Posted on March 15, 2020March 15, 2020 by Authcom

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Netflix has another huge week lined up with 24 new releases coming to the streaming service, including the anime spinoff, Altered Carbon: Resleeved.
Some of the licensed additions include Silver Linings Playbook and Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy.
The Platform is a new Netflix original movie that looks like it will be worth your time.
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As the threat of coronavirus looms and virtually every major event has been canceled or suspended, there has never been a better time to hunker down at home and catch up on the shows and movies you’ve been meaning to watch. I’ll admit that as I scrolled through Netflix last night, everything began to look far more interesting than it did when I could go outside. And as is always the case with Netflix, there’s even more content hitting the streaming service this week, including a few returning favorites and some major, award-winning blockbuster movies.

None of the all-time Netflix series are coming back this week, but if you’re an Altered Carbon fan, you might want to check out the Resleeved anime, which sees Takeshi Kovacs going on a much different adventure than what we saw in the live-action series. There’s also a brand new show called The Letter for the King, and although it’s targeted at a younger audience, the trailer looks great. It can’t be worse than Game of Thrones season 8, anyway.

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PS5 and Xbox Series X releases likely to be delayed

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PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are two of the most anticipated products of the year, next-gen console upgrades that have been seven years in the making.
Expected to be released this holiday season, the PS5 and new Xbox might be delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The worldwide response to the COVID-19 outbreak will have a tremendous impact on the economy in the coming months, and the production of non-essential goods, like the 2020 consoles, might suffer as well.
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The PS5 and Xbox Series X are expected to be released ahead of the holidays this year, according to Sony and Microsoft’s official announcements. However, those tentative launch windows haven’t been updated since before the novel coronavirus outbreak started in China, and the actual launches of the PS5 and Xbox Series X may be severely affected by the pandemic. As the outbreak crippled China earlier this year, several reports emerged revealing that factory closures might hurt the production of several popular products, including the latest iPhones and the Nintendo Switch consoles. Analysts said that the PS5 and Xbox launches may see delays and stock issues as a result.

Sony and Microsoft partner AMD recently suggested that both consoles will be released on schedule, and that may still be accurate. Both companies could always go forward with announcements, and they may still ship the PS5 and Xbox on time. But don’t expect a smooth launch for either video game console given what’s happening around the world right now.

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Coronavirus infection may be worsened by a common household drug

Posted on March 15, 2020March 15, 2020 by Authcom

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France, one of the European countries seeing the biggest surge in novel coronavirus cases in the past few weeks, has taken additional measures to increase social distancing in an effort to curb the rate of COVID-19 infections.
Doctors treating coronavirus cases have suggested that using a particular type of anti-inflammatory drug sold without a prescription can aggravate the illness in patients who are treating the symptoms of an undiagnosed COVID-19 infection.
France is urging its citizens to use paracetamol (Tylenol, etc.) to treat fever rather than Ibuprofen (Advil, etc.) and to seek medical guidance if they’re already on NSAIDs.
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France is one of the top four European countries battling the novel coronavirus outbreak, with Italy, Spain, and Germany leading the pack — there are more than 37,000 confirmed cases between them, of which more than 1,700 have been fatal. France has reported nearly 4,500 cases so far, with the death toll sitting at 79.

The French government on Saturday announced more restrictions meant to increase social distancing. Schools were closed on Thursday. Now, restaurants, movie theaters, shops, tourist attractions, and other non-essential stores are shuttered. French health officials also made a stunning discovery as they’ve been battling the local epidemic: Common drugs you have around the house may worsen your condition if you have an unconfirmed COVID-19 infection.

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