Or Fleisher, Gabriel Gianordoli, Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Karthik Patanjali, Miles Peyton and Bedel Saget at The New York Times:
The public health debate on masks is settled, said Joseph G. Allen, director of the Healthy Buildings program at Harvard. When you wear a mask, “You protect yourself, you protect others, you prevent yourself from touching your face,” he said. And you signal that wearing a mask is the right thing to do.
After extensive testing, we’ve discovered that in very rare cases, some Philips Hue 40 Watt outdoor power supply units (PSU) may become damaged due to water leakage and pose a safety risk if touched in wet conditions.
This seems … not great, but I am still interested in putting some of these out front of our house at some point.
There are tens of thousands of genes in the human genome: minuscule twists of DNA and RNA that combine to express all of the traits and characteristics that make each of us unique. Each gene is given a name and alphanumeric code, known as a symbol, which scientists use to coordinate research. But over the past year or so, some 27 human genes have been renamed, all because Microsoft Excel kept misreading their symbols as dates.
Haiku is an open-source project dedicated to rebuilding BeOS. The group just released the second beta, and Jim Salter has a thorough look at it over on Ars Technica.
If you aren’t familiar with BeOS, check out this episode of my podcast Flashback, on which Quinn Nelson and I dug deep into the operating system and its parent company.
Josh Dzieza and Nilay Patel at The Verge, with an update to a truly bizarre story. Foxconn has been buying up properties around the state of Wisconsin, but hasn’t told anyone what it is doing with the space.1
When The Verge poked around, it turned out most of the buildings were empty. Foxconn’s Alan Yeung told The Verge it would issue a statement to “correct” The Verge’s reporting on the empty office space. Here’s where the current story starts:
…and John Legere has left the building.
In these uncertain days, Emojipedia is showing up and doing the work.
The year is 1995. You’re stuck with slow floppy disks that only hold 1.44 MB of data. But there’s an exciting new technology: Zip drives, which can hold 100 MB and free you from floppy disks!
Now, 25 years later, we look back at Iomega’s Zip technology and its history. Did you know some industries still use Zip drives?
They really did feel like the future.
Larry Tesler, a pioneering computer scientist who worked at Apple from 1980 to 1997, and created computerized cut, copy, and paste, died this week at the age of 74.
Tesler was VP of AppleNet and Apple’s Advanced Technology Group. During his time at Apple, he played a key role in the development of products ranging from the Lisa to the Newton MessagePad.
And that was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to his contribution to computing.
I was scrolling through the Apple Watch Workout app the other day and realized there are a lot more options listed for tracking than I ever noticed.
In addition to some workout types I was surprised to see I was impressed and amused by the artwork used to depict them all. These little images also raise some questions:
