3.3 Million Unemployment Claims Are Likely the 'Tip of the Iceberg'

According to the Department of Labor, 3.3 million Americans—roughly the population of Utah—have filed for unemployment insurance since last week. Huge doesn’t even begin to capture the scale of mass job loss, and yet there’s every reason to believe the reality is even worse.

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New York Governor Warns Hospitals Will Be Overwhelmed Under Nearly All Scenarios

“The number of ventilators we need is so astronomical. It’s not like they have them sitting in the warehouse.”

The Fate of a Dark Matter Theory Hinges on These Unidentified X-Rays

Despite decades of searching, no one has yet cracked the mystery of dark matter. One hypothesis to explain it relies on strange x-rays emanating from distant galaxies and galaxy clusters, but a new paper appears to rule out dark matter as producing these mysterious x-rays.

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Alex Jones Loses Sandy Hook Court Appeal, Must Now Pay Nearly $150,000 In Legal Fees

The Infowars host is being sued by nine people whose family members will killed in the Connecticut school shooting.

Toyota has a big hydrogen fuel-cell truck plan to cut CO2

Toyota is working on a heavy-duty fuel cell truck, that could use hydrogen to drive hundreds of miles while only emitting pure water. The project, a collaboration with fellow Japanese automaker Hino Motors Ltd, aims to tackle carbon dioxide emissions by targeting one of the biggest emitters: commercial vehicles. Toyota is no stranger to hydrogen fuel cells. The automaker currently … Continue reading

Plex makes its Live TV feature free to everyone for three months

Plex is back with another long blog post, this one offering something free to all of the people who are stuck at home in quarantine. Among other things, the company is making its Live TV feature available to all of its users for free for the next three months. With this, anyone who has an HD OTA TV antenna can … Continue reading

Dyson, Airbus, McLaren making coronavirus ventilators, UK joins EU effort

Manufacturers in the UK expect the government to give them the green light to move their facilities from normal operations to making medical supplies. Dyson is in one group, another group is led by Airbus. Both groups have announced that they have only to be given the go-ahead by the UK government by next week. In separate news, the UK’s … Continue reading

Alphabet’s Verily shows how its drive-thru COVID-19 testing sites work

Verily — Alphabet’s healthcare brand — isn’t just creating a website to help northern Californians determine whether they need a test for COVID-19. It’s also piloting drive-thru testing. It has opened two sites, one in Riverside County and another…

HBO’s 'Kill Chain' doc highlights the flaws in US election machines

While COVID-19 might be putting just about everything else on hold, we’re still marching towards a presidential election later this year. After the high-profile interference of 2016, election security and foreign meddling are still critical issues, b…

Airbnb hosts can volunteer to house COVID-19 responders

Airbnb is dealing with COVID-19 cancellations by providing support to people on the front lines of the pandemic. It’s launching a worldwide initiative that will let hosts opt in to offering free or subsidized housing to healthcare workers, first res…