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March, 2020

Animal Crossing: New Horizons fans are contributing to a real museum

The Museum of English Rural Life is collecting smocks

Adult Animation Is Now 'The Fastest-Growing Animation Category': Report

Adult animation, particularly series, is growing and diversifying like never before.

Telecoms are sneaking ‘stay home’ messages onto customers’ smartphones

The messages are being placed next to connection signal symbols to promote social distancing

Mozilla launches Firefox Better Web browser powered by Scroll's ad-free subscription service

Like Scroll's original subscription service, Firefox Better Web Beta leverages Scroll's robust publisher network to provide readers with an ad-free experience that puts content and privacy first. Participating publishers then receive a cut of these subscription fees, allowing them to continue to create awesome content free of advertisements. Today, more than 300 publishers, including Android Police, are already part of Scroll's ad-free network, making it likely that some of your favorite sites are on the list.

Pangolin européen

"Alors que je me désolais de n’avoir pas de féline compagnie pour traverser cette période de confinement, un chat est soudain apparu dans mon salon… Magie !"

Les Valaisans restent fidèles à leurs chiens malgré le coronavirus

Des propos alarmistes diffusés sur les réseaux sociaux pouvaient faire craindre le pire. En Valais, les refuges n’enregistrent pas d’abandons de chiens ou de lapins… Au contraire.

Microsoft Teams goes down just as Europe logs on to work remotely

Microsoft’s chat and communications tool, Microsoft Teams, is down across Europe this morning. [...] “We’re investigating messaging-related functionality problems within Microsoft Teams,” says a Microsoft support Twitter account.

xkcd: 2010 and 2020
To improve the US coronavirus response, Donald Trump should resign

We are facing a pandemic about which US President Donald Trump appears incapable of telling the truth — assuming he even knows it — and without quick action, a lot of people are going to get sick. Some of them will die. The president’s incoherence has reached a level that is a hazard to public health. The best thing Trump can do for the country, to speed its response to the novel coronavirus, is resign and let someone capable take over.

Why modern chemistry still needs glassblowers

Lots of modern chemistry research still relies on unique, hand-blown glass instruments. Step inside a scientific glassblowing workshop and see a third-genera...

Envision Glasses : des lunettes Google pour aider les personnes déficientes visuelles

La société utilise les Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 avec une dose d’intelligence artificielle pour donner des indications vocales sur ce que se trouve en face d’elle, reconnaître des visages familiers ou lire du texte (un courrier, une recette, etc.). 

Japanese Government Approves New Bill to Criminalize Manga Piracy

The government of Japan has approved a new bill aimed at reducing the downloading of pirated content from the Internet. The new law, which is targeted for Jan 1, 2021, will criminalize the downloading of manga, magazines and academic material with prison sentences of up to two years. Operators of pirate linking sites will also face up to five years behind bars.

A new stunt demonstrates how a broken streaming system encourages piracy

Splintering leads to frustration leads to piracy

The unexpected Google wide domain check bypass

Let me tell you this “funny” story of me trying to bypass a domain check in a little webapp, and acidentally bypassing a URL parser that is used in (almost) every Google product.

Twitter puts ‘manipulated’ tag on faked Biden video retweeted by Trump

It’s believed to be the first time the platform has used the tag to denote faked media.

“Let’s use Kubernetes!” Now you have 8 problems

There is no such thing as best practices in general; there are only best practices for a particular situation. Just because something is trendy and popular doesn’t mean it’s the right choice for you.

Plex Slammed By Huge Copyright Coalition For Not Policing Pirates

I can't wait for VLC to be sued because we can paste the URL of a pirated show stored on a shared FTP server. /s

Animal Crossing: New Horizons has paper bags you can wear

So now there’s an item that allows you to wear a paper bag on your head, which is cool, but I have a pressing question. If I give this to a villager as a gift, are they capable of wearing it? Can I force them — particularly, my mortal enemy who is clogging up my island with their unwanted presence — to wear the paper bag in an effort to make them leave?

Public media found its answer to Spotify in Pocket Casts

BBC Studios has invested in the app

The Verge Tech Survey 2020: how people feel about Apple, Google, Facebook and more

Ahead of the election year, we polled Americans about which big tech companies they trust with their personal information — and which ones should be broken up