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• A pill to fix muscular dystrophy (arstechnica.com)
  PTC124, an orally-bioactive small molecule, could treat Duchenne's muscular …
• USAID decides not to collect former workers’ abandoned devices (theverge.com)
  USAID says it will wipe former workers’ phones and computers remotely and leave them with the devices.
• Nintendo warns against the use of mod chips (arstechnica.com)
  Nintendo is scared of mod chips, enough to warn customers against using them.
• Gmail gets a slider on Android tablets, AI on the side (theverge.com)
  Gmail has new sliders on Android tablets, Material Design 3 on iPhones and iPads, and a sidebar Gemini image generator.
• A French e-voting "catastrophe" (arstechnica.com)
  E-voting got off to a rough start in France this week, with technical problems …
• COVID-19: Here's how one pandemic will change our lives, forever (zdnet.com)
  The coronavirus will leave an enormous impact on how we consume, how we learn, how we work, and how we socialize and communicate.
• Trump offers a private dinner to his biggest memecoin buyers (theverge.com)
  $TRUMP coin’s value shot up by $100 million after the contest was announced, sparking calls for an ethics probe.
• Game Informer previews Grand Theft Auto 4, gets slammed for their troubles (arstechnica.com)
  Game Informer gets an exclusive covering Grand Theft Auto 4, but it can read …
• Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia (theverge.com)
  Ed Martin, interim US attorney for DC, has written a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation, threatening its status as a nonprofit entity.
• Graph analytics for the people: No code data migration, visual querying, and free COVID-19 (zdnet.com)
  Graph databases and analytics are getting ever more accessible and relevant
• Google: This is what caused CPU throttling at our cloud data center (zdnet.com)
  Google says crushed rack wheels busted a cooling system, causing CPU performance to be throttled.
• Court grants permanent injunction to Vonage in Verizon patent fight (arstechnica.com)
  Vonage gets its oxygen supply back as an appeals court issues a permanent …
• Former Apple CFO blames Jobs for backdating (arstechnica.com)
  The Apple backdating scandal is heating up once again, as former CFO Fred …
• Alphabet website for novel coronavirus screening and testing is now live (zdnet.com)
  The platform is currently limited to test locations in the United States.
• 4chan is back online. (theverge.com)
  Following an apparent hack, it looks like the site is back up. The 4chan blog also got its first post in 8 years, but it doesn’t really say…
• Minireview: Shiira 2.0 for OS X not ready for primetime (arstechnica.com)
  The WebKit-based Shiira 2. look.
• œPeriod‑correct hardware with the latest technology features.†(theverge.com)
  That’s how Land Rover describes the recently-released upgrade for third‑generation Range Rovers produced between 2010‑2012 that lets them a…
• Remote work: A nationwide survey challenges WFH perceptions (zdnet.com)
  Not everyone is going to love the next few weeks at home, it turns out.
• Independent Bookstore Day vs. Amazon. (theverge.com)
  Independent Bookstore Day is on Saturday, but Amazon is having a book sale, too, reports Fast Company. An Amazon spokesperson tells the pub…
• Slack fixes vulnerability exploitable for session hijacking, account takeovers (zdnet.com)
  Slack’s team jumped on the critical bug and patched the flaw within a matter of hours.
• Report: 80 percent of blogs contain "offensive" content (arstechnica.com)
  A new report says that the so-called blogosphere is a lot like a George Carlin …
• Judge denies RIAA request to reconsider attorneys' fees award (arstechnica.com)
  The RIAA will be writing a large check to the attorneys of Debbie Foster, a …
• Destroyed the coating on your iPhone's screen by cleaning it too much? Repairing it is easy! (zdnet.com)
  Coronavirus got you cleaning your smartphone so much -- or maybe the wrong way -- that you've destroyed the oil-repellent coating on the di…
• A strong donation. (theverge.com)
  The Strong National Museum of Play has received a donation from Volition, and the collection includes materials from series like Descent, R…
• ZTE denies knowledge of alleged US bribery investigation (zdnet.com)
  Reports claim that ZTE may have paid off foreign officials to strengthen its global business position.
• Bending to industry, Donald Trump issues executive order to ‘expedite’ deep sea mining (theverge.com)
  President Donald Trump signed an executive order attempting to speed efforts to open up the deep sea for mining.
• AMD feels cash crunch, will take on $2 billion in debt (arstechnica.com)
  AMD doesn't like its bank account balance and will issue $2 billion in …
• GPU prices are out of control again (theverge.com)
  Nvidia and AMD GPUs are nowhere near MSRP — they now cost hundreds of dollars more than announced.
• WordPress to add auto-update feature for themes and plugins (zdnet.com)
  Auto-update feature is only available for the WordPress CMS core now. To be expanded for themes and plugins.
• Google tops Microsoft again, this time for "most powerful brand" (arstechnica.com)
  Google climbs from No. 7 to No. 1 in a ranking of the worlds top brands...
• Kuxiu’s semisolid state power bank costs a little more but lasts much longer (theverge.com)
  The Kuxiu S2 Qi2 5000mAh MagSafe-compatible power bank is the world’s first to use a semisolid state battery making it safer and longer las…
• The web audience measurement kerfuffle: why it's a good thing (arstechnica.com)
  It might be hard to see why fighting between the likes of comScore, Nielsen...
• Telstra makes all home broadband plans unlimited in response to coronavirus (zdnet.com)
  Until the end of April, Telstra home broadband customers are without a data quota.
• High demands send Woolworths and Coles' online delivery into disarray (zdnet.com)
  Coles has put a halt on all online orders, while Woolworths has paused its click-and-collect service nationally.
• Bionic Bay review: mixing floppy physics with hard sci-fi (theverge.com)
  Bionic Bay is a new platform game for the PS5 and Steam that mixes elements of Limbo and Super Meat Boy.
• Two 360 exclusives now headed to PS3 (arstechnica.com)
  SCI Entertainment announced today that two previous Xbox 360 exclusives?Kane …
• Google is paying Samsung an ‘enormous sum’ to preinstall Gemini (theverge.com)
  Testimony in Google’s search antitrust hearings confirmed the company is paying Samsung to preinstall the Gemini AI app on its phones.
• Korean telcos close down call centres near COVID-19 hotspot (zdnet.com)
  Workers at telcos' call centres at the city of Daegu, the epicentre of COVID-19 in South Korea, will work from home.
• XBLA to have another double-header week (arstechnica.com)
  Two more titles are due for the second XBLA double header in as many weeks...
• WhatsApp is testing sticker reactions on Android. (theverge.com)
  That includes stickers available in WhatsApp’s sticker keyboard and those that users import, according to WABetaInfo, which spotted the cha…
• CSSEdit 2.5 for OS X adds ton of UI and other improvements (arstechnica.com)
  The MacRabbit team has been hard at work on CSSEdit 2.5, which brings a lot of …
• Costco’s launch day Switch 2 Mario Kart bundle will come with a subscription. (theverge.com)
  The retailer lists its Mario Kart World bundle as available to buy on the console’s June 5th launch day and including a 12-month subscripti…
• When art meets gaming: "I am 8-bit" art exibit underway (arstechnica.com)
  The "I am 8-bit" art exhibition is well underway, and geeks everywhere are …
• US bans federals funds from being used on Huawei and ZTE equipment (zdnet.com)
  It will also create a reimbursement fund to pay those that rip out the prohibited equipment.
• Bioshock collector's edition contents released (arstechnica.com)
  Bioshock: The fans get their collector's edition, but you can only buy it from …
• Is Google’s smart tag network any good yet? (theverge.com)
  Google’s Find My Device network wasn’t great at launch — I tested trackers from Motorola, Pebblebee, and Chipolo to find out what’s changed…
• DTA goes to market for help with upping myGov capabilities (zdnet.com)
  The Digital Transformation Agency wants to enhance the myGov platform to provide simple, smart, and personalised services to customers.
• How to use Visual Intelligence on the iPhone (theverge.com)
  Apple has now made it possible to use your iPhone’s camera to identify objects and answer questions just as Google Lens does.
• Vertebrates generate nerves through an ancient mechanism (arstechnica.com)
  Research shows that many aspects of vertebrate neural development are shared …
• Digital photo frame company Nixplay cut its free cloud storage to almost nothing (theverge.com)
  Smart photo frame company Nixplay has begun charging a monthly subscription for its once-free cloud storage, even for those who previously…