Stimulus Bill, Merrick Garland and Biden News: Live Updates

Stimulus Bill, Merrick Garland and Biden News: Live Updates

Here’s what you need to know: Video transcript Back transcript House Vote Clears Pandemic Relief Bill for Biden’s Signature House Democrats prevailed over Republican opposition to give final approval on Wednesday to President Biden’s nearly $1.9 trillion stimulus package in a 220-to-211 vote, clearing the legislation for his signature. “Every day, constituents in my district … Read more

Passive collaboration is essential to remote work’s long-term success – TechCrunch

Passive collaboration is essential to remote work’s long-term success – TechCrunch

Mohak Shroff is the technical director at LinkedIn. He leads the engineering teams responsible for building, scaling, and protecting LinkedIn. In 1998, Sun Microsystems tested the Open Work program, which allowed about half of the workforce to work flexibly wherever they wanted. The project required new hardware, software and telecommunication solutions and took about 24 … Read more

School shooting lockdown drills: Are they effective?

School shooting lockdown drills: Are they effective?

As schools re-open across the country, there’s one thing that has not gone away: lockdown drills All of Van Duyn Elementary School in Syracuse, New York, went eerily quiet. On that cold November afternoon in 2019, there was no sound in the school’s hallways except for the echoing of footsteps, going door to door between … Read more

Adobe Photoshop is now available natively on M1 Macs

Adobe Photoshop is now available natively on M1 Macs

Ever since Apple’s M1 Macs ditched the Intel chips to their own devices, they have been getting constantly optimized apps that tend to perform better than those broadcast via the Rosetta 2 emulator. Today marks another important native release as Photoshop has officially moved out of beta and offers faster speeds for many tasks. According … Read more

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230 allege abuse by NH youth center staffers

Here’s the latest for Wednesday March 10th: The FBI released a video of a suspect of a DC pipe bomb. House vote expected on COVID relief; Alaska says anyone over 16 who lives or works there can get a COVID vaccine. Destructive flooding in Hawaii.

Blue Origin will give NASA a spin in lunar gravity

Blue Origin will give NASA a spin in lunar gravity

A drone’s view shows the Blue Origin spaceship New Shepard taking off for a test flight. (Blue original photo) With support from NASA, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space project will upgrade its suborbital spacecraft New Shepard to provide the moon’s gravity for future experiments. “Mankind has dreamed of artificial gravity since the earliest … Read more

Songclip raises $11M to bring more licensed music to social media – TechCrunch

Songclip raises $11M to bring more licensed music to social media – TechCrunch

The team behind Songclip believe that social media could use more music. Yes, music is a big part of the experience with a handful of apps like TikTok and Triller, but Songclip co-founder and COO John vanSuchtelen told me, “This is not the end as music is going to be a feature a beginning.” He … Read more

Instagram starts rolling out an auto-caption sticker for Stories

Instagram starts rolling out an auto-caption sticker for Stories

With the introduction of automatic captioning for stories, Instagram is taking a step forward to improve accessibility. Social media consultant Matt Navarra shared a video of the feature in action. There is a new sticker called CC Subtitle that you can add to your story. When you do this, the app will transcribe the audio. … Read more