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BBC's Health Correspondent Laura Foster explains what we know currently about how children are affected by the virus.

The FBI said it had seen hacking attempts on groups researching vaccines, treatments and testing.

Nokia became the first of the three major telecom vendors to join a new open

HMD has added two new affordable featurephones to its lineup with the Nokia 125 and Nokia 150. Both feature 2.4" QVGA screens, simple clean polycarbonate designs and promise long-lasting batteries. The two have identical footprints and run on the Series 30+ platform. Both pack dual SIM support, 3.5mm headphone jacks, Bluetooth and FM radio receivers. Nokia 150 The Nokia 150 has the added bonus of a built-in MP3 player, VGA camera with flash as well as a micro SD card slot that supports up to...

Lockdowns around the world are helping us to defeat the virus that causes Covid-19, but they may also unleash an even bigger public health crisis

A newly unearthed transcript indicates that The Washington Post’s newsroom was deeply divided over whether it was even worth reporting that incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was speaking to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016 -- before the Post published details in a column from an opinion writer who “was able to just throw this piece of red meat out there.”

If you instantly know the difference between Apple TV, Apple TV app, and Apple TV+, then remember there's also Apple TV Channels, Apple TV 4K, Apple TV HD, and the Apple TV apps for Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Mac, and TV sets. What words are being overused here?

If you've got an active subscription to Apple Music, you can play your favorite songs, artists, albums, and playlists right on your Apple Watch. Here's how.

May 15–May 21, 2020 This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in the North America region. This week’s selection includes a

May 8–May 14, 2020 This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in the North America region. This week’s selection includes a

What You'll Be Creating Want to warp some text? In this video from my course, 10 Essential Design Tips in Adobe Illustrator, you'll learn all the ins and outs of distorting and warping text in Adobe Illustrator. How to Warp Text in Adobe Illustrator Prepare the Text for WarpingSo we're going to learn how to warp stuff. Let's grab our Type Tool, left click anywhere on the artboard, and type some text. Let's type "WARPED". And we can go to the Character panel at the top, and we can pick a...

What You'll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an amazing dispersion effect.  First we will create several patterns that we will use for creating the dispersed parts. We will then define which areas of our photo we want to disperse and create the parts. After that, we will disperse them in the direction we choose, transform them, blur some of them to add depth, and finally make some adjustments to our design. Follow along with us over on our Envato Tuts+ YouTube channel: ...

Send in your questions to Alexandra Petri, who'll offer a lighter take on the news and political in(s)anity of the day.

The Washington Post’s Phil Bump couldn’t help but notice that President Donald Trump’s marriage to Fox News only extends so far as the network’s agreement to push whatever he says as gospel. That conflict came into play Monday, when the president continued to advocate using hydroxychloroquine to prevent COVID-19. It not only doesn’t prevent COVID-19, [

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts Why do peanut butter jars always have a rim at the top and/or bottom, which makes them difficult to scrape the remnants from and also difficult to clean before recycling? I have found this across many brands, suggesting that perhaps it serves some kind of purpose relating to its manufacture or storage. Robert Bullock...

Semiconductor companies are struggling to develop devices that are mere nanometers in size, and much of the challenge lies in being able to more accurately describe the underlying physics at that nano-scale. But a new computational approach that has been in the works for a decade could break down these barriers.

Released in late 2001, about eight months after the arrival of iTunes, the original Apple iPod music player featured a mini version of the game Breakout.

"Frankly the Democrats should be ashamed because they don't want us to succeed. They want us to fail so they can win an election, which they're not going to win."

"Congratulations to my daughter, Tiffany, on graduating from Georgetown Law," Trump wrote on Twitter. "Great student, great school. Just what I need is a lawyer in the family. Proud of you Tiff!"

USAID requests that the U.N. remove abortion from its coronavirus response plan.

After six weeks of negotiating, the UN Security Council was close to agreeing on a resolution for a global ceasefire during the Covid-19 pandemic. Seems fair, right? Let's agree to stop killing each other for a while, so we can focus on the virus that's killing us instead? China proposed that the text explicitly mention a commitment by member nations to support the efforts of the World Health Organization — who Donald Trump has blamed (without evidence) for withholding information on the...

Microsoft Build 2020, one of Microsoft’s biggest events of the year is now a 48-hour digital only event and is more developer-centric than ever.

Microsoft Teams will get an update, and a new Lists app will help track work across Teams, SharePoint and Outlook.

B&H Photo has a new series of specials on Apple devices going on today, including sales on MacBook Pro, 2018 iPad Pro, and the Mac Pro. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. Low prices on the MacBook Pro start at $1,149.00 for the 13-inch MacBook Pro from 2019 (1.4GHz, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD), down from $1,299.00. This sale is being matched at...

Beta builds of Premiere Pro include support for Apple's Afterburner accelerator card, Adobe told Premiere Pro users earlier this week. Premiere Pro and After Effects were recently updated with native ProRES RAW support. The Apple Afterburner is a ProRes and ProRes RAW accelerator card that is an optional add-on accessory available in the 2019 Mac Pro. It supports playback of up to 3 streams of 8K Pro-Res RAW or 12 streams of 4K ProRes RAW. Adobe says that Premiere Pro supports decode...

We find the SteelSeries QcK, with its unique 3D texture that reduces drag so tracking is fluid and responsive, to be the best mouse pad for most people. It may come from a gaming company, but this mouse pad is by no means garish — it's so soft that it's ready for hours of comfortable use. Mouse pad surfaces affect how your mouse tracks. Soft pads increase drag for more precision and hard surfaces allow for quicker movements, so the best mouse pad is down to the individual. Most people probably...

I was ready to return the new Apple Magic Keyboard after using it for a week. To make sure, I switched back to the Smart Folio Keyboard I'd happily used for over a year. Big mistake! Here's what I found.

Justin Gaethje claimed the interim UFC lightweight title with a win over Tony Ferguson in the main event of UFC 249

Patients who took a common heartburn medicine while hospitalized for Covid-19 were more than twice as likely to survive the infection, according to a paper posted Friday on a pre-publication website.

In this mini-episode of our explainer show, Upscaled, we break down NVIDIA's latest GPU, the A100, and its new graphics architecture Ampere. Announced at the company's long-delayed GTC conference, the A100 isn't intended for gamers, or even for workstation users. Volta never directly came to consumers — aside from the Titan V and a Quadro workstation card — but the improvements and tensor cores it introduced were a key part of Turing, the architecture which underpins almost all of NVIDIA's...

Nvidia Ampere is here, but it won't be behind the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 – not yet at least.

Apple Arcade launched with close to 100 titles and the service is seeing new games added regularly. Follow along with our guide on the latest from Apple’s gaming service. more

Amazon today has a new discount on Apple's 32GB iPod touch from 2019, now priced at $179.95, down from $199.00. This is a match of the previous low price that we've seen on Amazon for this model, and one of the lowest we've tracked yet for the 2019 iPod touch. Only the Silver color is available at this price. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. Apple updated the...

You can score cheap iPhone deals at Apple with trade-in deals on the all-new iPhone SE, iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and iPhone XR.

Apple's cheap iPhone deals include price cuts on the all-new iPhone SE, iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and iPhone XR with eligible trade-in.

Russian officials say at least nine people have died in a fire at a nursing home in a suburb of Moscow

MOSCOW (AP) — At least nine people have died in a fire at a nursing home on Moscow’s outskirts, officials said Monday. The authorities in Krasnogorsk on Moscow’s northwestern edge said the fire at a

Released in late 2001, about eight months after the arrival of iTunes, the original Apple iPod music player featured a mini version of the game Breakout.

Apple Arcade launched with close to 100 titles and the service is seeing new games added regularly. Follow along with our guide on the latest from Apple’s gaming service. more

Best Apple TV Apps Charts for week ending 5/10/20

Apple TV app - Movies US charts: 1. Bloodshot 2. Ford v Ferrari 3. Bad Boys for Life 4. Sonic The Hedgehog 5. Arkansas 6. The Assistant (2020) 7. The Gentlemen 8. I Still Believe 9. Trolls World Tour 10. The

If you instantly know the difference between Apple TV, Apple TV app, and Apple TV+, then remember there's also Apple TV Channels, Apple TV 4K, Apple TV HD, and the Apple TV apps for Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Mac, and TV sets. What words are being overused here?

If you've got an active subscription to Apple Music, you can play your favorite songs, artists, albums, and playlists right on your Apple Watch. Here's how.

The original iMac G3 from 1998 was remarkably different from today’s sleek, silver iMac models. A rounded bubble with a see-through colored body, the G3 came with a notoriously uncomfortable mouse and was available in thirteen ‘flavors’ (shades). The

On May 6, 1998, the newly returned Steve Jobs launched the first major consumer product of his second era at Apple. The original iMac was an instant success which changed the trajectory of Apple forever.

General Michael Flynn hugged his lawyer, according to an interview with attorney Sidney Powell on “The Mark Levin Show,” and then posted to Twitter his reaction to the Department of Justice

The initial inquiry, which is being conducted by the office's Civil Division, is in a fact-finding stage after the women raised their concerns publicly.

The White House has ramped up the coronavirus testing for its staff. At the same time, President Trump has voiced doubts about the ability of testing to stop the spread of the virus.

NPR's economics and science correspondents discuss the latest in the nation's response to the coronavirus pandemic.

'There is some personal risk but he doesn’t really think about that. He just thinks this is what Christians should be doing, helping others,' says source

Japan-based operator KDDI committed to working with Nokia on cloud-based RAN tests to explore how

Nokia combines 4G and 5G spectrum to achieve world record rate.

Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia said on Tuesday it would collaborate with Microsoft in the open source network operating system SONiC, which is used in the data centres of some of the largest cloud-service providers.

Regarding the May 5 front-page article ‘Trump applauds states reopening ahead of guidance”:

There is an anxiety among some in the scientific community that this daily national drama, with its storyline played out on our TV screens, is making science out to be something that it is not

Everyone we spoke to reported seeing or hearing of others who were either breaking rules, for example, going out more than necessary or getting too close to others while shopping

Multiple publishers say Apple plans to produce audio versions of Apple News+ stories to run alongside regular articles.

Austria's Apple Store is to be the first in Europe to reopen after the coronavirus lockdown, with shortened hours and heightened security in place from May 5.

Apple today shared a new "The Next Generation" ad that showcases Apple TV+ content for kids. "Original series and films to inspire the next generation of dreamers, explorers, and believers. All on ‌Apple TV‌+," the video description says. The ad features the ‌Apple TV‌+ kids shows "Ghost Writer," "Helpsters," "Snoopy in Space," and the short-film "Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth." The ad is part of Apple's drive to increase ‌Apple TV‌+ subscriptions amid heated...

May 1–May 7, 2020 This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in the North America region. This week’s selection includes vendors waiting for customers at a drive-thru farmers market in Overland Park, Kansas; members of the Homestead-Miami Mariachi Conservatory practicing in an okra field for Altísimo Live! a livestreamed Latin music and pop culture festival celebrating farmworkers’ contributions during the COVID-19...

May 1–May 7, 2020 This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in the North America region. This week’s selection includes

This report is part of “The global AI agenda,” a thought leadership program by MIT Technology Review Insights examining how organizations are using AI today and planning to do so in the future. Featuring a global survey of 1,004 AI experts conducted in January and February 2020, it explores AI adoption, leading use cases, benefits, and

Adobe is rolling out significant updates to both Fresco and Photoshop on the iPad, including new vector capture tools and improved Apple Pencil pressure sensitivity settings.

What You'll Be Creating In this tutorial, I will show you how to create an easy cartoon text effect, using a pattern and a layer style.  This cartoon text effect we will be creating is a part of Cartoon and Comic Book Styles from my Cartoon and Comic Book Collection.Cartoon and Comic Book Styles Follow along with us over on our Envato Tuts+ YouTube channel: Looking for more cartoon and comic book resources? Check our selection of tutorials and recommended assets in the following...

If you use Adobe Acrobat DC and you’re on a Mac, you should update your software right now, because Adobe just pushed out a patch that fixes three critical vulnerabilities. More

In a Fox News debate Thursday, progressive radio host Chris Hahn explained why the new conspiracy about President Barack Obama is another failed attempt to create a scandal. After being impeached for trying to create a scandal against former Vice President Joe Biden in Ukraine, Trump’s team has tried to implicate Biden in Lt. Gen. [

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Apple Arcade launched with close to 100 titles and the service is seeing new games added regularly. Follow along with our guide on the latest from Apple’s gaming service. more

Amazon today has a new discount on Apple's 32GB iPod touch from 2019, now priced at $179.95, down from $199.00. This is a match of the previous low price that we've seen on Amazon for this model, and one of the lowest we've tracked yet for the 2019 iPod touch. Only the Silver color is available at this price. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. Apple updated the...

Apple Arcade launched with close to 100 titles and the service is seeing new games added regularly. Follow along with our guide on the latest from Apple’s gaming service. more

The president "is tested on a daily basis," Ivanka Trump told USA TODAY. "No one is in close proximity to him that isn't wearing a mask."

President Donald Trump on Tuesday ridiculed a group of Never Trump Republicans who put together an ad criticizing his response to the Chinese coronavirus. “I don’t know what Kellyanne did to her deranged loser of a husband, Moonface, but it

Howard Stern taunted the supporters of President Trump on Tuesday, saying the real-estate mogul looks down on them as thoroughly as any other TV star. The self-described "King of All Media," who frequently hosted Mr. Trump on his shock-jock radio show and was invited to the Donald-Melania wedding, said Mr.

State leaders implemented sweeping measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Many are now deciding when and how to lift various restrictions.

From Jason Davies, this is a US map where the state borders have been redrawn so that all points closest to a state capital than to any other form a state a la Voronoi diagrams. See also Voronoi maps of world airports and world capitals. It’s interesting that many of the states’ new shapes are similar to their current ones, suggesting that the placement of the capitals relative to borders was somewhat naturally Voronoi-esque, like how people naturally space themselves in elevators or parks. ...

Thanks to Trump, we have no coherent national plan to survive the pandemic.

At Build 2020, Microsoft is taking the wraps off the first of its planned industry-specific clouds, the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, which is due to start rolling out in Q4 this year.

Microsoft today launched Lists, a new “smart tracking app” for Microsoft 365 users. That may sound a lot like a todo list app and since Microsoft already offers Microsoft To Do, you may wonder why it would bother with Lists, but it seems like Lists goes well beyond a basic to do app. Indeed, Lists [

Microsoft also is adding a new update 'ring' called Enterprise Channel to its Microsoft 365 Apps (Office 365 ProPlus) line-up.

After recently adding native support for ProRes RAW in Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and Media Encoder, Adobe has added support for Apple’s Afterburner card in beta builds of Premiere Pro. As noted by MacRumors, the Apple Afterburner Card will accelerate ProRes 4444 and ProRes 422 video codec decoding in Adobe’s NLE, supplementing other hardware to aid performance. ProRes RAW acceleration is not yet available in the beta. more

We pit all three current MacBooks against each other in a battle of the aluminum titans.

Last month, Apple introduced a Mac Pro Wheels Kit designed for the Mac Pro that adds wheels to the machine after purchase. The kit is priced at $699. For anyone interested in what it's like to get their hands on the wheels kit, popular YouTuber Unbox Therapy has posted a dramatically staged, tongue-in-cheek unboxing video. It's an admittedly lengthy watch at 7 minutes and 45 seconds, but its irreverent take on unboxing may appeal to viewers who would balk at the prospect of splashing...

Scientists have published the highest resolution 3D atlas of an average mouse brain. The public resource from the Allen Institute enables researchers to reference a common map for the 100 million cells in the rodent's brain. Mice are the most common animal used in all kinds of biomedical research. An accurate 3D model enables scientists to identify and understand the brain regions and processes that may be involved in any particular neural activity. This new model is an average of brain anatomy...

The Honor Magic Earbuds look to take on the Apple AirPods, but scratchy audio holds them back from greatness.

On her fourth album, Williamson could not sound more in control--or less concerned about it.

Japanese telecommunications company NTT is pouring $230 million into new Silicon Valley research labs, set to open this summer.  One health-focused lab is working on a "digital twin" project that would create a virtual version of a person that doctors could try experimental treatments on.  The labs were announced with a short film by Steven Spielberg's cinematographer showing the vision of the digital twin.  Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. In a high-budget, longterm,...

TNW Answers is a live Q&A platform where we invite interesting people in tech who are much smarter than us to answer questions from TNW readers and editors for an hour.  You must have heard about ‘life hacks’: pieces of actionable advice that, if followed, claim to bring about noticeable improvement in someone’s quality of life. A life hack can be something small, like a particularly efficient way of folding laundry. Or it can take the form of an elaborate process, like John Walker’s Hacker...

Doctors working on coronavirus treatments and cures dying mysteriously.

Now that the dust from Nvidia's unveiling of its new Ampere AI chip has settled, let's take a look at the AI chip market behind the scenes and away from the spotlight

Nvidia today announced its plans to acquire Cumulus Networks, an open-source centric company that specializes in helping enterprises optimize their data center networking stack. Cumulus offers both its own Linux distribution for network switches, as well as tools for managing network operations. With Cumulus Express, the company also offers a hardware solution in the form [

Nvidia Corp on Thursday forecast second-quarter revenue above analysts' estimates, as demand surges for its chips used in data centers that power the shift to working remotely due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Apple Arcade launched with close to 100 titles and the service is seeing new games added regularly. Follow along with our guide on the latest from Apple’s gaming service. more

Apple Arcade launched with close to 100 titles and the service is seeing new games added regularly. Follow along with our guide on the latest from Apple’s gaming service. more

Mother's Day may be tomorrow, but you can still grab a great deal on Apple hardware with prices starting at just $95. Take advantage of the return of the popular $100 discount on Apple Watch Series 5 styles, plus a new $375 markdown on 16-inch MacBook Pros and flash deals on iPod touch models.

Score a cheap iPhone deal at Apple with price cuts on the all-new iPhone SE, iPhone 11, 11 Pro and iPhone XR.

Protect your Apple iPhone 8 with a case from our list to safeguard your smartphone from dents, cracks, and shattered displays.

Some retailers are still selling the iPhone 8 despite Apple discontinuing the device. But you should just get the new iPhone SE instead.

MOSCOW (AP) " At least nine people have died in a fire at a nursing home on Moscow's outskirts, officials said Monday.The authorities in Krasnogorsk on Moscow's northwestern edge said the fire at a private home for the elderly erupted late Sunday. They said that nine patients have died and another nine have been hospitalized.The cause of the fire wasn't immediately known. An official investigation into a suspected violation of fire safety rules has started.

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During a nine-minute softball interview with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on MSNBC Tuesday morning, anchor Stephanie Ruhle only asked a single nine-second question about the Democrat’s recently-changed policy of forcing COVID-positive patients to return to nursing homes. Nearly 5,000 residents in such facilities across the state have died of the virus since the policy was put in place in late March.

Amazon today has a new discount on Apple's 32GB iPod touch from 2019, now priced at $179.95, down from $199.00. This is a match of the previous low price that we've seen on Amazon for this model, and one of the lowest we've tracked yet for the 2019 iPod touch. Only the Silver color is available at this price. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. Apple updated the...

Apple Arcade launched with close to 100 titles and the service is seeing new games added regularly. Follow along with our guide on the latest from Apple’s gaming service. more

Apple Arcade launched with close to 100 titles and the service is seeing new games added regularly. Follow along with our guide on the latest from Apple’s gaming service. more

Best Apple TV Apps Charts for week ending 5/3/20

Best Apple TV Apps Charts for week ending 5/3/20

Apple TV app - Movies US charts: 1. Sonic The Hedgehog 2. The Assistant (2020) 3. Bad Boys for Life 4. The Gentlemen 5. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 6. Jumanji: The Next Level 7. Black and Blue 8. Trolls World Tour

Multiple publishers say Apple plans to produce audio versions of Apple News+ stories to run alongside regular articles.

Austria's Apple Store is to be the first in Europe to reopen after the coronavirus lockdown, with shortened hours and heightened security in place from May 5.

Apple today shared a new "The Next Generation" ad that showcases Apple TV+ content for kids. "Original series and films to inspire the next generation of dreamers, explorers, and believers. All on ‌Apple TV‌+," the video description says. The ad features the ‌Apple TV‌+ kids shows "Ghost Writer," "Helpsters," "Snoopy in Space," and the short-film "Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth." The ad is part of Apple's drive to increase ‌Apple TV‌+ subscriptions amid heated...

Today's top Apple deals include price drops on the Apple Watch Series 3, Apple AirPods and a premium Core i9 27-inch iMac 5K that's loaded with upgrades. Save up to $400 instantly.

Today’s best deals include Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro at $300 off, plus you can save on Apple Watch Series 3, and a rare discount on iMac Pro. Hit the jump for all that and more in the latest 9to5Toys Lunch Break. more

The initial inquiry, which is being conducted by the office’s Civil Division, is in a fact-finding stage after the women raised their concerns publicly.

Barr said Monday that the Department of Justice is unlikely to charge either former President Obama or Vice President Joe Biden in the "Obamagate" spying program on the Trump campaign.

On Friday, Politico reported that Steve Linick, the inspector general of the State Department, has been fired. Linick, a former official of the Justice Department, was appointed to the inspector general position by President Barack Obama in 2013. According to Politico, “he played a minor role in the House of Representatives’ impeachment proceedings against President [