Coronavirus transforms peak internet usage into the new normal.
Internet usage is spiking. ISPs say they can handle it. Policy wonks aren’t
convinced. https://cnet.co/2WFjcIu
Huge numbers of sporting events have been canceled or postponed
due to the coronavirus pandemic. And now it looks like the granddaddy of global
sporting events, the Tokyo Olympic Games, set for this summer, will join them.
On Monday, International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound told USA Today
that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games will be postponed, likely to 2021. https://cnet.co/3aihuR2
Twitter warns misleading coronavirus tweets may slip through. It
says it may not be able to address all tweets that violate its guidelines on
incomplete or misleading information regarding the illness. https://cnet.co/3afdYXN
Sixteen supercomputers tackle coronavirus cures in US.
Researchers get access to mammoth IBM machines plus cloud-computing horsepower
from Amazon, Microsoft and Google. https://cnet.co/2J7d2Jb
Carbon, a startup whose 3D printers are used to make everything
from bicycle seats to teeth straighteners, is now tackling the new coronavirus
and the disease it causes, COVID-19. Within 24 hours, it’ll send medical face
shield designs to its network of customers who’ve bought its 3D printers, said
Carbon co-founder and Executive Chairman Joseph DeSimone on Monday. https://cnet.co/3drB8fl
Tesla CEO Elon Musk offers 1,255 free ventilators to support
COVID-19 fight. Musk also reportedly says Tesla has thousands of N95 masks it
will donate to hospitals. https://cnet.co/2UeSl4r