Understanding isolation’s effects on regular people, rather than those certified to have ‘the right stuff,’ will help prepare us for the future, whether another pandemic or interplanetary space travel. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/coronavirus-quarantine-useful-lessons-for-future-space-travel…
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How to protect your mental health in the time of coronavirus
From social isolation to working on the front line, the mental health challenges of the pandemic are wide reaching. We ask experts how to protect ourselves Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24632790-900-how-to-protect-your-mental-health-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Growth In Surveillance May Be Hard To Scale Back After Pandemic, Experts Say
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo quotes the Guardian: The coronavirus pandemic has led to an unprecedented global surge in digital surveillance, researchers and privacy advocates around the world have said, with billions of people facing enhanced monitoring that may prove difficult to roll back. Governments in at least 25 countries are employing vast programmes for mobile data tracking, apps to record personal…
How Red Hat’s New CEO Handles Life Under IBM — and a Global Pandemic
Paul Cormier became Red Hat’s new CEO this week — while the entire company was working from home. He had to make his inaugural address to over 12,000 employees around the world using BlueJeans videoconferencing tools, reports a North Carolina newspaper:
In some ways, Red Hat was well prepared to work through the disruptions of coronavirus. For years, the company has encouraged…
The Sandboxie Windows Sandbox Isolation Tool Is Now Open-Source
Cybersecurity firm Sophos announced today that it has open-sourced the Sandboxie Windows sandbox-based isolation utility 15 years after it was released. Bleeping Computer reports: Sandboxie was initially developed by Ronen Tzur and released on June 26, 2004, as a simple utility to help run Internet Explorer within a secure and isolated sandbox environment. Later, Tzur upgraded Sandboxie to also support sandboxing…
How the Telephone Failed Its Big Test During 1918’s Spanish Flu Epidemic
Fast Company’s technology editor harrymcc writes:
When the Spanish flu struck in 1918, the U.S. reacted in ways that sound eerily familiar, by closing public places and telling people to stay at home. The one technology that promised to make isolation less isolating was the telephone, which was used for commerce, education, and even news distribution. But the phone itself got caught…
How to model a pandemic
Behind every government announcement, there is an army of epidemiologists predicting how the virus will spread, and how to beat it. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/how-to-model-a-pandemic…
Astrophysicist Gets Magnets Stuck Up Nose While Inventing Coronavirus Device
An Australian astrophysicist has been admitted to hospital after getting four magnets stuck up his nose in an attempt to invent a device that stops people touching their faces during the coronavirus outbreak. The Guardian reports: Dr Daniel Reardon, a research fellow at a Melbourne university, was building a necklace that sounds an alarm on facial contact, when the mishap occurred…
Cops bust man who was ‘teaching dog to drive’
No, teaching your dog how to drive a car is not an appropriate use of your time during self-isolation. Officers in Washington State found themselves i… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/335942/cops-bust-man-who-was-teaching-dog-to-drive…
Microsoft Reports a 775 Percent Increase In Usage of Azure Cloud Services
Mark Wilson shares a report from BetaNews: This weekend, Microsoft has given an insight into the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on its services. The company says that there has been a huge increase in Teams usage, and there are now over 44 million daily users. In regions where there are isolation and home sheltering orders in place, Microsoft says…