Tales From The Dork Web #5

[21 April 2020—Hundreds of people are arriving here from this tweet, which calls me a “Harvard researcher” and suggests that this post and the three that follow are about “the ful…

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BlueTrace, a privacy-preserving protocol for community-driven contact tracing across borders.

Apple today released a new screening tool and resources to help people stay informed and protect their health during the spread of COVID-19.

A community discussion platform: Brings together the main features from StackOverflow, Slack, Discourse, Reddit, and Disqus blog comments. - debiki/talkyard

Lots of people are suddenly finding themselves working from home, and need to join video conferences from their living room or home office. Here are several tips to improve your virtual meetings and presentations on a budget! I'll start ...

While billionaires vie for the stars, $750,000 trips to the bottom of the Marianas Trench will begin departing in May.

How we're supporting SMBs, health organizations and governments, and health workers.

1901 Cartoon: “Wall Street bubbles – Always the same“ American financier J. P. Morgan is depicted as a bull, blowing soap bubbles for eager investors   What Will the "Corona Virus Correction" Reveal? It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been…

In an obscure corner of the American physical oil market, crude prices have turned negative -- producers are actually paying consumers to take away the black stuff.

We know more than a few entre­pre­neurs and free­lancers who’ve been caught with their pants down by coro­n­avirus. Luck­i­ly the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment has pro­vid­ed help in the form of dis­as­ter relief loans– mon­ey any small busi­ness can bor­row direct­ly…