Amazon on Sunday said new online grocery customers will be put on a waitlist as it works to meet “unprecedented” demand for delivery and pickup. New Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market customers must now sign up for an invitation to use online grocery delivery and pickup and will be notified when they can shop, …
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Well, friends, we made it to the end of another week. I hope everyone is staying safe, healthy and home — and finding things to do during these crazy but often downright boring times. With that in mind, I’ve rounded up a whole mess of cheap or free reading material, along with a few essentials and, for those making exercise …
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You might not have had time to notice, what with the global pandemic occupying so much of our attention, but it’s Easter Sunday. Easter isn’t traditionally a big gift-giving holiday — unless you count all the chocolate bunnies and Peeps for the kids — but Best Buy is having a one-day flash sale today. The retailer is cutting prices on …
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You’re inside nearly all the time now, and time is meaningless. You’re free to binge Netflix or work from bed, and lounge around in a bathrobe and bunny slippers all day, skipping showers and “forgetting” to shave. Such unbridled sloth sounds fun, but in reality there’s a better way to keep yourself happy and sane in the probably months of …
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The first smart speakers, the Amazon Echo and Google Home, broke new ground in voice control and artificial intelligence wizardry. But they simply didn’t sound very good for music. It took until the creation of the Sonos One for a relatively affordable smart speaker to couple voice assistants with proper sound quality. The Sonos earns our Editors’ Choice Award for its sound and reasonable price. …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Amazon this week has been promoting one of its latest coronavirus safety efforts, saying it’s now made millions of face masks available to its employees and delivery partners throughout its worldwide logistics network. But some of these workers said Thursday that only a portion …
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State and local governments are evaluating an MIT location-tracing app to help fight the coronavirus pandemic, an MIT researcher leading the app effort said Friday. “We have lots of pilots going on and lots of discussions,” said Ramesh Raskar, an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who’s involved in creating the app, called Private Kit SafePaths. “There are many …
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Once upon a time, everyone wanted us to use our phones as VR headsets. Do you remember this? There was the folding, giveaway Google Cardboard, that ended up in magazines and promo giveaways. There was Samsung’s Gear VR, sold alongside every Samsung phone. There was Google Daydream View. I wrote a eulogy for phone VR last year, because for the …
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In a move designed to give people stuck at home during coronavirus lockdown something new to watch for free, digital locker service Movies Anywhere now lets its users share movies from their personal collections to anyone with an Apple or Android mobile device. The new Screen Pass feature is available to Movies Anywhere users who sign up for the open beta here, but …
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Want to raise your TikTok-video game? Add a sky camera to your toolkit in the form of a drone. Like this one: For a limited time, and while supplies last, B&H has the preowned DJI Mavic Mini for $329.95. That’s one of the lowest prices I’ve seen to date. The Mini still sells new for $400 pretty much everywhere. (Consequently, …
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