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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Ben S. stopped driving for Lyft in mid-March. He was worried about his dad, who had a heart condition. A handful of stent surgeries held his condition in check, but since contracting COVID-19, he wasn’t doing well. “His …

Working from home is a great alternative to mingling with other humans during this global pandemic, but a lot of people are finding themselves ill-equipped for telework. After all, not everyone had experience working from home back during normal times, and so you might not have some of the bare essentials for working remotely. Like a laptop. Rather than staying …

Disney Plus has surpassed 50 million subscribers in the five months since it launched, the company said Wednesday. By comparison, Netflix — the biggest subscription video service in the world — had 167 million global subscribers as of the end of last year. That’s three times the size of Disney Plus now, but Netflix began streaming more than a decade ago.  Disney Plus …

Now that most of us are working from home — at least temporarily — you might think that the need for a printer has all but gone away. No more printing charts for the weekly standup or documents you need to distribute to co-workers. But stuff has a way of needing to be printed, whether it’s to copyedit something you’ve …

Trying to get work done in a makeshift workspace is hard; trying to replicate your office-based professional workflow during this coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic requires even more finesse. Here’s some gear that might make it go a little more smoothly. Hopefully, you’ve already bought  or own the requisite laptop, desktop or tablet necessary to get your creative work done. Thanks to growing numbers …

For a lot of people, Blu-ray’s day has come and gone. It’s not hard to see why — streaming services have made the concept of inserting a plastic disc in a machine to watch Birds of Prey seem as archaic as my old 400-disc audio CD carousel (and if you’re too young to remember such things, yes, they were real …

There’s a real dearth of budget-priced noise-canceling headphones out there. When we recently wrote about the best noise-canceling headphones of 2020, most of the entries clocked in between $150 and $350 (like the superb Sony WH1000XM3), and only one sub-$100 headset even made the list, the Anker Soundcore Life 2.  But what if you want to spend less than $50? …

Sonos is selling three of its most popular products at $50 off — the Sonos One ($219 at Audio Advice) smart speaker, Sonos One SL speaker and Sonos Beam ($409 at Amazon) soundbar. The $150 price of the Sonos One matches its all-time low during a brief period last year. The Sonos One has a CNET Editors’ Choice Award as our favorite smart …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Workers at Amazon’s warehouse in Staten Island, New York, are holding another demonstration Monday to protest their working conditions during the coronavirus pandemic.  The protest is the second in as two weeks at this warehouse, called JFK8. The location gained national attention last …

Turntables aren’t obsolete quite yet and may never completely disappear as long as people hang onto their vinyl collection (and musicians like Jack White continue to champion the aging analog format). If you’ve been looking for an excuse to invest in a turntable, here’s a good one. From now till April 15, you can get the Fluance RT81 Elite High …