The annual night rite asks folks to kill the lights for an hour to promote environmental awareness. This year, it’s also asking us to put lessons from the pandemic to good use.
Amazon faces lawsuit over missed lunch breaks,
A lawsuit that claims one of Amazon’s fulfillment centers in California failed to provide required meal breaks for employees has moved to federal court, as attorneys seek class-action status. First filed in San Francisco County Superior Court in February, the case was removed to US District Court California, Northern District on Friday. Lovenia Scott, a former employee of the Vacaville, …
Jeep plans to install EV charging stations at US off-road trailheads over the next year,
Jeep will install EV charging stations at off-road trailheads across the US as part of a partnership with Electrify America, the company announced. Chargers on the Jeep 4xe Charging Network will either be solar powered or connected to a power grid. The first of the stations will open this spring in Moab, Utah; the Rubicon Trail in Pollock Pines, California; …
Hulu’s Android TV app finally gets bumped from 720p to 1080p, at least on some devices,
Hulu’s Android TV apps can finally stream in 1080p on new Nvidia Shield TV set-top-boxes and Sony Bravia TVs, as spotted by users on Reddit, and written up by Gizmodo, Android Central, and 9to5Google. Users first noticed the change in the “App & Device Info” page in the Hulu app. After updating, the app lists the new max video resolution …
Vaccines are changing how we interpret COVID-19 numbers,
It’s never been possible to know for sure how many people in the United States are sick with COVID-19 at a particular time. Instead, we combine all of the metrics — the percentage of tests run that come back positive, the number of new cases reported each day, people coming to the emergency room sick with COVID-19 symptoms — to …
Netflix planning to launch 40 anime shows in 2021,
Netflix announced at Tokyo’s AnimeJapan 2021 Expo Saturday that it will launch 40 new anime titles in 2021, Bloomberg reported, following the success of its Blood of Zeus series last year. The new series to be released this year include an adaptation of the Japanese manga Record of Ragnarok, set to premiere in June; Yasuke, about an African samurai in …
Facebook temporarily freezes Venezuela president’s page for spreading coronavirus misinformation,
Facebook froze the page of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro for violating its policy against spreading COVID-19 misinformation, the company confirmed Saturday. As first reported by Reuters, Maduro had promoted a “miracle” remedy that he claimed would cure the coronavirus, but those claims have not been supported by the medical community. Facebook also removed a video where Maduro touted Carvativir, a …