Month: May 2021

CDC’s action may speed up employers’ push to return to the office

https://www.wsj.com/articles/companies-ponder-speeding-up-plans-to-bring-workers-back-to-offices-1162118159 Companies Ponder Speeding Up Plans to Bring Workers Back to Offices New CDC guidance on masking and social distancing for vaccinated people throws a wrinkle into plans for repopulating city centers At issue is whether the relaxed CDC rules change how quickly workers return to their offices. A Manhattan street last Wednesday.PHOTO: AMIR HAMJA/BLOOMBERG NEWS … Continue reading CDC’s action may speed up employers’ push to return to the office →

AirTags can be used to see if a house is empty (and vulnerable)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg8mvy/airtags-can-be-used-to-figure-out-when-a-house-is-empty-researcher-warns AirTags Can Be Used To Figure Out When a House Is Empty, Researcher Warns A security researcher warns that a feature that displays when an AirTag was last seen could give away some sensitive information about its surroundings.By Lorenzo Franceschi-BicchieraiMay 17, 2021, 9:00am ShareTweetSnap Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the … Continue reading AirTags can be used to see if a house is empty (and vulnerable) →

“Parable of the Sower” new selection for LeVar Burton’s book club

I’m disappointed to report that joining this book club requires a membership (at $9.95 a month) in the reading app Fable, mentioned below. I thought it would be available to the public without charge like those of Oprah Winfrey or Reese Witherspoon but I was mistaken. So enjoy this announcement but be aware of the … Continue reading “Parable of the Sower” new selection for LeVar Burton’s book club →

New layout for Kindle special offers coming soon

This update to the Kindle's firmware has been in the wind for quite awhile. It's nice to get the details of how things will be handled for those who decided to accept ads. Would like to learn what it does for Kindles without special offers. goodereader.com/blog/kindle/new-kindle-update-changes-the-special-offers-layout New Kindle Update Changes the Special Offers Layout May … Continue reading New layout for Kindle special offers coming soon →

How to create a QR code for your guests to use to access your wi-fi

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/05/14/how-to-make-a-qr-code-to-connect-guests-to-your-wi-fi How to make a QR code on your iPhone to connect guests to your Wi-Fi  By William Gallagher | May 14, 2021   E-mailFacebook Twitter Reddit Rather than have a guest select your Wi-Fi network and then enter a fiddly password, just make them a QR code their iPhone can read. Here's how to do it. You wouldn't want to put a … Continue reading How to create a QR code for your guests to use to access your wi-fi →

Water crisis at OR-CA border simply couldn’t be worse

https://apnews.com/article/oregon-california-health-droughts-science-1f93619dc660f40e558a91b095f41f7b Water crisis ‘couldn’t be worse’ on Oregon-California border By GILLIAN FLACCUSMay 14, 2021 1 of 10In this handout photo released by the Yurok Tribe shows 70 dead juvenile salmon captured by the Yurok Tribe that are presumed to have died from deadly pathogen, Ceratonova shasta, in the Klamath River water flows. On May 4, … Continue reading Water crisis at OR-CA border simply couldn’t be worse →

Illuminating interview of Stacey Abrams — tax lawyer, political strategist, and fiction writer

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/06/stacey-abrams-novelist-while-justice-sleeps/618716/ The Story Behind Stacey Abrams’s Fiction Career How she became a novelist, what politics and writing have in common, and why, at the end of every good story, someone’s got to dieAYANA MATHISJUNE 2021 ISSUE LAUREN TAMAKI This article was published online on May 11, 2021. On the afternoon of my first conversation with Stacey Abrams, … Continue reading Illuminating interview of Stacey Abrams — tax lawyer, political strategist, and fiction writer →

A visible, inevitable environmental disaster that’s being ignored

This giant rusting ship holding over a million gallons of oil in a highly vulnerable location -- environmentally and economically -- gets no attention despite the horrendous impact either a break in the ship or fire would cause. I hope you can click thru to see the charts. I've added some bolding to the article. … Continue reading A visible, inevitable environmental disaster that’s being ignored →

How to automatically download magazines in Apple News+

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/05/13/how-to-automatically-download-magazines-in-apple-news How to automatically download magazines in Apple News+  By William Gallagher | May 13, 2021   E-mailFacebook Twitter Reddit If there's a magazine in Apple News+ that you always read, here's how to have each new issue automatically download to your iPhone so that it's available when you're ready. As more of us return to offices and get back that forgotten frustration … Continue reading How to automatically download magazines in Apple News+ →

Voting proposal by Manchin may carry weight

https://www.vox.com/22434054/joe-manchin-voting-rights-act-for-the-people-john-lewis-preclearance-filibuster-senate Joe Manchin’s surprisingly bold proposal to fix America’s voting rights problem Manchin’s idea won’t fix America’s democracy, but it could solve some pretty significant problems.By Ian Millhiser  May 13, 2021, 3:10pm EDT Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) listens during a hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee on “Domestic Violent Extremism in America” on May 12, 2021, in … Continue reading Voting proposal by Manchin may carry weight →

We may not be able to see a killer asteroid in time to stop it

https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-how-many-years-in-advance-we-d-need-to-stop-a-killer-asteroid-coming-for-earth Here's How Many Years in Advance We'd Need to Stop a Killer Asteroid Coming For Earth  MORGAN MCFALL-JOHNSEN & AYLIN WOODWARD, BUSINESS INSIDER 13 MAY 2021  Last month, experts from NASA and other space agencies around the world faced a troubling hypothetical scenario: A mysterious asteroid had just been discovered 35 million miles away, and it was … Continue reading We may not be able to see a killer asteroid in time to stop it →