Friday, March 6, 2020

South by Southwest Is Canceled as Coronavirus Fears Scuttle Festival

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/arts/music/sxsw-cancelled.html
March 07, 2020 at 04:28AM

Hundreds of thousands of people were expected to arrive in Austin next week, but a number of companies had pulled out and on Friday, city officials called off the whole event.

‘Close Call’: NASA-Boeing Investigation of Starliner Flight Finds Lapses

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/science/boeing-starliner-nasa.html
March 07, 2020 at 12:20AM

The uncrewed December space mission could have ended in disaster.

Quibi Is Coming. Here Are the Famous People Making Shows for It.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/arts/television/quibi-shows-stars.html
March 07, 2020 at 12:13AM

The bite-size video start-up debuts April 6, and nearly everyone in Hollywood seems to be involved. Here’s what we know so far.

How to Make Money in Your Sleep

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/style/sleep-tiktok-live.html
March 06, 2020 at 10:49PM

Some TikTok users are going viral, gaining followers and even making cash by live-streaming themselves overnight.

How to Prepare Now for the Complete End of the World

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/style/rewilding-stone-age-bushcraft.html
March 06, 2020 at 09:38PM

Lynx Vilden teaches people how to live in the Stone Age.

The Week in Tech: Welcome to the Age of Mandatory Videoconferencing

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/technology/coronavirus-tech-businesses.html
March 06, 2020 at 05:00PM

Telling employees to work from home. Bearing down on misinformation removal. Here is how the coronavirus is affecting the industry.

A Chatty Auction Site Is Taking the Classic Car World by Storm

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/business/bring-a-trailer-classic-car-auctions.html
March 06, 2020 at 09:00AM

Bring a Trailer has 100,000 registered bidders and listed 11,000 cars in a banner 2019, while the traditional auction market shows signs of cooling.

When Voyager 2 Calls Home, Earth Soon Won’t Be Able to Answer

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/science/voyager-2-nasa-deep-space-network.html
March 06, 2020 at 08:07AM

NASA will spend 11 months upgrading the only piece of its Deep Space Network that can send commands to the probe, which has crossed into interstellar space.

Bill Would Make Tech Firms Accountable for Child Sex Abuse Imagery

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/us/child-sexual-abuse-legislation.html
March 06, 2020 at 01:57AM

Bipartisan legislation would take the extraordinary step of removing legal protections for tech companies that fail to police the illegal content.

Do You Honestly Find Spas Kind of Boring?

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/style/self-care/virtual-reality-at-spas.html
March 05, 2020 at 04:00PM

With virtual reality headsets, some clients are now being not just pampered in place but “transported.”

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