Image copyright No 10 Image caption Boris Johnson was wearing a mask as he visited a shop in Uxbridge Making face coverings mandatory in shops in England is being considered by the government to slow the spread of coronavirus, senior sources have said.Speaking in a Facebook Q&A video, Boris Johnson hinted at the change saying:…
It's still Android though, so set your expectations accordingly — Google's next target? Linux kernel portability and modularity. Ron Amadeo - Jul 9, 2020 11:30 pm UTC Enlarge / Google's Android adoption chart. Android 10's "300 day" mark was 10 days ago.GoogleGoogle today dropped a blog post detailing its progress on improving the Android ecosystem's…
Image copyright Getty Images Leisure facilities and beauty services in England will be allowed to reopen over the coming weeks, the government has announced.Pools, gyms, nail bars and tattooists will be able to open their doors again, and team sports - starting with cricket - will be allowed to resume.Announcing the changes at a briefing…
The boys are back in town — "Don't you worry. Daddy's home." Jennifer Ouellette - Jul 9, 2020 12:50 am UTC Our vigilantes are on the run from Homelander (Antony Starr) and the rest of the Seven in the second season of Amazon Prime's The Boys.The war between corrupt, evil superheroes and a ragtag band…
Image copyright University of California Image caption Michael Drake becomes the university's president amid unprecedented challenges posed by Covid-19 The University of California (UC) has named a black president for the first time in the public institution's 150-year history. Michael Drake, 69, will lead one of the largest public university systems in the US beginning…
Work to do — "Every mission is a learning experience." Eric Berger - Jul 7, 2020 10:01 pm UTC Enlarge / The Boeing Starliner spacecraft is back home at the company's Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility after its December test flight.Following the failed test flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft in December, NASA on Monday…
Image copyright AFP Image caption Hundreds of civilians were killed before a ceasefire was agreed in March Syrian pro-government forces and their jihadist opponents flagrantly violated the laws of war during the battle for Idlib province, UN investigators say.Civilians endured "unfathomable suffering" when the Syrian military launched a campaign late last year to retake the…
With age comes... oh, nevermind — The population most at risk isn't listening to public health experts. John Timmer - Jul 6, 2020 11:11 pm UTC There are still a significant number of unknowns about the coronavirus—we're struggling to understand what influences the severity of some cases, why other people remain asymptomatic, and why most…
Image copyright Getty Images The EU says it will act "decisively" if the US goes ahead with a threat to put new tariffs on its goods.It is latest twist in a long-running row with Washington over subsidies granted to the planemaker Airbus.For more than a decade, the EU and US have accused each other of…
The threat of ransomware may seem ubiquitous, but there haven't been too many strains tailored specifically to infect Apple's Mac computers since the first full-fledged Mac ransomware surfaced only four years ago. So when Dinesh Devadoss, a malware researcher at the firm K7 Lab, published findings on Tuesday about a new example of Mac ransomware,…
