Beat back pain with the best standing desk deals for June 2020

Standing desks and workstations have become increasingly more popular and we have found some deals for you.

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Need new activities for the kids? Don’t miss these fantastic board game deals

Looking for a way to pry your children away from the screen?Take advantage of one of these board game deals.

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These are the best cheap Apple Watch deals for June 2020

The Apple Watch has surged to prominence in recent years. If you're in the market for an iOS wearable, we've sniffed out the best Apple Watch deals available right now.

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US amends ban to allow companies to work with Huawei for developing 5G standards

Huawei continues to be on the US Entity List, however.

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NI's master plan: Bridge engineers with enterprise and give them spotlight

"Engineers should have rock star status," says NI CMO Carla Sublett.

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iNTTN democratising access to telecommunications across Australia

CEO Jade Miller has a goal of reaching all Indigenous Australians, providing them with access to telecommunications.

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Feds: Former eBay Employees Sent Newsletter Writers Roaches, Spiders and Pornography

Six former eBay workers were charged by U.S. authorities with a harassment campaign that allegedly involved sending a Massachusetts couple disturbing packages and threatening messages.

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The best Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus screen protectors

Protect the edge-to-edge display of your Samsung smartphone from scratches, dirt, fingerprints, and humidity.

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Apple lifts the lid on how its App Store generated $500BN in 2019

Sales of products from which Apple takes a 30% cut came to $61BN of the total.

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How to check your PC’s frame rate, or FPS, when playing video games

Ever wonder how you can keep an eye on your gaming system's FPS? Here's how to track that stat while gaming.

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CSIRO and Microsoft to use AI to tackle man-made environmental problems

Artificial intelligence is one technology the pair will be using to look at challenges such as illegal fishing and plastic waste, and to boost farming in Australia.

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Singapore retailers must reassess digital strategy post-pandemic

Retail organisations that neglected to build a robust online infrastructure now should realise digital can no longer be an optional sideline and look to move forward by tapping digital technologies to support their physical stores.

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Macquarie Telecom to invest AU$17 million in initial build of new Canberra data centre

IC5 will feature an initial capacity of 1.5MW and is due to be completed by December.

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Tesla Model S is the first production EV with over 400 miles of range - Roadshow

The Model S Long Range Plus is now rated at 402 miles of range.

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The age of Wi-Fi 6 is here. Soon, Wi-Fi 6E is going to make it even better - CNET

Wi-Fi is expanding into the 6GHz band, giving Wi-Fi 6 devices a new multilane expressway for faster internet traffic. Here's everything you need to know.

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HBO Max will re-release Gone With the Wind with new introduction - CNET

Cinema professor and TV host Jacqueline Stewart will offer historical context for the controversial film.

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Stockwell, the AI-vending machine startup formerly known as Bodega, is shutting down July 1

Stockwell AI entered the world with a bang but it is leaving with a whimper. Founded in 2017 by ex-Googlers, the AI vending machine startup formerly known as Bodega first raised blood pressures — people hated how it referenced and poorly ‘disrupted’ mom-and-pop shops in one fell swoop — and then raised a lot of money. But ultimately, it was no match for COVID-19 and the hit it has had on how we live.

TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Stockwell will be shutting down at the end of this month, after it was unable find a viable business for its in-building app-controlled “smart” vending machines stocked with convenience store items.

“Regretfully, the current landscape has created a situation in which we can no longer continue our operations and will be winding down the company on July 1st,” co-founder and CEO Paul McDonald wrote in an email to TechCrunch. “We are deeply grateful to our talented team, incredible partners and investors, and our amazing shoppers that made this possible. While this wasn’t the way we wanted to end this journey, we are confident that our vision of bringing the store to where people live, work and play will live on through other amazing companies, products and services.”

We originally reached out after we were tipped off by someone who had received an email about the closure. Stockwell’s vending boxes were distributed primarily in apartment and office buildings, and it has been contacting those customers for the past week to break the news.

For what it’s worth, the building operator that was using Stockwell vending machines said it is actively in search of a replacement provider, so it seems it did get some use, but more pointedly it’s been very hard for the vending machine industry, where some distributors have seen business losses of up to 90%.

Stockwell’s closure is notable because it underscores how in the current climate, having a strong list of backers and a very decent amount of funding cannot always guarantee insulation for everyone.

As of last September, Stockwell had raised at least $45 million in funding from investors that included NEA, GV, DCM Ventures, Forerunner, First Round, and Homebrew. Its network had grown to 1,000 “stores”, smart vending machines that work a little like advanced hotel minibars: sensors detect and charge you for what you take out, and you use a smartphone app both to track what you buy and to pay for it.

As of last autumn, the company appeared to be gearing up for a widening of its business model, allowing its customers (building, office and apartment managers) to have a bigger say in what got stocked beyond the items Stockwell itself put into its machines, which included water and other beverages, savoury and sweet snacks, and a few home basics like laundry detergent and pain killers.

By December, it seems that McDonald’s co-founder, Ashwath Rajan, had quietly left the startup, and then as 2020 kicked into gear, COVID-19 took its toll.

First, consumers found themselves spending much more time working and simply being at home, going out less and bulk buying to minimise shopping efforts. That, in turn, had a big impact on the sustainability of business models based on casual, small purchases, such as the kind that one would typically make from vending machines like Stockwell’s.

Second, at a time when many are trying to minimise the spread of infection by wearing face masks, washing hands and minimising touching random objects, a big question mark hangs over the whole concept of unattended vending machines, and whether they can ever be properly sanitised. That’s impacted not only people buying items, but the workforce that’s meant to help stock and maintain these kiosks.

There have been some interesting twists in how the vending industry has handled COVID-19. Some are swapping out pretzels and Snickers and replacing them with PPE equipment, and others are finding opportunity in stocking them with healthy food specifically for front-line workers who have no other options and need quick but nutritious fixes during critical times.

But more generally, the vending machine industry has been hit hard by the pandemic.

The wider market in a normal year is estimated to be worth some $30 billion annually — one reason why Stockwell nee Bodega likely caught the eye of investors — but business has fallen off a cliff for many key operators.

The president of the European Vending Association, in an appeal in April to government leaders for financial assistance, said that business had dropped off by 90% and described COVID-19 as having a “devastating effect” on the sector. Difficult numbers for the Pepsi’s and Mondelez’s (nee Kraft) of the world, but surely the nail in the coffin for a young, promising AI-based vending machine startup that nonetheless some doubted from the word go.

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Old GTP protocol vulnerabilities will also impact future 5G networks

Bugs allow denial-of-service, user impersonation, user tracking, and fraud attacks, two separate reports warn.

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The FDA just approved the first prescription video game — it’s for kids with ADHD

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It might not look like much of a video game, but Akili Interactive’s EndeavorRX, formerly Project EVO, may go down in history: it’s the first video game that can legally be marketed and prescribed as medicine in the US.

That’s the landmark decision from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is authorizing doctors to prescribe the iPhone and iPad game for kids between ages eight and 12 years old with ADHD, after it underwent seven years of clinical trials that studied over 600 children to figure out whether a game could actually make a difference.

According to the company’s favorite of the five studies, the answer is yes: one-third of kids treated “no longer had a measurable attention deficit on at least one measure of objective...

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Former Pinterest employees say they faced racial discrimination and were underpaid - CNET

Ifeoma Ozoma and Aerica Shimizu Banks, both black women, publicly out Pinterest.

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How to find a Black Lives Matter protest where you live - CNET

Protests continue throughout the country and the world to call out systemic racism and the deaths of Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery.

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Next Mario Kart title on Switch likely delayed until 2021

COVID-19 may have played a role in the delay

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