Новости за 09.03.2020

Even Apple isn’t immune to the coronavirus. The iPhone-maker on Monday updated its website with instructions for cleaning Apple devices, giving customers the OK to use alcohol wipes as the viral epidemic continues to grow around the world. “Using a 70 percent isopropyl alcohol wipe or Clorox Disinfecting Wipes, you may gently wipe the hard,...

Less-than-endowed men now have their own dating site where size really doesn’t matter. Dinky One, a new matchmaking website, aims to combat penis-size pressure by helping those with smaller phalluses find love. “Dinky One was created to help guys who are smaller than average,” founder David Minns tells The Post. “Smaller guys can use the site...

LONDON — As night falls in London, Georgina Rowlands and Anna Hart start applying makeup. Instead of lipstick and eyeliner, they’re covering their faces with geometric shapes. Rowlands has long narrow blue triangles and thin white rectangles criss-crossing her face. Hart has a collection of red, orange and white angular shapes on hers. They’re two...

“Everybody’s watching Coachella,” said one music exec. “If Coachella goes down, it’s going to be a domino effect.”

Apple sold fewer than half a million smartphones in China in February, government data showed on Monday, as the coronavirus outbreak halved demand for all such devices. China placed curbs on travel and asked residents to avoid public places in late January, just ahead of the Lunar New Year festival, a major gift-giving holiday. Those...

BEIJING – A Chinese company says it has developed the country’s first facial recognition technology that can identify people when they are wearing a mask, as most are these days because of the coronavirus and help in the fight against the disease. China employs some of the world’s most sophisticated systems of electronic surveillance, including...

Robinhood, the stock-trading app for millennials, experienced yet another service outage Monday as the markets took a historic dive, sparking outrage from furious customers. Following back-to-back trading disruptions at the start of last week’s stock rollercoaster, the beleaguered app powered down again on Monday — a mere half-hour after stocks were briefly halted on the...

NASA’s Hubble space telescope has spotted a ‘galactic traffic jam’ more than 60 million light-years away. Barred spiral galaxy NGC 3887 is located in the southern constellation of Crater (the Cup). The galaxy was discovered in 1785 by astronomer William Herschel. A light-year, which measures distance in space, equals about 6 trillion miles. “The very...

Twitter announced a truce with billionaire Paul Singer’s hedge fund Elliott Management that will allow Jack Dorsey to remain chief executive, only a week after a report that the fund was looking to oust him. The Monday announcement also revealed that tech investing giant Silver Lake Partners would be making a $1 billion investment in...

Every 20 or so years, fashion recycles itself. The trends of yesteryear return to the runways with an upgraded take on the original — and horrify those who lived through them the first time. That’s why, two decades past the turn of the millennium, the fashion world seems nostalgic for the days when *NSYNC was...

Amazon has a new weapon in its war against checkout lines. The e-commerce colossus has launched a new business selling other retailers the technology it uses in its cashier-free Amazon Go stores. Amazon has already inked several deals to sell the so-called “Just Walk Out” technology, company spokeswoman Amanda Felix said. Amazon has also set...