Pandemic

Helen hasn’t taken a day off in weeks. Since the novel coronavirus crisis began, she’s taken countless trips to the grocery store as an Instacart shopper, ferrying bags of food to people for what amounts to a little more than minimum wage. Recently, a group of Instacart shoppers staged a…

FaZe Clan, the esports mega-franchise worth more than $240 million, is still planning on moving forward with its international expansion this year on the heels of a multi-million-dollar funding round backed by investors including Jimmy Iovine and the startup shopping network, NTWRK. Backed by Drake, Live Nation and Iovine, NTWRK…

The pandemic is even affecting emoji. The Unicode Consortium, the group behind emoji releases, announced today that it’s delaying its version planned for 2021, meaning that devices won’t receive new emoji next year and instead will get a release in 2022. The good news is that the emoji that were…

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One of the first things they teach wannabe epidemiologists is the shape of the exponential growth curve—how epidemics spread slowly at first, and then take off like a rocketship as the numbers of infected people double, double, and double. But unless you’re actually fighting an outbreak, or are in one,…

Netflix is launching a new series on Instagram that will focus on taking care of yourself and your mental health during the COVID-19 global pandemic. The series, which will begin airing on Instagram Live tomorrow at 7 PM PT, features the stars of some of Netflix’s top Young Adult shows…

By Stan Schroeder2020-04-08 08:01:24 UTC Tesla has announced pay cuts and furloughs for some of its employees amid the coronavirus pandemic, which forced the company to shut down some of its factories.  This is according to an email to employees, seen by Electrek, singed by Tesla's HR chief Valerie Capers…

Photo: Getty ImagesIf you’re out of work or on a reduced schedule during the coronavirus pandemic, your government relief payment that could arrive as early as this week is likely a welcome addition to your bank account.But many of you with stable incomes seem to be confused as to why…

Remember 1999? SpongeBob SquarePants premiered for the first time. President Bill Clinton was impeached and acquitted. And, of course, Polaroid released its iconic Barbie camera! It was truly a time to be alive. Sure, there was Y2K, but I was 5 years old and blissfully unaware of all the drama.In…

Last Friday, more than 720 readers of WIRED’s coronavirus newsletter tuned in to a livestream with editor in chief Nicholas Thompson and senior correspondent Adam Rogers. Over the course of an hour, Thompson and Rogers answered questions from readers about the current state of the Covid-19 pandemic, covering everything from…