Coronakrise: Apple lockert strenge Anforderungen an Apps

Apple wollte Entwicklern bis 30. April 2020 das Software-Development-Kit von iOS 13 aufzwingen. Nun dürfen die Apps noch länger ohne auskommen. (SDK, Apple)

Apple wollte Entwicklern bis 30. April 2020 das Software-Development-Kit von iOS 13 aufzwingen. Nun dürfen die Apps noch länger ohne auskommen. (SDK, Apple)

Star Trek – Der Film: Immer Ärger mit Roddenberry

Verworfene Drehbücher, unzufriedene Paramount-Chefs und ein zögerlicher Spock: Dass der erste Star-Trek-Film vor 40 Jahren schließlich doch in die Kinos kam, grenzt an ein Wunder. Dass er schön aussieht, noch mehr. Von Peter Osteried (Star Trek, Digita…

Verworfene Drehbücher, unzufriedene Paramount-Chefs und ein zögerlicher Spock: Dass der erste Star-Trek-Film vor 40 Jahren schließlich doch in die Kinos kam, grenzt an ein Wunder. Dass er schön aussieht, noch mehr. Von Peter Osteried (Star Trek, Digitalkino)

Retina-Display: Fleckige Bildschirme auch beim Macbook Air aufgetaucht

Einige Macbook Air mit Retina-Display sind mit einer fehlerhaften Antireflexbeschichtung ausgestattet, die mit der Zeit fleckig wird. Ein Reparaturprogramm gibt es noch nicht. (Macbook Air, Apple)

Einige Macbook Air mit Retina-Display sind mit einer fehlerhaften Antireflexbeschichtung ausgestattet, die mit der Zeit fleckig wird. Ein Reparaturprogramm gibt es noch nicht. (Macbook Air, Apple)

In ERs overwhelmed by COVID-19, here’s who might get treated—and who might not

These are choices no doctor wants to make. But they may soon be a reality.

NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 20: Doctors test hospital staff with flu-like symptoms for COVID-19 at St. Barnabas hospital on March 20, 2020, in New York City. St. Barnabas hospital in the Bronx set-up tents to triage possible COVID-19 patients outside before they enter the main Emergency department area.

Enlarge / NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 20: Doctors test hospital staff with flu-like symptoms for COVID-19 at St. Barnabas hospital on March 20, 2020, in New York City. St. Barnabas hospital in the Bronx set-up tents to triage possible COVID-19 patients outside before they enter the main Emergency department area. (credit: Getty | Mischa Friedman)

The new coronavirus doesn’t just kill by storming lungs and other organs. It also kills by besieging health care systems.

If left to swirl in a community unchecked for a few weeks, the virus can whip up a tsunami of cases that crash into urgent care clinics, emergency departments, and intensive care units, quickly washing out beds, supplies, and staff.

In such a crisis, doctors must make heart-wrenching decisions about which patients get the last beds and which get scarce ventilators and respiratory therapists. At the same time, they’re likely facing shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE), such as masks and gowns. Rationing and reusing such items leads to more nurses and doctors getting sick. That means fewer health care workers to wade through the flood of patients. Some may even join their patients in needing critical care.

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States, feds try to end scourge of coronavirus price-gouging

Supply and demand get out of hand and cross the line quickly in a crisis.

Image of 100-dollar bill with a surgical mask photoshopped across Benjamin Franklin's face.

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As the nation and the world reel from the COVID-19 pandemic, many goods are in short supply and high demand. That basic economic formula means prices are going up—way up. Among the nation's largest digital storefronts, a combination of individual sellers out to make bank and algorithmic pricing that may or may not have a basis in reality has resulted in a wave of exploitative price gouging that state and federal regulators are trying to put to a stop.

Attorneys general representing 33 US states and territories yesterday signed letters (PDF) urging online retailers to set and enforce policies banning price gouging on their platforms during this emergency.

"While we appreciate reports of the efforts made by platforms and online retailers to crack down on price gouging," the attorneys general wrote to Amazon, Craigslist, eBay, Facebook, and Walmart, "we are calling on you to do more at a time that requires national unity."

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