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It's reasonable to assume that the spread of coronavirus is likely causing a spike in horniness (just look at all these free sex toy offers). We're scared. We're trapped inside. We're lonely. We miss human touch. We need sweet, sexual release.
So in an act of true due diligence, the New York City government released a guide to fucking during the pandemic. And it comes bearing some truly iconic lines, while also delivering extremely pertinent safety information. 
Shortly after it caught the

A courier wearing a respiratory mask handles an Amazon parcel in Milan, Italy.  | Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images Amazon says it has temporarily stopped taking orders on some non-essential products on its sites in Italy (amazon.it) and France (amazon.fr) as part of its efforts to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.“As customers use e-commerce to support their social distancing efforts, we too have implemented social distancing guidance within our fulfillment centers to keep

Twitter has always been hell. But in the age of coronavirus, it's become a truly unlivable nightmare of devastating (if important) news updates, unending anxiety, and heartbreaking stories. Then, little talking cartoon animals came to save us all.It is a peaceful morning as I glance at my social media feed only to see waves and waves of Animal Crossing posts.This game is medicine.
— Alax (@RelaxAlax) March 21, 2020
I don't play Animal Crossing but heck it has made Twitter 100 percent more

The global coronavirus outbreak has produced some surreal sights over the past few weeks. Famous tourist destinations in Italy and New York City are ghost towns right now as people have been told to stay indoors. This has led to an onslaught of viral posts claiming things like dolphins are swimming in the Venetian canals because humans are effectively MIA.
Amazing, right? It would be if it were true. The alleged Venice dolphins make up just one example of fake, viral posts centered around animal

Photo by JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images The Federal Aviation Administration briefly halted departures from New York and Philadelphia airports after a trainee at the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center in Long Island tested positive for COVID-19 today. The person had not been at the facility since March 17th, and the FAA is sanitizing affected areas.As of 2:45 PM ET, the agency had lifted the ground stop order, according to the Associated Press.
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Photo by JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images The Federal Aviation Administration has temporarily halted departures from New York and Philadelphia airports after a trainee at the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center in Long Island tested positive for COVID-19 today. The person had not been at the facility since March 17th, and the FAA is sanitizing affected areas.That center, which primarily handles high-altitude, cross-country flights, remains open. But the FAA is rerouting flights &ldquo

Quarantine is a time for creativity (supposedly). Just ask everyone who can't stop pointing out that Shakespeare wrote King Lear while in quarantine.
Well step aside, Will, because writer and critic Andrea Long Chu has given us a coronavirus anthem: Car Alarm Improv. Putting her (genuinely) formidable piano skills to use, Chu turned an annoying car alarm that wouldn't stop going off into glorious music.
"Car alarm kept going off so i improvised," Chu wrote in the video caption on Twitter. 

Image by Alex Castro / The Verge The CDC has used Microsoft’s Healthcare Bot service to create a COVID-19 assessment chatbot to screen Americans who may be unsure whether to seek medical care. The Coronavirus Self Checker bot asks a series of questions based on CDC guidelines about symptoms (such as shortness of breath or dizziness) and risk factors (like underlying medical conditions or exposure to someone else with the virus) and suggests next steps, including whether to self-isolate, c

If not the most deadly, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is one of the most contagious diseases to have hit our green planet in the past decades. In little over three months since the virus was first spotted in mainland China, it has spread to more than 90 countries, infected more than 185,000 people, and taken more than 3,500 lives. As governments and health organizations scramble to contain the spread of coronavirus, they need all the help they can get, including from artificial intelligence.

As the novel coronavirus continues to spread around the globe, the United States has found its epicenter for the potentially deadly illness. 
New York City, the nation's most populous and one of its densest cities, has thousands of positive cases and dozens of deaths at the time of writing. Both figures are sure to keep rising, especially as the state ramps up testing. As such, new stay-at-home rules going into effect on Sunday night will further quiet the city that never sleeps.
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Photo by PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP via Getty Images Amazon said Saturday it will raise overtime pay for workers in its US warehouses between March 15th and May 9th, Reuters reports. Instead of the standard time-and-a-half they receive now for overtime, Amazon warehouse workers in the US will receive double their hourly rate for every overtime hour worked in a given workweek, the company said.The announcement comes a day after four US senators sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos asking him to respon

All of Italy is on lockdown. Colombia is under a nationwide quarantineNew Yorkers, Californians, and other Americans have been asked to stay home. There have been more than 234,000 cases of coronavirus detected so far around the world.
And yet, there are people flouting this new way of life, partying on Florida beaches and incorrectly opining that government reactions have been overblown. 
A Chicago epidemiologist succinctly explained why those people are wrong on Friday during a news confe

Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney Actor Greg Grunberg, longtime friend of director J.J. Abrams, says in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter that as far as he knows, there is no alternate edit of The Rise of Skywalker despite a persistent fan rumor to the contrary. Fans who were dissatisfied with the 2019 film latched on to a theory that Abrams was pressured by Disney to make TROS more fan-friendly, and that somewhere there was a director’s cut with Abrams&rsquo

Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney Actor Greg Grunberg, longtime friend of director J.J. Abrams, says in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter that as far as he knows, there is no alternate edit of The Rise of Skywalker despite a persistent fan rumor to the contrary. Fans who were dissatisfied with the 2019 film latched on to a theory that Abrams was pressured by Disney to make TROS more fan-friendly, and that somewhere there was a director’s cut with Abrams&rsquo

As more studios try to navigate various methods of releasing their films during the coronavirus pandemic, especially now that theaters across the country have shut down, most movies have received digital releases. Paramount’s The Lovebirds, a comedy starring Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae, marks the first time during this period that a studio movie lost its theatrical release and will head straight to a third-party streamer — Netflix.The Lovebirds was originally scheduled to hit theate

"Will you suck my dick late tonight"
This is a text Caitlin, a woman living in Seattle, received from an ex-hookup last week. Caitlin, who requested to use a different name in this article for privacy reasons, declined because she felt sick; even though she resides in the state with the first US case of coronavirus, she could not be tested for coronavirus.
When Caitlin said she wasn't feeling well and couldn't receive a test, the ex-hookup replied, "I'll wear a plastic bag."Image:courtesy of cai

Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images General Motors is partnering with Ventec Life Systems to help increase production of ventilators that are needed in hospitals dealing with patients who have the novel coronavirus, the companies announced Friday. In the most severe cases of COVID-19 infection, patients need the assistance of ventilators to breathe, and there are widespread concerns that the US does not have enough ventilators to meet the coming demand.
Seattle-based Ventec is one of a handful

With a controller in my hand and the head of a hell priest at my feet, I paused last night’s session of Doom Eternal to take a phone call from my mom. We talked about how she was doing, about how I was doing, about what I was playing for work. It was the most I’d felt like myself in days, a gift I owe in part to Doom Slayer and the demonic forces of Hell. 
Like many, I’ve felt shaken by the pandemic spread of coronavirus. The risk of transmitting or contracting COVID-19 ha

March Mindfulness is Mashable's series that examines the intersection of meditation practice and technology. Because even in the time of coronavirus, March doesn't have to be madness. There’s an empty riverbed before me. It’s filled with shards of white stones, sloping downward at first and then slowly back up into the surrounding hills. I run through the flatness, looking around at the gray sky above, the rocks below, the horizon line which, pleasantly, never gets closer.
And t

TL;DR: As of March 21, you can take an extra 40% off The Complete 2020 Cloud Certification Training Bundle, making it just $23.99. Cloud technology has done wonders for the business world over the years — and it's easy to see why. It provides more space, scalability, efficiency, and speed, with absolutely zero hardware. It's basically an invisible solution to a handful of problems, including how to transition companies to remote-only work during the current pandemic. As a result of al

Ice on Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, may seem impossible. But, could scorching temperatures on that world help form ice? The scorching surface of Mercury, where temperatures can reach 400 degrees Celsius (750 Fahrenheit), may seem to be the last place astronomers might find ice. However, this enormous heat could play a significant role in the formation of ice on Mercury, a new study reveals. Many astronomers believe that most of the water on the Mercury was likely delivered to the sur

TL;DR: Take the first step towards becoming a programming pro with The Absolute Python Programming Certification Bundle for just $29.99, a 95% savings as of March 21.With 2020 already throwing us a ton of curveballs and leaving us stranded in our own homes, you might be wondering what you can do to make the most out of your time. While binge-watching a new Netflix series and snuggling your dog are both viable options, if you want to guarantee your own long-term success, your best bet is to inves

TL;DR: As of March 21, you can take an extra 15% off a Full Ancestry DNA Kit, making it just $64.59. National DNA Day is just about a month away and there's no better way to celebrate than to learn about your own. Get ahead of the game with this deal on Living DNA's Full Ancestry Kits and see just how unique your individual history is.
Here's how it works: swab the inside of your cheek for about 45 seconds and put the swab back in its tube. Mail that sucker off and expect the results in six

If you're fortunate enough to be working from home, you probably have extra time on your hands that you used to spend commuting or, ya know, showering. 
Do you know what that means? More time to clean all the parts on your home that have been neglected for too long.
You have no excuse at this point, really. Instead of moping about cooped up inside, take this as an opportunity to be productive and unleash your inner Marie Kondo. And to make it even easier on you, here are cleaning items on s

As the television library grows apace, there are still embarrassingly few American TV shows devoted entirely to people of color. The good news is that's changing rapidly, and there have never been more heartfelt, layered shows about families of color than there are now.
So if coronavirus-related social distancing measures have you turning to your list of television shows to watch, bump up these titles and relish some brilliant, nuanced storytelling that happens to have POC at its center. 
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TL;DR: A 12-month subscription to Disney+ is available to pre-order for £49.99, saving you £10 on list price. Listen, we know you have more important things to worry about, but the deadline for the Disney+ pre-order deal is fast approaching.
An annual subscription of Disney+ is available to pre-order for £49.99 if you sign up before March 24.  Standard pricing at launch is confirmed at £59.99, so it pays to beat the deadline.
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Google has just launched a site with information and resources to understand the coronavirus outbreak. You can access it at google.com/covid19. The site presently serves US-based visitors, but content for more countries and in more languages are slated to be added soon (Spanish is up next, reports The Verge.) Google‘s site includes information about the disease, links to health advisory material from the World Health Organization and to public health departments for each US state, safety

TL;DR: A one-year subscription to Ivacy VPN is on sale for £2.97 per month, saving you 65% on list price.We're all browsing, shopping, and streaming our way through this situation, and the need for digital security has never been greater. 
Data harvesters, hackers, and malicious websites are looking for opportunities during this period, and VPNs provide an extra layer of security against this threat. These services let you enjoy uninterrupted streaming and downloading with absolute an

Google’s Covid-19 information website, at google.com/covid19 One week ago, President Donald Trump held a press conference wherein he claimed Google would be building a screening website for the coronavirus that would direct people to testing sites. As we learned in the following days, that wasn’t true. Google’s sister company Verily did launch such a site, but only for the Bay Area and reportedly it only offered tests to a very small number of people. Google, however, did say