Why it matters: Last month’s news that E3 wouldn’t take place this year didn’t come as too much of a surprise, but it appears that the event isn’t going away for good. Organizers the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has set the dates for next year’s conference.

With the likes of MWC , SXSW, and GDC canceled or postponed over Covid-19 fears, E3 was always at risk of joining them. The inevitable happened after Los Angeles declared

Why it matters: Autonomous vehicle tech has a seemingly infinite number of potential use cases. Not only can it be used to transport people and products from place to place, but in a pandemic like the one we're facing now, self-driving cars also possess the ability to safely facilitate the transit of important medical items between hospitals, labs, and other healthcare locations.

The Mayo Clinic recently announced that it has begun to do just that. The organization has started deploying shuttles to help transport COVID-19

In a nutshell: The disruption caused by Covid-19 has been hammering many industries, but some sectors are benefiting. Home productivity products such as monitors, PCs, and webcams have seen their sales shoot up, thanks to so many people now working and studying from home.

While the pandemic is having a devastating effect on the mobile phone market, consumers working and studying from home are finding they lack essential items—or need to update aging equipment—and are boosting the industry with their buying, according to market

Why it matters: The restaurant and catering industries are under extreme pressure from the coronavirus crisis, which has led to a rallying cry by delivery apps like Uber Eats, DoorDash, and Grubhub for people to use them to support their favorite dining places. But as these services have seen a boom in their business, they've refused to lower their commissions and give independent restaurants a break.

The coronavirus has had a profound impact on many industries, from retail and transportation to travel to almost everything under the hospitality umbrella -

In brief: Russia has been blamed for plenty of cyberattacks in the past, and we're seeing another example of that now. Web traffic intended for over 200 content delivery networks (including those owned by Digital Ocean, Google, and Amazon) was reportedly hijacked and routed through a Russian telecom's servers last week.

The hijacking managed to impact "more than 8,800 internet traffic routes," according to ZDNet . We're not entirely sure what the purpose of the hijack was

In context: The annual festival of experimental game design, Now Play This was scheduled to take place over the past weekend. Like many other events that were canceled or postponed because of social-distancing recommendations, the "IRL" gathering could not take place in real life.

Instead, the festival changed its name to "Now Play This at Home" and hosted livestreams of planned exhibitions via Twitch. A couple of them were not limited to just watching someone give a presentation. Two of the events included guided virtual tours

Recap: NASCAR in mid-March postponed all upcoming races through May 3 amid the Covid-19 outbreak. In lieu of actual racing, Fox, iRacing and NASCAR teamed up to air the iRacing Pro Invitational Series, putting pro drivers behind the wheel of virtual rigs to compete in video game racing.

Professional stock car driver Bubba Wallace is topping headlines this week after unceremoniously bowing out of Sunday’s iRacing Pro Invitational Series.

Wallace, one of 32 drivers competing in the Food City Showdown at the virtual Bristol

The big picture: Tech companies, academics and government agencies from around the world are increasingly making their supercomputing resources available to researchers working on treatments for Covid-19. The hope is that by using a wealth of processing power, researchers can expedite the discovery of drugs to combat the virus.

Nvidia on Monday announced it has joined the Covid-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, a collective of industry, academia and federal agencies accelerating methods to detect, contain and treat the latest coronavirus.

Nvidia said its task force

In brief: To cut down on instances of Zoom bombing, you may now have to enter a password and wait to be accepted into a meeting when using Zoom. The precautions give the host more control over who is allowed into the room than the previous default settings.

After a series of security lapses , Zoom has put a hold on all feature development in favor of beefing up user protections. The lastest changes coming to the app are meeting passwords and waiting rooms being turned on by default. Previously these features had to