Why it matters: More non-medical companies are developing equipment to help those infected with Covid-19. The latest of these is the Mercedes Formula One team, which has helped create a breathing aid that could keep patients out of intensive care.

Engineers and clinicians from University College London worked with Mercedes F1 to create the continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device, which has already been used in China and Italy.

As reported by the BBC , CPAP pushes a steady flow of air-oxygen mix into

A hot potato: Video-calling software Zoom landed in hot waters recently after its iOS app was found to be sharing data with Facebook, based on the app's implementation of the 'Login with Facebook' feature. Although no personal user info was being sent in the transmission, it did include device data that could potentially be used to target ads. Zoom, like several other services being increasingly relied upon for remote work globally, was quick to rectify the problem and has since issued an updated iOS app and privacy

Something to look forward to: Are you tired of modern flagship smartphones that follow a similar design? Nostalgic for the days of BlackBerry PDAs? Then Planet Computers’ Astro Slide could be for you. The device is a 5G phone that runs Android 10, but it also features a sliding physical keyboard and will support Linux in the future.

According to its Indiegogo campaign page , the Astro Slide is the first 5G phone with a keyboard, and the fastest 5G device announced to date. It uses the

Something to look forward to: It seems we’re edging ever closer to the launch of Intel’s Comet Lake desktop chips, and that means leaks are arriving thick and fast. The latest of these comes in the form of a Geekbench database entry, which shows the i9-10900K performing 30 percent better than its Core i9-9900K predecessor.

The alleged Geekbench 5 result was spotted by regular leaker Tum_Apisak. The benchmark , performed using an

The big picture: With any luck, communications networks will hold up under the added stress as this pandemic continues to play out. For many, the Internet is serving as a last vestige of sanity in these uncertain times and a way to keep paychecks coming in. If the Internet starts to fail under load, this whole thing could go from very bad to outright scary in no time.

Microsoft on Sunday said it has observed a staggering 775 percent increase in the usage of its cloud services over the past week

The big picture: Fox Sports on Sunday will air the first-ever Madden NFL Invitational tournament later today on FS1. The two-hour event, to be hosted by Chris Myers and Rachel Bonnetta, will raise awareness for the CDC Foundation’s Covid-19 relief efforts, the network said. Could this be the jumping-off point that esports needs to go mainstream?

Had you told the programming directors at major broadcasters like ESPN and Fox Sports just one month ago that there would essentially be no live

Forward-looking: In a bid to create a sustainable presence on the moon, NASA has commenced development of the Lunar Gateway, an orbital platform that will act as a home for astronauts studying the moon. SpaceX has been charged with getting the supplies for each mission from Earth to the Lunar Gateway.

“SpaceX will deliver critical pressurized and unpressurized cargo, science experiments and supplies to the Gateway, such as sample collection materials and other items the crew may need on the Gateway and during their expeditions on the lunar surface,

Comfort games: Gamers are flocking to tried and true staples during these uncertain times. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, a game originally launched in 2012, is by far the most popular title on the platform with more than a million players as of writing. Dota 2, which dropped in mid-2013, ranks second with nearly 750,000 concurrent players followed by PUBG with around 560,000 active gamers. Grand Theft Auto V and Tom