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Mask mandate for air travel and public transportation is extended again

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Mask mandate for air travel and public transportation is extended again

The masks mandate for air journey and public transportation has been prolonged as soon as once more, the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention stated Wednesday. The mandate, which was set to run out on April 18th, shall be prolonged one other two weeks as officers proceed to observe the variety of COVID-19 circumstances throughout the nation. The mandate was beforehand prolonged final month.

All airline passengers and public transportation riders shall be required to put on a face masking at the very least by way of Could third after the Transportation Safety Administration advised the CDC they’d be extending the mandate, NBC experiences.

Airplanes and public transportation are a few of the final locations the place Individuals are nonetheless required to put on masks. Most states have lifted their necessities for colleges and different public locations, and the CDC’s new pointers say that masks aren’t obligatory in areas with a low danger for transmission.

On his first day in workplace, President Joe Biden signed an government order requiring masks on airplanes and public transportation after his predecessor Donald Trump had blocked the CDC from issuing an identical order in 2020.

All through the pandemic, public well being officers have uniformly beneficial the carrying of masks to curb the unfold of COVID-19, significantly in crowded, poorly ventilated areas. On its web site, the CDC “strongly recommends” carrying masks on transportation to cut back the prospect of getting and spreading the virus.

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Airline passengers are two to 3 occasions extra more likely to catch COVID-19 on a aircraft because the emergency of the extremely contagious omicron variant, medical professionals have warned airways. Many carriers have put in high-powered, hospital-grade air filters on passenger jets as a solution to mitigate the danger.

The requirement to put on masks on airplanes has led to an enormous spike in passengers behaving aggressively towards flight attendants. For the reason that starting of this yr, the Federal Aviation Administration stated it has acquired greater than 3,200 experiences of unruly habits by passengers, roughly 75 % of which stem from passengers who refuse to adjust to federal masks mandates.

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The Sonos app fiasco: how a great audio brand nearly ruined its reputation

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The Sonos app fiasco: how a great audio brand nearly ruined its reputation

In May 2024, Sonos released a completely rebuilt and overhauled mobile app for Android and iOS. The new software was meant to improve performance, make the app feel more customizable, and allow for new features in the future. But customers immediately complained about countless bugs, degraded Sonos speaker system performance, and features that had gone missing.

The controversy effectively torpedoed Sonos’ reputation with many customers. In the months since, Sonos has worked to regain their trust, address issues with the redesigned app, and bring back features that were absent at launch. The company still hasn’t fully recovered from its enormous mistake. On January 13th, 2025, Sonos announced CEO Patrick Spence would step down after he was unable to turn things around.

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SpaceX to send Starship to Mars next year, Elon Musk confirms

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SpaceX to send Starship to Mars next year, Elon Musk confirms

Elon Musk has confirmed that SpaceX’s Starship will head to Mars at the end of 2026. The ship will be carrying Optimus, Tesla’s humanoid robot. The tech billionaire said that if all goes well, humans could be on the red planet by 2029, although he admitted that 2031 is more likely.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to capture this image of “Santa Cruz,” a hill within Jezero Crater, on April 29, 2021, the 68th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. (Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS)

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The X account for Optimus replied to Musk’s announcement with just two words: “Hold on.”

“Starship is the world’s most powerful launch vehicle ever developed, capable of carrying up to 150 metric tonnes fully reusable and 250 metric tonnes expendable,” SpaceX writes on its website. In US tons, that is up to 165 tons of fully reusable and up to 275 tons expendable.

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Musk has long talked about his dream of sending men to Mars, and recently he was spotted in the White House wearing an “Occupy Mars” shirt.

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“I can’t think of anything more exciting than going out there and being among the stars,” a quote from Musk reads on SpaceX’s webpage on its mission of “making humanity multiplanetary.”

Musk’s announcement of a mission to Mars comes during an exciting week for SpaceX. 

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from the launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, March 14, 2025. (SpaceX/NASA)

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On Friday, SpaceX and NASA launched a crew headed for the International Space Station (ISS) with astronauts who will replace Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have been stuck in space for nine months.

Test pilots Wilmore and Williams launched into space aboard Boeing’s Starliner on June 5, 2024, and were scheduled to return to Earth on June 13, 2024. However, thruster failures and helium leaks led NASA and Boeing to leave the astronauts aboard the ISS rather than have them make the risky journey home.
 

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Samsung soundbar owners report major problems after latest firmware update

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Samsung soundbar owners report major problems after latest firmware update

Samsung’s flagship soundbar, the HW-Q990D, is being rendered useless for some owners after a faulty firmware update that the company rolled out this week. The sheer number of reports on Samsung’s community forums, Reddit, and AVSForum confirm that something has gone very wrong with the premium Dolby Atmos system in recent days. The issue isn’t limited to any specific region, with customers in the United States, Austria, the Philippines, Malaysia, and other countries all sharing in the frustration.

Customers say the soundbar has gone unresponsive and that none of the usual factory reset methods are working; affected units are also inaccessible via Samsung’s SmartThings app. The device powers on, but appears to freeze on the TV eARC input — with no sound output to speak of.

The culprit seems to be the latest firmware release, which is version 1020.7. Many Q990Ds are set to automatically install new updates, which has led to widespread complaints about the bad software over the last several days. If you’ve got a Samsung soundbar, it might be wise to disable automatic updates for the time being until this situation has cleared up. There are scattered reports of the same bug impacting other Samsung models like the HW-Q800D and HW-S801D, but the bulk of complaints pertain to the Q990D. It’s one of the most well-reviewed soundbars on the market, so this is an unfortunate development.

The Verge has reached out to Samsung for comment. Apparently some customers have already been instructed to send in their Q990D hardware for repair. That seems like a worst case scenario, so hopefully Samsung will have an easier, at-home solution once it realizes the scope of this problem. Can the malfunction be resolved with another firmware update in the coming days? Stay tuned.

Thanks for the tip, Eric.

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