Hurricane Season on Top of a Pandemic Will Be a Nightmare

Trying to evacuate your home before a hurricane hits is hard enough. Now imagine doing it against the backdrop of... [Gizmodo]( April 4, 2020 [Hurricane Season on Top of a Pandemic Will Be a Nightmare]( [Trying to evacuate your home before a hurricane hits is hard enough. Now imagine doing it against the backdrop of the ongoing covid-19 pandemic.]( [News]( [Zoom Bombings Started Off as Pranks. Now Someone Could End Up Dead]( [For those unaware, Zoom officially has a porn problem. The multibillion-dollar video messaging mainstay among employees at Johnson & Johnson and the Department of Homeland Security—not to mention a household name among currently house-bound citizens across the country—has been rocked by story after story of pranksters popping into video meetings...]( [wtf is a stockpile]( [Who Is This Stockpile For?]( [Yesterday, Jared Kushner was summarily roasted by reporters, who pointed out that his flat-out statement that the federal stockpile is “our stockpile” not “states’ stockpiles, that they can then use” directly contradicted the definition of the national stockpile on the website of the Department of Health and Human Services. Through...]( [Apple]( [Siri Might Be Getting a Huge Improvement]( [Apple regularly acquires artificial intelligence startups to build up Siri’s capabilities, but its latest purchase might make Siri more conversational. According to Bloomberg, Apple just bought Voysis, an AI startup that makes it easier to use a voice assistant to buy stuff in shopping apps.]( [Health]( [Tests That Can Tell Who Has Had the Coronavirus Are Here, With Some Limitations]( [This week, the U.S. government approved the first blood test in the country that will look for the antibodies produced by the body to fight the novel coronavirus. Such a test can reveal whether someone is actively infected by the virus, as well as whether they were previously infected but...]( [Health]( [Everyone Should Be Wearing a Face Mask]( [There is no single solution or policy that will get us through this coronavirus pandemic, but there is one thing that every American should be doing if possible, and that’s wearing a face mask whenever you’re likely to come into contact with others.]( [Conservation]( [Scientists Made A Drone To Capture Whale Snot]( [Right now, whales are facing myriad threats, from pollution and getting tangled in fishing gear, to warming and acidifying oceans. To understand how those threats are affecting whales, scientists need data. And to get that data, they’ve come up with a drone that can capture whale snot.]( [Politics]( [Wisconsin Governor Finally Admits Coronavirus Pandemic Should Delay Election]( [Democratic Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers has called at the absolute last minute for legislators to delay the state’s upcoming election and switch to vote by mail in order to prevent people from heading to the polls during the coronavirus pandemic. But it appears to be too late.]( YOU MAY ALSO LIKE [The Root]( [Jared Kushner Is a Goddamn Idiot]( [On Thursday—and I didn’t think this was possible—President Trump handed the mic to someone who is actually dumber and less qualified than the president, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.]( [Jezebel]( [Jared Kushner Has Some Things to Say About Data]( [Unfortunately, Jared Kushner has been brought on board to help with the Trump administration’s response to the covid-19 pandemic. Yes, that’s right, the same Jared Kushner who, not even a month ago, was using his brother’s father-in-law to crowdsource advice on how to handle the virus from a Facebook group...]( [The Root]( [Negro Noir: I Watched Tyler Perry's Ruthless and My Confusion Is at Its 'Highest']( [Movies that are “so bad, they’re good” are one of life’s unsung treasures. And like anything, adding blackness to that principle is like adding proper seasoning—our series reviewing/recapping bad black movies, Negro Noir. As our queen-in-chief Danielle Belton pointed out, it’s so black, the title of the series is essentially...]( [Lifehacker]( [When Will Grocery Stores Get Back to Normal?]( [I, too, thought the toilet paper would be back in stock by now. I got used to seeing empty shelves throughout the grocery and drugstores, but assumed that once enough people had purchased their 20-pack of toilet paper, the shelves would return to normal.]( [The Inventory]( [Saturday's Best Deals: Buy 2 Get 1 Makeup, Classic Literature, Batman Beyond, and More]( [A PUR buy 2 get 1 sale, free children’s books and classic literature, bamboo toothbrushes, a deal on refurbished security systems, and more top the list for Saturday’s best deals.]( You made it to the end. Thanks for reading our newsletter! [Visit Gizmodo]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( [Terms of Use]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Unsubscribe]( [Profile Center]( © 2020 Gizmodo Media Group 1540 Broadway, 27th Floor New York, NY 10036