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Companies are giving employees more time, money and flexibility to recognize the new reality of 100% remote work. <figure class="image pull-none image-large"><a href="https://www.techrepublic.com/a/hub/i/r/2021/02/24/10e4dd59-7a06-40d0-a63c-dfb666f0eaab/resize/770x/2cc00549336ffff378623b315e7fd6d1/istock-1217208734.jpg" target="_blank" data-component="modalEnlargeImage" data-headline="&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;" data-credit="Image: Gmast3r/istockimages" rel="noopener"><span class="img aspect-set " style="padding-bottom: 56%"><img src="https://www.techrepublic.com/a/hub/i/r/2021/02/24/10e4dd59-7a06-40d0-a63c-dfb666f0eaab/resize/770x/2cc00549336ffff378623b315e7fd6d1/istock-1217208734.jpg" class="" alt="istock-1217208734.jpg" width="770"/></span></a><figcaption><p> Image: Gmast3r/istockimages </p></figcaption></figure><p>The future of work is a hybrid solution that will …

The Super Mario event is headed to Animal Crossing: New Horizons for players to enjoy and it brings with it a ton of unique ways for the two franchises to intertwine. Coins, Warp Pipes, costumes, and more are on the way, but some have been wondering exactly how the Warp …

Sharon Peacock, Author provided The UK is a world leader in sequencing SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Of all the coronavirus genomes that have been sequenced in the world, nearly half have been sequenced by COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (Cog-UK). The consortium began life on March 4 when Sharon …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Throughout history, people have established new governments for all sorts of reasons: to solidify alliances, or expand empires, or secure individual liberties. Marc Beaulac had a question about sweaters. Specifically, it was about the age-old debate in offices between men who want the air conditioning cranked …

Hitman 3 is a fun game, and one of the most interesting things about it is how it allows players to import locations from the previous two installments. However, the process isn’t exactly intuitive, and we have a whole guide on how to do it here. But at launch, PC …

Peacock Pie Productions, an indie development studio, is launching Click and Collect, a casual management game about servicing customers in a retail store. It releases next week on Android devices. The story goes that you’ve just been hired for a Customer Service Assistant role at a big retail shop, and …

When it comes to Eevee, it can be hard to know exactly what you are transforming your Pokemon into when they evolve. Unlike other Pokemon games that use items to change what Eeveelution you end up with, in Pokemon Go you are only using candies, so how do you get …

Cleaning worker Anthoula Dimitra Pagouni, 30, wears protective gear before entering an ICU at the Sotiria Thoracic Diseases Hospital in Athens, Monday, Jan. 18, 2021. The cleaners of coronavirus intensive care units run a daily gauntlet of infection risks to ensure that ICUs run smoothly, and they are critical to …

Along with new processors for gaming laptops, self-driving car tech, and previews of next-gen architectures, Intel used its presence at CES 2021 to launch the 11th Gen vPro platform for a new wave of business laptops. What sets vPro-enabled PCs apart from ordinary ones is additional validated hardware and software …

Business leaders, analysts and experts offer their top tips for supporting employee mental wellbeing through the winter months. <figure class="image pull-none image-large"><a href="https://tr1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2020/11/26/2f87e6c0-8a16-43fb-91c8-228c4555840f/resize/770x/67abf9ac045369290f27a97e28a4c62e/istock-1183657530.jpg" target="_blank" data-component="modalEnlargeImage" data-headline="&lt;p&gt;Employees of all levels have a role to play in promoting workplace wellbeing.&lt;/p&gt;" data-credit="Image: iStock/Chinnapong" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span class="img aspect-set " style="padding-bottom: 63%"><img src="https://tr1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2020/11/26/2f87e6c0-8a16-43fb-91c8-228c4555840f/resize/770x/67abf9ac045369290f27a97e28a4c62e/istock-1183657530.jpg" class="" …

The announcement of a potential COVID-19 vaccine brings hope for a return to normalcy in the workplace. Learn from some industry experts how to properly set the stage. <figure class="image pull-none image-large"><a href="https://tr2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2020/11/20/662b046b-58ac-4ea6-b420-1d3be57e6f5b/resize/770x/b0a54f59a9e8af703e3007f0faa7d55d/istock-1251090135.jpg" target="_blank" data-component="modalEnlargeImage" data-headline="&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;" data-credit="Image: istock/pooiekoo" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span class="img aspect-set " style="padding-bottom: 75%"><img src="https://tr2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2020/11/20/662b046b-58ac-4ea6-b420-1d3be57e6f5b/resize/770x/b0a54f59a9e8af703e3007f0faa7d55d/istock-1251090135.jpg" class="" alt="keyboard mask …

Over the last decade, escape rooms have become a very popular form of entertainment. Groups gather to be locked into a specifically designed room and must complete various puzzles to emerge victorious before time runs out. But with the challenges facing the world in 2020, gatherings of this kind have become …

PlayStation 5’s DualSense controller looks to enhance the future of interactive console gaming. An unanticipated consequence of its adaptability is twitter user BrokenGamezHDR’s short video of the DualSense working with the Nintendo Switch. Of course an adapter — namely, the 8BitDo — was used to optimize everything but, it’s definitely interesting to see. BrokenGamezHDR even …

Ubisoft shared a blog post today explaining how cross-progression, cross-play, and backwards compatibility will work for certain games once next-gen consoles arrive. It’s an informative read, but one thing that stands out is that a handful of the publisher’s PlayStation 4 catalog, including several Assassin’s Creed games, won’t be playable …

It feels like every month we’re learning of a different game being flipped into some form of TV show or movie. From animated takes to live-action adaptations, gaming has never had a bigger spotlight on it than it does right now. In light of the recent onslaught of game adaptation …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain To say that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our lives would be an understatement. Since March, when stay-at-home orders were first put in place, many of us have spent our time in our homes, avoiding crowds, wearing masks, social distancing, and working remotely, often while taking …