AUGUST 3, 2020
Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft, speaks during a launch event for the new Samsung Galaxy Note 10 smartphone at Barclays Center on August 7, 2019 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy Note 10 Plus go on sale August 23 starting at $949. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)...
AUGUST 3, 2020
When infected when COVID-19, some people remain completely asymptomatic while others suffer a variety of symptoms—ranging from the most common (fever, dry cough, and shortness of breath) to others like COVID toes and loss of sense of smell and taste. Of those who do get sick, most recover within a few weeks. However, according to a new...
AUGUST 1, 2020
Parker Smith and Chloe Lenox, front, stand at a distance from others outside an Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles office on June 30. The state is at risk of a new surge in cases.
The coronavirus is spreading at dangerous levels across much of the United States, and public health experts are demanding a dramatic reset in...
AUGUST 1, 2020
FILE PHOTO: People wear masks to protect themselves from coronavirus disease (COVID-19), while listening to the annual general meeting at the lobby of Foxconn's office in Taipei, Taiwan, June 23, 2020. REUTERS/Ann Wang/File Photo
NEW DELHI, INDIA - Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) Taiwan contract manufacturers Foxconn (2317.TW), Wistron Corp (3231.TW) and Pegatron Corp (4938.TW) have applied for funds from...
JULY 31, 2020
President Donald Trump on Friday said he plans to vote absentee in the 2020 election.
Trump has painted a false distinction between absentee voting and mail-in voting, which are virtually the same thing.
The president has repeatedly made unfounded assertions that mail-in voting will lead to widespread voter fraud in November.
Voter fraud is extremely rare...
JULY 31, 2020
This big lug of a planet (Jupiter) may be why we don't have more life in our own solar system. - NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Image processing by Kevin M. Gill
Scientists love to debate and investigate the possibility of life on exoplanets, planets that are located outside our solar system. Maybe intelligent alien civilizations are incredibly rare. Maybe one of...
JULY 31, 2020
Stocks traded mostly lower Friday, weighed down by a mixed batch of earnings results, disappointing economic data and a lack of progress on Capitol Hill toward another coronavius aid package.
Inspired by blowout earnings from tech heavyweights Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google parent Alphabet, stocks rallied at the open, but slipped into mostly negative territory during the session.
What...
JULY 31, 2020
US Congress Works To Pass Second COVID-19 Economic Relief Bill. - Samuel Corum / Getty Images
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House is canceling its traditional August recess, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced on Friday, as congressional negotiations over the next coronavirus relief legislation have reached an impasse. Hoyer said that the House would remain in session until...
JULY 31, 2020
One political risk for President Trump is that his effort to portray mail voting as unreliable will drive down Republican participation, giving an advantage to Democrats. - Doug Mills/NY Times
President Trump on Thursday railed against expanding access to mail-in voting, and even floated the idea that the election could be postponed, something he has no legal...
JULY 30, 2020
China has seen 84,165 coronavirus cases thus far with only 4,634 deaths.(Reuters)
No large country in the world has been able to contain the disease to one restricted geography the way China has.
According to worldometers.info, it has seen 84,165 cases of the coronavirus disease thus far with only 4,634 deaths. It has only 574 active cases of...
