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Early on Nov. 18, Pfizer announced the completion of the primary safety and efficacy goals of the third phase of its Covid-19 vaccine clini...

Parler, a conservative social media platform that bills itself as a place where users can escape what it calls biased content moderation on...

Over the past five years, high-profile visits to African tech ecosystems by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Google CE...

Americans are taking on much more debt during the pandemic, but it’s not because they’re buying more stuff, it’s because they are acquiring...

When asked about their ancestry, about 1% of Americans tell the US Census they are “Scotch-Irish” (also sometimes spelled “Scots-Irish”). Sc...

As of late summer, governments around the world had pledged $12.2 trillion of relief in response to the coronavirus pandemic. That’s around...

A high profile exit at Facebook last month has created an opening for what might be the trickiest job role in India right now.On Oct. 27, Fa...

Everyone needs a friend, even a well-heeled businessman like Ratan Tata.Yesterday (Nov. 18), the former chairman of the over 150-year-old Ta...

In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, citizen journalists in China were a vital source of first-hand information in a country where...

A recent Gallup survey finds that worker engagement is at an all-time high since tracking began in 2000, yet that number is still pretty poo...

Since the beginning of the pandemic, dozens of countries around the world have been monitoring their sewer systems for the Covid-19 virus.Sc...

After nearly three decades hosting late-night talk shows, Conan O’Brien is headed to streaming. The comedian will wrap up his self-titled n...

Within days of Pfizer’s announcement that its Covid-19 vaccine was effective, Moderna released the results of its vaccine candidate trials,...

Like a lot of left-leaning voters, Jon Stewart, the US comedian and political satirist, was not overjoyed that Joe Biden won the Democratic...

Conventional wisdom holds that professionals need to project confidence to be successful. Plenty of books, career-coaching classes, and body...

Millions of people tuning in to CNN’s election night coverage were treated to a special bit of irony. The network’s “Key Race Alerts”—the br...

Americans are tired of cooking at home and are now buying more pre-made foods to feed themselves during the ongoing pandemic.Growing fatigue...

When Covid-19 hit the US, many experts warned that America’s colleges and universities could be devastated. Some of them predicted enrollmen...

In an effort to save century-old trees that have been dying in Maharashtra, the state forest department has announced that they will prepare...

Over the last 10 years, India’s tech startup ecosystem has been the showstopper of the country’s business world. From banking big bucks from...

Americans are moving to homes that are more likely to burn as the climate warms. The flammable frontier between human settlement and wildern...

In prehistoric times around 88 million years ago, Madagascar, the island country in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa, split off...

On Nov. 16, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced the first round of grantees from his “Earth Fund,” which has committed to ultimately channel...

In another sign pointing toward where Hollywood is headed, Universal Pictures agreed to a deal with Cinemark—the second-biggest movie theate...

The last two months of the year are always critical for US retailers. Because of Covid-19, however, it’s shaping up to be a holiday season l...