Enlarge / US President Donald Trump and Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, hold a press briefing with members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force on April 5, 2020, in Washington, DC. reader comments 342 with 137 posters participating Share this story President Donald Trump yesterday retweeted a ..
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Enlarge / Stock photo shows computing systems from the COBOL era. Lambert/Archive Photos reader comments 185 with 116 posters participating Share this story The COBOL programming language was created in 1959 and has been widely seen as obsolete for decades. Yet there are still a fair number of software systems based on the language. The economic ..
Enlarge / An Amazon Prime-branded delivery van and driver. reader comments 46 with 31 posters participating Share this story As the novel coronavirus pandemic sweeps the globe, an otherwise marginalized class of workers is suddenly in the spotlight. Often undervalued and poorly paid, they are grocery store clerks, sanitation workers, medical professionals, and other employees ..
reader comments 118 with 71 posters participating Share this story In a bold and ambitious collaboration, Apple and Google are developing a smartphone platform that tries to track the spread of the novel coronavirus at scale and at the same time preserve the privacy of iOS and Android users who opt in to it. The ..
Enlarge / A student studying on his laptop with two friends after classes were cancelled. Phillipe Francois | Getty Images reader comments 61 with 47 posters participating Share this story Like many students around the world, Nora Medina is adapting to online learning. But Medina, a high school senior in Quincy, Washington, who also takes ..
seksan Mongkhonkhamsao / Getty reader comments 85 with 61 posters participating Share this story Testing is one of the most important tools for getting the coronavirus pandemic under control in the United States. More than 160,000 COVID-19 tests were performed in the US on Thursday, according to the COVID Tracking Project. But there’s good reason ..
Enlarge / The Oakland Municipal Auditorium in use as a temporary hospital during the 1918 flu pandemic. reader comments 48 with 38 posters participating Share this story The lockdown measures being taken in response to the coronavirus pandemic are causing economic turmoil. Faced with this, President Donald Trump balked at the prospect of continuing those measures ..
Enlarge / A mechanical ventilator developed in the University of Costa Rica (UCR) to be used for patients infected with CIVID-19, is tested in San Jose, on April 2, 2020. Universities and investigations centers in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador have advanced on the creation of prototypes of artificial ventilators, which if approved ..
reader comments 71 with 40 posters participating, including story author Share this story Citing the misrouting of US Internet traffic, malicious hacking, and control by the Chinese government, a group of US executive agencies is recommending the FCC revoke the license authorizing China Telecom to provide international telecommunications services to and from the United States. ..
Aurich Lawson / Getty reader comments 119 with 83 posters participating, including story author Share this story Right now, you’re more than likely spending the vast majority of your time at home. Someday, however, we will all be able to leave the house once again and emerge, blinking, into society to work, travel, eat, play, ..
