Category: World

Since late April, Jana De Brauwere has added a new routine to her work-from-home schedule. For four hours a day, four days a week, she calls up strangers, asks them if they are experiencing symptoms of the novel coronavirus, and suggests next steps if they are.  De Brauwere, a 44-year-old library manager at the main…

Tourists visit Shanghai Disneyland during its reopening on May 11, 2020 in Shanghai, China. Photo: Getty ImagesDisney’s theme park in Shanghai, China reopened today for the first time since January 25, when it became the first Disney property to close as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Theme parks around the world are closed, but…

Oil ain’t doing too well these days.Photo: GettyBanks are finally starting to get it: Fossil fuels ain’t worth it. Just last week, Citigroup joined the wave of banks no longer investing in oil and gas projects in the Arctic. The only major bank in the U.S. that hasn’t committed to this is Bank of America.…

So you got your jumbo pack of toilet paper from Costco. You speed home so nobody Mad Maxes you off the highway and steals your treasure, and immediately rip open the plastic packaging and throw it in the recycling bin. You stash rolls in the bathroom but also hide them around the house, in case…

Cloudflare today announced a new partnership with JD Cloud & AI that will see the company expand its network in Chinato an additional 150 data centers. Currently, Cloudflare is available in 17 data centers in mainland China, thanks to a long-standing partnership with Baidu, but this new deal is obviously significantly larger. CloudFlare’s original partnership…

All the major carriers in the US have already launched 5G networks and are working hard to expand them across the country. Some are relying more on millimeter wave (mmWave) technology for higher speeds, while others favor the use of low-band spectrums for better coverage. In this post, we take a look at all the…

The Quincy group, like similar efforts in cities like Waltham, Malden, Medford, Somerville, and Newton, are using Facebook and other web tools to help people who need assistance and find volunteers willing to lend a hand during the outbreak.Organizers of those groups freely share information on replicating efforts in other communities, including flyers for those…

BOSTON, MA – MARCH 19: Boston Public Schools and City of Boston workers help to load boxes of … [+] homework that will go to mail distribution sites for BPS students in Boston on March 19, 2020. Students have to do classwork from home now that all Massachusetts schools have closed to stop the spread…

BU astrophysicist and collaborators reveal a new model of our heliosphere by Staff Writers Boston MA (SPX) Mar 20, 2020 Is this what the heliosphere looks like? New research suggests so. The size and shape of the magnetic “force field” that protects our solar system from deadly cosmic rays has long been debated by astrophysicists.…

Origins of Earth’s magnetic field remain a mystery by Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office Boston MA (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 This visualization shows the magnetic field around Earth, or the magnetosphere. Earth’s magnetic field origins are still a mystery, a new MIT study finds. Microscopic minerals excavated from an ancient outcrop of Jack Hills, in…

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was diagnosed with the coronavirus more than a week ago, was admitted to a hospital Sunday for tests.Johnson’s office said he was hospitalized because he still has symptoms 10 days after testing positive for the virus.Downing St. said it was a “precautionary step” and he remains…