Tech companies are aiming to prevent internet congestion during the Covid-19 pandemic by limiting bandwidth for applications like consumer video and game downloads. YouTube typically adjusts the quality of your video based on the speed of your connection. If you have a high-speed connection, it should by default give you […]
Amazon’s New ‘Essential Items’ Policy Is Devastating Sellers
Bernie Thompson is exactly the kind of entrepreneur Amazon likes to celebrate. In 2009 the former Microsoft developer started his own electronics company, Plugable Technologies. He now employs 35 people in Redmond, Washington, and primarily sells his signature laptop docking stations through Amazon. In 2016, CEO Jeff Bezos highlighted Plugable […]
U.S. new home sales fall in February, January revised up sharply
(C) Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Construction workers build a single family home in San Diego, California By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sales of new U.S. single-family homes fell in February after surging in the prior month, and could decline further because of the coronavirus pandemic which is boosting unemployment and […]
While Many Restaurants Struggle, Here’s How One Is Thriving
Customers can also “pay forward” nine-dollar bowls, which Team Addo delivers to a local homeless shelter about once a week. On March 17, they hit 1,000 donated bowls. Now, a couple weeks into the thick of the pandemic, Addo is doing better than when the outbreak began. For as big […]
Covid-19 Poses a Heightened Threat in Jails and Prisons
On Monday, Mo Korchinski drove to pick a woman up from prison. Korchinski is the project administrator for Unlocking the Gates Peer Health Mentoring Program, which provides support for formerly incarcerated people during the first 72 hours of their release. Korchinski had wasted the trip. The woman she had come […]
Iran’s Supreme Leader Refuses U.S. Help
Iran has over 21,600 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus amid 1,685 reported deaths, according to government figures released Sunday. That means that 1 in every 3800 people have a confirmed case and it’s worse than that sounds. 21 million of their 83 million inhabitants live in rural areas, and […]
The Promising Math Behind ‘Flattening the Curve’
Last week I wrote about the alarming math of a viral pandemic. We talked about how infectious diseases spread exponentially, not linearly–and how that can make what seems, for weeks, like a small problem suddenly very, very big. That’s the challenge faced by leaders: Sometimes the only way to avoid […]
Trump’s Itch to Reboot the Economy Would Be a Fatal Error
Hanage says it’s difficult to know exactly how long such interventions need to be in place. Public health officials can’t just pick a date on a calendar. Instead, they need data: most crucially, data showing how many people have been infected, recovered, and are now immune to the virus. But […]
Virus Walloped U.S. Economy in March, IHS Markit Gauge Shows
Forex9 hours ago (Mar 24, 2020 10:09AM ET) © Bloomberg. An American flag hangs above an assembly line in Fort Worth, Texas. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — The global health crisis dealt a swift, painful blow to the U.S. economy in March, with a gauge of activity at service providers […]
Coronavirus sinks U.S. business activity to record low: IHS Markit
(C) Reuters. Workers assemble a Ford truck at the new Louisville Ford truck plant in Louisville (Reuters) – U.S. business activity contracted further in March, hitting a record low as the coronavirus pandemic depressed activity in both the manufacturing and services sectors, bolstering economists’ views that the economy was already […]