But the variant, called C.1.2, isn't rapidly circulating worldwide yet, which means Delta still has the upper hand, scientists say. | Continue reading
Wearing a tie can reduce blood flow to the brain by 7.5% and can also increase your risk of glaucoma and cataracts. | Continue reading
"I feel like this is a big problem, and it's really easy to get sucked into and become spoiled," a school-district board member said. | Continue reading
Irwin Bernstein told the student he had underlying health conditions like Type 2 diabetes that make him more susceptible to harsh COVID-19 symptoms. | Continue reading
Recent massive investments into creating immersive digital worlds are a symptom of Silicon Valley leaders cashing out on the physical world. | Continue reading
Facebook said it "incorrectly disabled" Rachel Sines' account after she made a support group for users whose friends and family had joined QAnon. | Continue reading
If a product isn't selling on Amazon, the cheapest option for third-party retailers is to pay Amazon to get rid of it. | Continue reading
Bell recently left Amazon, part of a broader brain drain from the internet giant. Insiders said he was pursing a C-level role at another company. | Continue reading
Dutch police were called to escort the teenagers off their flight to New York at Amsterdam after they refused to put their kosher food away. | Continue reading
Sequencing tests, which pick up on variants, have be federally approved before their results can be disclosed to doctors or patients. | Continue reading
People with dogs are perceived as friendlier, so having an office pet may help improve your relationships with your colleagues too. | Continue reading
An ex-Amazon worker claimed in a lawsuit that she suffered from a bowel condition and was fired before she could get a doctor's note. | Continue reading
Websites and social media have been integral communication tools for the Taliban and other extremist groups across South Asia and the Middle East. | Continue reading
MSNBC's most popular host had been considering leaving in what would have been a blow to the network. | Continue reading
The order appears to be the latest effort by the Russian government to silence the imprisoned Alexei Navalny. | Continue reading
In the short term, cutting the pay of workers who relocate to cheaper cities is the right thing to do. (I've hired people on four continents.) | Continue reading
Dozens of employees on Google's payments team have left the company in recent months, citing frustration with a stagnated product group. | Continue reading
Google is scattering its health teams across the company as Google Health chief David Feinberg departs for Cerner. | Continue reading
Perfect Day has been working on an alternative to plant-based milk products and cow's milk without having to exploit animals to produce it. | Continue reading
Some workers with second jobs log in to two meetings at once or use paid time off from one job to work at the other, The Wall Street Journal reported. | Continue reading
The cofounders of Fruitleather hope their company will reduce food waste while making the leather industry more environmentally friendly. | Continue reading
Twitter's head of design tried to upend the company's nice culture, but The New York Times reports that he made employees cry in the process. | Continue reading
The US eviction moratorium now lasts through Oct. 3. It "ties the hands of hardworking landlords like me," says Julio Gonzalez. | Continue reading
Stream It wants to create a RV that'll provide a "Tesla-like experience," Lance King, CEO of Stream It and chief designer of the Cyberlander, told Insider. | Continue reading
Sir Andrew Pollard said the highly transmissible Delta variant has shattered hopes of reaching herd immunity. | Continue reading
KoBold Metals, backed by billionaires Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, will hunt for metals needed for electric vehicles with mining firm BlueJay. | Continue reading
The satellite's selfie-stick will film the display screen and the footage will be livestreamed on YouTube, GEC's CEO Samuel Reid told Insider. | Continue reading
The Wall Street Journal spoke to an Amazon customer who was contacted repeatedly for months after leaving a bad review for a cooking-oil spray bottle. | Continue reading
The pandemic showed how weak our infrastructure is in America, and why we'll have to rely on mutual aid going forward | Continue reading
Israel has reintroduced some COVID-19 rules in a bid to prevent a lockdown, as cases of the Delta variant rise. It comes after a mass vaccine rollout. | Continue reading
The White House is holding a summit on the future of electric vehicles but appears to have excluded the nation's top-selling electric-car company. | Continue reading
More than 50% would give up Amazon, Netflix, or social media for a year, and more than one-third would give up voting rights, a survey by Breeze says. | Continue reading
Kiersten Conway ended up with permanent damage to her hands, but the insurance money helped her make the best of a bad situation. | Continue reading
"I can live somewhere I actually feel safe," Sigourney Norman writes, adding that remote work can help tech companies reach their DEI goals. | Continue reading
During his tenure at DeepMind, Mustafa Suleyman was an executive who drove his team to great heights and, sometimes, great despair. | Continue reading
"We certainly don't want to affect the 99.5% of our customers who are just there to pick up their hammers and nails," exec Scott Glenn said. | Continue reading
Rodrigo Duterte also said the police would send unvaccinated people back to their homes if they stepped out "because you are a walking spreader." | Continue reading
Hedge funds with big positions in Chinese companies will likely be proceeding with caution after the regulatory environment rocked markets, insiders say. | Continue reading
Dubai is using "cloud seeding" tech to trigger rainfall — cloud seeding uses electric discharges created by drones to produce rain. | Continue reading
LinkedIn has tweaked its hybrid-working plan and will now ask managers to make the call on whether their teams will return to the office. | Continue reading
Trevor Milton stepped down from Nikola in 2020 after allegations of misleading investors rocked the electric-vehicle startup. | Continue reading
A UCLA physics professor bet a popular science YouTuber $10,000 that one of his videos promoted fallacious physics. The YouTuber won. | Continue reading
The commerce giant has 950,000 employees in the US, where the total employed workforce is 151 million. | Continue reading
Thousands of Apple employees are discussing how they can force the company to soften its position on remote work, The Verge reported. | Continue reading
The typical Costco shopper visits roughly every other week — about 23 trips a year — and buys nine products for a total cost of about $114 per trip. | Continue reading