The competition for that prize will be stiff. Two-time defending champ Nikola Jokic isn't going anywhere, nor is the two-time champ who preceded him. Giannis Antetokounmpo just turned 28 and will be reminding us of his greatness for many years to come. You've got the superb Luka … | Continue reading
Consumers aren't complaining, but state data suggest the state's cannabis sector is stumbling. | Continue reading
Like other available treatments, lecanemab does not cure, reverse, or even halt the memory-robbing disease — but it adds new information to the long-running debate about the cause of Alzheimer’s disease and how best to treat it. | Continue reading
Projects that take decades to come to fruition are good for organizations — and ourselves. | Continue reading
Many empty nesters, retired or downshifting, are living in houses that are too big for them. | Continue reading
The Buxton School’s unique experiment comes at time when the pendulum may be swinging away from technology in education. | Continue reading
Base editing, a more precise way to change DNA, is being tested in three clinical trials this year | Continue reading
White documents mishaps, failures, and scams in the industry on a website that is suddenly gaining wide attention. | Continue reading
In Argentina, a demagogue won the presidency by promising to restore past glory. Instead, he destroyed institutions, corrupted the Supreme Court, and left the country deeply polarized. Sound familiar? | Continue reading
Social media users published videos, some with a watermark bearing the address for the Patriot Front's website, showing the group marching through Downtown Crossing and standing in front of Back Bay Station, the Boston Public Library in Copley Square, Haymarket, and the Old State … | Continue reading
In 2019, the Desert Sun newspaper in Palm Springs, Calif., dropped national politics from its opinion page for one month. Before the experiment, stories about President Trump and Congress dominated the op-ed page, even 2,500 miles away from Washington: Fewer than half of the op-e … | Continue reading
Crypto believers reject the accusation by citing the relative transparency of the currencies’ methods and the absence of deception. Detractors say the lack of underlying assets or government backing qualifies crypto for the Ponzi duck test. | Continue reading
A new study from Cambridge Mobile Telematics compared the safety performance of Tesla drivers when they drove their EV versus when they drove other vehicles. | Continue reading
Canada is poised to criminalize a vile form of antisemitic expression. It shouldn’t. | Continue reading
A lawsuit filed on behalf of a New Bedford woman says she was unfairly deprived of more than $210,000 in home equity by the city of New Bedford and a private company after she fell behind on her property taxes. | Continue reading
Official Pentagon policy states that its system is only designed to protect the nation from nuclear missiles fired by a rogue state like North Korea. For a military superpower like Russia, the US depends on its own vast nuclear arsenal of about 5,400 warheads as a deterrent. | Continue reading
Currently, Massachusetts records those who died within 60 days of diagnosis as having died from COVID. Under the new system, COVID deaths will be those that occur within 30 days of a diagnosis. | Continue reading
In a hearing before the House Intelligence Committee, William Burns, the CIA director, said that he does not anticipate Russian’s invasion of Ukraine will end with Russia sustaining the implementation of a puppet regime in the face of “massive opposition” from Ukrainian people. | Continue reading
Employers may find reopening the office a lot harder than it was to send everyone home in March 2020 because the pandemic has fundamentally changed our relationship with work. | Continue reading
The conflict renders a judgment on post-Cold War US policy. That policy has now culminated in a massive diplomatic failure. | Continue reading
Laid-off workers have charged IBM with forcing out older staffers over the past decade as part of a strategy to build a younger workforce. | Continue reading
Ailing Eileen Gu was born in San Francisco but is representing Team China at the 2022 Winter Games. | Continue reading
It is costly to operate, ineffective, racially unjust, and runs afoul of individuals’ civil liberties. | Continue reading
After breakthroughs this year at MIT and elsewhere, scientists — and a growing number of deep-pocketed investors — insist that fusion is for real and could start sending power to electricity grids in about a decade. | Continue reading
Charles Lieber showed no emotion as the jury announced its verdict after deliberating for 2 hours and 45 minutes following five days of testimony in federal court in Boston. | Continue reading
“No one who is practicing medicine alive in this country right now has ever experienced what we’re going through right now,” the president of the Rhode Island chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians told the Globe. | Continue reading
In recent months, a number of local coffeehouse workers have formed unions — at Pavement, Darwin’s, and three sister Somerville shops — and now the country’s largest coffee chain has joined the mix, with Starbucks workers at a Buffalo store voting to unionize and campaigns launch … | Continue reading
“This gives us hope that the human immune system is powerful enough to control HIV and eliminate all the functional virus,” said Xu Yu, an immunologist at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard and senior author on the new report. | Continue reading
An online dating service targeting Harvard students was recently revealed to be an elaborate prank that was created by an MIT student. | Continue reading
The pandemic has made the concept of a virtual space to meet, do business, or hang out more tangible, benefitting companies like Virbela. | Continue reading
Dr. Tony Tannoury, head of spine surgery, was reprimanded for leaving an operating room before the start of an emergency ankle surgery to go eat in his parked car, where he fell asleep and missed the procedure. | Continue reading
Google Glass crashed and burned, but be forewarned: Smart glasses are coming back. | Continue reading
Perceiving the world has more in common with hallucination than you might think. | Continue reading
Wednesday’s City Council vote follows its decision last year to ban government use of face surveillance technology. | Continue reading
A University of Chicago geophysics professor who was scheduled to deliver a prestigious lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will instead give his talk online under the auspices of Princeton University after MIT cancelled the lecture following a backlash against h … | Continue reading
A rare two-headed turtle is being cared for by the veterinary staff at New England Wildlife Centers. | Continue reading
Multibillion-dollar valuations for local companies are rewriting the record book for the tech community and generating a large pool of wealth for the economy. | Continue reading
Boston entrepreneur Paul English launched an app called Moonbeam that works like speed-dating for discovering podcasts. | Continue reading
Three salespeople from a local used computer reseller ended up in a Beijing prison for seven months over a counterfeiting complaint. Their story is at the center of a lawsuit filed in federal court in Boston against Hewlett-Packard. | Continue reading
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that the Federal Trade Commission reached out to owners of franchise locations over the summer to learn more about the notorious issue. | Continue reading
David and Ina Steiner were terrorized for weeks in the summer of 2019 by a team of employees from Internet giant eBay. Here is their account of the events, which have led to criminal charges and a civil lawsuit. | Continue reading
Ina and David Steiner drew the ire of top eBay executives, including former CEO Devin Wenig, for publishing an online newsletter called EcommerceBytes that reported on the company and its industry. | Continue reading
For all the attention focused on the disputed benefits of the Biogen medicine, Daniel Gibbs says an important aspect of Aduhelm has been downplayed ― its risks. | Continue reading
David and Ina Steiner were terrorized for weeks in the summer of 2019 by a team of employees from Internet giant eBay. Here is their account of the events, which have led to criminal charges and a civil lawsuit. | Continue reading
Scientists are figuring out how to communicate with people while they’re dreaming. What will be discovered on the other side? | Continue reading
I’ve been a journalist for more than 60 years. So after doctors delivered the news, I sat down to do what came naturally, if painfully: Write this story. | Continue reading
Soon, global giants like Amazon, Walmart, Unilever, and Proctor & Gamble will be forced to track the type and amount of packaging they sell into Maine. Nearly a dozen states, including Massachusetts, are on track to follow suit. | Continue reading
The majority of the roughly 6 million Americans with Alzheimer’s disease are over the age of 65 and would rely on Medicare as their primary insurer. Nonetheless, many Medicare recipients have secondary private insurance for other costs associated with Aduhelm. | Continue reading