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Facebook, Google and Twitter Struggle to Handle November’s Election

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, ordered a “lockdown” for hundreds of employees late last year. A lockdown is Facebook-speak for a period of intense, focused effort on a high-priority project. The workers, who included engineers and policy employees, were ordered to drop other projects and build tools to prevent interference in the 2020 election, said […]

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Call to the wild: Great outdoors an escape in tough times

Sports / En Sound Media

Jim Klug’s office phone rings off the hook with anxious anglers inquiring about the status of their upcoming fly-fishing trips. It’s a stressful time for the co-owner of a fishing travel company as he postpones and re-books international and domestic expeditions due the coronavirus pandemic. The best way for him to slip away from the

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Coronavirus: Six months before UK ‘returns to normal’ – deputy chief medical officer

Lifestyle / En Sound Media

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionDr Jenny Harries says social distancing measures will likely be in place for “three to six months” It could be six months before life in the UK returns to “normal”, England’s deputy chief medical officer has said. Speaking at the government’s daily coronavirus briefing, Dr Jenny Harries

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Visa extends athlete sponsorship to 2021 after Olympic delay

Sports / En Sound Media

Visa has told its global roster of Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls their sponsorships will be extended into 2021 after the Tokyo Games were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic By ROB HARRIS AP Sports Writer March 29, 2020, 5:17 PM 3 min read 3 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article Visa has

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Detroit auto show canceled, center to be used as hospital

Finance / En Sound Media

The North American International Auto Show said that it will cancel its Detroit show because of the coronavirus pandemic and the center where it is held will likely be repurposed into a hospital March 29, 2020, 4:16 PM 2 min read NEW YORK — The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the

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The Best Recipes, Apps And Hacks We Tried This Week (March 23-27)

Lifestyle / En Sound Media

There’s no “right” way to navigate this coronavirus pandemic; everyone lives and copes differently. That being said, fostering a sense of community may make getting through this time a little bit easier. Enter this weekly guide. Every Sunday, we’ll bring you a short list of products, routines, workouts, recipes, apps and other things we tried

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Webber’s TO vs Tar Heels among iconic March Madness moments

Sports / En Sound Media

The most famous timeout called in the history of the NCAA Tournament has been variously called the biggest mistake, the biggest choke, the most embarrassing gaffe, all because that timeout didn’t actually exist By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer March 29, 2020, 4:11 PM 6 min read The most famous timeout called in the history

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Virus forces Europeans to ask: How united do we want to be?

Lifestyle / En Sound Media

BARCELONA, Spain — Europe’s fractured union came under new pressure this weekend, as Italy and Spain pleaded for urgent European help to withstand the virus ordeal but Germany showed reluctance to plunge into any radical new solutions. The north-south divide that has dogged the European Union for years has resurfaced as the virus has galloped

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Coronavirus: The Archers to reflect global outbreak in May

Entertainment / En Sound Media

Image caption The Radio 4 soap centres on life in rural England The BBC has revealed that its long-running BBC Radio 4 soap The Archers will have its first coronavirus-related storyline in early May. Recording is typically done weeks in advance of broadcast, meaning writers have so far been unable to reflect the rapidly evolving

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Tech boom, MLB programs helping women find jobs in baseball

Sports / En Sound Media

MESA, Ariz. — Rachel Folden figured something out early on during her first spring training with the Chicago Cubs — long before the coronavirus pandemic wiped out team activities. None of the players care all that much that one of their coaches is a woman. As for the girls she encounters, they care very much

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