Technology

Each week, we review the week’s news, offering analysis about the most important developments in the tech industry. Hello from our new market-melting, social-distancing, work-from-home reality. This is Erin Griffith, a start-ups and venture capital reporter in San Francisco. I hope you are staying sane while staying inside. I’m calling this past week The Tom […]

Like many first-time parents, Jon Borgese, a tech executive in Manhattan, had heard the buzz around the Baby Brezza formula maker, a countertop device that automatically dispenses warm bottles of formula at the touch of a button. The $200 machine, widely available at retailers like Amazon, Target and Buy Buy Baby, markets itself as the

BBC Click’s Kitty Knowles looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: The UK government rules Chinese firm Huawei will be allowed to be used in non-sensitive areas of the country’s 5G mobile network Yale University develops a game-playing robot capable of admitting its mistakes to help humans communicate better

“Westchester memes is how people know what’s going on,” Quinn Muller said. She’s 14 and lives in Sleepy Hollow, in Westchester County. She, and many of her peers in towns just north of New York City, are using local meme pages as their news source for updates about the new coronavirus. In particular, Instagram accounts

Wild swings in U.S. markets — mostly declines — are becoming the new normal during the coronavirus pandemic March 12, 2020, 5:54 PM 4 min read WASHINGTON — Seven weeks after the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the U.S., the outbreak is now classified as a pandemic and it’s doing widespread damage to

The European Space Agency and Russia’s Roscosmos are postponing a planned joint mission to Mars until 2022, in part due to travel restrictions resulting from the new coronavirus outbreak March 12, 2020, 1:57 PM 2 min read BERLIN — The European Space Agency and Russia’s Roscosmos said Thursday they are postponing a planned joint mission

FREDERICK I think that adding a special category for streaming-only films would not only suggest that they’re different, but that they’re also of lesser quality than other nominated films. And a lot of times that’s just not true. I do think that streaming platforms will have a lot to sift through in terms of what

Authorities in northern Colorado say a mountain lion attacked a person and bit a sheriff’s deputy who was responding to help March 11, 2020, 11:19 PM 1 min read FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Authorities in northern Colorado say a mountain lion attacked a person and bit a sheriff’s deputy who was responding to help. Larimer

In a move intended to give Americans greater control over their medical information, the Trump administration announced broad new rules on Monday that will allow people for the first time to use apps of their choice to retrieve data like their blood test results directly from their health providers. The Department of Health and Human

SEATTLE — A U.S. scientist is helping public health authorities understand and track the coronavirus, turning up clues about how it arrived and spread through Washington state and beyond, including potentially seeding an outbreak on the Grand Princess cruise ship. Washington’s governor banned large public events in three counties on Wednesday, a strategy guided by