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SAN FRANCISCO — Jack Dorsey, the chief executive of Twitter and Square, said on Tuesday that he planned to donate $1 billion, or just under a third of his total wealth, to relief programs related to the coronavirus, in one of the more significant efforts by a tech billionaire to fight the pandemic. Mr. Dorsey […]

President Donald Trump will preside over one of America’s sharpest drops in climate-changing emissions despite mocking the idea of climate change himself By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press April 7, 2020, 9:37 PM 3 min read WASHINGTON — Despite mocking the idea of climate change, President Donald Trump will preside over one of the country’s sharpest

Mr. Lupo’s fan base is riveted. It skews older than the average Twitch gaming channel. He is married — his wife, Samantha, is his manager — and has a 4-year-old son. His biggest supporters tend to hail from a similar demographic. “He became a dad a couple months after I did,” said Nick Kallner, 34,

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. On a recent Tuesday morning at their usual time, more than a dozen women in New Jersey huddled with their rabbi — virtually. Like so many houses of worship, Highland Park Conservative Temple is closed. For people

The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store April 7, 2020, 4:29 PM 2 min read The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store for the week of April 5th. App Store Top Paid iPhone Apps: 1. Minecraft, Mojang 2. Monopoly, Marmalade Game Studio 3. Dark Sky Weather, Apple 4. Procreate Pocket, Savage

As Zoom’s user base has grown in recent weeks, reports of “Zoombombing,” or “Zoom raiding,” have spread across the internet. Public school classes, Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, yoga sessions and other virtual gatherings have been derailed by participants. Some of the these Zoombombers have been students, frustrated by online schooling and eager to escape the virtual

In the vast ocean of modern online commerce, Candis Jones, who designs and makes women’s jewelry, is a minnow. No venture capitalist will ever come knocking on her door in Westerville, Ohio. But with skill and hard work, digitally amplified by her website, online store and Instagram account, Ms. Jones has transformed a basement craft

With so many of us stuck at home, gamers included, there is bound to be burnout. For those players who are over their usual go-to’s, here are some alternatives in the major gaming genres, suggested by New York Times editors and reporters. Platforming: Sick of Minecraft? Try Mario Maker 2 Every so often, videos gain

LONDON — A pandemic forcing everyone to stay home could be the perfect moment for online grocery services. In practice, they’ve been struggling to keep up with a surge in orders, highlighting their limited ability to respond to an unprecedented onslaught of demand. After panic buying left store shelves stripped of staples like pasta, canned

Elena Aprile was in a race against time. Her Xenon experiment, one of the world’s largest and most expensive investigations into the nature of dark matter, was coming together beneath Gran Sasso, a mountain in Italy. But Dr. Aprile, a Columbia University physics professor, was stuck in her apartment in Brooklyn as New York entered