Microsoft is reconsidering its assistant Cortana, announcing that it will close current iOS and Android apps, end Cortana’s support for the Harman Kardon Invoke smart speaker, and remove the original Cortana functionality from first-generation Surface earphones starting in 2021. These changes are still a few months away, but it marks …

Looking at the performance of the stock market, it’s hard to believe that we are still in the midst of a global pandemic. the S&P 500 It was up around 1.24% as of this writing, erasing most of its losses in the first quarter. But despite the massive recovery, there …

Mayor Bill de Blasio is photographed July 9 in New York. Mark Lennihan / AP The Covid-19 infection rate in New York City has to be less than 3% for schools to reopen, Mayor Bill de Blasio said during the city’s daily Covid-19 press conference on Friday. New York City …

With the nation’s best medical experts at the White House’s disposal, Jared Kushner decided to go in a different direction when designing a national COVID-19 test strategy. Kushner hired his college roommate to work on a carefully selected team tasked with streamlining testing at the federal level, according to a …

The immune system of some people who have not been exposed to the new coronavirus may have some familiarity with the pathogen, possibly helping to reduce the severity of the disease if that person contracts COVID-19, a new study suggests. The study, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, found …