Enlarge / / Bicycle couriers delivering to Uber Eats customers in São Paulo in April 2019 (one year before the new coronavirus pandemic). Uber is again trying to acquire a rival for food delivery after it went missing in its last attempt earlier this year. The company said today that …
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Simon & Schuster names Dana Canedy new publisher
Mr. Karp said that while Ms. Canedy does not have publishing experience, not all publishers do. He was at Random House when Harold Evans, a former editor of The Sunday Times in London, appeared as an editor in the 1990s. Ms Canedy, she added, knows what an award-winning book of …
Read More »Supreme Court upholds federal ban on automatic calls to cell phones
The Supreme Court on Monday confirmed the ban on automatic calls to cell phones, while rejecting an exception created by Congress that allowed calls for the collection of government debt. The case, discussed over the phone in May due to the coronavirus pandemic, only emerged after Congress in 2015 created …
Read More »At least 121 positive results in fraternity outbreak
A new coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 530,000 people worldwide. © Karen Ducey / Getty Images University of Washington students are on campus for the last day of school in person on March 6, 2020 in Seattle. The university closed on March 9, in reaction to the new coronavirus …
Read More »The epic Siberian journey to solve a mass extinction mystery
“I really wanted to find this rumored place where there were a lot of rocks resulting from explosive volcanic eruptions,” says Elkins-Tanton, “because that’s the only way we know that it can effectively conduct chemicals into the upper atmosphere in which will revolve around the entire planet. ” It was …
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