Technology

The Trump administration announced a $ 760 million deal with Abbott Laboratories (ABT) for a new rapid COVID-19 antigen test, giving new impetus to pressure to reopen schools and workplaces. Testing for COVID-19 remains a bumpy ride in the U.S., with delays still occasionally reported in U.S. pockets, despite regular …

A plate of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes, which were released in an Indonesian city.Credit: World Mosquito Program Epidemiologists typically speak in qualified and maintained language. But newly released results from a trial of a biological technology aimed at stopping the spread of mosquito-borne diseases, they have come up with terms such as …

Kevin Mayer is less than four months after taking the job as director of TikTok. While his resignation comes in the midst of the ongoing political unrest caused by the Trump administration, his decision to leave is likely to have less to do with politics and has more to do …

Okta, which provides employee registration software to nearly 9,000 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom and Slack, said as many as 85% of its workforce is expected to work remotely under the new policy, up from 30% before the coronavirus crisis. The company has roughly 2,600 employees. The decision highlights how American …

Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley said on Monday “Communist China gave us the coronavirus.” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has promised that jobs will “come home” from China on Tuesday. Trump himself foresaw the strategy on Sunday, promising to bring back 1 million jobs from China and deny federal …