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Bloomberg Boom remotely employs another internet billionaire (Bloomberg) – The coronavirus pandemic, for all its human and economic tragedy, has boosted a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the technology industry, most visibly seized by industry giants such as Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp., and productivity players such as Zoom Video …

Michigan-based startup of electric trucks Bollinger Motors has not started production on its rugged electric trucks, the Jeep-like B1 and the B2 pickup, but it is already rolling out a new type of car. This week, the company unveiled the Deliver-E, the fully electric delivery concept that is due for …

A statue of the late Princess Diana has been commissioned by her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, and will be installed on a meaningful date, Kensington Palace said in a statement on Friday, BBC News reports. The statue will be placed in a garden in Kensington Palace next July …

By resuming the NBA playoffs, players have not given up their leverage to demand change. They have won more. The playoffs came to a shocking halt on Wednesday over the shooting of another black person, this time a man named Jacob Blake, who took seven bullets in the back from …

“Today we come together to rejoice over a historic success for public health, the certification of wild poliovirus eradication in the African region,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, during a live-streamed event. “The end of wild polio in Africa is a great day,” said Tedros, …