A top British official called the latest news about the possible coronavirus vaccine from a team at Oxford University “extremely encouraging.” Results from the Phase I / II trial of the vaccine being developed by the Jenner Institute in Oxford, along with the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, showed that it is …
Read More »The peoples of Florida and the coronavirus
THE VILLAGES, Fla. – For months, many of the residents of one of America’s largest retirement communities went on with their lives as if the coronavirus barely existed. They played bridge. They held dances. They went to parties in golf carts that looked like miniature Jaguars and Rolls-Royces. And for …
Read More »‘It’s a risk for everyone’: why a jazz pianist chose to play
On Saturday, four months and 10 days after his last public performance, Grammy-winning jazz pianist Bill Charlap came out to play. It was the steamy start of a July heat wave, and while he knew that the club he was headed to in the Delaware Water Gap village in Pennsylvania …
Read More »Elon Musk keeps climbing the list of the richest people in the world
That is a raise. Tesla CEO Elon Musk added a whopping $ 5 billion to his net worth on Monday thanks to Tesla’s unending stock recovery, allowing him to end the day as the world’s fifth richest person with wealth net of $ 74.2 billion. Musk, who recently was number …
Read More »Unpublished competitor to Bose AirPods Pro appears on YouTube
A YouTuber posted a video of what could be one of the first units of Bose’s new true wireless noise-canceling headphones. YouTube / Screenshot by David Carnoy / CNET In March I wrote about how Bose is highly anticipated. new true wireless headphones delayed, with a Bose spokesperson telling me …
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