Apple is now the world’s most valuable publicly traded company, passing Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco. According to CNBC, as of close of business Friday, Apple has a market valuation of $1.84 trillion, while Saudi Aramco’s is $1.76 trillion. Apple’s stock, which has been on a largely-steady climb since the end of March, […]
Coronavirus has postponed concerts, canceled sporting events and basically upended life as we know it. But there’s one thing the virus can’t stop: Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. The annual contest, which takes place every year in in Coney Island on the Fourth of July, has announced it will go on as planned this year, […]
In light of the coronavirus pandemic and demands for justice and equality in the Black community, more people than ever before are offering their time and money to help necessary and important causes. While donating to nonprofit organizations or marching for the Black Lives Matter movement are worthwhile ways to give back, a new study […]
As restaurants start to phase into re-opening, many are adjusting their procedures to keep workers and customers safe during the ongoing pandemic. A Hong Kong restaurant group has published a thorough COVID-19 playbook for these businesses that has become a widely referenced resource. Black Sheep Restaurants was founded by Syed Asim Hussain and Christopher […]
NASA is working with Tom Cruise to film the first movie shot in space, according to NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine. The details of the project aren’t clear, but Bridenstine says the film will take place aboard the International Space Station. Bridenstine didn’t say how Cruise will be participating in the adventure, but a NASA spokesperson […]
Animal Crossing has recently gone what, in a less awful time, we might have called viral. Released on Friday, March 20, after weeks of fans clamoring unsuccessfully for an early release, Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold a record-shattering 1.88 million physical copies in Japan in its opening weekend, the biggest-ever launch for a title on […]
Sometimes it takes years of criticism to get a company to do the right thing. Every once in a while, it can happen overnight. Appearing before a background that said “we care” over an image of a heart-shaped planet Earth, Zoom CEO Eric S. Yuan said Sunday on CNN that despite the company’s recent security […]
Joe Tsai, the billionaire co-founder of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba, and his wife Clara Wu Tsai, have donated 2.6 million masks, 170,000 goggles and 2000 ventilators to New York — the US epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. The supplies were split into two shipments. The first arrived on Thursday at Newark Liberty International Airport, while […]
AT&T’s networks have seen a surge of usage since companies around the United States have asked employees to work from home and schools have moved online following the COVID-19 outbreak. CEO Randall Stephenson told CNN’s Brian Stelter on today’s Reliable Sources that “mobile volumes are up 40 percent,” and “Wi-Fi calling volumes are up 100 […]
There’s a lot of advice floating around about the novel coronavirus and how to limit the spread of the pandemic. Some of it is good, but some of it is just really, really terrible. One question that has come up is whether ibuprofen or other anti-inflammatory drugs are safe to use for symptoms of COVID-19, […]