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, […]
Starbucks is temporarily restricting the use of reusable, personal mugs in stores because of the coronavirus, the company announced last week. In an open letter posted on the company’s website, executive Vice President Rossann Williams wrote that the company has “taken a series of precautionary steps in response to this emerging public health impact.” “Our focus […]
Starbucks is temporarily restricting the use of reusable, personal mugs in stores because of the coronavirus, the company announced last week. In an open letter posted on the company’s website, executive Vice President Rossann Williams wrote that the company has “taken a series of precautionary steps in response to this emerging public health impact.” “Our focus […]
Last week, CNN reported that the IRS quietly changed a provision on its website that said transactions of virtual currency like Fortnite’s V-bucks were taxable and may have to be reported on tax returns, as reported by CNN. The provision had been on the IRS’s website since at least October. On the archived version of […]