President-elect Joe Biden has signaled that fighting the COVID-19 pandemic will be an immediate priority for his administration. He recently announced a coronavirus advisory board of infectious disease researchers and former public health advisers along with an updated strategy that will include increases in testing and contact tracing, as well as transparent communication.

Engineers and advocates of the lowest-ranked caste say that tech companies don't understand caste bias and haven't explicitly prohibited caste-based discrimination.

When the initial wave of layoffs due to the coronavirus hit the U.S. economy in April and subsequent lockdowns, many people thought these losses would be temporary phenomenon that would quickly rebound as businesses reopened.However, the new employment data seems to suggest that these “temporary” job losses have turned permanent for millions of Americans.

Donald Trump attended church Sunday morning at the International Church of Las Vegas, complete with an extravagant display of worship music and twirled American flags, in case there was any doubt about the Christian Nationalism bent of this administration.

America has long carried on a great love affair with technological progress. But the truth is that really big inventions—the printing press, the internal-combustion engine, the internet—have both upsides and downsides. They make new things possible, but they also tend to undo settled expectations and create chaos. The real question is not whether there will be major technological changes, but whether societies can learn to better handle the disruptions that follow.

While much of California shut down this spring, Robbie Hall stitched masks for 12 hours a day in a sewing factory at a women’s prison in Chino. For several weeks, Hall and other women said, they churned out masks by the thousands but were forbidden from wearing them.

The commander of Boeing’s first astronaut flight has pulled himself off the crew so he’s on Earth — not at the International Space Station — for his daughter’s wedding next year. It’s the second crew switch for Boeing’s Starliner capsule, grounded until the end of this year or early next because of software problems encountered during the first test flight last December.

5G will finally get its U.S. closeup with the expected debut of Apple Inc’s next iPhone on Tuesday. But the blazing speeds promised will not materialize for most people.

Orange and Proximus have picked Nokia to help build 5G networks in Belgium as they drop Huawei amid U.S. pressure to exclude the Chinese firm from supplying key telecoms equipment.

In study, stimulating sound and touch together molds the brain, reduces tinnitus

Signs of a slower, grinding recovery sure look familiar.

Next month will mark 50 years of television that aims to educate and unite.

Mexican authorities have issued dozens of arrest warrants for police and soldiers whom they believe may have participated in the 2014 disappearance of 43 Mexican college students, head of the investigation said on Saturday.

The Deadpool video game was released in 2013, and for fans of the Merc with the Mouth, it was the perfect interpretation of the character. Unfortunately, there hasn't been a sequel, but we did get a re-release on the current generation of consoles when the Deadpool movie was released.