Lyft’s former COO Jon McNeill has had a fairly storied career as an operator. A Northwestern University economics major who worked at Bain Co. out of college, he went on to start and sell five
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says that the COVID-19 outbreak can be characterized as a "pandemic" as the virus spreads increasingly worldwide, at a press
Editor's note: Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Britain, an
Oriente, a Hong Kong-based startup that develops tech infrastructure for digital credit and other online financial services, has raised $50 million for its ongoing Series B round. The funding was led
471 French cryptography and security researchers have signed a letter named Attention StopCovid to raise awareness about the potential risks of a contact-tracing app. A debate in the French parliament
In the 1960s the U.S. government funded a series of experiments developing techniques to shuttle information from one computer to another. Devices in single labs sprout
The film adapted from the award-winning sci-fi novel "The Three-Body Problem" is planning to start shooting this year, according to the Beijing-based news portal bjnews
South Korean President Moon Jae-in offered Monday to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) resuming inter-Korean cooperation by jointly tacking the COVID-19 outbreak. "(The South Korean go
General view of Wuhan Institute of Virology. /Wuhan Institute of Virology Max Blumenthal, an award-winning journalist and founder of the Grayzone, told Global Times that the conspiracy theory
Editor's note: Lawrence Freeman is a political-economic analyst for Africa, who has been involved in economic development policy of Africa for 30 years. The article reflects the author's opinion,
A symphony concert staged on Saturday evening at the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum received more than 3 million views online. Via livestreaming platforms,
05:40 Gene sequences look abstruse for many people, but for genetic scientists, they contain the mysteries of life. Song Shuhui is one of the genetic scientists who helped build the ge
Facebook will soon allow users to go on “virtual dates,” the company announced today. The social network is planning to introduce a new video calling feature that will allow users of its
Apple and Google have provided a number of updates about the technical details of their joint contact tracing system, which they’re now exclusively referring to as an “exposure notification” technol
Africa’s coronavirus cases have surged 43% in the past week but its countries are dangerously behind in the global race for scarce medical equipment. Ten nations have n
While researchers around the world work on a vaccine for COVID-19, one group of people is in no rush to see one emerge, with some prominent figures even saying they might refuse it when one does b
01:34 As global COVID-19 cases continue to surge, scientists worldwide have been busy working on potential treatments and effective vaccines. How close are we to developing a specific
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