How Empower Has Become Uber’s Rival in Washington D.C.
On a recent Tuesday morning outside Union Station’s train hall in Washington, D.C., a stream of taxi cabs, Ubers and…
How Student Phones and Social Media Are Fueling Fights in Schools
undefined This is an increasingly familiar scene in schools: Students recording a friend walking down a hallway toward a classmate…
‘My former work colleague gave me her kidney’
BBCA man who made a desperate online plea for a kidney donor is now recuperating from a successful transplant after…
Dartitis: The condition where you try to throw a dart – but can’t
Getty ImagesFormer professional darts champion Kevin Painter has thrown arrows almost every day for 40 years.
Personal Data of Rhode Island Residents Breached in Large Cyberattack
An “international cybercriminal group” harvested the personal data of potentially hundreds of thousands of people from the state’s social services…
Tech Industry and CEOs Curry Favor With Trump Ahead of His Inauguration
It was a week of frenzied activity, as Silicon Valley billionaires and their companies brandished checks and compliments for the…
Another New Twitter? Good Luck With That.
Recently, while talking to a friend who used to run a large media website, I casually mentioned the rise of…
Are Childhood Vaccines ‘Overloading’ the Immune System? No.
Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago. It’s…
Where It Isn’t Christmas Until the City Shoots Lasers at 20,000 Crows
In Rochester, N.Y., every year in early December thousands of crows descend on the city, which tries to shoo them…
McConnell Defends Polio Vaccine, an Apparent Warning to RFK Jr.
Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader and a survivor of polio, issued a pointed statement in support of the polio…