Did Mom Take Her Medicine? Keeping Eyes on Elders in Quarantine
Norman Potter’s mother, Dorothy, who suffers from a chronic pulmonary illness, lives alone in the mountain town of Newland, N.C., two hours from his home in Winston-Salem. For a year, …
2,000 Free Meals a Night, Seasoned by Silicon Valley Chefs
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Andres Pantoja, an up-and-coming Silicon Valley sous chef, spent his pre-pandemic evenings delicately preparing the $115 plate of lamb chops and deboning the $42 Psari Plaki …
Contact Tracing With Your Phone: It’s Easier but There Are Tradeoffs
The handshake came first. Then the high-five, fist bump and more recently, the elbow touch. Canadian researchers are now working on a new greeting, the CanShake. It is not a …
Monster or Machine? A Profile of the Coronavirus at 6 Months
Listen to This Audio Audio Recording by Audm To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. A virus, at heart, …
Publishers Sue Internet Archive Over National Emergency Library
A group of publishers sued Internet Archive on Monday, saying that the nonprofit group’s trove of free electronic copies of books is robbing authors and publishers of revenue at a …
In Lockdown, a Neighborhood Opens Up
The residents of Bernal Heights, a dense little neighborhood built around a grassy hill in the south of San Francisco, have been under lockdown a long time — since March …
Google Rescinds Offers to Thousands of Contract Workers
OAKLAND, Calif. — Google, facing an advertising slump caused by the pandemic, has rescinded offers to several thousand people who had agreed to work at the company as temporary and …
Pandemic Forces Car Dealers to Do the Unthinkable: Sell Online
After more than a decade of getting around New York City almost exclusively by subway and bus, Nicole Avallone decided to buy a car in April after watching the rapid …
Who Will Own the Cars That Drive Themselves?
It was a difficult question even before the coronavirus pandemic hit: When self-driving cars eventually rule the roads, will Americans own their cars or make use of ride-hailing fleets? The …
Live SpaceX Launch: Latest Updates
Here’s what you need to know: ImageThe SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft attached on launch pad 39A at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Wednesday morning.Credit…Joe Raedle/Getty Images …