Digital Gems

With enhanced diversity, equity, and inclusion goals, along with pressure from shareholders and advocates, more of America’s largest companies are building diverse boards.

The US economy added 850,000 jobs in June, a noticeable pickup from the average of 546,000 jobs over the previous three months and much faster than the pace in the three months before that. This still leaves the economy 9 million jobs short of its trend.

June 2021

Mental health has long been a stigmatized topic in China. Under Chairman Mao’s rule, psychology was dismissed as a bourgeois self-delusion, and was even bann...

With the adjustment for vaccination, the national death rate is roughly the same as it was two months ago, while the adjusted rates in several states show the pandemic is spreading as fast among the unvaccinated as it did during the winter surge.

A social media post claims that COVID-19 vaccination is unnecessary since unvaccinated people have "escaped every single/>

The Delta variant is more transmissible than previous strains, according to MCPH Executive Director Jeff Kuhr.

State public health officials expect that more than half of Colorado's COVID-19 cases are tied to the 'highly contagious' Delta variant.

Mesa County saw its first case of the Delta variant in may and is now ranked number one in highest confirmed cases across the state of Colorado.”We’ve had the delta variant in mesa coun…

The highly transmissible variant remains the "greatest threat" to the U.S. coronavirus response, officials warn.

A COVID-19 outbreak at a summer camp in Illinois is a reminder that young people are taking a risk by not getting vaccinated, health officials say.

User data appears to be scraped from LinkedIn and other sources

A flaw in how Google Knowledge Panel matches images may have caused an innocent man to be identified as a serial killer

The rising use of IVF, families having children later in life and medical advances are all contributing to growing numbers of twins being born and surviving – but the rate of twin births may now be at its peak

Years of worsening water quality from toxic runoff have increased algae blooms and killed the sea grass that manatees graze on, experts say.

Facebook in recent years has laid out an aggressive strategy of building its own consumer hardware to lessen its dependence on Apple and Google, makers of the two dominant mobile operating systems. The seriousness of its ambitions is reflected in its headcount: Nearly 10,000 people are working ...

Who's the highest-paid public employee in your state? A hint: It's probably a college football or basketball coach.

American workers are quitting their jobs more than any other time in the past two decades.

Amazon says it plans to open a new warehouse in Alberta that will use robotics to help pick, pack and ship small items such as books, electronics and toys.

Small businesses cite national security in plea for federal aid