Craigslist is a bit of an anomaly on the rapidly changing Internet. While other sites are constantly tweaking, testing new designs, finding new ways to gather data, Craigslist is remarkable for its stability. A typical city's page looks roughly the…
Despite worrisome new outbreaks in Iran, Italy and South Korea, the coronavirus disease called COVID-19 is not currently a pandemic, the World Health Organization said today. In fact, there are some encouraging trends, especially in Hubei Province…
The coronavirus contagion has spread to Wall Street. U.S. markets fell sharply Monday amid widening concern that the continuing spread of cases could lead to a global pandemic. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled more than 900 points in the…
Some 20,000 mourners are expected to pack Staples Center in Los Angeles on Monday for the public memorial honoring legendary former NBA player Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna, who were killed along with seven other people in a helicopter crash…
Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who was one of NASA's human 'computers' and an unsung hero of the space agency's early days, died Monday. She calculated the flight path for America's first space mission and the first landing on the moon, and was…
