Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (GRS) has fascinated researchers for nearly 200 years, having been continuously observed since 1830. A new study suggests that the clouds are shrinking, but not in ways researchers might expect. The study, published in Nature Physics, suggests that the storm is still as thick as it was 40 years ago, when...
Penske Media, owner of WWD (formerly Women’s Wear Daily), Variety and Rolling Stone, has shut down all nine floors of its New York City offices after one confirmed case of coronavirus last week, The Post has learned. The closure affects some 500 NYC employees and has also resulted in the media company closing its Los...
The country also ordered that those news outlets, as well as the Voice of America and Time magazine, provide Beijing with detailed information about their operations, according to The Times.
Apple on Tuesday announced that it was extending the closures of all its retail stores outside of China “until further notice” due to the coronavirus pandemic.
SAN FRANCISCO – Alphabet Inc’s YouTube, Facebook and Twitter warned on Monday that more videos and other content could be erroneously removed for policy violations, as the companies empty offices and rely on automated takedown software during the coronavirus pandemic. In a blog post, Google said that to reduce the need for people to come...
A group of scientists discoverd a very old pulsating star inside a double star system, giving them new insights into how such celestial bodies grow and die. Finding a pulsating white star means that scientists can determine how binary evolution has impacted the star’s internal structure. White dwarf stars are the burnt-out cores left behind...
SYDNEY – Australian researchers said on Tuesday they have mapped the immune responses from one of the country’s first coronavirus patients, findings the health minister said were an important step in developing a vaccine and treatment. The coronavirus has infected more than 168,000 people worldwide and killed at least 6,610, according to the World Health...
Moderators were encouraged to slam un-photogenic users with "algorithmic punishments" that reduced the size of their audiences.
The Google sister company offering coronavirus tests ran out of appointments within a day of launching a website to help patients schedule them. Verily, a health-focused subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, opened the site Monday to screen people in Northern California for the coronavirus and direct them to local testing centers. But the website...
Amazon on Monday said it would hire 100,000 warehouse and delivery workers in the United States to deal with a surge in online orders, as many consumers have turned to the web to meet their needs during the coronavirus outbreak. With shoppers clearing out shelves in fear of quarantines or product shortages, retailers are racing...
A New York Times staffer based out of the newspaper’s Manhattan headquarters has tested positive for coronavirus, the company announced Monday. The unidentified worker, who has not been at the office since March 5, is on the mend while self-quarantining at home, publisher A.G. Sulzberger and executive editor Dean Baquet notified staffers in a memo....
It’s a small lease but a big start for Savanna’s 106 W. 56th St. boutique office tower called The Six. CA Ventures inked a deal for the full, 2,473-square-foot 22nd floor at the 90,000-square-foot, 26-story mini-tower. CA Ventures is a Chicago-based real estate investor and asset manager — precisely the kind of tenant Savanna had...
Developer Morris Moinian has checked out of a longstanding plan to build a luxury hotel at 1150 Sixth Ave. at a time when the city’s room-surplus problem only continues to worsen. Moinian’s Fortuna Realty tapped a JLL team led by Bob Knakal to sell the midblock site, now an empty lot, on the avenue’s east...
It’s a done deal for a giant new field house and fitness club run by Chelsea Piers at TF Cornerstone’s 595 Dean St. at Brooklyn’s Pacific Park. The developer and the Piers signed a lease this week for a combined 103,000- square-foot fitness and health club at the base of the new residential tower to...
The new owners would be the fourth people to own the farmhouse over nearly two centuries.
"Today" hosts Al Roker and Craig Melvin will continue to steer clear of 30 Rockefeller Plaza after a colleague was diagnosed with coronavirus.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced that Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama would be moving to Stage 3 in light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic shaking the globe. Stage 3 is “mandatory telework status,” Bridenstine said in a release on NASA’s website, adding that there is “restricted access to the center until further notice.” The...
