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| Jun 17, 2024 | Surgeon General calls for warning labels on social media platforms | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy called on Congress Monday to require social media platforms to display warning labels alerting users of the potential harms the ... |
| Feb 26, 2024 | Massachusetts State Troopers Used A Phone App To Make Hundreds Of Illegal Recordings | Law enforcement says laws are the rules that apply to everyone, but especially to people who aren’t in the law enforcement business. We have to follow the laws or face the consequences. But it often appears cops hold themselves to a lower s... |
| May 15, 2023 | Massachusetts’ Misguided Middle-Class Health Insurance Subsidy Expansion | Proposal to Expand Subsidies Up to $150,000 for a Family of Four Will Have Huge Unintended Consequences |
| Mar 28, 2023 | Rolling back SNAP benefits puts millions of children at risk of hunger and long-term health consequences | At our pediatric clinic, we recently saw a child whose mother lost her job during the pandemic working as a caterer. The mother struggled to put food on the table after the precipitous loss of income. After the family enrolled in SNAP, we c... |
| Jun 13, 2022 | In Baltimore, a shortage of wet lab space poses an economic bottleneck | Shortly after the news dropped, Nick Fullenkamp began scouring for space to accommodate his team’s future.
Avidea Technologies, a Baltimore-born developer of immunotherapies, had been acquired in December in a splashy $40 million deal by hi... |
| Sep 5, 2021 | School districts across the country are dealing with severe substitute teacher shortages, despite efforts to recruit and pay them more | Cooper Hanson, a substitute teacher at the Greenfield Intermediate School in Greenfield, Ind., is photographed Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. AP Photo/Michael Conroy
School districts are stretched thin facing continuing problems staffing their sc... |
| Aug 28, 2021 | 3 Reasons To Invest In Toast’s $20B IPO | Chris Comparato, Toast CEO (c) 2016 Toast |
| Jul 10, 2021 | A woman was finally arrested after she stopped at a McDonald’s drive-thru for chicken nuggets in the middle of a 2-hour police chase, report says | Johanna Gardell pulled into the McDonald’s drive-thru in Worcester, Massachusetts. Google Maps
During a 2-hour police chase, a Massachusetts woman ran red lights and rammed into police cruisers.
The chase eventually came to an end when the ... |
| Jan 8, 2021 | 3 Reasons To Buy SoFi Stock After Its SPAC IPO | LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 15: SoFi CEO Anthony Noto looks on before the game between the ... [+] Los Angeles Rams and the New Orleans Saints at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on September 15, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo... |
| Sep 25, 2020 | Costco Will Regret Dragging Its Feet On Curbside Grocery Pickup | Shoppers wait in line behind a barrier of wooden pallets to enter a Costco Wholesale Corp. location ... [+] in Hawthorne, California, U.S., on Saturday, March 14, 2020. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg© 2020 Bloomberg Finance LP |
| Aug 13, 2020 | Galaxy Life Sciences lands $50 million deal to build in central Massachusetts biomanufacturing park | Webster, MA-based real estate developer Galaxy Life Sciences struck a roughly $50 million deal to build in a biomanufacturing park in Worcester, an up-and-coming biotech hotspot about an hour west of Boston.
Galaxy paid $1.9... |
| Apr 8, 2020 | US State Regulators Order 'Fraudulent' Crypto Mining Scheme to Shut Down | The Texas State Securities Board (TSSB) and Alabama Securities Commission (ASC) ordered Ultra Mining to cease and desist, alleging it promised to double investments in a cloud mining scheme.
The state securities regulators filed an emergenc... |
| Mar 30, 2020 | Should You Consider Taking A Loved One Out Of A Long-Term-Care Facility Now? | By, Lori Frank, Dr. Sharon Inouye, Dr. Gary Epstein-Lubow, Robyn Stone and Dr. Lewis Lipsitz, Next Avenue Contributors |
| May 13, 2019 | Colorado to set aside $100 for each newborn’s college savings through 2040 | Children born or adopted in Colorado can soon have a college savings account partially funded for them by the government.
Gov. Jared Polis on Monday signed House Bill 1280, setting aside $100 for all Colorado kids born or adopted between 20... |
| Jul 25, 2018 | Massachusetts Just The Latest State To Embrace Net Neutrality | In the wake of the FCC’s historically unpopular decision to gut net neutrality, more than half of the states in the nation are now exploring their own, state-level net neutrality rules. In some instances (Montana) states are signing executi... |
| Jul 23, 2018 | Bad Bill Would Create A Nationwide Exception To Subpoena And Warrant Requirements For Cellphone Location Data | It’s a law named after a crime victim, so you already know it’s going to be questionable. Federal lawmakers are floating a bill aimed at undermining some of the Fourth Amendment just handed back to us by the Supreme Court. At stake is cell ... |
| Apr 16, 2018 | Russia starts blocking Telegram for failing to turn over encryption keys | The Russian state telecommunication regulator has started to block Telegram, as expected. This comes after the messaging company refused to give Russian security services encryption keys. The service is expected to be blocked in the coming ... |
| May 10, 2017 | Massachusetts State Police Promise Higher Standard For No-Knock Warrants; Immediately Break It | No-knock warrants may have served a purpose when they first became a thing. It’s not as though law enforcement’s fear of evidence disappearing or a violent reaction to warrant service is completely unjustified. But no-knock warrants are bei... |
| Jan 13, 2017 | Kid Orders Domino's Pizza, Gets Free Totally Racist Joke on the Box | When you order a pizza online, the special requests section is practically begging—if not outright daring you—to fill its entire character limit with something ridiculous. (I've asked for delivery drivers to write their favorite song l... |
| May 1, 2016 | Zika in 30 Seconds: Archives (May – July) | Saturday-Sunday, July 30-31 The big news right now Zika cases are surging in Puerto Rico, and health officials fear hundreds of babies could be born with severe brain defects (STAT) A study suggests that all strains of the Zika virus are of... |
| Apr 10, 2016 | Chariot for Women, an Uber-like service, set to launch this month | Chariot for Women reader comments 365 with 150 posters participating
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Further ReadingJudge unlikely to let Uber out of driver rape lawsuitA new Boston-area startup hopes to ... |
| Mar 15, 2016 | Boston Tech Watch: Accelerators, Acquisitions, Hiring & Firing, More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This week in Boston tech, we’re tracking the latest news about local accelerators, company acquisitions, office expansions, and more. Read on for details.
Accelerators rise an... |
| Sep 1, 2015 | Parents Sue School, Claim Wi-Fi Made Son Sick | For years now we’ve noted how some people are absolutely positive that Wi-Fi is making them sick, despite a lack of any substantive evidence on that front. Still, schools have repeatedly found themselves on the receiving end of lawsuits for... |
| Oct 15, 2014 | “It’s a terrible company”: Comcast not welcome in city, council says | reader comments 122 with 74 posters participating
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The City Council in Worcester, MA does not want Comcast coming anywhere near its residents. The cable company is seeking a... |
| Sep 16, 2014 | Apple’s HealthKit takes center stage in 2 studies | MassDevice.com On Call | MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) is driving home its growing partnership with the healthcare industry by lending its new HealthKit iPhone application to researchers at Stanford and Duke Universities.
Stanford researchers plan to use t... |
| Jul 25, 2014 | Social posts for profit? Might be the new social media hook | Michael McEnaney, Tech Times 25 July 2014, 01:07 pm
Social media has always been about sharing, right? Well now, perhaps, the profits are about to get shared as well.
The new hook in social media may be this - you post, you profit - as two ... |
| Jan 30, 2013 | Police Department Rewards Officer Caught By An Online Pedophile Sting With Full Retirement Benefits | When parents, law enforcement or politicians discuss web-related issues, one topic always comes up: the possibility that predators are actively stalking children through various social media services. Sometimes this issue is conflated with ... |
| Jun 13, 2012 | AdvaMed CEO Ubl calls on Senate to repeal the device tax | MassDevice.com On Call | MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Following the U.S. House of Representatives’ sweeping repeal of the impending 2.3% medical device tax, lobbying efforts have turned to urging the Dem-led Senate to follow suit.
As a Senate bill repealing the medical dev... |
| Feb 8, 2010 | Zymequest COO charged with murdering wife in their home | Zymequest Inc. COO Keith Rosiello was charged with murdering his wife in their Shrewsbury, Mass., home, according to news reports.
Rosiello, 44, was arrested Jan. 4 and charged with one count of murder in Westborough District Court.
Rosiell... |
| Jan 8, 2009 | Google Street View Helps Find Kidnapped Child | You may remember that a couple months ago an advocacy group was trying to whip up a storm about Google’s Street View service. The claim alleged that child predators would use Street View to find where children live and then kidnap them. Wel... |
| Jan 7, 2009 | Google's Street View Takes A Byte Out Of Crime | Google Street View may get a bad rap from some overzealous privacy watchdogs and conspiracy theorists, but it just helped police save a young girl who had been kidnapped over the weekend.
In the case, which involved a woman who allegedly ki... |
| Jun 13, 2006 | Internet Continues To Break Down Local Protectionist Laws | Over the past few years, it’s been clear that services provided over the internet have been putting a lot of pressure on local businesses who often hide behind local protectionist laws. Luckily, many have started to realize that such protec... |
| Feb 27, 2004 | How Softbank Execs Apologize For YahooBB Data Leak | Over in Japan, people have been talking about the data leak of customer info concerning subscribers to the popular YahooBB DSL service. Now, Softbank (who owns YahooBB) is admitting that it’s true, and is giving credits worth around $37 mil... |
