Linda & Dante Xavier have launched a new music production company, HarpSpace Happening, LLC to produce and promote cutting-edge, collaborative music and artwork. The company’s first launch is the new release of Black in My Own Way by the DX Experiment (featuring Avery Brooks). The album is about being black READ MORE >
Plans for a TikTok sale may have a new obstacle, with China implementing new rules on AI technology exports. The new export control rules, which focus on technology the Chinese government considers sensitive, could mean that TikTok’s parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance, might need a license before it can sell TikTok READ MORE >
Busch’s latest brew is for the dogs. Dog Brew priced at $9.99 for a four-pack, is free from alcohol and hops—both no-nos for pooches. Instead, it’s made with bone-in pork butt, whole corn, celery, basil, mint, turmeric, ginger and water. While the new drink is meant for the canine crew, READ MORE >
General Mills and other packaged food marketers were in an enviable position early on during the coronavirus pandemic. Shoppers were filling their in-person and online carts with loads of products, from cereals including Cheerios and Lucky Charms to Betty Crocker cake mixes. “We’re all trying to do the same thing, and it’s READ MORE >
The developer and mobile advertising technology world breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday after Apple announced it would postpone new privacy restrictions that promised to upend the way advertising works on iPhone apps. The official announcement came after The Information had reported the story. Apple had planned to strictly limit READ MORE >
While COVID-19 had slammed the breaks on our economy back to school shopping may help put many retailers back in the black. Retail’s second largest sales event annually is not what it was in years past. However, many sectors of retail have noticeably increased. Technology shopping has increased by 28% as students READ MORE >
The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference decided on Friday to pause all fall sports activity, including conditioning. According to the Department of Public Health, CIAC executive director Glenn Lungarini spoke with DPH staff several times at the beginning of the week but only requested formal recommendations on Wednesday, the same day the CIAC Board READ MORE >
After children spending much of the second half of last school year at home, e-learning, in-person learning will be a change. School as they knew it will not be the same, but as parents, we must talk with our children about what to expect and not scare them. Ira Kumar, MD, pediatrician with Franciscan READ MORE >
The body of evidence continues to grow: masks protect the person wearing them from COVID-19, in addition to those around them. But with so many choices, what’s your best option? Researchers used a laser beam, a lens that turned a laser beam into a sheet of light, and a mirror that directed READ MORE >
A portrait of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old Black emergency medical technician shot dead by police in her own home earlier this year, will appear on the cover of the latest issue of O, The Oprah Magazine. It is the first time in the magazine’s 20-year history that the cover will not READ MORE >