New York Times – Page 4

On factory floors, a chime and flashing light to maintain distance

January 14, 2021 at 11:36 a.m.

One of the companies working with Kinexon is Henkel, a global industrial and household chemical manufacturer based in Germany. When the coronavirus infected about a dozen workers in Henkel's plant...

Jobless, selling nudes online and still struggling

January 13, 2021 at 4:45 p.m.

OnlyFans, founded in 2016 and based in Britain, has boomed in popularity during the pandemic. As of December, it had more than 90 million users and more than 1 million...

Alabama fans and Ohio State fans, and reveling during a pandemic

January 13, 2021 at 12:22 p.m.

Alabama had a lot to celebrate, so football fans in Tuscaloosa did just that: tossing beer bottles, banners and masks; climbing trees, light posts and one another.

‘I could just vanish’: In Kabul, pocket notes to prevent anonymous death

January 13, 2021 at 11:08 a.m.

The bearers of pocket notes hope the slips of paper will help emergency medical workers identify an injured person's blood type for a lifesaving transfusion. They might also help authorities...

Tribal elders are dying from the pandemic, causing a cultural crisis for American Indians

January 12, 2021 at 1:15 p.m.

One by one, those connections are being severed as the coronavirus tears through ranks of Native American elders, inflicting an incalculable toll on bonds of language and tradition that flow...

It could be a great year, if your business survives winter

January 12, 2021 at 11:30 a.m.

As 2021 begins, business owners big and small confront a rapidly shifting landscape.

The new sperm economy

January 12, 2021 at 11:32 a.m.

If you are one of the roughly 141 million Americans whose body produces sperm, the substance likely seems abundant and cheap. For the rest of us, it is very much...

His job is counting Stephen Curry’s 3-pointers. You’d retire, too.

January 8, 2021 at 10:32 a.m.

Fred Kast has seen plenty of basketball in his 57 years as the official scorer for the Golden State Warriors — some good, some bad, some amazing. After Stephen Curry...

The pandemic helped reverse Italy’s brain drain. But can it last?

January 8, 2021 at 10:17 a.m.

As with so many things, the virus has upended a familiar phenomenon — this time Italy's long-standing brain drain. How much things are changing, and how permanent those changes will...

Confessions of a virtual reality gym rat

January 7, 2021 at 11:38 a.m.

This year has created a lot of reluctant converts. Months ago, in less dire circumstances, we swore we'd never do any number of strange-sounding things: attend Zoom weddings, embrace ring...

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