You can’t cure COVID-19 with a Band-Aid. But you might be able to detect it. Dermal Photonics of Peabody says it has made a new kind of temperature sensor that’s attached to the body like an adhesive bandage, and can quickly detect changes in body heat that may indicate the onset of an infection. Compared to the smart watches and fitness trackers that are now being tested as possible COVID-19 detectors, the patch, called NIRA Temp, is smaller, simpler and a lot cheaper. Dermal founder David...

Spurred by months of simmering racial tensions, technology companies are joining other businesses around to country in promising to hire more Black and Latino workers. For Geno Miller, the timing couldn’t be better. Miller is the co-founder of a new company in Manchester, N.H., called Shtudy, an online employment service that connects tech companies with qualified workers of color. The firm also offers an assessment program to ensure that each candidate has the skill set sought by...

As if the Chinese video-sharing service TikTok didn’t have enough on its plate, here comes new competition from the world’s biggest social-media company. On Wednesday, Facebook’s video= and photo-sharing app, Instagram, already in use by over a billion people per month, began offering a new feature called Reels to users in 50 countries, including the United States. Reels is essentially a copycat version of TikTok that makes it easy for anybody to create and share 15-second videos with...

Countless industry conferences have had to go virtual during the COVID-19 pandemic. But this has ruined one of the biggest benefits of real-world conferences — the casual meetings with total strangers that often produce new ideas and business opportunities. Now, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management and Northeastern University think they’ve found a way to generate the same kinds of accidental meetings in the virtual world. They’re testing a new...

OK, parents, whether we like it or not we’re about to begin a school year like no other. And for many of us, that means our living rooms are now classrooms. So it’s time for a crash course in tools and skills that will make this a little bit more manageable. It won’t be easy, especially for low-income families who might not have reliable Internet access, much less the ability to purchase a computer for every child. But even the most affluent will face massive challanges mastering not only the...