Dear Amy: I currently am wrestling with several serious food allergies. Lab bloodwork has just revealed an autoimmune disorder. I am scheduled to see a rheumatologist in two months. My body is thrown into a vicious cycle for weeks after consuming foods that trigger allergies. So, what should I do when I get together with friends or family for dinners and they try to make special food for me? I don’t want to risk even trying this food because of past experiences with bad reactions. Recently, a host assured me that all of the ingredients were safe for me, only to learn later that they’d buttered the pan with margarine, which set off my allergies. They just don’t understand how I have to pay for eating even a trace of that for the next three weeks, but they feel bad because I can’t eat what t

Summary List PlacementTesla billionaire Elon Musk is known for high-profile companies like Tesla and SpaceX, but the billionaire also has a handful of unusual ventures. One them, he says, he started to one day achieve "symbiosis" between the human brain and artificial intelligence. Neuralink is Musk's neural interface technology company. Simply put, it is building technology that could be embedded in a person's brain, where it could both record brain activity and potentially stimulate it. While Musk likes to talk up his futuristic vision for the technology, merging human consciousness with AI, the tech has plenty of near-term potential medical applications such as the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Here's everything you need to know about Neuralink: Neuralink was quietly founded unde...

Summary List PlacementQAnon followers, unable to cope with Joe Biden's elevation to president in January, have now coopted a new belief to argue that the next legitimate inauguration date will be on March 4. After President Joe Biden's inauguration on January 20, 2021, some QAnon believers concluded that their conspiracy theory was a "lie." But its most fervent followers weren't ready to give up on their conspiratorial beliefs, clinging to an absurd hope that former President Donald Trump will be sworn in at a later date. Using ever-shifting goalposts, the pro-Trump conspiracists have now set their eyes on March 4, 2021. Where does the conspiracy theory come from? The belief that Trump will be sworn in on March 4 is rooted in theories promoted by the obscure sovereign citizen movement. ...

Summary List Placement This is a preview of the Insider Intelligence Online Grocery premium research report. Purchase this report here. Insider Intelligence offers even more e-commerce and payments coverage with our Payments & Commerce Briefing. Subscribe today to receive industry-changing retail news and analysis to your inbox. The coronavirus pandemic has brought online grocery — a promising but formerly niche industry — to the fore. The combination of consumers' interest in avoiding public places, government orders to stay at home, and the continued need for groceries and essential goods has made online grocery delivery services from the likes of Walmart, Amazon, Target, and Instacart indispensable. Previously, some consumers resisted the shopping method because they wanted to pic

Summary List PlacementMore than a dozen current or former employees at Amazon's corporate headquarters say they witnessed systematic disadvantages for Black and underrepresented workers, according to Recode.  The tech news website quoted an Amazon diversity manager, who said: "We struggle to bring [Black] folks in because there's not a whole lot of desire, in my opinion, to go outside of our normal practices." Once inside the company, those employees sometimes had difficulty advancing, the manager told the outlet. Later this year, Andy Jassy will take over as chief executive at the retail giant, replacing founder Jeff Bezos. Jassy has spoken about diversity at the company previously, saying at a June 2020 event that the issue was "really important." He added: "Frankly, as a technology ...

Seven people were shot, one fatally, since 5 p.m. Feb. 26, 2021 across Chicago. | Sun-Times file photoA 16-year-old boy was killed in a shooting Friday night in the 6300 block of South Richmond Street. A teenage boy was killed and six other people wounded in shootings across Chicago so far this weekend. The boy, 16, was visiting a friend about 8:45 p.m. Friday when two males started arguing with him inside an apartment in the 6300 block of South Richmond Street, Chicago police said. The males began hitting the boy, but he was able to escape the apartment and fled down the street, police said. The males chased him and fired shots as they ran, striking him several times throughout the body. The boy was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead, police said...

Dear Amy: I currently am wrestling with several serious food allergies. Lab bloodwork has just revealed an autoimmune disorder. I am scheduled to see a rheumatologist in two months. Amy Dickinson My body is thrown into a vicious cycle for weeks after consuming foods that trigger allergies. So, what should I do when I get together with friends or family for dinners and they try to make special food for me? I don’t want to risk even trying this food because of past experiences with bad reactions. Recently, a host assured me that all of the ingredients were safe for me, only to learn later that they’d buttered the pan with margarine, which set off my allergies. They just don’t understand how I have to pay for eating even a trace of that for the next three weeks, but they feel bad because I ca

The Queen had a ‘harmonious’ conversation with Prince Harry after he quit royal life for goodThe Queen told Prince Harry she was delighted he and Meghan had ‘found happiness’ after moving to LA and that she only ‘wants the best for him and his family’. Her Majesty is said to have enjoyed a ‘harmonious conversation’ with her grandson after it was announced he would not be returning to royal life. A source told the Daily Mirror the Queen was ‘sympathetic’ to his situation but asked him to uphold ‘family values’ as he pursues a life of financial independence outside the monarchy. ‘Harry has spoken to the Queen, and she told him she was delighted he has found happiness. She only wants the best for him and his family,’ the source said. ‘She has seen him struggle with his positio

It’s likely Charles’ 200-mile round trip last weekend was at Philip’s request (Picture: Getty/PA)Prince Philip is likely to have asked Prince Charles to visit him in hospital to discuss the future of the Royal Family, according to an ex-palace official. Charles made a surprise 200-mile-round-trip to see his father last weekend during the Duke of Edinburgh’s prolonged stay in hospital as he suffers from an infection. Former Buckingham Palace-insider Dickie Arbiter has speculated the visit would have been at Philip’s request. Mr Arbiter, who worked for the Queen as a press officer between 1988 and 2000, told True Royalty TV’s weekly The Royal Beat programme the duke was likely to have been ‘planning for the future.’ He said: ‘I think it was at the request of the duke that the Pr