Archive for September 2020

The company, which is named after a rhythmic unit used in 15th-century music, takes digital audio signals and optimizes them to be felt through vibrations on the body, instead of heard through vibrations in the air. Once the signal is converted into vibrations, those vibrations are sent to specific locations on the torso through Tactus’…

New health care names and logos are popping up around Boston — Mass General Brigham, Beth Israel Lahey Health, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. You can now add Tufts Children’s Hospital to the list. Read More

Good morning, friends. Here are the five things you need to know to get your day started, plus snow guns, restaurants’ new move, a morbid milestone, manual typewriters and a candy question. Read More

Local restaurant owners and chefs are hoping to light a fire under legislators to pass an economic relief bill that includes caps on third-party delivery fees. The push for passage is coming as the weather gets colder, bringing with it an end to open-air eating that many have relied on for the last couple of…

If investors believe better corporate citizens produce better financial results, what are they supposed to do when rating agencies score the same company’s ESG performance so differently? Read More

Developers say the nine-story building at 101 South St. will be Somerville’s first lab property. Read More

U.S. News & World Report, in collaboration with the Aetna Foundation, released its annual healthiest communities rankings and new COVID-19 metric data, which reveals a disproportionate impact of the virus on Black and Hispanic communities. Read More

Do you want to go back to the office? Me too. That why I wear a mask and stay 6 feet apart. Read More

Boston Properties’ latest renovation, to Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Square across from the U.S. Treasury, is being pitched as "young" and "hip." Read More

In a new report, SVB Leerink analysts analyzed where the market may be overeager and what issues could trip up the top vaccine candidates. “We’re entering into a period that will be less about exciting promise and more about dirty, disciplined, agonizingly boring commercial execution," one analyst said. Read More