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Here’s what you need to know: Senate Republicans are expected to unveil a roughly $ 1 trillion virus aid plan. California and Texas are among the states setting new daily records. A map of coronavirus hospitalizations in the U.S. New unemployment claims in the U.S. rose last week for the …

VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now Tech company CEOs may be heading to Washington next week to take part in antitrust hearings in Congress, but this week high-profile executives from companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google gave the president, Pentagon, and …

Iakov Filimonov / Shutterstock.com One day in 1859, a young chemist named Robert Chesebrough visited Titusville, Pennsylvania. He noticed that oilfield workers were using something they called “rod wax” to dress minor skin wounds. Rod wax was an oil-drilling byproduct. Chesebrough was intrigued enough to start refining the goop. When …