Netflix finally relents, offers downloading
SAN FRANCISCO — Netflix subscribers can now binge on many of their favorite shows and movies even when they don’t have an Internet connection.The long-awaited offline option announced Wednesday gives Netflix’s 87 million subscribers offline access to videos for the first time in the streaming service’s decadelong history. Advertisement Netflix is matching a downloading feature that one of its biggest rivals, Amazon.com, has been offering to its video subscribers for the past year. It’s somet..>> view originalDemocrats say they'll take aim at Trump's Treasury pick
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump selected a former Goldman Sachs trader and Hollywood financier as secretary of the Treasury on Wednesday, handing Democrats a high-profile target to make the case that Trump is abandoning his populist campaign promises to clear out monied elites and make Washington work for the average Joe. Trump named Steven Mnuchin , 53, who reportedly made much of his $40 million net worth in his 17 years at Goldman, as his pick for the top economic policy post in hi..>> view originalPiped: Chinatown break highlights age-old issue
The flooding and fires that crippled Chinatown yesterday morning after a water main break in a 125-year-old pipe foreshadowed a coming billion-dollar problem across the country’s infrastructure, according to water-sewer experts.“Is there a tsunami of leakage or main breaks coming? They’re likely going to increase if utilities aren’t upgrading at the rate pipes are deteriorating, and all signs are that we’re not,” said Reese Tisdale, president of Boston-based water market consulting firm Bluefiel..>> view originalGoogle time-lapse shows how Boston has evolved over three decades
Google has launched a new feature that gives users a birds-eye view of how the world has changed over the past 33 years.The feature allows users to search or pan to whatever part of the world they want to see — Boston, for example — and it will show a time-lapse of 33 satellite pictures of the selected area — one for each year between 1984 and 2016. Advertisement The feature also lets users zoom in and out and change the speed of the time-lapse.It relies on more than 5 million satellite imag..>> view originalWhy is Jill Stein pushing for recounts, again?
Get James Pindell’s analysis first via his newsletter, Ground Game. Sign up here. Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein of Lexington has agreed to pay millions for Wisconsin officials to begin recounting ballots, filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania, and indicated she will file for a recount in Michigan (the deadline is Wednesday).But why? There’s understandably a lot of confusion over Stein’s intentions for these costly legal proceedings, and both Democrats and Republicans are rolling their ..>> view originalDrew Bledsoe admits he didn't see Tom Brady's success coming
FOXBORO -- In town for the Sunday ceremony to honor the 2001 team that earned the Patriots' first Super Bowl win, Drew Bledsoe, who famously suffered an injury against the Jets that led to current quarterback Tom Brady taking over the position that year, addressed both his past impressions of his successor and how he views his career going forward today.Bledsoe noted that while he thought Brady's approach would serve him well in the league, he didn't even know if the player who could break the ..>> view originalTax incentives, Donald Trump biz plan key to Carrier
The deal to save hundreds of Carrier jobs from being shipped to Mexico reportedly began with a phone call from President-elect Donald Trump himself.About a week after his election victory, Trump dialed Greg Hayes, the CEO of Carrier’s parent company, United Technologies, asking him to reconsider its plan to shutter the plant in Indiana, Fortune Magazine reported, citing a source close to the company.Details of the deal trickled out yesterday, and both Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence pl..>> view originalBoston is set to lower its speed limit in Jan.
The City Council on Wednesday finalized a measure to reduce Boston’s default speed limit from 30 to 25 miles per hour on Jan. 9. Mayor Martin J. Walsh, who had pushed for the change, called the measure an important step toward reducing the risk of injuries and fatalities on the city’s roads. Boston has set a goal of eliminating traffic-related deaths by the year 2030. Advertisement “I am pleased that our hard work and commitment to creating safer roadways for all users by reducing the defaul..>> view originalOdds of Boston cyclists being injured in crashes drop
The odds of cyclists being injured in an accident in Boston have decreased significantly in recent years as the city has made a slew of changes to promote bike riding and improve safety, Harvard University researchers have found.The study, published in the December issue of the American Journal of Public Health, concluded there was a 14 percent reduction in the odds of being injured in a cycling accident for each year from 2009 through 2012. Advertisement The lead author, Felipe Pedroso, sai..>> view originalActivists urge Warren to support health care bill
Advocates for addiction treatment in Massachusetts on Wednesday launched a campaign to persuade Senator Elizabeth Warren to reverse her opposition to a bill known as the 21st Century Cures Act, saying the state needs money for addiction treatment that the legislation could provide.Warren, who worked on the bill for two years and wrote parts of it, turned against it Monday, saying it had been rewritten to benefit pharmaceutical companies at the expense of consumers. The bill, which passed the Ho..>> view original
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