Emergency department visits spiked during June heatwave in US Northwest
Residents at a cooling center during a heatwave in Portland, Oregon, U.S., on Monday, June 28, 2021. | Maranie Staab/Bloomberg
Read More
Day: July 17, 2021
The stakes for fighting misinformation are life and death
Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeThe United States surgeon general published a report this week calling for a whole-of-society
Read More
WhatsApp tests encrypted cloud backups on Android
Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeWhen you’re using WhatsApp your messages are encrypted end-to-end, which means prying eyes can’t
Read More
Amazon just got Fakespot booted off Apple’s iOS App Store
Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeFakespot, known for its web browser extensions that try to weed out fake product
Read More
Biden says platforms like Facebook are ‘killing people’ with COVID-19 misinformation
Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThe White House escalated its fight against vaccine misinformation on Friday, with President Biden directly criticizing
Read More
How to change your iPhone’s text size for a specific app
Photo by Chaim GartenbergSometimes you want the text in your app to be smaller, so you can fit more content
Read More
Ford made a premium gas fragrance for EV owners who miss the smell of fossil fuels
My face when I sniff gas…perfume. | Photo: Ford, Christopher IsonSo you just dropped a cool $59,000 on a Ford
Read More
Rivian delays first electric pickup deliveries to September
Photo by Sean O’Kane / The VergeRivian has delayed the first deliveries of its long-awaited electric pickup truck again, this
Read More
Uber agrees to reduced fine in fight over sexual assault data
Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeUber has agreed to pay $9 million to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
Read More