Andy Jassy will become Amazon’s CEO on July 5th
Andy Jassy will officially become the CEO of Amazon on July 5th, the company announced at a shareholder meeting on Wednesday. The company picked that date because it marks 27…
BlizzCon 2021 has been canceled
A screenshot from Diablo IV. | Image: Blizzard BlizzCon, Blizzard’s annual fan convention, has been canceled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, like it was last year. However, the…
1Password’s web extension now supports Touch ID, Windows Hello, and dark mode
If you use 1Password in your browser, it’s getting a big upgrade: support for biometrics — like Touch ID or Windows Hello (and even some Linux biometrics systems) — dark…
Google isn’t ready to turn search into a conversation
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The future of search is a conversation — at least, according to Google. It’s a pitch the company has been making for years,…
College Students Struggle To Explain What A Woman Is
Watch as young people fail to answer a basic biology question
Pharma Giant Funds Ads Attacking Drug Bill After Hiking Prices Up to 470 Percent
Pharmaceutical giant AbbVie inflated prices for widely-used drugs while its executives pocketed growing bonuses, according to a new report from the House Oversight and Reform Committee. Now it’s helping fund…
Why Cause-of-Death Stats Aren’t As Reliable as the CDC Wants You to Think
Like any other piece of aggregate government data, cause-of-death data is used to justify new government interventions and policies
Biden State Department Quietly Grants Boeing License for $735 Million Bomb Sale
The Biden administration has reportedly granted Boeing an export license for the sale of $735 million in advanced weaponry to the Israeli government, news that came as U.S. Secretary of…
How the Constitutional Convention Vastly Expanded the Powers of the President
After centralizing political power in the presidency to a level unfathomable to most Americans, the nationalists had succeeded, and the new Constitution was ready to be sprung upon an unsuspecting…
Did You Know The Devil Is In The Details Of RNA-Sequencing?
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