Monthly Archives: July 2022

Valley Oaks Medical Group’s strategy in healthcare

SPONSORED PRESS RELEASE: Less than two years from the inception of Valley Oaks Medical Group, the company has tactically acquired nine primary care and six specialty clinics in key healthcare markets such as Nevada, Texas, South Carolina and Connecticut. The company’s strategy is to target clinics in geographies that are favorable to the reti…Read MoreRead…

TikTok will now let viewers turn on closed captions even if a creator doesn’t

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok is making it easier for users to watch videos with auto-generated captions, the company announced today, updating a feature it introduced in 2021 that had a number of shortcomings. The previous caption feature required creators to enable auto-generated captions on their video before posting, meaning the availability…

Activision Blizzard employees walk out again, this time for reproductive protections

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Activision Blizzard employees will participate in yet another walkout today, this time over concerns about employee safety in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Organized by A Better ABK, Activision Blizzard’s internal employee rights advocacy group, the walkout will take place at…

The wackiest-looking birds are the most at risk for extinction

A large-billed crow and the critically endangered red headed vulture in a nature reserve in Madhya Pradesh, India. Many of the world’s rarest birds are also oddballs. There are frigatebirds, with inflatable necks; hornbills, with faces shaped like a pair of bananas; and glossy kingfishers with cartoonishly large heads. That means that avian eccentricity itself…

We don’t have a full picture of the planet’s shrinking biodiversity. Here’s why.

One of the biggest conservation groups has only surveyed 7 percent of creatures living on earth. Ivan Cujic on Pexels Diversity is crucial in science—whether its diversity of living things or perspectives. The lack of it significantly impacts the way science is viewed, whether it is health studies that focus largely on men or climate…

Our favorite free video editor is now even more powerful

After months in beta, Blackmagic Design has officially launched DaVinci Resolve version 18, with the latest edition of the free video editor app packed full of goodies for editing professionals.  DaVinci Resolve 18 is a major update to the best free video editing software, with a slew of under-the-hood performance boosts and cloud-based capabilities.  Version…