According to newly revealed emails, Dr. Mehmet Oz offered to “personally recruit patients” to test hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 treatment drug. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Emails show how Dr. Mehmet Oz directly promoted an anti-malaria drug for Covid to the White House. He emailed two senior advisers, asking to push for the drug before clinical trials…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
The SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro is a nifty upgrade to the SteelSeries Arctis Pro +GameDAC. A wired headset that offers hi-res audio on PC, as well as the ability to connect to other devices with a dual USB-C connection and 3.5mm line in and line out. Clearly a premium headset, the Arctis Nova Pro not…
Gamescom 2022 is taking place right now in Cologne, and one major smartphone announcement came from Honor’s camp. The company’s flagship, the Honor Magic4 Pro, is the exclusive smartphone partner of HoYoverse for the new Version 3.0 update of Genshin Impact. The partnership means attendees at the trade fair can test the expansion pack on…
Starlink is getting a little cheaper for some. | Image: Starlink Starlink, Elon Musk’s internet-from-space service provided by SpaceX, is notifying customers with some good news: their monthly subscriptions have been reduced in response to “local market conditions.” I received one of these notifications for my Starlink RV service that normally costs me €124 each…
Privacy breaches are not only bad for users, but also costly for tech companies. For example, GDPR fines now total $1.7 billion, and earlier this year Twitter had to pay $150 million for misrepresenting the security and privacy of user data. Based in Pune, India and Delaware, Privado wants to make it easier for developers…
Samsung unveiled its new flagship SSD (solid-state drive) line, the 990 PRO Series, which is said to be built for a wide range of applications like gaming and 4K video editing. There’s a fair amount of hype for the 990 because there were hints this new SSD would run on the PCIe 5.0 interface. Unfortunately,…
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi speaking ahead of a summit meeting in Tehran on July 19. Mustafa Kamaci/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Iran plans to fill some of Russia’s share of Europe’s oil market if the nuclear deal is renewed. The European Union is set to ban Russian oil imports by the…
Jared Kushner told Fox News that it had been “an honor” to work in Trump White House. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Jared Kushner said Trump governed in a “peculiar” way while weighing in on the Mar-a-Lago raid. He said his father-in-law probably did what he thought was “appropriate” with classified documents. Kushner also dodged a question…
The vivo V25 Pro unveiled last week is now available for purchase in India through vivo’s official Indian website, Flipkart, and partner retail stores across the country. The V25 Pro comes in Pure Black and Sailing Blue colors and has two memory options – 8GB/128GB and 12GB/256GB priced at INR35,999 ($451/€451) and INR39,999 ($501/€501), respectively….
Max Novendstern, co-founder and former chief executive of Worldcoin, has left the high-profile startup to launch a new venture, according to sources and regulatory filings and investor deck obtained by TechCrunch. A Worldcoin spokesperson confirmed that Novendstern is no longer at the startup, but said he continues to advise the firm. Novendstern did not respond…