Enlarge / Doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine during a health campaign in Sylhet, Bangladesh on July 19, 2022. (credit: Getty | Future Publishing) Vaccine-making partners Pfizer and BioNTech announced Monday that they had completed their request to the US Food and Drug Administration for authorization of their bivalent, omicron BA.4/5 booster doses, which the Biden…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
In our Digital Trust Benchmark Report, we analyze the data from our fifth annual “US Digital Trust Survey” to evaluate how US social media users feel about nine major social media platforms—Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube—and reveal the extent to which trust affects usage and attitudes toward advertising. To download…
Senior adviser Jared Kushner waits for a meeting with Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak, US President Donald Trump and others in the Cabinet Room of the White House on September 12, 2017. Brendan Smialoswki / AFP / Getty Jared Kushner this week broke his silence about the FBI raid at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort….
Local law enforcement officers are seen in front of the home of former President Donald Trump at Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida on August 9, 2022. GIORGIO VIERA/AFP via Getty Images Judge Bruce Reinhart said evidence in the FBI’s search warrant affidavit was “reliable.” A Monday court order explained the judge’s concerns and arguments on…
President Joe Biden STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images Biden is leaning toward up to $10,000 in student-loan forgiveness for those making under $125,000 a year, per CNN. This announcement could come as early as Wednesday. Borrowers are also waiting for news of an extension of the payment pause, set to expire after August 31. The…
Instagram is testing a new feature called Candid Challenges, which bears a striking resemblance to BeReal, a photo sharing app popular among Gen. Z. The currently unreleased feature was spotted by Alessandro Paluzzi, a developer known for reverse engineering apps and finding early versions of upcoming updates. An Instagram spokesperson confirmed the feature is an…
Sony has confirmed, as somewhat expected, the PlayStation VR 2 headset – aka PSVR 2 – will go on sale in early 2023. In a post on Sony’s Japanese Twitter account and Instagram page, the company revealed PSVR 2 is “coming early 2023” dashing the hopes of many goers who’d pre-emptively added it to a…
Sony has committed to a launch window for the PS VR2 headset and controllers: “Early 2023.”Read MoreRead More
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Intel is building what it claims is the “largest silicon manufacturing location on the planet” in Ohio, and it’s going to need 7,000 workers to construct it, according to a report from the Associated Press. However, a labor shortage affecting the construction industry could make it hard to…
Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge We may need to wait longer for the 3nm MacBook than we’d previously hoped. New 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros are on the horizon, according to a new prediction from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, but they’re unlikely to be the 3nm process. Refreshes of the excellent professional MacBooks “will…