This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What happens when you donate your body to science Rebecca George doesn’t mind the vultures that complain from the trees that surround the Western Carolina University body farm. Her arrival has interrupted their…
Illustration by Vincent Kilbride / The Verge Olivia* wanted to terminate her pregnancy. Having an abortion in Arizona, where she lives, was not an option. After the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, clinics there paused since the law was unclear. Olivia went online to look for options and found a hotline,…
Nicholas Barclay / The Verge We’re back for day two of Amazon’s Prime Early Access Sale, its second Prime Day event of 2022. That means it’s the last chance to take advantage of many of these deals. Our entire team is continuing to scour Amazon’s catalog high and low to find the best tech deals…
Vincent Kilbride / The Verge One of the reasons PDFs are so popular, especially among lawyers and other legal professionals, is that they are accurate and (for the most part) unalterable versions of documents that were once only available on paper. As a result, because PDFs often hold information that we want to keep private,…
Illustration by Vincent Kilbride / The Verge The biggest vulnerability is always the human element. It’s a truism in the security world, but we rarely dwell on what it means. You can patch a software flaw completely, but there’s no perfect fix for an accounts payable clerk who approves a phony invoice or an executive…
Maybe you can barely notice it, but it certainly gets you more options. abillion / Unsplash If you’ve been keeping up with the latest in tech news, you’ll know that the iPhone 14 Pro and the iPhone 14 Pro Max ditched the classic notch in favor of something Apple is calling the Dynamic Island. You…
Amazon’s Prime Day Early Access sale is in full force – you might think of it as Prime Day 2, day 2, if you’re feeling cheeky – and with Prime Day deals this good, I think it would be remiss of the TechRadar team to tell you to wait for Black Friday. In fact, I say strike…
The Google Pixel Watch has plenty going for it, but the new Wear OS device looks set to lose out in the longevity department. In a recent interview with Wired, Google’s director of product management for Wear OS, Björn Kilburn, revealed that the Pixel Watch is on course to receive three years’ worth of software…
United Boeing 787. Markus Mainka/Shutterstock United Airlines announced three new destinations and four new city pairs coming to its network in summer 2023. The carrier is also upping its frequency to London and Paris, with only Polaris-equipped planes flying to Heathrow. The expansion represents a 10% to 11% increase in transatlantic flying compared to 2022,…
Horacio Villalobos/Getty Images A North Carolina restaurant has been ordered to give back pay to staff after failing to give them their tips. The restaurant has been ordered to pay $157,287 to 65 staff, the Department of Labor said. Jay’s Kitchen also violated child-labor and recordkeeping laws, the DoL said. A North Carolina restaurant that…