President Biden signs order on abortion care and patient privacy

Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday directing federal agencies to protect abortion access and the online privacy of patients seeking reproductive healthcare following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The order’s primary directives prompt the Department of Health and Human Services to expand access…

The year’s best bird photos highlight the humor, beauty, and fragility of avian life

Amateur Honorable Mention: Common Raven in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada. Ankur Khurana This article was originally featured on Popular Photography. A father-son White-tailed Kite duo on the hunt. A Western Grebe feeding her chicks. A Nashville Warbler dining on snails. Today, the National Audubon Society has unveiled its winners of the 13th annual Audubon Photography…

Daily Crunch: After raising $50M, room service startup Butler Hospitality folds

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Jet-lagged and post-COVID-fatigued, Haje is back, joining Christine to bring you fine morsels of tech news in this very newsletter. Also, hearsay (and the calendar) suggests that it might be Friday. And,…

DDR5 memory frequency world record broken, but not by who you might expect

The memory frequency record has just been smashed using an Asus ROG Maximus Z690 Apex motherboard, an Intel Core i9-12900K processor, and an unspecified brand and type of DDR5 RAM. The person behind the achievement is a little-known Hong Kong-based overclocker called “Lupin_No_Musume”, who managed to acheive speeds of 10,552 MT/s (5,275.9 MHz) according to results posted…