Hundreds of thousands of Americans are dead in a pandemic, and one of the infected is the President of the United States. But not even personally contracting covid-19 has stopped him from minimizing the illness in Twitter messages to his supporters. Meanwhile, suburban moms steeped in online health propaganda are printing out Facebook memes and […]
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Asbestos could be a powerful weapon against climate change (you read that right)
On a scorching day this August, Caleb Woodall wielded his shovel like a spear, stabbing it into the hardened crust of an asbestos-filled pit near Coalinga, California. Woodall, a graduate student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, was digging out samples from an asbestos mine that’s been shuttered since 1980, a Superfund site on the […]
Facebook says it will ban QAnon, full stop.
The news: Facebook announced on Tuesday that it will remove “any Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts representing QAnon, even if they contain no violent content.” QAnon, the pro-Trump conspiracy theory centering on the belief that the president of the United States is at war with a secret satanic pedophile ring run by liberals, has […]
Download: Apple’s October 13 Event-inspired Wallpapers for iPhone
Apple announced an online event dated for October 13, a few hours ago, where the brand is expected to launch iPhone 12 series smartphones. The event invitation has a unique, orange-colored Apple logo. And the popular graphics designer, AR7, wasted no time in creating beautiful wallpapers for iPhones based on this logo. Continue reading → […]
iPhone 5c Will Be Added to Vintage Products List from October 31
According to an internal memo, Apple will add iPhone 5c and the 15-inch MacBook Pro (mid-2014 version) to the list of vintage products on October 31st. The iPhone 5c was launched in 2013. Continue reading → Powered by WPeMatico
What Does Apple’s iPhone 12 ‘Hi, Speed’ Event Invite Tell Us
Apple today sent out invites for its iPhone 12 event on October 13 with the tagline ‘Hi, Speed.’ While the company itself has not confirmed anything about its upcoming iPhones, the event invite itself does act as a teaser of what’s to come. Continue reading → Powered by WPeMatico
Texas’s war on drop-off votes gets almost everything wrong
Last week Texas governor Greg Abbott became the latest Republican to attack America’s vote-by-mail system. A proclamation he issued claimed that the threat of “illegal voting” justifies a dramatic decrease in the number of places that voters can hand-deliver their mail-in ballots. His announcement limited each county to just one drop-off point, forcing vast areas […]
How much more abuse do female politicians face? A lot.
The context: When Twitter announced it would start removing tweets expressing hope that President Trump would die of covid-19, a number of users—notably, women and people of color in politics— openly asked why Twitter didn’t seem to be enforcing the same rules against abuse and threats in their own mentions. So… you mean to tell us […]
The CDC has finally acknowledged that the coronavirus can be airborne
The news: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidelines to acknowledge that the coronavirus can be spread by tiny particles that linger in the air. The agency said it took the decision due to the mounting evidence that people with covid-19 can infect people even if they are more than […]
What’s next for Trump? Ten days of isolation or the campaign trail?
US President Donald Trump tweeted today that he’ll leave Walter Reed National Military Medical Center at 6:30 p.m. after a three-day stay. The question now: With the campaign in full swing, will Trump remain isolated in the White House as government scientists advise, or will he exempt himself from the rules? According to the Centers […]