A Pill To Treat Covid-19? The US Is Betting on It

The U.S. government spent more than $18 billion last year funding drugmakers to make a Covid vaccine, an effort that led to at least five hi...

New Wildfires Are At A 10-Year High In The Hot, Dry Western US

The number of new wildfires in the U.S. so far this year is at a ten-year high, according to federal data, prompting warnings of a long, pot...

Google Searches for New Measure of Skin Tones To Curb Bias in Products

Google is developing an alternative to the industry standard method for classifying skin tones, which a growing chorus of technology researc...

Ageing Process is Unstoppable, Finds Unprecedented Study

Immortality and everlasting youth are the stuff of myths, according to new research which may finally end the eternal debate about whether w...

80% of Orgs That Paid the Ransom Were Hit Again, Report Finds

Boston-headquartered security firm Cybereason's study has found that the majority of organizations that chose to pay ransom demands in t...

Oregon Has Legalized Human Composting

Oregon is now the third state in the US to allow a deathcare option that's gaining popularity for its environmental benefits: human comp...

Google may be working on an answer to Apple’s device-locating network

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google may be working on turning Android phones into a hivemind capable of finding lost devices, ...