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What we’re learning from the rare cases of COVID-19 in vaccinated people

Among the more than 75 million people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in the United States by the second week of April, there were only 5,814 reports of coronavirus infections — a staggeringly low number that shows just how effective the shots are. Because the vaccines aren’t 100 percent effective, some breakthrough infections were inevitable and… Read more

Doctors are testing a prescription video game for COVID-19 ‘brain fog’

A research team is testing a prescription video game to see if it can help people who have lingering memory and attention problems after recovering from COVID-19. Many people who survived the disease say that they’re often confused and have difficulty focusing, and research studies show that the symptoms can stick around for months after… Read more

This webcam dares to ask: what if the panopticon had flesh?

Many digital eyes and ears are on us as we move about our daily lives. Surveillance cameras watch us on the street and smart devices listen for us in our homes. What if some of that watching happened through an expressive simulacrum of a human eye? Researcher Marc Teyssier took it upon himself to craft… Read more

COVID-19 vaccine ‘passports’ aren’t exactly like yellow fever certifications

Businesses and governments are developing COVID-19 vaccine certifications that let people prove they’ve been immunized so they could enter spaces or travel without as much worry that they’d get sick or pass the virus to others. Conservative politicians recently seized on these efforts as evidence of government overreach, while other people argued the certifications a… Read more

Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine highly effective in adolescents

The Pfizer / BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is highly effective in 12- to 15-year-olds, the companies announced today in a press release. None of the children who received the vaccine in a clinical trial developed COVID-19, and they all developed strong antibody responses. There were no serious side effects. The study included 2,260 participants. Around half… Read more

Vaccines are changing how we interpret COVID-19 numbers

It’s never been possible to know for sure how many people in the United States are sick with COVID-19 at a particular time. Instead, we combine all of the metrics — the percentage of tests run that come back positive, the number of new cases reported each day, people coming to the emergency room sick… Read more

Facebook, Uber, and Microsoft plan to start bringing employees back to offices

Facebook is planning to start its return to in-person work in May, after over a year of working remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Bloomberg. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced remote work plans near the start of the pandemic that promised around half of his employees could work remotely in the next five… Read more

Jack Dorsey is just trolling Congress with Twitter polls now

Congressional “Big Tech” hearings often follow a three-step formula. Step one: lawmakers demand that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai answer questions simply with “yes” or “no.” (Sample: “Is YouTube’s recommendation algorithm designed to encourage users to stay on the site?”) Step two: the aforementioned CEOs inevitably say… Read more

Hasselblad’s 907X 50C is absolutely slow and absolutely stunning

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Hasselblad’s latest digital camera, the 907X 50C, is a 740-gram metal box that can serve as a standalone medium format digital camera or as a digital back for Hasselblad V System cameras made from 1957 onward. At… Read more

People who are vaccinated can socialize together without masks, CDC says

People who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can gather indoors with other vaccinated people without masks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today. The recommendation is part of the long-awaited guidelines for how people who have received the shots can adjust their behavior. People who are vaccinated should still wear masks when they’re… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico Converts Guitar into Midi Controller

Home News (Image credit: Philip Gisslow) Once a project idea gets in your head, you just have to play it out. No one knows that better than maker Philip Gisslow who used a Raspberry Pi Pico module to turn his electric guitar into a working Midi controller. Midi controllers are used to create real-time music… Read more

Great apes receive COVID-19 vaccine at San Diego Zoo

Several great apes at the San Diego Zoo received two doses each of a COVID-19 vaccine in February, National Geographic reports. The lucky recipients are four orangutans and five bonobos, who were distracted with treats as they got their shots. One of the orangutans is Karen, the first ape to undergo open-heart surgery in 1994…. Read more

Lifx’s bacteria-killing smart bulb works, but here’s the small print

The LIFX Clean is a smart bulb that can kill bacteria.Image: LIFX The Lifx Clean is a new smart lightbulb with an intriguing twist. Not only is it a fully functional color-changing lightbulb, the company also claims it is capable of disinfecting surfaces and the air around it. First announced last August, the $69.99 Lifx… Read more

Long COVID patients say they feel better after getting vaccinated

Someone gets their COVID-19 vaccine at a site in Los Angeles specifically for teachers. The shots might help people with chronic symptoms Daniel Griffin wasn’t sure what to expect when his patients with chronic COVID-19 symptoms started getting vaccinated. There was some concern that the shots might make things worse by triggering the immune system. Luckily,… Read more

Los Angeles’ creator community is starting to move out

Logan and Jake Paul moved to Los Angeles in 2014, at the height of Vine’s heyday, and not long after found themselves crammed into an apartment at 1600 Vine Road with other young creators hoping to make it big in America’s entertainment epicenter. Over the next few years, they became world-renowned celebrities (often for the… Read more