How virtual primary care can amplify value for providers and patients
Primary care physicians are the heart of healthcare delivery in the United States. In addition to providing many crucial health services, they are the traffic cop to all the other forms of healthcare throughout a health system. Virtual primary care, experts say, can address challenges in traditional care by filling existing care gaps and offering…
The internet really is a series of tubes
Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge Hundreds of cables. Hundreds of thousands of miles. The internet runs, in vastly more ways than we realize or think about, through a series of garden-hose size tubes on the ocean floor. Without those tubes, the modern world sort of collapses. And the folks responsible for keeping them functioning…
The Echo Pop is down to one of its best prices to date with a free smart bulb
You can buy Amazon’s entry-level smart speaker in a wide array of fun colors for just $5 shy of its all-time low. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge From helping me as a caregiver to cracking me up with fart jokes, Amazon’s budget-friendly smart speakers have added a lot of value to…
Uber will start reminding passengers to wear their seat belt
Starting today, the Uber app will remind you to put on your seatbelt shortly after your ride starts. Passengers’ tendency to not use a seat belt remains a significant concern, the ride-hailing service wrote in its announcement of the new safety feature, even though 50 percent of all vehicle crash deaths in the US in…
The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
Photo by Go Takayama for The Verge On the afternoon of March 11th, 2011, Mitsuyoshi Hirai, the chief engineer of the cable maintenance ship Ocean Link, was sitting in his cabin 20 miles off Japan’s eastern coast, completing the paperwork that comes at the end of every repair. Two weeks earlier, something — you rarely…
Ticketmaster’s Taylor Swift ticketing fiasco might have just led to a lawsuit from the DOJ
Photo by Ashok Kumar / TAS24 / Getty Images for TAS Rights Management The Department of Justice is preparing to file an antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The lawsuit could reportedly come as early as next month and will target the company’s alleged…
How to improve the quality of the audio in your streaming apps
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge When you load your music streaming app of choice onto your mobile device, your audio quality settings are worth taking a minute or two to configure. If you don’t have these set to as high a quality as possible, you’re missing out on the best audio experience your…
Nintendo’s next Indie World showcase is set for April 17
Word on the street is that Nintendo won’t release the long-awaited successor to the Switch until next year. As such, the company needs to let fans know what they’ll be able to play on the current console over the coming months. To help pad out the schedule, Nintendo has a bunch of indie game releases…
AMD Reveals Ryzen Pro 8000 Series
Today, AMD introduced the Ryzen PRO 8000 desktop and Ryzen PRO 8040 mobile processors, the latest high-performance computing-focused iterations of the Ryzen processors for creative work, gaming or speeding up work assignments. Both the desktop and mobile processors are made with the x86 instruction set and run on AMD’s Zen 4 CPU architecture, as did…
The Kasa Smart Plugs Mini EP25 four-pack is down to its lowest price yet
There’s something truly nice about not having to get up when you realize that light across the room is still on. If you’re looking for that ease then check out the current sale on our favorite smart plug. The Kasa Smart Plug Mini EP25 four-pack is on sale for $32.58, down from $50. The initial…
Ministerul Apărării: „Drone observate de militarii Bazei Aeriene 57 Mihail Kogălniceanu în apropierea aeroportului”
Reprezentanţii Ministerului Apărării Naţionale au declarat că luni, în intervalul 22.30 – 00.30, personalul aflat în serviciul de pază în cadrul Bazei 57 Aeriene Mihail Kogălniceanu a raportat prezenţa în aer, în zone din apropierea Aeroportului Internaţional „Mihail Kogălniceanu”, a unui sistem aerian fără pilot (dronă) şi, ulterior, a încă două asemenea sisteme. “Dronele, care…
Un altfel de bilanț al războiului din Ucraina
Ucraina a anunţat marţi că a identificat aproape 37.000 de civili şi militari dispăruţi după declanşarea invaziei ruse, număr incomplet inclusiv din cauza ocupării de către Moscova a aproape 20% din teritoriul ucrainean, informează AFP. „Aproape 37.000 de persoane au fost date dispărute: copii, civili şi militari”, a anunţat pe Facebook comisarul ucrainean pentru drepturile…
