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Hi, I'm Shira. I'm a writer who's covered health and tech for Vox, The Daily Beast, Business Insider, The Forward, HuffPo, and others, and I'm passionate about making information about health and science accessible to everyone.
After Citizen Lab, a cybersecurity watchdog group that's spent years tracking digital threats, examined the contents of a Saudi activist's phone, researchers quickly discovered that it was infected. But the phone wasn't infected with just any virus. It was infected with NSO Group's zero-click Pegasus spyware-software that does not even require people to click on a link in order to get the infection.
When Sage Anastasi was a teenager, he spent a lot of time on Facebook, passionately defending social justice issues, such as queer rights or the legality of conversion therapy. Sometimes that passion turned into an angry night spent furiously debating with someone in the comments section of a friend's post.
Thinking of investing in orthodontia? You're on-trend. A lot more grown-ups are sporting braces these days.
A new report from the GAO finds that, among other uses, six agencies employ it to generate leads in investigations.
FDA approval for ventilators ordinarily takes at least a year, but amidst COVID-fueled fears of a ventilator shortage, the Spiro Wave got an FDA Emergency Use Authorization within 30 days.
The CDC has issued guidelines on how to avoid spreading coronavirus, warning everyone to stay home if they feel sick. But for a lot of Americans, this isn't possible.
Rihanna poses on Instagram, lips pursed, come-hither stare firmly in place, wearing a set of yellow, high-waisted underwear and comfy, matching bralette set. Somewhere in California, her PR reps applaud.
It was a Tuesday night at New York's People's Improv Theater, otherwise known as the PIT, the improv incubator that has launched comedians like Hannibal Buress and Kristen Schaal. The audience was filled with tech folks.
Meet Alina. She lives in Times Square, where she works 24 hours a day for the Luma Hotel, fetching guests' shampoo, towels and keys.
At the height of the AIDs crisis, these queer Jews reached out to their parents to get their recipes, as part of a last attempt to make contact.