No, it’s not OK to shame people who gained weight during the pandemic
It was bound to happen. In a culture that often mistakes fitness for the gap between one’s thighs, it’s no surprise that people who gained weight during the COVID-19 pandemic…
Origami vaccination syringe made entirely out of silicone
Helix is a collapsable, silicone syringe that is intended to reduce waste. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused huge increases in hospital and infectious grade waste. Now, as the global vaccination…
Apple Maps now shows you COVID-19 vaccination locations
Apple Maps is now showing more than 20,000 COVID-19 vaccination locations, including operating hours, addresses, phone numbers, and relevant website links.
Apple Maps and Siri will now help you find COVID-19 vaccination sites
Apple Maps added COVID-19 testing sites last year. Now it’s adding vaccination sites. Starting Tuesday, Apple users in the U.S. can search on Apple Maps for “COVID-19 vaccines.” Or they…
Zoom Escaper gives you the perfect excuse to flee tiresome calls
Fed up with Zoom meetings? Then this ingenious Zoom Escaper soundboard looks like the perfect tool to help you sabotage your calls and enable an easy exit.
How a year of living online has changed us
Imagine a household where everyone logged on to the internet in the morning and spent the rest of the day online. Four hours on Zoom or FaceTime. Three hours browsing…
The pandemic pushed us deeper into the internet rabbit hole, and most of us can’t keep track
When you ask people about their internet habits during a pandemic, you never know what you’ll discover. It might turn out that some employees pulling marathon days online report their…
How much, when, and for whom: What to know about the third stimulus checks.
It’s time for the IRS to start pushing those pencils again, because a new round of COVID-19 stimulus checks will be going out to Americans soon. On Wednesday, Congress passed…
Got a COVID vaccine early? Congrats, now it’s time to advocate for health equity.
In the late afternoon on a Wednesday in February, a middle-aged woman wearing a ruffled business top pulled up in her car to the vaccine pre-registration checkpoint at a Los…
How a Facebook group for people who can’t smell handled the COVID rush
For Chrissi Kelly, it all started with the toothpaste. Next, it was the shampoo, then the bathroom cleaner. As she scuttled around her bathroom one day in 2012, sniffing everything…