• Apple's new wallpapers are a mesmerising symphony of colour and design
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    The Black Unity Collection is inspired by the "rhythm of humanity.
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  • Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Review: The Real Splurge
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    The 50 series's second-best card is great, if you can find one.
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  • Early Investors in Donald Trumps Memecoin May Have Been Tipped Off, Experts Claim
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    Within moments of Donald Trump announcing his new coin, traders made high-value bets that quickly paid off. Did they have an edge?
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  • Reminder: You really need to update your Apple devices this weekend
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    MacworldWe know its Friday, but we have one more thing for your to-do list: Update your Apple devices. Apple on Monday released a slew of updates for devices new and old, and even if youre not getting any new features, there are tons of security patches waiting to make your systems safer.In all, Apple shipped nine OS updates and one update to GarageBand. The most pressing issue is a zero-day flaw in CoreMedia that has been exploited in the wild. The issue, which was patched in iOS 18,3, iPadOS 18.3, ZmacOS Sequoia 15.3, watchOS 11.3, tvOS 18.3, and visionOS 2.3, could allow a malicious app to access privileged parts of the system.But while thats the most immediate threat to your device, its not the only reason to go mash that Update button. In all, there are dozens of security fixes to patch vulnerabilities across all corners of the system. Here are just some of the important security updates waiting for your device:AirPlayAvailable for: iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, macOS Sequoia 15.3, watchOS 11.3, tvOS 18.3, visionOS 2.3Impact: An attacker in a privileged position may be able to perform a denial-of-serviceDescription: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.CVE-2025-24131: Uri Katz (Oligo Security)KernelAvailable for: iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, macOS Sequoia 15.3, watchOS 11.3, tvOS 18.3Impact: A malicious app may be able to gain root privilegesDescription: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.CVE-2025-24107: an anonymous researcherLaunchServicesAvailable for: iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, macOS Sequoia 15.3, watchOS 11.3, visionOS 2.3Impact: An app may be able to fingerprint the userDescription: This issue was addressed with improved redaction of sensitive information.CVE-2025-24117: Michael (Biscuit) Thomas (@biscuit@social.lol)SceneKitAvailable for: iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, macOS Sequoia 15.3, macOS Ventura 13.7.3, macOS Sonoma 14.7.3, watchOS 11.3, tvOS 18.3, visionOS 2.3Impact: Parsing a file may lead to disclosure of user informationDescription: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.CVE-2025-24149: Michael DePlante (@izobashi) of Trend Micro Zero Day InitiativeWebKitAvailable for: iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, macOS Sequoia 15.3, macOS Ventura 13.7.3, macOS Sonoma 14.7.3, watchOS 11.3, tvOS 18.3, visionOS 2.3Impact: Processing web content may lead to a denial-of-serviceDescription: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.WebKit Bugzilla: 283889CVE-2025-24158: Q1IQ (@q1iqF) of NUS CuriOSity and P1umer (@p1umer) of Imperial Global SingaporeWebKitAvailable for: iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, macOS Sequoia 15.3, macOS Ventura 13.7.3, macOS Sonoma 14.7.3, watchOS 11.3, tvOS 18.3, visionOS 2.3Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crashDescription: This issue was addressed through improved state management.WebKit Bugzilla: 284159CVE-2025-24162: linjy of HKUS3Lab and chluo of WHUSecLabTo update your devices, open the Settings app (or System Settings on a Mac), then General and Software Update.
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  • ESR 3-in-1 Travel Wireless Charging Set with CryoBoost review: Fastest 15W wireless multi charger weve tested
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    MacworldAt a glanceExpert's RatingPros3-in-1 chargingFast 15W for iPhoneVery fast charging times for the iPhoneSolid standIncludes wall chargerConsiPhone stand is not adjustableOur Verdict Already boasting fast 15W Qi2, the ESR 3-in-1 Apple device charger speeds up wireless charging by cooling the iPhone at the same time.Price When ReviewedThis value will show the geolocated pricing text for product undefinedBest Pricing TodayPrice When Reviewed95,99Best Prices Today: Qi2 3 in 1 kabellose Ladestation mit CryoBoost (HaloLock)RetailerPriceESR89,99 View DealPrice comparison from over 24,000 stores worldwideProductPricePrice comparison from BackmarketESR is among the first batch of forward-thinking companies to update all its charging solutions to the 15W Qi2 standard. Its first update was to the popular 3-in-1 Travel Wireless Charging Set, which was first available as a 7.5W MagSafe-compatible charger and then a 15W Qi2 version.The company has now refined its Qi2 3-in-1 charger with a cooling technology that it calls CryoBoost. In fact, this is the the second-generation of CryoBoost, which seeks to solve the biggest efficiency-blocker in wireless charging: heat. If a device is too hot or too cold, wireless charging and indeed general battery performance is negatively affected.CryoBoosts open duct system improves airflow and therefore cooling efficiency. ESR claims this can reduce connected device temperatures by 42F (5.5C), ensuring safer and more stable charging. It is meant to keep your phone below 100.8 F (38.2C) during charging.The charging pad is cooled by a fan, and ESR has reduced fan noise from 30dB to 25dBdont worry, youll barely hear it even if you put your ear right next to it.Simon Jary / FoundryDesignThis latest version retains the same classic slim 3-in-1 charging stand design as the non-cooled ESR 3-in-1 Qi2 Charger with the magnetic charging pad for iPhone raised 4 inches from the desk. At its base is a 5W Qi charging pad for your AirPods case.The chargers overall footprint is small. It measures 3.7 x 3.7 x 7 inches (9.5 x 9.5 x 18cm) and weighs 12.3oz (350g).At the back of the iPhone charging pad is the charging module for Apple Watch. This is officially Apple certified for Watch fast charging.Simon Jary / FoundryHandily, you can detach the Watch charger and take with you if you need to charge your Watch while awayand Watch users will know that the Apple device needs frequent charging. It can be connected to any USB-C charger or portsay one of your MacBooks Thunderbolt ports.When carrying the Watch charging unit, remember to re-attach the lid to protect the USB-C connector.ESRThe phone-charging module is fixed and so isnt adjustable in terms of tilting and angling. If you are happy with the set angle and dont require further adjustment, this shouldnt bother you, but if you are a phone fiddler you might want to look at a more adjustable stand such as the (albeit at $149 much more expensive) Twelve South HiRise 3 Deluxe.Closer in price is the $129 Satechi 3-in-1 Foldable Qi2 Wireless Charging Stand, which is much more flexible and indeed portable.The ESR Charger ships with a 30W USB-C wall charger and cable. It is available in black or white colorsTake the detachable Apple Watch charging unit with you on your travels.Simon Jary / FoundryPerformanceThe special feature is the CryoBoost cooling that ESR claims can reduce temperatures created by the charging process. With a cooler battery, charging should be more efficient and therefore faster.Although I am aware of the effect of high temperatures on battery performance and have tested enough chargers to know that some can run quite hot, I was sceptical about the claims. Maybe it was the CryoBoost name that sounds a bit too super-hero to ring true.However, in my tests there is no doubt that the ESR 3-in-1 Travel Wireless Charging Set with CryoBoost charged my test iPhone 16 Pro significantly faster than two other wireless chargers I tested it against (one Apple-certified MagSafe, and one Qi2).While both MagSafe and Qi2 support up to 15W in wireless charging, the results were quite clear. Where the MagSafe charger took over two hours to charge the phone to 80% and the standard Qi2 charger a little faster at an hour and 45 minutes, the ESR CryoBoost Qi2 charger took just over an hour to recharge the phone to 80%.Charging times did varymaybe also down to temperatureand in one test we charged from 5% to 100% in one hour and eight minutes using the ESR. As such, we can confidently say that the CryoBoost technology dramatically reduces iPhone wireless charging times.Charging slows down as the battery fills upto protect the phone by not fire-hosing power into its battery when it needs only a few percent to reach full chargethe best stage to look at is between 0% and 50%. Using the very fastest wireless charger there isApples 25W MagSafe Chargerwe charged our iPhone 16 Pro from 0% to 50% in just 30 minutes. The 15W CryoBoost 3-in-1 Charger took just 10 minutes longerand remember that it, unlike the simple Apple Charger, can charge three devices at the same time.See our reviews and tests of the best MagSafe chargers for more options.When charging, the ESR CryoBoost Charger glows to show its fan-based cooling tech.Simon Jary / FoundryPriceDespite the faster charging and clever cooling technology, the ESR 3-in-1 CryoBoost Charger costs just $10/10 more than the standard Qi2 version: $79.99 / 89.99 vs $69.99 / 79.99.Should you buy the ESR 3-in-1 CryoBoost Charger?We liked the sturdy yet slight ESR 3-in-1 Travel Wireless Charging Set even without the new CryoBoost cooling technology. Its a neat, simple design with the added handiness of the detachable Watch charging unit. We would certainly recommend spending the small extra amount to significantly speed up wireless charging times.
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  • 9 Google Chrome features you really should be using
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    If youre like about 70% of computer users worldwide, you use Googles Chrome browser as your gateway to the web, from conducting research and catching up on news to emailing and interacting with cloud apps. There are several tools built into Chrome that you might not know about, but should. They can improve your browsing experience significantly, enhancing productivity, organization, security, search, and more.Even if you have already heard about some of these tools, consider this guide a refresher and encouragement to use them.1. Chrome profiles: Keep work and personal browsing separateYou can add more than one user profile to Chrome. Each profile will have its own set of bookmarks, browsing history, website logins, and other data. For example, you can create one profile specifically for your work-related browsing, so that bookmarks and websites associated with your job are kept separate from your personal activity online.To create another profile: Click your headshot or current profile icon thats toward the upper right in Chrome. On the panel for your profile that opens, click Add new profile.Click your profile icon, then select Add new profile.Howard Wen / IDGA large panel will open over the screen. You can create a new profile by signing in with another Google account. If this account already has Chrome profile data (bookmarks, browsing history, logins) associated with it, these will be synced to your PC.You can sign into an existing Google account or create a profile thats not connected to a Google account.Howard Wen / IDGOr you can select to create a new profile without signing in with another Google account. Browsing information thats created in Chrome while using this new profile will be saved only on your PC.Naming a new Chrome profile and choosing a color scheme.Howard Wen / IDGAfter you create the new profile, itll appear on the panel of your first profile. Click the name of this new profile; this will launch another instance of Chrome that will let you browse under that profile. You can run two (or more) instances of Chrome on your PC, each with a different user profile.2. Password checkup: Review (and fix) your website loginsBy default, Chrome automatically saves your usernames and passwords for websites that require a login in a service called Google Password Manager. If you dont use a dedicated password manager app, GPM is a convenient tool for storing and managing login info. (See our separate guide to Google Password Manager.) Its easy to set and forget passwords, so its a good idea to periodically check the health of your logins, updating usernames or passwords as needed.Click the three-dot icon at Chromes upper right. On the menu that opens, select Passwords and autofill and then Google Password Manager. GPM will open in a new browser tab, where youll see the login information for the websites youve saved to GPM. You can click a website name to change or delete your username or password for it.An important feature to use is the Checkup tool. Along the left, click Checkup. Chrome will analyze all of your website passwords, rating which have weak security and notifying you if any have been compromised or if youve reused any across websites. You can click to see a list of the offending passwords, and the password managers interface will guide you through changing them.Check for compromised, reused, or weak passwords, then change them as needed.Howard Wen / IDGIf youd like, you can use the password manager as a self-standing app on your PC. When Google Password Manager is open in a tab, click the Install Google Password Manager icon at the right end of the address bar. After its installed on your PC, you can click the desktop shortcut to launch Google Password Manager on its own, apart from Chrome.3. Print to PDF: Turn a web page into a PDFPrinting a web page to a PDF can be useful for archiving the page as its contents appeared when you viewed it, or sharing a page when a web link to it wont be convenient or possible for the person you want to share it with.The fastest way to do this: With the web page open, hold the Ctrl key and type p on a Windows PC (or the Cmd key and p on a Mac). Alternatively, click the three-dot icon at the upper right of Chrome, and on the menu that opens, select Print.A large panel opens. To the right of Destination, see if Save as PDF is listed inside the selection box. If its not, click this box to open a dropdown menu and select Save as PDF.Set the Destination field to Save as PDF.Howard Wen / IDGThe rest of this panel lists settings for formatting the PDF that you can change. (If you dont see them, click More settings.) When youve set everything the way you want, click Save. Youll be prompted to select a location on your PCs storage where you want to save the PDF. Make your choice, and then Chrome will output the entire web page as a PDF and save it to your PC.4. Reading list: Curate a list of web pages to read laterChrome offers a nifty feature that lets you gather web pages that you want to remember to read later. The difference between saving a web page to Chromes reading list versus saving it as a bookmark is that the reading list is meant to motivate you, such as to read important information that youre doing for research. You can chart your progress by marking a page as read when youre finished with it.With the web page open, click the three-dot icon at the upper right of Chrome. On the menu that opens along the right, click Bookmarks and lists and then select Reading list. Then click Add tab to reading list at the bottom of the panel. Repeat this process to add more web pages to the reading list.To open your reading list, click the three-dot icon at the upper right, then select Bookmarks and lists > Reading list > Show reading list.The list will open in a panel on the right.Gather web pages you want to read in\ Chromes reading list.Howard Wen / IDGOn the reading list, clicking the title of a web page opens it in the browser tab to the left. When youre finished reading it, move the pointer over the pages title in the list and select the checkmark to mark the page as read or the x to remove it from the reading list.5. Reading mode: Make lengthy content easier to readYou may come across an article that you want to concentrate on without other elements on the pages layout (such as ads, images, videos, or sidebars) distracting you. Or maybe your eyesight is struggling with how the text appears on the page. Reading mode can help, and it works very well for reading long articles.With the web page open, click the three-dot icon at the upper right, then select More tools > Reading mode. Chrome will extract the main article from the page and format it for easier reading in the reading mode panel that appears on the right.Try reading mode for a distraction-free environment to read long articles.Howard Wen / IDGYou can widen the reading mode panel by clicking-and-holding the double-bar icon on its left frame. Drag this icon toward the left, and the margins for the text in the reader mode panel will automatically adjust themselves.Along the top of the reading mode panel is a toolbar that lets you adjust the text font and size, and the spacing between text characters and lines of text. You can also change the background color.6. Tab groups: Organize and name tab collectionsChromes tab groups feature lets you organize tabs of related web pages into a collection that has a title. When you click the group title, all the web pages that you organized under it will open in the browser. This can be useful if you want to open multiple web pages that you frequently visit with a single click. You can create several different tab groups say, one group for the core web apps you use every day for work, another for research related to a specific project, and so on.To create a new tab group: At the left end of the Bookmarks toolbar, click the grid icon and select Create new tab group. Alternatively, click the three-dot icon at the upper right of Chrome, and on the menu that opens, select Tab groups > Create new tab group.Or you can create a new tab group starting from an existing tab: Simply right-click the tab and select Add tab to group > New group from the menu that appears.A special tab will open that prompts you to type in a name for your new tab group. You can optionally select a highlight color for the new tab group.Creating a new tab group.Howard Wen / IDGPress the Enter key, and your new tab group will appear among the tabs in Chrome. If your Bookmarks toolbar is open, the group will also appear to the left of the grid icon.To add a web page to a tab group: Simply drag a tab thats already open in Chrome to the right of the tab group name and let it go.Adding a tab to a group via drag-and-drop.Howard Wen / IDGTo close the tabs in a tab group: Click the tab group name. The tabs that are opened to the right of it will close.To open the tabs in a tab group: Click the tab group name, and the tabs that you organized under it will open to its right. Or, if you have the Bookmarks toolbar open, you can click the tab group name there or click the grid icon and select the group you want to open.Navigating to a tab group via the Bookmarks toolbar.Howard Wen / IDGFinally, you can click the three-dot icon at the upper right of Chrome, then select Tab groups, the name of the tab group that you want, and Open group.To manage a tab group: Right-click on the tab group name. On the menu that opens, you can click the following:New tab in group: Opens a new, blank tab to the right of the tab group name. The web page you navigate to in this tab will be added to the tab group.Move group to new window: Opens all the web pages organized in this group tab in a new browser window.Ungroup: The web pages in this tab group will be opened, but the tab group (and its name) will be removed. This action essentially frees the web pages that you put into this tab group.Close group: Closes a tab group, which removes it from the browsers tabs toolbar. You can reopen a closed group via the Bookmarks toolbar or by selecting the three-dot icon and Chromes upper right, selecting Tab groups, and choosing the group you want.Delete group: Deletes both the tab group name and all the web pages that you organized in it.[ Related: 8 brilliant browser tab tricks for Windows power users ]7. Google Lens: Search by imageGoogle Lens is a visual search feature built into Chrome. It lets you search for the source of an image on a web page, find variants of the image, or find or similar looking images. You can also use it to translate foreign words that appear in a photo or other image.It can also be used to find an item for sale online. For example, if you have Google Lens search on a photo of a laptop, it might find an online store where you can buy it.To use Google Lens in Chrome, right-click on a photo or image on a web page. On the menu that opens, select Search with Google Lens. A panel will open along the right of the browser, showing search results that you can browse through. You can click any result to open its web link in the browser.Using Google Lens image search.Howard Wen / IDGIn the main browser window that shows the image Google Lens searched on, you can fine-tune the image search in various ways:Adjust the frame around the image by clicking-and-dragging its corners or sides. This may prompt Google Lens to provide more precise search results.Draw a frame around a specific area of the image. Position the crosshair over the image, then click-and-drag it in any direction to frame the area of the image that you want Google Lens to analyze and search.Translate text thats in a language other than the one set as your browsers default. Draw a frame around the text or double-click it to highlight it, then select Translate on the menu that opens. Google Lens will open a translation tool in the panel along the right.Google Lens can translate text in an image.Howard Wen / IDG8. Share a web page: Send a link to another deviceYoure viewing a web page on your PC but want to see it on your phone, tablet, or another PC. Here are two unique ways to forward a web page link to another device:Method 1: Send the link to a signed-in deviceFirst, you must be signed into Chrome with a Google account. The device you want to forward the link to also must be signed into Chrome with the same Google account.With the web page open in Chrome on your PC, click the three-dot icon toward the upper right. On the menu that opens, select Cast, save, and share and then Send to your devices.A menu pops open that lists any mobile device and other PCs that are signed in with your Google account. If you click the name of your smartphone on this menu, that device will receive a notification in Chrome. Tap this notification to open the web page.Sending a web link to a signed-in device.Howard Wen / IDGMethod 2: Create a QR code for the linkIf the smartphone or other device that you want to forward the link to isnt signed in to your Google account, you can create a QR code for the web pages link.With the web page open in Chrome on your PC, click the three-dot icon toward the upper right. On the menu that opens, select Cast, save, and share > Create QR code.A QR code image will pop open below the web address bar.Creating a QR code to send a link.Howard Wen / IDGUse the smartphones camera to capture it most recent smartphone models will recognize a QR code. When you tap the link that appears, the web page will open in the smartphones default browser, whether its Chrome or another such as Firefox, Microsoft Edge, or Safari.9. Translation: Manage the languages that Chrome translatesBy default, Chrome offers to translate a web page if its not in your preferred native language. (If it doesnt, click the Translate this page icon at the right end of the address bar or click the three-dot icon at the upper right and choose Translate.)Its worth taking the time to manage this feature so that its set best for your browsing, particularly if you frequently visit sites that are in languages other than your native one. Click the three-dot icon at the upper right of Chrome. On the menu that opens, scroll to the bottom and select Settings. The Settings page opens in a new tab. Along the left column, click Languages.On the page that appears, scroll down to the Google Translate section. Here you can tell Chrome to automatically translate pages that are in certain languages without asking you first. You can also tell it not to offer to translate pages in some languages useful for people who are fluent in more than one language. For languages that you dont specify as automatically translate or never offer to translate, Chrome will continue to offer to translate the page.Setting translation preferences in Chrome.Howard Wen / IDGWant more Chrome tips? See 8 great productivity tips for Chrome.
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  • How measuring vaccine hesitancy could help health professionals tackle it
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    This article first appeared in The Checkup,MIT Technology Reviewsweekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first,sign up here.This week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trumps pick to lead the USs health agencies, has been facing questions from senators as part of his confirmation hearing for the role. So far, its been a dramatic watch, with plenty of fiery exchanges, screams from audience members, and damaging revelations.Theres also been a lot of discussion about vaccines. Kennedy has long been a vocal critic of vaccines. He has spread misinformation about the effects of vaccines. Hes petitioned the government to revoke the approval of vaccines. Hes sued pharmaceutical companies that make vaccines.Kennedy has his supporters. But not everyone who opts not to vaccinate shares his worldview. There are lots of reasons why people dont vaccinate themselves or their children.Understanding those reasons will help us tackle an issue considered to be a huge global health problem today. And plenty of researchers are working on tools to do just that.Jonathan Kantor is one of them. Kantor, who is jointly affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the University of Oxford in the UK, has been developing a scale to measure and assess vaccine hesitancy.That term is what best captures the diverse thoughts and opinions held by people who dont get vaccinated, says Kantor. We used to tend more toward [calling] someone a vaccine refuser or denier, he says. But while some people under this umbrella will be stridently opposed to vaccines for various reasons, not all of them will be. Some may be unsure or ambivalent. Some might have specific fears, perhaps about side effects or even about needle injections.Vaccine hesitancy is shared by a very heterogeneous group, says Kantor. That group includes everyone from those who have a little bit of wariness and want a little bit more information to those who are strongly opposed and feel that it is their mission in life to spread the gospel regarding the risks of vaccination.To begin understanding where individuals sit on this spectrum and why, Kantor and his colleagues scoured published research on vaccine hesitancy. They sent surveys to 50 people, asking them detailed questions about their feelings on vaccines. The researchers were looking for themes: Which issues kept cropping up?They found that prominent concerns about vaccines tend to fall into three categories: beliefs, pain, and deliberation. Beliefs might be along the lines of It is unhealthy for children to be vaccinated as much as they are today. Concerns around pain center more on the immediate consequences of the vaccination, such as fears about the injection. And deliberation refers to the need some people feel to do their own research.Kantor and his colleagues used their findings to develop a 13-question survey, which they trialed in 500 people from the UK and 500 more from the US. They found that responses to the questionnaire could predict whether someone had been vaccinated against covid-19.Theirs is not the first vaccine hesitancy scale out theresimilar questionnaires have been developed by others, often focusing on parents feelings about their childrens vaccinations. But Kantor says this is the first to incorporate the theme of deliberationa concept that seems to have become more popular during the early days of covid-19 vaccination rollouts.Nicole Vike at the University of Cincinnati and her colleagues are taking a different approach. They say research has suggested that how people feel about risks and rewards seems to influence whether they get vaccinated (although not necessarily in a simple or direct manner).Vikes team surveyed over 4,000 people to better understand this link, asking them information about themselves and how they felt about a series of pictures of sports, nature scenes, cute and aggressive animals, and so on. Using machine learning, they built a model that could predict, from these results, whether a person would be likely to get vaccinated against covid-19.This survey could be easily distributed to thousands of people and is subtle enough that people taking it might not realize it is gathering information about their vaccine choices, Vike and her colleagues wrote in a paper describing their research. And the information collected could help public health centers understand where there is demand for vaccines, and conversely, where outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases might be more likely.Models like these could be helpful in combating vaccine hesitancy, says Ashlesha Kaushik, vice president of the Iowa Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The information could enable health agencies to deliver tailored information and support to specific communities that share similar concerns, she says.Kantor, who is a practicing physician, hopes his questionnaire could offer doctors and other health professionals insight into their patients concerns and suggest ways to address them. It isnt always practical for doctors to sit down with their patients for lengthy, in-depth discussions about the merits and shortfalls of vaccines. But if a patient can spend a few minutes filling out a questionnaire before the appointment, the doctor will have a starting point for steering a respectful and fruitful conversation about the subject.When it comes to vaccine hesitancy, we need all the insight we can get. Vaccines prevent millions of deaths every year. One and half million children under the age of five die every year from vaccine-preventable diseases, according to the childrens charity UNICEF. In 2019, the World Health Organization included vaccine hesitancy on its list of 10 threats to global health.When vaccination rates drop, we start to see outbreaks of the diseases the vaccines protect against. Weve seen this a lot recently with measles, which is incredibly infectious. Sixteen measles outbreaks were reported in the US in 2024.Globally, over 22 million children missed their first dose of the measles vaccine in 2023, and measles cases rose by 20%. Over 107,000 people around the world died from measles that year, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most of them were children.Vaccine hesitancy is dangerous. Its really creating a threatening environment for these vaccine-preventable diseases to make a comeback, says Kaushik.Kantor agrees: Anything we can do to help mitigate that, I think, is great.Now read the rest of The CheckupRead more from MIT Technology Reviews archiveIn 2021, my former colleague Tanya Basu wrote a guide to having discussions about vaccines with people who are hesitant. Kindness and nonjudgmentalism will get you far, she wrote.In December 2020, as covid-19 ran rampant around the world, doctors took to social media platforms like TikTok to allay fears around the vaccine. Sharing their personal experiences was importantbut not without risk, A.W. Ohlheiser reported at the time.Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is currently in the spotlight for his views on vaccines. But he has also spread harmful misinformation about HIV and AIDS, as Anna Merlan reported.mRNA vaccines have played a vital role in the covid-19 pandemic, and in 2023, the researchers who pioneered the science behind them were awarded a Nobel Prize. Heres whats next for mRNA vaccines.Vaccines are estimated to have averted 154 million deaths in the last 50 years. That number includes 146 million children under the age of five. Thats partly why childhood vaccines are a public health success story.From around the webAs Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s Senate hearing continued this week, so did the revelations of his misguided beliefs about health and vaccines. Kennedy, who has called himself an expert on vaccines, said in 2021 that we should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule thats given to whites, because their immune system is better than oursa claim that is not supported by evidence. (The Washington Post)And in past email exchanges with his niece, a primary-care physician at NYC Health + Hospitals in New York City, RFK Jr. made repeated false claims about covid-19 vaccinations and questioned the value of annual flu vaccinations. (STAT)Towana Looney, who became the third person to receive a gene-edited pig kidney in December, is still healthy and full of energy two months later. The milestone makes Looney the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant. Im superwoman, she told the Associated Press. (AP)The Trump administrations attempt to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans, and other financial assistance programs was chaotic. Even a pause in funding for global health programs can be considered a destruction, writes Atul Gawande. (The New Yorker)How ultraprocessed is the food in your diet? This chart can help rank food itemsbut wont tell you all you need to know about how healthy they are. (Scientific American)
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  • Tips on charging what you are worth in architecture
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    Archinect recently spoke with Enoch Sears, founder of the Business of Architecture platform, for insights on how architects can charge fees effectively while maintaining profitability, client trust, and sustainable workplace culture. From our conversation, five key tips emergedSpeaking with Archinect as part of our recent feature article on fee structures, Business of Architecture founder Enoch Sears advised architects to approach fee-setting strategically, balancing business principles with psychological insight. Sears emphasized using historical project data and profit margins to determine fees while recognizing that client perception plays a crucial role in securing agreements.Among Sears' other tips was to establish a fixed monthly payment model rather than milestone-based invoicing. This approach provides firms with predictable revenue while offering clients financial stability, reducing the uncertainty of fluctuating invoices.Elsewhere, to prevent scope creep, Sears stressed the importance of clear contract terms. Architects should outline scope management clauses that allow for renegotiation if project demands expand, ensuring they are fairly compensated for additional work, Sears adds.Sears also warned against undercutting fees, a practice tha...
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  • GreedFall 2: The Dying Worlds First Major Update Will Receive New Details Next Week
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    Among the many early access titles launched last year, GreedFall 2: The Dying World was one that had its share of problems. Developer Spiders made numerous improvements, but its going the distance for update 0.2. Previously set for Autumn, it was delayed to allow for more polish and a closed beta test.The latter has since wrapped, and though its not yet ready to announce a release date, the developer confirmed a final test in the next two weeks. Depending on the level of satisfaction of our teams and the Beta Testing group of players, we will be able to give a date for the update.Its massive, adding a new region (Olima), a new companion, new weapons and skills, additional regional quests, The Hub, and more. The combat system receives several long-awaited improvements, including faster animations when starting and chaining attacks, longer ranges, and a close camera for real-time combat. Even the UI is better with icons and improved visual feedback for effects and damage.There will be more details, particularly about Olima, next week, so stay tuned. GreedFall 2: The Dying World is currently in early access for PC. Check out our review here. Its also coming to Xbox Series X/S and PS5.
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