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By Maggie Fick and Bhanvi SatijaLONDON, March 20 (Reuters) – Britain has so far avoided medicine shortages linked to the war in the Middle East, but soaring freight costs are squeezing generic drugmakers’ margins and could soon trigger price rises, supply shortages or both, trade group Medicines UK warned.Chief Executive Mark Samuels said Britain was “one step away” from medicine shortages if instability persisted, with stockpiles providing only a temporary buffer.While supplies are still flowing, he said makers of cheap generics, which account for most NHS medicines by volume, were already under pressure from higher transport costs and shipping disruption.…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The dangerous heat wave shattering March records all over the U.S. Southwest is more than just another extreme weather blip. It’s the latest next-level weather wildness that is occurring ever more frequently as Earth’s warming builds.Experts said unprecedented and deadly weather extremes that sometimes strike at abnormal times and in unusual places are putting more people in danger. For example, the Southwest is used to coping with deadly heat, but not months ahead of schedule, including a 110-degree Fahrenheit (43.3 Celsius) reading in the Arizona desert on Thursday that smashed the highest March temperature recorded in the…
Mark Cuban believes in a future where humans live alongside robots, just not the ones you’re probably picturing.”Everybody’s making this push for humanoid robots. I think they might have a 5-year lifespan, and then they’ll fail miserably. Maybe 10,” Cuban said Thursday on the live-streamed tech show TBPN.Humanoid robots have plenty of fans, including Elon Musk, who has said he believes Tesla’s Optimus could be the company’s future. Business Insider reported in January that OpenAI had quietly built up a humanoid robotics lab last year.But Cuban said he thinks co-designing spaces and robots would be better than simply making robots…
One dancing robot at a California hotpot restaurant was not sorry for party rocking.The video went viral on both Chinese social media and platforms like X this week, showing a robot at a Haidilao outlet performing a choreographed dance to a peak millennial Chinese song, “Love You” by Cyndi Wang.Several seconds after its dance, the robot defied its human overlords. It had dutifully performed its dance moves, but it did not want to stop.Staff at the Haidilao restaurant swung into action, trying to restrain it and stop it from dancing more. But the robot wasn’t done — and dance, it…
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A daunting stream of testimony and evidence has been presented in a New Mexico case that explores what social media conglomerate Meta knew about the effects of its platforms on children.State prosecutors allege Meta failed to disclose the risks that its platforms pose for children, including mental health problems and sexual exploitation. Meta’s attorneys have said the company has built-in protections for teenagers and weeds out harmful content but acknowledged some dangerous content gets past its safety nets.The trial is approaching its seventh week. Jurors aren’t deliberating yet. But if they find that Meta —…
The $59 billion cloud data company Snowflake made “targeted” staff cuts, the company confirmed. Loading audio narration… “These actions reflect targeted adjustments to align our teams with Snowflake’s long-term strategy,” a Snowflake spokesperson said. “Such steps are a natural part of scaling a fast-growing company, and we remain firmly committed to sustained growth. Snowflake will continue investing in our people and products to deliver exceptional value and best-in-class support for customers. We see significant opportunities ahead and are confident in our strategy and the strength of our team.”The cuts affected its technical writing and documentation team, according to several LinkedIn…
It’s relatively easy to follow. Leading is difficult and risky. But if you take a chance and work like hell, the payoff can be huge.Uber is learning this lesson right now as it scrambles to catch up in autonomous vehicle technology.The ride-hailing company has recently rattled off six major deals related to autonomous technology. That shows how fast Uber is trying to move right now.But did you know that Uber had a substantial driverless car project more than a decade ago? That’s right. It launched in early 2015 when Travis Kalanick was CEO. At the time, Uber was a real…
Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. A lot of healthy diets are considered to be just as good for your brain as they are for your body. But one in particular, which is usually recommended for lowering blood pressure, may be particularly good when it comes to protecting your cognitive function, a recent study suggests.An international team of researchers looked at data from the two Nurses’ Health Studies, conducted from 1986 to 2017, and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, conducted from 1986 to 2012. That means they had data…
Jeff Bezos is reportedly seeking $100 billion for a new fund, the likes of which will be used to buy up companies in major industrial sectors and, ultimately, modernize and automate them with AI, according to sources cited by The Wall Street Journal. The effort is related to Bezos’ AI startup, Project Prometheus. Bezos, whose involvement with the company was originally reported in November, is serving as co-founder and co-CEO, alongside former Google executive Vik Bajaj. Prometheus, which launched with $6.2 billion in funding, is focused on creating high-level AI models to improve manufacturing and engineering in aerospace, automotive, and…
Smoking was supposed to be on its way out — not completely gone, but definitely uncool.For years, cigarette smoking in celebrity culture has read as more grimy than glamorous. When celebs were pictured smoking, it was in paparazzi gotcha shots, not in styled studio shoots. Those tabloid images acted as a kind of public shaming: Even in an age of wellness, optimization and personal branding, the rich and famous sometimes indulge their bad habits. When famous people were caught smoking, the story was usually about backlash (like the response to Timothée Chalamet lighting up at a Beyoncé concert in 2023).…