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Multiple reports suggest that live sports viewing has declined for certain sports, especially among Gen Z. To solve this, leagues and broadcasters are trying to make sports more engaging for fans with different kinds of viewing experiences, stats, and analysis. One way to do this is using volumetric video generation that lets users view the play from various angles, giving an inside-the-video-game experience. The core technology uses numerous cameras to capture the footage in 3D for everyone to look at it from various viewpoints. Canada-based Peripheral Labs wants to make this technology affordable for leagues and teams to so it…
Extra subsidies that made Affordable Care Act plans more affordable for millions of Americans for the past five years are all but guaranteed to vanish on New Year’s Day.In January, most people who buy plans on HealthCare.gov or a state-run marketplace will see a rise in their monthly premium, ranging from a modest bump to hundreds or even thousands of dollars.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. Congress has been locked in a fierce fight over extending the expiring subsidies, resulting in the longest government shutdown in history, which ended…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Authorities said Thursday that they’re looking into a connection between last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University and an attack two days later near Boston that killed a professor at another elite school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.That is according to three people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity. Two of the people said investigators had identified a person of interest in the shootings and were actively seeking that individual.The attacker at Brown on Saturday killed two students and wounded nine others in…
Luma, the a16z-backed AI video and 3D model company, released a new model called Ray3 Modify that allows users to modify existing footage by providing character reference images that preserve the performance of the original footage. Users can also provide a start and an end frame to guide the model to generate transitional footage. The company said Thursday the Ray3 Modify model solves the problems of preserving human performance while editing or generating effects using AI for creative studios. The startup said the model follows the input footage better, allowing studios to use human actors for creative or brand footage.…
For many TikTok employees, the days of working from home are numbered.The company has told US staffers across several large divisions that they will need to return to the office five days a week next year, two affected workers told Business Insider.The return-to-office push, which kicks off in September, will affect US employees across a wide set of roles, including staffers who work on advertising sales, marketing, and product, the employees said. A third staffer said they expected that much of TikTok’s US cohort would be back in the office five days a week next year.TikTok and its owner, ByteDance,…
Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable has more than tripled its valuation in just five months. Stockholm-based Lovable on Thursday said it had raised $330 million in a Series B funding round that was led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures, at a $6.6 billion valuation. Khosla Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Databricks Ventures also participated, as did other investors. This raise comes mere months after Lovable raised a $200 million Series A round that valued the company at $1.8 billion in July. One of the quickest to capitalize on the AI boom, Lovable has built a “vibe-coding” tool that lets people use text…
Palmer Luckey wants you to know he was right all along.The outspoken billionaire and new-age god of war is making a fortune selling weapons. His reach extends beyond the range of his powerful artillery though, as he has shifted the narrative around what working in defense tech means.Once a somewhat taboo corner of the business world, the success of Luckey’s Anduril Industries, along with his no-holds-barred approach to … just about everything, has made him the poster child for tech’s new love affair with the military, writes BI’s Julia Hornstein.Luckey’s now on a victory lap of sorts as he shepherds…
A week after Martin University announced it would “pause operations” at the end of the semester, the university terminated all staff and is encouraging students to transfer to other local colleges.In a meeting with staff on Monday, interim president Felicia Brokaw told employees the university was terminating them because it could not pay them. She also said the university had not submitted payroll because it did not have the funds to pay staff for hours they had already worked.“The reason why we’re doing a termination letter is so that I’m not digging deeper in debt,” Brokaw told staff, according to…
The baby saved from a rare disease by a first-ever personalized gene fix has reached a big milestone, taking his first steps ahead of Christmas.KJ Muldoon is walking and getting ready to celebrate the holiday season at home with his parents and three siblings.Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia – PHOTO: KJ Muldoon was the first patient in the world to receive a personalized gene-editing therapy to treat a rare disease. KJ took his first steps recently.Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia – PHOTO: KJ Muldoon was the first patient in the world to receive a personalized gene-editing therapy to treat a rare disease.…
From beginning to end, 2025 was a year of devastation for scientists in the United States.January saw the abrupt suspension of key operations across the National Institutes of Health, not only disrupting clinical trials and other in-progress studies but stalling grant reviews and other activities necessary to conduct research. Around the same time, the Trump administration issued executive orders declaring there are only two sexes and ending DEI programs. The Trump administration also removed public data and analysis tools related to health disparties, climate change and environmental justice, among other databases.February and March saw a steep undercutting of federal support…