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ROME (AP) — On a recent weeknight, long after the swarms of tourists had left Rome’s Colosseum, a small group of people walked around outside the darkened amphitheater, pausing every so often to take in a new aspect of its history, art or architecture with every sense but sight.Michela Marcato, 54, has been blind since birth. She and her partially sighted partner were touring the site amid a new effort by Italy to make its myriad artistic treasures more accessible to people with blindness or low vision and enhance how all visitors experience and perceive art.As she listened to her…
PayPal’s former president, David Marcus, raised concerns about the fintech giant, saying it’s “lost its mojo.”In a long post on X, Marcus spoke about several flaws in PayPal, a San Jose-based fintech giant, across its history. Marcus left PayPal in 2014 and has since worked at Coinbase and Meta. He has also founded a payments company, Lightspark, where he is now CEO.He said he had woken up to messages from former PayPal colleagues, which pushed him to “finally speak up.”During its latest earnings call on Tuesday, where it reported profit and sales misses, the company announced that its CEO, Alex…
Elon Musk has never been shy about his inner nerd — just look at his SpaceX merger memo.Over the years, the billionaire has peppered his company communications with sci-fi culture Easter eggs, physics nerd jargon, and enough dad-joke flair to make comedian Nate Bargatze blush.So it was no surprise that Musk’s latest internal memo — announcing that SpaceX would merge with xAI — leaned into the kind of words and phrases that might cause you to scratch your head.It reads less like a conventional corporate M&A announcement and more like a sci-fi manifesto, invoking “sentient suns,” orbital data centers, and…
Dr. Peter Attia, the celebrity doctor who helped popularize the longevity craze, has publicly apologized as he faces a growing backlash following the release of email exchanges he had with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Attia’s name appears frequently in the latest batch of Epstein files, which the Justice Department released Friday. The two exchanged jokes, scheduled times to meet and discussed Epstein’s health via email in the mid-2010s, with Epstein saying at one point that he could pay to be Attia’s client.“You the biggest problem with becoming friends with you?” Attia wrote in June 2015. “The life you lead…
All 4K TVs deliver a sharp picture, but resolution alone doesn’t guarantee a great-looking image. Contrast, color accuracy, and brightness play a huge role in how a TV performs, whether you’re watching movies in a dark room or sports during the day. The best 4K TVs balance all these picture-quality elements while also delivering easy-to-use software.I’ve been covering home entertainment gear for more than a decade, and I’ve reviewed a wide range of TVs firsthand. Together with my team, I put today’s top models to the test to find the best 4K TVs that are actually worth buying. The Samsung…
Measles cases in the U.S. are spreading beyond mostly schoolkids and their families.At least 12 people have tested positive for measles at Ave Maria University, a private Catholic college near Naples, Florida, NBC affiliate WBBH of Fort Myers reported Tuesday. Three people were taken to a local hospital.A student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was confirmed to have measles after traveling internationally, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services said. In January, Clemson University in South Carolina confirmed a case of measles in an “individual affiliated with the University.”It takes only three cases of the extremely contagious virus to become an…
Menopause clinics across the U.S. are hearing from women who are having trouble filling prescriptions for estrogen patches, a common hormone replacement therapy.“There’s just more demand for these medications, and I think it’s exponentially risen over the last three or four years,” said Dr. Rajita Patil, director of UCLA Health’s Comprehensive Menopause Program. “I don’t think that the supply chain was ready for that.”Hormone replacement therapy prescriptions for women 50-65 have increased 86% since 2021, according to Epic Research, which analyzes electronic health records nationwide.Jessica Halem uses twice-weekly estradiol patches. (Courtesy Jessica Halem) (Courtesy Jessica Halem)In November, the Food and…
An infant in New Mexico died of listeria, prompting the state’s health department to warn residents against consuming raw milk and other raw dairy products.The New Mexico Department of Health said in a news release that officials believe the newborn contracted listeria as a result of unpasteurized milk their mother drank during pregnancy, though an exact cause cannot be pinpointed.Listeria can cause miscarriage, stillbirth, preterm birth or fatal infections in newborns, even if the mother was only mildly ill.The health department did not provide any other information about the child or its parents.Raw milk and unpasteurized dairy can pose a…
As Intel continues to try to turn itself around, its CEO promised that the company will start producing a new type of chip, one that has been made very popular by rival Nvidia. At the Cisco AI Summit on Tuesday, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan announced that the company will start producing graphics processing units (GPUs). These are more specialized processors, compared to the CPUs Intel traditionally produces, and are used for gaming and tasks like training artificial intelligence models. TechCrunch reached out to Intel for more information. The project will be overseen by Kevork Kechichian, the executive vice president and…
By Deena BeasleyFeb 3 (Reuters) – Kaiser Permanente urged members on Tuesday to get laboratory tests done this week after unions representing pharmacy and lab workers filed to begin striking in Southern California on Monday and an ongoing strike by thousands of nurses and other health workers continued into a second week.The non-profit healthcare system said the United Food and Commercial Workers union notified it of a planned strike by about 3,000 members starting February 9. The United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, which represents more than 31,000 Kaiser employees, began its open-ended strike in California and…