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It was just before 9 p.m. on Dec. 23, 2023, when police arrived on scene in Friendswood, Texas.OFFICER (bodycam): What happened?CONNOR HILTON: I screwed up so bad.OFFICER: Somebody hurt?CONNOR HILTON: (nods to affirm)Bodycam video shows Connor Hilton, 17, center, sitting on the curb outside his Friendswood, Texas, home, on Dec. 23, 2023. He is holding up two fingers in response to the officer’s question OFFICER: Who’s hurt?CONNOR HILTON (holds up two fingers): Two people.OFFICER: Two people. …OFFICER: Where are they at in the house?OFFICER: Where are your friends at?CONNOR HILTON: They’re — they’re in the walkway. They’re in the walkway.…
The future of softwareSoftware stocks had a brutal week, aside from a Friday rally, extending what has been a rough year for the industry. I touched base with our tech columnist, Ali Barr, the best I know on AI business models. He also wrote this piece in the midst of the selloff.Ali, you’ve been covering AI adoption and costs by big business since you started our Tech Memo newsletter. What’s your gut on whether the recent selloff was overblown?Software business models have underpinned the tech industry for decades. Companies invest heavily upfront to build software, but each additional copy costs…
“Bad,” or LDL, cholesterol is a major risk factor for heart disease and most people are screened for it as part of their yearly physicals.There’s another marker in the blood that may be a better predictor of heart disease risk, a recent large review suggests. But it’s not part of routine blood testing.Apolipoprotein B (apoB) is a protein that attaches to harmful fat particles in the blood. The apoB protein is found on the surface of harmful lipoproteins like low density lipoprotein, or LDL, that contribute to heart disease. Since each one of the harmful particles contains one apoB molecule,…
Steven Wang planned to start a business after graduating from Harvard.But eight months into college life, in June 2021, he dropped out to pursue his entrepreneurial ambitions, inspired by the boom in meme stocks and crypto.Investing was one of his long-term interests, and Wang wanted to take advantage of that year’s retail investor craze, and his company, Dub, was born.The platform allows retail investors to automatically copy the trades of more experienced investors. In an interview published in February 2025, Wang told Business Insider that Dub had a team of around 25 people and had raised $17 million, including from…
Meta poured billions into its VR and metaverse efforts. It even renamed the company after it. But after the recent round of cuts and product pullback, Meta’s CTO acknowledge that the industry was growing “more slowly than we had hoped.”Andrew “Boz” Bosworth did a Q&A on his Instagram story on Monday. One of the questions Meta’s chief technology officer received: “There is a lot of doom and gloom about the future of Quest and gaming. What is the truth?”Bosworth said that the doom and gloom was mostly “overwrought.””There is a real cause for sadness here,” Bosworth said, referencing Meta’s recent…
Boxing legend Mike Tyson is out with an emotional Super Bowl ad sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services-aligned organization MAHA Center, amid the agency’s push to promote healthy eating.Tyson’s 30-second ad posted on his X account ahead of Super Bowl LX details what he says is his personal journey with his weight, where the former boxing champion said at one point his addiction to processed foods caused him to weigh nearly 350 pounds and consider harming himself.AdvertisementIn the ad, which was paid for by nonprofit MAHA Center Inc. — a reference to the Trump administration’s Make America…
BERLIN, Feb 7 (Reuters) – Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche said on Saturday its experimental multiple sclerosis drug fenebrutinib met the main goal in a late-stage trial in patients with primary progressive multiple sclerosis, a rare form of the disease with few treatment options.In the Phase III study, fenebrutinib cut the risk of worsening disability by 12% compared with Roche’s Ocrevus, the only approved therapy for PPMS, the Swiss drugmaker said.Separation of the treatment curves was seen after 24 weeks, and additional analyses suggested potential benefits in upper-limb function.PPMS is the least common form of multiple sclerosis and is marked by…
New Yorker state lawmakers have introduced a bill that would impose a moratorium of at least three years on permits tied to the construction and operation of new data centers. While the bill’s prospects are uncertain, Wired reports that New York is at least the sixth state to consider pausing construction of new data centers. As tech companies plan to spend ever-increasing amounts of money to build AI infrastructure, both Democrats and Republicans have expressed concerns about the impact those data centers might have on surrounding communities. Studies have also linked data centers to increased home electricity bills. Critics include…
Becca Valle didn’t understand why she kept having aching headaches. She was happy at a new job. She was living with her boyfriend and happy to be near her family. She had recently checked a major item off her bucket list by running a marathon. All in all, her stress levels were low.In September 2021, Valle began waking up with painful headaches that would become debilitating throughout the day. Valle was convinced it was migraines. Her doctor thought something might be wrong with her sinuses.One day three weeks later, the pain Valle was experiencing became so bad she couldn’t sit…
If you work for a San Francisco startup and don’t know how to code, you could soon be asked to get creative with vibe coding.Checkr, an AI-powered background check company, gave Business Insider a glimpse of how employees are actually using AI.Checkr CEO Daniel Yanisse said that the company is going “all in” and trying everything to encourage its employees to fully embrace AI — including staff that don’t work in engineering roles.”We really pride ourselves on using AI to the maximum possible amount,” said Yanisse. “We gave every employee a monthly stipend to try AI tools, and we did…