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Sometimes, you might be sitting on a hot product and not know it until the market demands it. After launching as a digital business card that doubled as a lead capture tool for sales teams, Birmingham, Alabama-based Linq pivoted a few times before landing on an idea last year: helping businesses better communicate with their customers by upgrading from SMS (text) to iMessage and RCS. Now, Apple already lets businesses do this via its Messages for Business service, and Twilio has built a $18.26 billion business by helping companies text their customers. But users can always tell when they’re talking…
Cortisol, what is known as the stress hormone, is the talk of the internet.Wellness influencers warn about the various symptoms of chronically high cortisol: waking up at 3 a.m., swollen “cortisol face” and accumulating belly fat. And many offer diet and exercise routines that they claim will help.But do you really need supplements and advice from influencers to control your cortisol? Doctors say it’s very unlikely.Don’t be so quick to label this hormone as a villain, they say. And if you suspect something is off, talk to a professional.Here’s what to know.Cortisol keeps you alive and disorders are relatively rareCortisol…
Feb 2 (Reuters) – Sanofi has breached the UK pharma code of practice with unsubstantiated claims that its Beyfortus was more effective than Pfizer’s RSV vaccine, the industry’s self-regulatory body said on Monday, responding to a complaint.The UK’s Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority also found the French drugmaker in breach of UK rules regarding the advertisement of a prescription-only medicine to the public.Sanofi said in an emailed statement to Reuters that it acknowledges the PMCPA ruling and has accepted the findings.”Sanofi remains committed to the highest standards of ethical conduct and responsible external engagement,” the company added.Beyfortus is a…
STELLA, Wis. (AP) — The roughly 40 million Americans who get their water from private wells are particularly vulnerable to harmful forever chemicals. These well owners are often the last to know their water is contaminated, and the problem can take years to fix.The federal government has set strict limits on forever chemicals in drinking water that comes from public utilities and requires testing. But those rules don’t apply to private wells, which can leave people near industrial sites unaware they are consuming contaminated water.Forever chemicals, known to scientists as PFAS, are uniquely able to repel stains and moisture and…
Proposals to close Northern Nevada schools. Elimination of a Reno program for gifted students. Job cuts. Canceled teacher raises. Three years after Nevada school leaders celebrated a historical, 26 percent K-12 education funding increase, a number of their districts now face financial outlooks so dire that at least one is eligible for a state takeover and several are mulling options more often seen during a recession. What happened?Superintendents across the state say flat K-12 education funding, increased costs that have chipped away at their reserves, declining student enrollment and policy changes under the state’s new funding formula have created a…
Forget 2016, it’s time to make sound like 2001 again.Tony Fadell, creator of the iPod, said it is time for Apple to relaunch the device that changed the Cupertino-based tech giant and music forever.”I think there are smarter ways of making an AirPod that has an iPod in it. So, I think they need to bring back the iPod,” Fadell told Eric Newcomer during a recent interview on the tech journalist’s podcast.Fadell, widely known as “the father of the iPod,” said there are two reasons to bring back the device that is synonymous with his legacy. First, to cash in…
Entire books have been written to teach people how to beat a McKinsey interview. Now, the game is changing.For decades, consulting firms like McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, and Bain & Company have relied on case interviews, during which prospective candidates work through simulated client problems with higher-ups at the firm.Now, as consulting firms race to both adopt AI and advise their clients on how to do the same — implementing the technology into everything from drafting reports to synthesizing data — the technology has become a new hurdle in the vaunted interview process at McKinsey, BCG, and others.The…
On the Monday, February 2, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: A landmark trial asks whether social media giants like Meta knowingly designed addictive platforms, and if they can be held legally responsible. Clay Calvert, nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins USA TODAY’s The Excerpt to break down the case.Hit play on the player below to hear the podcast and follow along with the transcript beneath it. This transcript was automatically generated, and then edited for clarity in its current form. There may be some differences between the audio and the text.Podcasts: True crime, in-depth interviews and more USA TODAY…
There are dozens and dozens of guides on how to ask for a promotion. What about a demotion?Igor Tsvetkov spent over a year as a senior staff software engineer at Meta, coming from a background at Google and Cruise. Then he posted on LinkedIn, describing how difficult he found it to try to blend into Meta’s culture — and why he decided to ask for a downward shift in title.”I did not fit in perfectly,” Tsvetkov wrote in the December post, describing the need for intimate systems knowledge and credibility among leaders at his rank. “It is very hard to achieve…
The era of the tiny team is upon us.Just ask LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, who made the point in a recent LinkedIn post and in an episode of the “Possible” podcast that aired on Wednesday.”15 people with AI can compete with 150 without it,” Hoffman wrote on LinkedIn. “AI fundamentally changes what small teams can accomplish.””Small teams have clearer shared context, something large organizations can’t replicate. AI amplifies this because you can build systems that capture and surface patterns across that shared context,” he added.Hoffman said that instead of trying to find existing AI products to solve a specific issue,…