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Omaha, Nebraska — Surrounded by friends and family at his birthday party this week, 10-year-old True Beethe of Omaha, Nebraska, was on cloud nine, but his bliss had not come easy.Back in 2022, at the age of 5, True needed a heart procedure for a serious congenital heart defect known as hypoplastic right heart syndrome.He was under the care of social services at the time. On the day of the surgery, for an unknown reason, he was just dropped off at Children’s Nebraska, an Omaha children’s hospital.Anesthesiologist Dr. Amy Beethe found him in pre-operative care.”He was just sitting there all…
Mayer Mizrachi, the 38-year-old mayor of Panama City, wants Elon Musk to build him a pedestrian tunnel under the Panama Canal. And Musk’s Boring Company recently announced it just might.Panama City this week was named one of 16 finalists — the only one outside the United States — in the company’s Tunnel Vision challenge, which offers the winning municipality a free tunnel that can be used for freight, pedestrians, water, utilities or Loop — the electric, underground system that uses Tesla vehicles to transport people.Mizrachi’s idea is a 0.6 mile pedestrian tunnel under the Panama Canal, which would give city…
President Donald Trump’s statements in September about Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism have likely had a real-world impact despite experts and years of evidence disproving any link, according to a new study.After a Sept. 22 White House briefing, in which Trump, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other officials said they had found an “answer to autism” and told pregnant women to avoid taking Tylenol (the brand name for acetaminophen or paracetamol), emergency room orders for the drug took a noticeable downturn, according to research published March 5 in the medical journal The Lancet.The study found…
LG just took the wraps off its 2026 OLED TVs: the C6 and G6. They’re up for preorder now and will start shipping later this month. I got to see both in person during a visit to LG’s US headquarters in New Jersey, and they left a strong first impression.The C6 is LG’s new midrange OLED, replacing last year’s C5. As you’d expect, it gets a typical year-over-year boost in picture processing. But here’s where things get interesting. For 2026, LG is offering a submodel called the C6H, and it’s the TV I’m most excited about. The C6H is available…
The Pentagon’s R&D chief said the Department of Defense was “scared” about Anthropic shutting off access to its AI during a critical moment.During an appearance on the “All-In Podcast” posted on Friday, Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael detailed two pivotal moments that culminated in the Pentagon formally designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk, effectively blacklisting one of the nation’s largest AI companies.One of those instances, Michael said, was when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei suggested that the impasse over how the Pentagon could deploy the AI startup’s models could be bridged with a phone call, even…
As Anthropic and the Pentagon clashed over how the military should use AI, another new reality of warfare emerged several thousand miles away: data centers are now targets. Loading audio narration… This week, Amazon said that three of its data centers in the Middle East — two in the United Arab Emirates and one in Bahrain — had been damaged by drone strikes during the US-Iran war.Amazon Web Services, its cloud division, evacuated staff and closed access to at least one data center due to “structural damage” and flooding caused by the Sunday attacks, according to an internal document reviewed…
In southern Utah, a measles outbreak that’s been simmering since last summer is showing signs of wider spread. Now, state health officials are pleading with residents to take the virus seriously.“It is not a mild infection. It is not a mild virus. It is severe illness,” Utah’s state epidemiologist, Dr. Leisha Nolen, said at a news briefing Thursday.She’s hearing from people sick with the virus, as well as their caregivers, that “measles is so much worse than what they expected.”“A number of them clearly said if they had known, they would have vaccinated themselves and their children against measles, but…
Twin brothers Auston and Ashton Tureaud have shared many important milestones over the years, and this week, they shared another, welcoming their newborn sons on the same day, at the same hospital.The Tureaud brothers and their wives, who also happen to share the same first name — Courtney Dupuy Tureaud and Courtney Edwards Tureaud — welcomed baby boys Briggs and Tate on March 2 at Woman’s Hospital in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.Auston Tureaud – PHOTO: Twin brothers Auston Tureaud and Ashton Tureaud and their wives — Courtney Dupuy Tureaud and Courtney Edwards Tureaud — all welcomed baby boys on March 2,…
Acetaminophen orders in emergency rooms for pregnant patients fell in the weeks after a White House briefing last year linked its use during pregnancy to an increased risk of autism, a new analysis finds.Researchers at Harvard and Brown University looked at data from an electronic health records system with more than 294 million patient records from more than 1,600 hospitals and 37,000 clinics across the United States.They found that orders for acetaminophen, also known by the brand name Tylenol, fell 10% between the briefing on Sept. 22, 2025 and Dec. 7, 2025, according to the analysis, published on Thursday in The Lancet.Trump’s announcement…
Enterprises and startups that use Anthropic Claude through Microsoft and Google products need not fear that the model will be ripped from their reach, Microsoft and Google confirmed to TechCrunch. AWS customers and partners can also reportedly continue to use Claude for their non-defense associated workloads. Microsoft was the first big tech company to offer assurance that Anthropic’s models will remain available to its customers even though the Trump administration’s Department of War — formally known as the Department of Defense — has escalated its feud with Anthropic. The Defense Department officially designated the American AI startup as a supply-chain…