Author: IQ TIMES MEDIA
The smartphone industry is a hard one for newcomers to break into. It’s littered with failed attempts.But Carl Pei, the CEO of Nothing, a smartphone startup now valued at $1.3 billion, thinks he may have found a way in.”Our users are very young,” Pei said on Alex Heath’s Access podcast this week. “It’s pretty much impossible to be popular among everybody in the world at the very beginning, so we got to pick a lane.”Pei said the company has found that its products resonate best with younger consumers who are motivated by a desire to “be different” and find their…
Wikipedia is often described as the last good website on an internet increasingly filled with toxic social media and AI slop, but it seems the online encyclopedia is not completely immune to broader trends, with human pageviews falling 8% year-over-year, according to a new blog post from Marshall Miller of the Wikimedia Foundation. The foundation works to distinguish between traffic from humans and bots, and Miller writes that the decline “over the past few months” was revealed after an update to Wikipedia’s bot detection systems appeared to show that “much of the unusually high traffic for the period of May…
At a time when startup hustle culture is back, when “locked in” tech founders have even embraced the “996” way of working — 9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week — there is something dystopian about using an AI app to generate fake vacation photos of yourself. And yet, here we are. Product designer Laurent Del Rey, who recently joined Meta’s Superintelligence Lab, launched a side project called Endless Summer, a photobooth app for iPhone that creates AI-generated vacation photos starring you in locations around the world. Here you are exploring a beach town, or overlooking a European…
2025-10-18T15:52:30Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Big companies continue to leave California. Overall, research shows the number of companies leaving is small. But the departures include some of the nation’s largest companies. Big companies continue to leave California.Some executives, including Tesla’s Elon Musk and Palantir’s Alex Karp, have made it abundantly clear why they left.”This…
(Reuters) -Pfizer and Japanese firm Astellas’ drug Padcev, combined with Merck’s Keytruda, lowered the risk of tumor recurrence, progression or death in patients suffering from a type of bladder cancer, the companies said on Saturday.The late-stage trial studied patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) who were ineligible for or declined chemotherapy with the commonly used cancer drug, cisplatin, and were given the combination before and after surgery.The combination therapy showed improvement in event-free survival – which measures how long a patient remains free from disease recurrence and other complications – with a 60% reduction in the risk of tumor recurrence,…
By Mrinalika Roy(Reuters) -AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s drug Enhertu has shown strong results in two pivotal studies in the early stage of a certain type of breast cancer, according to data announced on Saturday.The findings from both trials, presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology Congress, indicate that the drug, currently used for advanced stages of certain cancers, could advance toward curative treatment.In one late-stage study, Enhertu cut the risk of invasive disease recurrence or death by 53% compared with Roche’s Kadcyla, in patients with high-risk early HER2-positive breast cancer that persisted after surgery and initial therapy.Three years after…
Meta-owned chat app WhatsApp changed its business API policy this week to ban general-purpose chatbots from its platform. The move will likely affect WhatsApp-based assistants of companies like OpenAI, Perplexity, Khosla Ventures-backed Luzia, and General Catalyst-backed Poke. The company has added a new section to address “AI providers” in its business API terms, focusing on general-purpose chatbots. The terms, which will go into effect on January 15, 2026, say that Meta won’t allow AI model providers to distribute their AI assistants on WhatsApp. Providers and developers of artificial intelligence or machine learning technologies, including but not limited to large language…
When you bite into a juicy hamburger, slice into the perfect medium-rare steak or gobble down a plateful of chicken nuggets, your senses are most likely responding to the food’s smell, taste, texture and color. For a long time, these four attributes set meat apart from other food groups.But in recent years, food companies have started to focus on the development of meat alternatives. Many people believe that transitioning away from meat-heavy diets can help with environmental sustainability as well as improve their own health.The two main focuses of research have been on plant-based meat alternatives and lab-grown meat. Both…
Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope and sometimes his guitar and ukulele.In the recovery unit of UC San Diego Health, Salaysay helps patients manage pain after surgery. Along with medications, he offers tunes on request and sometimes sings. His repertoire ranges from folk songs in English and Spanish to Minuet in G Major and movie favorites like “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”Patients often smile or nod along. Salaysay even sees changes in their vital signs like lower heart rate and blood pressure, and some may request fewer painkillers.“There’s often a cycle…
Marissa Coreno was embracing a new life in 2021. She had just moved out of her parents’ house and was spending more time in the gym. She liked her job at a hospital in Ohio. Everything seemed to be going great — until she found a lump in her armpit.Coreno wasn’t particularly concerned at first. She was 27 and had no family history of cancer. But her colleagues thought she shouldn’t ignore it. An ultrasound found “questionable characteristics.” That was followed by a mammogram, then a biopsy.Three days later, Coreno was diagnosed with Stage II breast cancer that had spread…