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Jascha Kaykas-Wolff is a veteran Silicon Valley executive who’s seen waves of different technology sweep across the industry as CMO of Mozilla, BitTorrent, and other companies.This time, generative AI is the hot new thing. There’s a healthy debate right now over whether this technology is truly valuable for end users or not. Kaykas-Wolff’s hands-on experience is instructive here.He and his partner, the artist Alexandra Roberts, created a high-end, cannabis-infused cocktail that launches in early 2026. It’s called “Eleanore,” part of a broader brand they’re developing to take pot products from stinky, bong-filled basements into more luxurious environments such as private…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The former superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district falsely claimed to be a U.S. citizen on a federal form and knowingly possessed several firearms illegally, according to a newly returned indictment that raises the prospect of a lengthy prison term.A federal grand jury issued the two-count indictment Thursday charging former Des Moines schools superintendent Ian Roberts with one count of making a false statement for employment and one count of unlawfully possessing a firearm while being in the country illegally. Together, the charges carry a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison.Roberts, who…
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Today is your last chance to save! Register for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 before 11:59 p.m. PT tonight and save up to $624 on your pass. This is the lowest rate available before Disrupt kicks off in San Francisco’s Moscone West on October 27-29. After today, prices rise to Late Bird rates and eventually Walk-up rates. Reasons to attend Disrupt Connect with 10,000 founders, VCs, operators, and innovators Disrupt is known as a launchpad for scaling and innovation. Connections are how that happens. You can make a year’s worth of connections in just three days with the brightest minds in tech. 20,000+ curated and impromptu…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The five universities that are still weighing President Donald Trump’s higher-education compact have been asked to join a White House call Friday to discuss the proposed deal, according to two people familiar with the matter.The people spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the private call.It follows a flurry of rejections from four of the nine universities invited to be “initial signatories” of the agreement. The White House asked university leaders to provide initial feedback by Oct. 20, yet as the deadline approaches, none have signed on to the document.Those that have not yet announced…
Powder and ready-to-drink protein sales have exploded, reaching over US$32 billion globally from 2024 to 2025. Increasingly, consumers are using these protein sources daily.A new study by Consumer Reports, published on Oct. 14, 2025, claims that some such protein products contain dangerously high levels of lead, as well as other heavy metals such as cadmium and arsenic. At high levels, these substances have serious, well-documented health risks.I am a clinical pharmacologist who has evaluated the heavy metal content of baby food, calcium supplements and kratom products. Lead and other heavy metals occur naturally in soil and water, so achieving zero-level…
When it comes to describing what an antioxidant is, it’s all in the name: Antioxidants counter oxidants.And that’s a good thing. Oxidants can damage the structure and function of the chemicals in your body critical to life – like the proteins and lipids within your cells, and your DNA, which stores genetic information. A special class of oxidants, free radicals, are even more reactive and dangerous.As an assistant professor of nutrition, I’ve studied the long-standing research showing how the imbalances in antioxidants and oxidants lead to oxidative stress, which is linked to cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and dementia and Alzheimer’s…
A 3-year-old girl who underwent a breakthrough gene therapy treatment to treat profound hearing loss can hear on her own, two years after the treatment.Opal Sandy made history in 2023 when at 11 months old, she became the youngest patient in the world to have a gene therapy injection to her right ear, a breakthrough treatment for the deafness she was born with due to mutations of the OTOF gene, an inherited condition.Baby hears mom’s voice for the 1st time in emotional videoThe gene therapy treatment — a 15-minute procedure during which Opal was under general anesthesia — delivered a…
South Korean telco giant SK Telecom is making big changes at its new AI division, AI CIC, just weeks after it was launched. Staff employed by the unit are being offered a voluntary retirement program as part of a broader effort to bring together the company’s various AI-related divisions, SK Telecom confirmed to TechCrunch. “In late September, SK Telecom announced the launch of the AI CIC (Company-in-Company) unit and confirmed that detailed organizational restructuring would be specified by the end of October,” a spokesperson at SK Telecom told TechCrunch. “This special retirement program is entirely a supportive measure and is…
(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.)By Nancy Lapid(Reuters) -Researchers appear to have found a solution for breast cancer patients who do not respond well enough to the common treatment tamoxifen, according to results from a German study.Tamoxifen works by preventing the hormone estrogen from binding to proteins on cancer cell surfaces, keeping the cancer from growing.To work well, tamoxifen must be converted by the enzyme CYP2D6 into a form called (Z)-endoxifen. But in about a third of patients, levels of that enzyme are genetically low. As a…