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From blocking out a snoring partner to dialing down distractions at work or while traveling, a good pair of earplugs can make a noticeable difference in your day and your sleep.Today’s earplugs go far beyond basic foam, offering options designed for sleeping, concerts, swimming and everyday noise exposure.Earplugs are small devices placed in the ear canal to help reduce sound, limit exposure to loud environments and, in some cases, keep water out.Most earplugs are made from foam, silicone or rubber, and choosing the right material, size and fit can go a long way toward comfort and effectiveness.Ahead, we’ve rounded up…
This is it. The clock is running out. With demand surging and early inventory nearly gone, tonight is your last chance to lock in record-low pricing for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and secure a +1 pass at 50% off while limited passes remain. If Disrupt has been on your must-attend list, now is the moment to act. Save up to $680 on your pass and bring a +1 for half the price before this offer disappears. This pricing ends tonight, January 30, at 11:59 p.m. PT, or the moment the last +1 pass sell out. No extensions. No exception. Register now to secure yours with the lowest-priced offer. What Disrupt delivers year after year…
ALLEROD, Denmark, Jan 30 (Reuters) – A play examining the meteoric rise of Danish weight-loss drug giant Novo Nordisk will premiere on Saturday at a theatre outside Copenhagen.”The Golden Calf” tells the story of August and Marie Krogh, the Danish couple who founded Nordisk Insulinlaboratorium in 1923, a precursor to Novo Nordisk that’s now valued at $200 billion.The company had a market capitalization larger than the entire Danish economy at its peak and is now battling with U.S. rival Eli Lilly to dominate the global obesity drug market.”It’s a piece of our common story about these two scientists who get…
By Nancy LapidJan 30 (Reuters) – Apple watches are proving useful in screening for the common heart rhythm disorder atrial fibrillation, or AFib, according to two studies published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.AFib, which significantly raises the risk of strokes, can be difficult to diagnose because often the rhythm irregularities are intermittent. Apple watch models capable of screening for possible AFib can either passively monitor the wearer’s pulse with an optical sensor, or the wearer can place a finger on the crown to produce a one-lead electrocardiogram.For one of the studies, researchers in The Netherlands enrolled…
The “Muskonomy” might be about to get a lot more complicated.SpaceX is gearing up for a potential $1.5 trillion IPO this year, and multiple reports on Thursday night suggested the rocket company is considering blockbuster mergers with Tesla, Elon Musk’s carmaker, or his AI startup, xAI.The three companies have already been moving closer together in recent months. Tesla said on Wednesday that it had invested $2 billion in xAI, after SpaceX reportedly made a similar investment last year.The electric carmaker also told investors it would evaluate “potential AI collaborations” with xAI, following its addition of the startup’s Grok chatbot to…
By Jennifer RigbyLONDON, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Airport screenings for Nipah virus, which have been stepped up across Asia this week after two cases were identified in India, are more about reassurance than science, several leading experts said on Friday.Countries including Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Pakistan put in place temperature screenings at airports this week after India announced that two cases of the deadly Nipah virus had been found in West Bengal.The countries’ health ministries described the measures as precautionary steps for a dangerous disease.Nipah is an infection that spreads mainly through products contaminated by infected bats, such as fruit.…
2026-01-30T12:24:38.075Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads 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. After a slowdown in IPOs, SpaceX and OpenAI are expected to go public in 2026. There are also reports that SpaceX might merge with xAI or Tesla before an IPO. Here’s what smart people in business and tech have said about the potential IPOs. It looks like 2026 could…
The AI race can sometimes feel like a numbers game.Earlier this month, Bob Sternfels, the CEO of McKinsey & Company, made a surprising announcement. The firm, he said, had a workforce of over 60,000 people — 40,000 human employees and 25,000 AI agents.For Sternfels, it was an example of McKinsey’s all-in approach to AI. Others in the industry, however, say the eye-popping number actually says little about the company’s successful adoption of artificial intelligence.Dan Priest, the chief AI officer at PwC, told Business Insider that evaluating a firm’s AI use by the number of agents it has is not the…
A leaked Amazon Web Services organizational chart shows the 15 executives under CEO Matt Garman, plus changes to his reports over the past year.AWS is Amazon’s massive cloud-computing unit. Garman, a longtime Amazon veteran, began leading in June 2024 after running sales and marketing. AWS teams were among those impacted by the company’s recent mass layoff targeting 16,000 employees.Business Insider wrote about Garman’s org chart a year ago. A comparison to the previous org chart shows the six new executives who became his reports, the 10 executives who stayed on his org chart, and the two executives who left since…
Protesters across the U.S. are calling for “no work, no school, no shopping” as part of a nationwide strike on Friday to oppose the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. The demonstrations are taking place amid widespread outrage over the killing Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse who was shot multiple times after he used his cellphone to record Border Patrol officers conducting an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis. The death heightened scrutiny over the administration’s tactics after the Jan. 7 death of Renee Good, who was fatally shot behind the wheel of her vehicle by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement…