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Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) said on Tuesday at CES 2026 that it had installed the first magnet in its Sparc fusion reactor, the demonstration device that it hopes to turn on next year. The magnet is the first of 18 that, when the reactor is complete, will create a doughnut-like shape that will produce a powerful magnetic field to confine and compress superheated plasma. If all goes well, that plasma will release more energy than it takes to heat and compress it. After decades of promise and delay, fusion power appears to be just around the corner — CFS and…
Jan 6 (Reuters) – Variant Bio, a private biotech firm, said on Tuesday it has launched a platform that uses artificial intelligence on genetic data to discover new drug candidates to send into human trials.Drug developers are increasing adoption of AI for discovery and safety trials to get faster and cheaper results, in line with a push by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reduce animal testing in the near future.Variant’s Inference platform uses agentic AI – autonomous AI agents that work with minimal human intervention – to discover drugs by analyzing proprietary and public human genomic data from…
That’s a wrap on AMD Image Credits:Screenshot/AMD keynote Well the AMD keynote was filled with product launches and a ton of guests! A quick recount. OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman, World Labs co-founder Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Absci CEO Sean McClain, CEO and co-founder of Generative Bionics Daniele Pucci, John Couluris of Blue Origin, and Michael Kratsios, the national science and technology advisor to the Trummp Administration, were just a few who joined AMD chair and CEO Lisa Su on stage during her keynote at CES. Oh and she ended the night by handing out $20,000 education grants to several…
Winter break at Morningside Elementary in Great Falls is a reprieve from what has been a whirlwind two years for the school. It’s in the middle of its second year as a public charter school that embeds college students earning teaching degrees over three years within a functioning elementary school.The college students take classes taught by Morningside’s K-6 teachers, as well as specialists like the librarian and music teacher. Those college students also work as paid teaching assistants, a role that incorporates the coursework toward their degrees. Their tuition, at least so far, has been covered by grants.It’s known as…
Flu cases are continuing to spike in the United States. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that at least 5,000 people have died of the illness this year and that doctor’s visits for flu have reached their highest level in decades.The CDC estimated there have been at least 11 million flu cases as of December 27, as well as at least 120,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths. There have been nine flu-related pediatric deaths, the CDC said.At the same time, 8.2% of outpatient doctor’s visits nationwide were for flu-like illnesses, the CDC said. That’s the highest…
YouTuber MrBeast is all about one-upping himself with bigger and bolder videos.That approach is at the core of the second season of “Beast Games,” MrBeast’s Amazon Prime Video show that returns to TV screens this week.”We took everything from season one — all of the learnings from creative to production — we put it all on a wall, and every single day we just set out to make it better, which is the nature of the brand,” Sean Klitzner, one of the show’s co-creators and showrunners, told Business Insider.The second season will pit 100 “strong” and 100 “smart” contestants against…
A number of tech leaders have weighed in on how the entry-level software engineering space is changing — and now Blackstone CTO John Stecher is sharing his take.”There definitively is a shift,” Stecher told Business Insider.The CTO, who graduated with a computer science degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001, said the software engineering landscape looked “totally different” back then. In the 2000s, he said the field had a reputation for being an “ultra-nerdy” career path for “super introverted people,” which he considered himself to be at the time.He said he remembers “busting out books” and having to read…
A Texas teachers union sued the state’s education department on Tuesday, accusing it of an improper “wave of retaliation” against public school employees over their social media comments following the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk.The lawsuit says the free speech rights of teachers and other school staff were violated by the Texas Education Agency and its commissioner, Mike Morath, because they directed local school districts to document what the education agency described as “vile content” posted online after Kirk was fatally shot in September. Despite calls for civility, some people who criticized Kirk after his assassination faced a…
Jan 6 (Reuters) – U.S. private equity firm TPG is close to acquiring UnitedHealth’s Optum UK business, in a deal worth between 1.2 billion pounds ($1.62 billion) and 1.4 billion pounds, Sky News reported on Tuesday.The deal could be announced in the coming weeks but has not yet been finalised and could still fall apart, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.Optum’s UK business supplies electronic patient record systems to most of Britain’s general practitioners.TPG could seek to combine Optum UK with Nextech, a U.S.-based electronic medical record software provider also owned by the PE firm, the report…
One in five Philadelphians are age 60 or older, and the city’s senior population has been growing for at least the past decade.I’m a Philly-based physical therapist and researcher who studies how to boost physical activity for seniors and people with disabilities. Patients, participants in the studies I conduct, and older community members alike often ask me: “What should I do to stay healthy?”My answer is simple: Movement is one of the most powerful tools we have to support our bodies and minds, and to stay independent as we grow older.The World Health Organization recommends that all adults, no matter…