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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…
Jamie Siminoff, the founder and CEO of Ring, looked out at a small patch of dirt. In January 2025, the garage that once stood there was wiped out by wildfires that tore through Los Angeles.It was the site where he founded the video doorbell company over a decade ago.”This looks like such a small pad where the garage was. It felt so big,” Siminoff said, comparing it to returning to your childhood bedroom only to find it much smaller than you remembered.”I was so proud of it as an office,” Siminoff told me through tears, recalling the moment he discovered…
By Julie SteenhuysenCHICAGO, Jan 6 (Reuters) – U.S. officials are building a case that ongoing measles outbreaks in South Carolina and other states are unrelated to last year’s major outbreak in Texas, as it tries to retain its status of having eliminated the disease after recording the highest number of confirmed infections in three decades.To be considered measles-free by the World Health Organization, a country must have no locally transmitted cases of the same strain for 12 months or longer.Scientists studying the issue say the elimination assessment may not be ironclad as it is difficult to be certain that all…
AI needs so much computing power that AMD CEO Lisa Su put it in terms of a unit most people have never heard of: the yottaflop.Su said in her keynote at CES 2026 on Tuesday that the world would need more than “10 yottaflops” of compute — a measure of how fast a computer is — over the next five years to keep up with AI’s growth.”How many of you know what a yottaflop is?” Su asked the audience. “Raise your hand, please,” she added, before quickly explaining the term herself when no one appeared to raise their hand.”A yottaflop…
Throughout her years managing employees at Microsoft, Meta, and now Anthropic, Fiona Fung has learned how to make a mentorship actually work.Fung, now an engineering lead supporting Anthropic’s Claude Code, said that mentees need to take some ownership of the relationship on an episode of “The Peterman Pod” that aired on Sunday, January 4.Good mentors should initiate an early conversation about what the mentee is looking for, Fung said. Ultimately, though, she thinks that mentees should take the reins on goal setting.”For all the folks out there looking for a mentoring relationship, I would say set really explicit goals for…
AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su kicked off her keynote at CES 2026 with a message about what compute could deliver: AI for everyone. As part of that promise, AMD announced a new line of AI processors as the company thinks AI-powered personal computers are the way of the future. The semiconductor giant revealed AMD Ryzen AI 400 Series processor, its latest version of its AI-powered PC chips, at the yearly CES conference on Monday. The company says the latest version of its Ryzen processor series allows for 1.3x faster multitasking than its competitors and are 1.7x times faster at…
The federal government is no longer broadly recommending several vaccines as part of the Trump administration and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s broader overhaul of childhood immunization.Federal health officials said the new guidance aligns the United States with other countries that recommend fewer shots and empowers parents to consult doctors to make vaccination decisions that are best for their children. Public health experts and medical associations criticized the changes, arguing they would result in fewer children being protected from common pathogens.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. Here’s a…
On Monday, ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show, Huang officially introduced the Vera Rubin architecture, which is now in production and expected to ramp up in volume in the second half of the year. This move follows a blockbuster year for its Blackwell chip, as demand for AI infrastructure continued to surge.In a press briefing ahead of Huang’s keynote, Dion Harris, Nvidia’s senior director of HPC and AI infrastructure solutions, described Vera Rubin as “six chips that make one AI supercomputer.””Vera Rubin is designed to address this fundamental challenge that we have: The amount of computation necessary for AI is…