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AI startup Zingage has raised $12.5 million in seed funding to help bring healthcare inside the home — a shift it says will occur over the next decade.The two-year-old startup is developing an AI-powered scheduling and operations product for home healthcare agencies, which send caregivers into people’s homes for aid — as opposed to a hospital or long-term facility.Patients aren’t receiving care because agencies are bogged down by offline logistics, cofounder and CEO Victor Hunt told Business Insider, while workers in the field are cobbling together hours to make a living wage.”We want all healthcare to be deployed in the…
More than three-quarters of U.S. counties and jurisdictions are experiencing declines in childhood vaccination rates, a trend that began in 2019, according to a September 2025 NBC News–Stanford University investigation. The report also found a “large swath” of the U.S. no longer has the “basic, ground-level immunity” needed to stop the spread of measles.Dr. David Higgins, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado CU Anschutz Medical Center and a pediatrician who researches vaccines, discusses the dangers of not vaccinating your children.The Conversation has collaborated with SciLine to bring you highlights from the discussion, edited for brevity and…
He’s not done yet! Warren Buffett might be stepping down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, but he’s still got some tricks up his sleeve. Experts of the Oracle of Omaha explain why they’re excited about his recent $9.7 billion deal.In today’s big story, OpenAI announced another deal focused on securing more compute power, as the tech world’s big bet on AI infrastructure continues to swell. But there’s also a key missing piece.What’s on deck:Markets: The bullish case for how gold could rise 150% by the end of the decade.Tech: Tesla has been teasing a big announcement coming today.Business: CBS News…
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — It must be somewhat maddening to coach Trevor Lawrence.The Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback makes head-scratching decisions like leaping over the goal line on a designed tush push, running two steps past the line of scrimmage before releasing the ball and declining easy dump-offs in favor of tougher throws down the field — often into harm’s way.Then he makes plays like he did to close out a 31-28 victory against Kansas City on Monday night.Lawrence had two of the best throws of his five-year NFL career in the final minute, an absolute dime to Brian Thomas Jr. for…
FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Dallas owner Jerry Jones says his obscene gesture toward fans at MetLife Stadium late in a 37-22 victory over the New York Jets was inadvertent and that he intended a “thumbs up” for celebrating Cowboys fans.Jones was caught on a video that went viral smiling widely as he pointed toward fans before briefly flashing the gesture Sunday. He said on his radio show Tuesday he was interacting with Dallas fans, not Jets fans.“That was unfortunate. That was kind of an exchange with our fans out in front of us,” Jones said on 105.3 The Fan. “There…
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, now has a new chief financial officer: Former Morgan Stanley banker Anthony Armstrong, the Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources. Armstrong, who previously advised Musk during the Twitter deal, will oversee the finances of both xAI and X, which were merged in April, the report said. The former banker has been working with xAI for several weeks and was only recently appointed as CFO, the FT added. xAI has been without a CFO since its previous finance head, Mike Liberatore, left the company in July, and Armstrong’s appointment follows a slate of high-profile executive departures…
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Quinn Priester has experienced postseason baseball at Wrigley Field before, only from a much different perspective than the one he’s about to have.Priester grew up in the Chicago area and was in Wrigley Field’s stands for Game 5 of the 2016 World Series. The 25-year-old right-hander will be back at Wrigley on Wednesday as he continues his breakthrough season by trying to pitch the Brewers into the NL Championship Series.“I was in the last row in the nosebleeds,” Priester said about that 2016 experience. “My mom and I had our backs against the chain-link…
A 69-year-old truck driver who was seriously injured in a fight that prosecutors say was started by former NFL quarterback and sports analyst Mark Sanchez is now suing Sanchez and his employer, Fox Corporation, in Indiana state court.Lawyers for Perry Tole filed the lawsuit Monday seeking an unspecified amount in actual and punitive damages, as well as attorney’s fees. The lawsuit accuses Sanchez of instigating a fight with Tole late Saturday night outside a downtown Indianapolis hotel, leading to “severe permanent disfigurement, loss of function” and other injuries and emotional distress. Tole also stabbed Sanchez several times in the fight,…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James has another “decision” to announce.The Los Angeles Lakers star has something to say later Tuesday, and he says he’ll be making his latest decision public at noon Eastern time. The “decision” reference is a nod to how he announced in July 2010 that he was joining the Miami Heat.James posted on X that it was “the decision of all decisions.” The short video shows him walking toward a chair, then taking a seat opposite another man seated a few feet away — mildly reminiscent of the setup for his first “decision” when he sat…
It’s not uncommon for breast cancer patients in the rural South to travel hundreds of miles to reach the medical practice run by Dr. Phillip Ley, a cancer surgeon in Jackson, Mississippi.For those who are good candidates, Ley recommends a therapy that delivers a single, targeted radiation dose to a patient’s breast tissue immediately after surgery to remove a tumor. Known as intraoperative radiation therapy, or IORT, it costs patients less in both time and money than traditional radiation treatments, and it is far less grueling.“For our patient population here, [IORT] has been such a boon because we have so…