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In May, Andrew Chen couldn’t stop thinking about the ticking clock. He was just weeks away from earning his computer science degree from the University of California San Diego — and still didn’t have a job lined up.Then a glimmer of hope landed in his inbox: an email from Amazon inviting him to interview for a software engineering role in 10 days. He knew he couldn’t waste the opportunity, so he made a plan: hole up in his room to study — and document his preparation for the big day on TikTok to hold himself accountable.”I canceled all my social…
Measles outbreaks continue to simmer and spread across the country, with cases now popping up quickly in Minnesota.On Wednesday, the Minnesota Department of Health alerted residents that it had confirmed 10 new cases since Monday, bringing the state’s tally so far this year to 18.“We have been worried about this all year,” said Dr. Chase Shutak, a pediatrician and medical director at Children’s Minnesota in Minneapolis. “When the outbreaks began in Texas, all of us anticipated that it would eventually work its way up into our state.”Shutak was referring to a massive measles outbreak in West Texas, which totaled 762…
Mac Jones is becoming the latest quarterback to prove he was dumped too soon.Playing for his third team in three years, the 2021 first-round pick has thrived with the San Francisco 49ers in coach Kyle Shanahan’s system. Jones is 3-0 filling in for Brock Purdy following a tough, gritty performance in a 26-23 overtime victory over the Los Angeles Rams on Thursday night.Jones threw for 342 yards and two touchdowns to help the injury-depleted 49ers pull off an improbable upset with Purdy, two-time All-Pro tight end George Kittle, left guard Ben Bartch and wide receivers Brandon Aiyuk, Ricky Pearsall and…
Major League Baseball’s playoffs now move into the Division Series, which will include Shohei Ohtani’s postseason pitching debut, an unwelcome reunion in Milwaukee, a matchup of teams that tied for the most wins in the American League, and a switch-hitting catcher who finished the season with 60 home runs. All four series begin Saturday, when two-way star Ohtani — already with two home runs this postseason after hitting a career-high 55 in the regular season — starts on the mound for the reigning World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 at Philadelphia. He was recovering from elbow surgery…
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Pitching generally has carried the Milwaukee Brewers as they’ve made their run of seven postseason appearances over the last eight years.This year, they might have the type of offense that can produce more playoff success. Milwaukee posted the best record in the major leagues this year while having the second-best earned run average. But the Brewers also scored 806 runs — their most since 1999 — to rank third in the majors.They’ve done it without hitting many homers and instead relying on plate discipline and speed. They will try to keep that going Saturday when they host…
While AI coding startups like Cursor close brow-raising rounds on barely three years of existence, Replit’s path to a $3 billion valuation has been anything but swift. For CEO Amjad Masad, who’s been building tools to democratize programming since 2009, it’s a story of muscling through multiple failed business models, years stuck at the same revenue plateau, and a near-death moment that forced him to cut half his staff. That makes what happened next more remarkable. Earlier this month, the Bay Area-based company closed a $250 million funding round led by Prysm Capital, nearly tripling its valuation from 2023. The…
H-1B reform needs more than a one-size-fits-all approach, says Rep. Ro Khanna, whose district encompasses much of Silicon Valley.In an episode of the “All In” podcast released on Thursday, Khanna said that the H-1B system needs to be corrected, but he doesn’t think President Donald Trump’s new reforms are the best way to do so.Last month, the Trump administration introduced a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, a common pathway for skilled foreigners to work in large US multinationals. In addition to the fee, the administration announced a proposal to replace the lottery system with one that selects based on…
NEW YORK (AP) — Cam Schlittler’s key to putting Boston Red Sox bats to sleep was his own slumber.Making only his 15th major league start, Schlittler struck out 12 in eight dominant innings Thursday night as the New York Yankees blanked Boston 4-0 to win their AL Wild Card Series in a deciding third game.Overpowering hitters with 100 mph heat in a winner-take-all elimination game, the 24-year-old rookie became the first pitcher in postseason history to throw at least eight shutout innings with 12 or more strikeouts and no walks.Against the archrival Red Sox, no less, the team he grew…
Meta’s Superintelligence Labs is trying to speed up AI development by steering its teams toward new tools that allow developers to build and test products more quickly, according to internal memos obtained by Business Insider.The shift highlights the stakes of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s massive bet on AI. Over the past year, Meta has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into luring top researchers with nine-figure pay packages and reorganized its AI work under the new Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Now, its new leaders are revamping the internal engineering tools that those teams use — a shift that underscores the…
By Sharafat AliSRINAGAR (Reuters) – After hospital doctors told Ghulam Mohammad Mir, 60, that surgery on his injured leg following a road accident was too risky, he turned to a more traditional treatment in India’s Jammu and Kashmir territory – bonesetting.Mir suffered multiple leg fractures in the accident a year ago and doctors at the hospital in the region’s main city of Srinagar advised against surgery due to underlying medical conditions.So he chose a centuries-old practice that typically involves massaging the affected area, wrapping it with cloth or medical tape, and reciting holy verses.”After four months of treatment here, I…