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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani and Teoscar Hernández hit two home runs apiece, Blake Snell struck out nine over seven strong innings and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Cincinnati Reds 10-5 in their NL Wild Card Series opener Tuesday night.Tommy Edman also went deep for the Dodgers, who tied a franchise postseason record with five homers and pounded out 15 hits as they opened their bid to become the first back-to-back World Series winners in 25 years.Ohtani, who had a career-high 55 homers in the regular season, homered leading off the first. His 117.7 mph drive off a…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Fever, with about half their roster in street clothes, weren’t supposed to be this kind of challenge for the Aces.And then when Kelsey Mitchell left Game 5 on Tuesday night because of severe leg cramping, victory seemed assured for Las Vegas — only to have Indiana keep fighting back.But the Aces, pushed to the brink for the second postseason series in a row, survived 107-98 in overtime to advance to the WNBA Finals for the third time in four years. A’ja Wilson, with 35 points, and Jackie Young, with 32, became the first teammates to…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Already diminished by cuts by the Trump administration, the U.S. Education Department will see more of its work come to a halt due to the government shutdown. The department says many of its core operations will continue in the shutdown kicking off Wednesday. Federal financial aid will keep flowing, and student loan payments will still be due. But investigations into civil rights complaints will stop, and the department will not issue new federal grants. About 87% of its workforce will be furloughed, according to a department contingency plan.Since he took office, President Donald Trump has called for…
NEW YORK (AP) — Garrett Crochet was in Boston’s dugout on the day before the playoffs began when manager Alex Cora picked up the phone to the bullpen to contact a member of the front office.“`Tomorrow you’re going to make one call to the bullpen,’” Cora recalled the pitcher telling him.“I said: `Maybe two,’” the manager responded.“He’s like: `No, no, no. One. It’s going to be straight to Chappy,’” Cora said.Crochet backed up his bravado with his pitches. He threw 117 of them, most in a postseason game in six years, besting Max Fried and the New York Yankees with…
OpenAI just fired a shot across the bow of the software industry.With the launch of its own AI-powered sales, support, and contract tools, the company is no longer simply powering the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market; it’s competing with it.For years, OpenAI has provided AI infrastructure, selling tools that software players could build on. Now it’s embedding AI directly into everyday processes, such as sales, support, and document analysis. That makes it both a partner and a rival — a dynamic that could reshape the software landscape dominated by giants like Salesforce.Software rivals are already taking a hit on the stock market.…
The most-talked-about legal drama last week wasn’t on a streamer, but on Reddit. Harvey, an AI-for-law startup valued at $5 billion, found itself on defense after a purported former employee claimed in a post that lawyers weren’t actually using its tools. Harvey pushed back with internal stats, as screenshots of the post jumped to LinkedIn and the debate spilled beyond the startup.Legaltech has long promised to draft contracts, sift data, and give lawyers their nights and weekends back. The reality has lagged. Lawyers are cautious and demand accuracy.Harvey bills itself as the platform lawyers can finally trust: chatbots that don’t…
By Siddhi Mahatole(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Novartis’ oral treatment for patients with type of chronic inflammatory skin disease, the Swiss drugmaker said on Tuesday.The twice-daily pill, Rhapsido, is approved for patients with symptoms of chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) despite standard therapies.CSU is a long-term skin condition without a known cause, characterized by recurring hives – itchy, red welts – and sometimes swelling, lasting six weeks or more.Rhapsido will cost $4,521 in the U.S. for 30 days and will be available to patients in the coming days, a company spokesperson told Reuters in an email.The approval…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani hit a leadoff homer in the first inning and added a two-run drive in the sixth for the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of their NL Wild Card Series against the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday night.It was Ohtani’s 13th leadoff homer this year, giving the Dodgers a 1-0 lead as they opened defense of their 2024 World Series championship.Reds starter Hunter Greene threw one pitch to Ohtani before having trouble with his PitchCom device. Ohtani took practice swings while Greene and catcher Tyler Stephenson sorted things out on the mound.On Greene’s fourth pitch…
Hisense continues to step up its game with the release of the U8QG, its latest flagship QLED 4K TV. The display boasts one of the brightest pictures on the market while costing less than dimmer models from brands like Samsung and Sony.But Hisense didn’t stop at just making a bright TV. The U8QG also boasts excellent backlight control, which produces impressive black levels for a TV of this type, along with sparkling specular highlights.Its color performance is better than last year’s U8N, too, but there are some inaccuracies here and there. And though the TV’s gaming capabilities are stacked with…
By Nancy Lapid(Reuters) -Human skin cells may one day be used to create functional human eggs in a step toward helping women have their own genetic children when their natural eggs are dysfunctional, according to very early lab experiments reported in a scientific journal on Tuesday.The process, which would carry significant safety concerns, involves removing the nucleus from a woman’s skin cell and inserting it into an egg, or oocyte, from which the nucleus has been removed, scientists detailed in Nature Communications.Doctors are seeing increasing numbers of people who cannot use their own eggs, often because of age or medical…