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Listening to vinyl doesn’t have to mean giving up modern conveniences like wireless playback. The best Bluetooth record players make it a breeze to pair with wireless speakers or headphones so you can enjoy your albums in no time. Some all-in-one models even support two-way Bluetooth connections, so you can transmit audio to a separate device or stream music from a phone to the turntable’s built-in speakers.I’ve been covering audio gear for over a decade, so I’ve seen and used a lot of record players. Though purists will want to stick with a wired connection for the most authentic sound…
South Carolina has recorded nearly 800 measles cases in its ongoing outbreak, according to state data, surpassing the number of cases linked to a 2025 Texas outbreak.The South Carolina Department of Public Health reported the outbreak, which began in October, has grown to 789 cases, an increase of 89 since Friday. Most of the illnesses are in Spartanburg County, in the northwestern part of the state. The department said 18 people, including children, have been hospitalized.A West Texas outbreak beginning in January 2025 sickened 762 people, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. Two young children died and…
The record-breaking measles outbreak in South Carolina continues to grow with 89 new cases reported since the last update on Friday.This brings the total number of cases in the outbreak to 789.At least 557 people are currently in quarantine across the state, including students from various schools.This is South Carolina’s largest measles outbreak in over 30 years, a spokesperson for the state’s health department told ABC News.Chair of CDC’s vaccine advisory committee questions polio shot recommendationThere have been at least 416 confirmed measles cases across the United States so far this year, the latest CDC data shows.CDC data shows that the majority of…
Measles in South Carolina has spread to at least 789 people, surpassing the 2025 West Texas outbreak that sickened 762 people and killed two young girls.The majority of cases remain centered in Spartanburg County, mostly among people who were either unvaccinated or didn’t know their status, the South Carolina Department of Public Health reported Tuesday. There have been 89 new cases confirmed since Friday, indicating that the outbreak isn’t under control.Health officials said that 557 people are in quarantine for 21 days.The South Carolina outbreak began this past fall. By January, cases directly linked to the state had been documented…
Jan 27 (Reuters) – South Carolina reported a surge to 789 measles cases on Tuesday, state health data showed, including 89 additional infections since Friday, as officials warned the widening outbreak could last weeks or months amid lagging vaccine uptake.The outbreak, which began in October, has been centered in the northwest part of the state, which includes Greenville and Spartanburg, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Health.There are currently 557 people in quarantine and 20 in isolation. The latest end of quarantine for these is February 19, the state health department said.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementOf those infected, 695 were unvaccinated, 14…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is ordering state agencies and public universities in Texas to halt H-1B hiring, the latest setback for foreign workers looking to work in the US.In a letter to Texas state agency heads on Tuesday, Abbott wrote that there had been “recent reports of abuse” in the H-1B visa program, which is designed to bring high-skilled foreign workers to the US.”Texas taxpayers invest billions to train our workforce,” Abbott wrote on X. “Those jobs should go to Texans.”Abbott is also directing agencies and universities to provide information on how many petitions they submitted in 2025, how many…
On a Monday night NBC News segment, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei expressed concern over “some of the things we’ve seen in the last few days,” referring to the violence of Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis. Amodei focused on the importance of preserving democracy at home, both on NBC and in a post on X that specifically called out “the horror we’re seeing in Minnesota.” On NBC, he said he’s a believer in arming democracies to defend against autocratic countries, and that “we need to defend our own democratic values at home.” He added that Anthropic has no contracts with Immigration and…
Google on Tuesday announced its more affordable Google AI Plus plan is now available in all markets where its AI plans are available. This includes the U.S, where it will cost $7.99 per month. The expansion brings the lower-cost plan to 35 new countries and territories, after earlier launches in dozens of global markets, which began with Indonesia last September. The plan includes access to Gemini 3 Pro and Nano Banana Pro in the Gemini app, Flow’s AI filmmaking tools, research and writing assistance in NotebookLM, and more. It also offers 200GB of storage and the ability to share your…
OpenAI launched on Tuesday a new scientific workspace program called Prism that is available for free to anyone with a ChatGPT account. Designed as an AI-enhanced word processor and research tool for scientific papers, Prism is deeply integrated with GPT-5.2, which can be used to assess claims, revise prose, or search for prior research. Prism isn’t designed to conduct research on its own and without human guidance. Executives believe it will accelerate the work being done by human scientists and compared Prism to coding interfaces like Cursor and Windsurf. “I think 2026 will be for AI and science what 2025…
Does your TikTok “For You” page look funky?It may have been messed up by a data center outage, a spokesperson for TikTok’s new US joint venture told Business Insider.”We’ve been working to restore our services following a power outage at a U.S. data center impacting TikTok and other apps we operate,” the company wrote on Monday on X (formerly Twitter).TikTok said the outage had triggered a “cascading systems failure” that was causing “multiple bugs, slower load times, or timed-out requests, including when posting new content.” Creators may temporarily see 0 views or likes on videos, and “earnings may look like…