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Disney is losing $30 million in revenue a week from its standoff with YouTube TV over rates, according to Morgan Stanley.Sports fans may feel like the big losers from a carriage dispute that’s kept Disney’s TV networks, including ESPN and ABC, off YouTube TV since October 30. Until a deal is reached, YouTube TV subscribers will miss shows and games, including a high-profile “Monday Night Football” matchup.The Mouse House and Google are also feeling the pain. Disney is likely to face a $60 million revenue shortfall from its YouTube TV blackout, Morgan Stanley analyst Ben Swinburne wrote in a Sunday…
Google announced on Monday that it’s starting to roll out Gemini to the Google TV Streamer, replacing Google Assistant. The tech giant says the change will enable users to use their voice more naturally to access content and more. For example, users can now ask something like, “I like dramas but my wife likes comedies. What’s a movie we can watch together?” when looking for movie recommendations. Or, users could quickly catch up on a show they’re returning to by asking something like, “What happened at the end of Outlander last season?” In another example, Google says users can even…
Canada has lost its measles elimination status after struggling to contain a year-long outbreak, the country’s public health agency announced on Monday.The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) said it was informed of the loss by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) after more than 12 months of continuous measles transmission. Canada’s outbreak began in late October 2024 with more than 5,100 measles cases recorded, data from the health agency shows.Cases have been confirmed in most of Canada’s 10 provinces as well as the northwest territories.Amid growing Texas outbreak, how contagious is measles?Canada is able to re-establish its measles elimination…
Are you ready for some football? If you’re a YouTube TV subscriber, you might be out of luck — again.Another “Monday Night Football” showdown on ESPN and ABC will be blacked out on YouTube TV unless Google and Disney reach a new carriage deal in the next few hours. The two companies have spent the past week and a half negotiating over how much YouTube should pay each month to let its 10 million or so customers watch Disney’s networks.In the last 11 days, YouTube TV customers couldn’t watch a slew of college football games, an NFL game, and NBA games…
Wikipedia on Monday laid out a simple plan to ensure its website continues to be supported in the AI era, despite its declining traffic. In a blog post, the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs the popular online encyclopedia, called on AI developers to use its content “responsibly” by ensuring its contributions are properly attributed and that content is accessed through its paid product, the Wikimedia Enterprise platform. The opt-in, paid product allows companies to use Wikipedia’s content at scale without “severely taxing Wikipedia’s servers,” the Wikimedia Foundation blog post explains. In addition, the product’s paid nature allows AI companies…
AI might soon pop up at a grocery store near you — specifically, in your shopping cart.Instacart is aiming to roll out Cart Assistant, an AI agent that can help shoppers make decisions about what to buy when they start shopping, Instacart CEO Chris Rogers said during the company’s earnings call on Monday. Instacart is adding the AI tool to the websites it runs for retailers, as well as some of its Caper smart shopping carts.Sprouts Farmers Market plans to add the tech to Caper carts at its stores, Instacart said last week. The delivery service has been expanding the…
(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has initiated the removal of the agency’s strictest “black box” warnings from hormone therapies given to women to treat menopause symptoms, according to the health regulator’s website.The FDA’s decision follows a comprehensive review of scientific literature, an expert panel in July, and a public comment period.The agency said it is working with drug manufacturers to update language in product labeling to remove references to risks of cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, and probable dementia.Hormone replacement therapy for menopause replenishes the hormones, primarily estrogen, that decline with menopause to relieve symptoms like hot flashes and…
Canada is no longer measles-free because of ongoing outbreaks, international health experts said Monday, as childhood vaccination rates fall and the highly contagious virus spreads across North and South America.The loss of the country’s measles elimination status comes more than a year after the highly contagious virus started spreading.Canada has logged 5,138 measles cases this year and two deaths. Both were babies who were exposed to the measles virus in the womb and born prematurely.Measles elimination is a symbolic designation, but it represents a hard-won battle against the infectious disease. It is earned when a country shows it stopped continuous…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hormone-based drugs used to treat hot flashes and other menopause symptoms will no longer carry a bold warning label about stroke, heart attack, dementia and other serious risks, the Food and Drug Administration announced Monday.U.S. health officials said they will remove the boxed warning from more than 20 pills, patches and creams containing hormones like estrogen and progestin, which are approved to ease disruptive symptoms like night sweats.The change has been supported by some doctors — including FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, who has called the current label outdated and unnecessary. But some doctors worried that the process…
Canada has lost its measles elimination status, the country’s Public Health Agency announced Monday. It’s the first country in the Americas to do so since the pandemic, and it could serve as a warning sign for others.There are multiple criteria for losing an official measles elimination status, including declines in vaccination rates. The most significant factor is the ongoing spread of the same strain of the virus for a full year.Canada’s outbreak started in October 2024 in New Brunswick, a province on the country’s eastern seaboard. As of Monday, Canada’s health officials had tallied 5,138 measles cases since the outbreak…