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The Premier League match between Liverpool and Bournemouth at Anfield was briefly stopped on Friday after Bournemouth forward Antoine Semenyo reported being racially abused by a spectator.In the 28th minute with the score at 0-0, referee Anthony Taylor was seen talking to Semenyo, who is Black, at a Liverpool corner.Taylor then jogged to the sideline and spoke to both coaches, Liverpool’s Arne Slot and Bournemouth’s Andoni Iraola. After talking also to the captains, play resumed about two minutes later.The Premier League confirmed to The Associated Press that Semenyo’s complaint was the reason for the stoppage.Bournemouth’s players consoled Semenyo, who played…

Those looking to protect themselves against the flu this season now have an at-home option. FluMist, the only nasal spray flu vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration, is now available for purchase for self-administration.AstraZeneca’s FluMist was approved in 2003 to be given by health care providers. Last year, the FDA broadened the approval of the nasal spray to make it the first self-administered option.An at-home delivery service, called FluMist Home, will be available in 34 states this flu season. Through FluMist Home, customers can get the same FluMist nasal spray — shipped to their homes — that patients can receive at…

“Google it” is no longer in Sam Altman’s vocabulary, or so he says.The OpenAI CEO said in a recent dinner with reporters that it’s been a while since he last looked something up on Google, one of his company’s largest rivals in the AI race.”I don’t use Google anymore. I legitimately cannot tell you the last time I did a Google search,” he said, as reported in The Verge’s Command Line newsletter.It’s not hard to imagine Altman uses his company’s own product, ChatGPT, instead of Google.While the companies are rivals on the AI front, OpenAI has recently enlisted Google Cloud,…

ChatGPT’s mobile app is raking in the revenue. Since launching in May 2023, ChatGPT’s app for iOS and Android devices has reached $2 billion in global consumer spending, according to a new analysis by app intelligence provider Appfigures. That figure is approximately 30-times the combined lifetime spending of ChatGPT’s rivals on mobile, including Claude, Copilot, and Grok, the analysis indicates. So far this year, ChatGPT’s mobile app has made $1.35 billion, up 673 percent year-over-year from the $174 million it made during the same period (January-July) in 2024, per the data. On average, the app is generating close to $193…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Teddy Bridgewater always planned to play football this year. Just maybe not quite this early.In a perfect world, the well-traveled quarterback wouldn’t be spending this weekend in Pittsburgh getting ready for his preseason debut with Tampa Bay, but in Miami helping Northwestern High prepare to defend the Florida Class 3A title he coached his alma mater to last winter.Don’t get Bridgewater wrong. The 32-year-old — whose retirement hasn’t quite stuck more than 18 months after he announced it — is eager to go out and show he can still “spin it.” And he’s grateful to do it…

Many employers are demanding more from workers these days, pushing them to log as many hours as possible.Google, for example, told all its employees that they should expect to spend 60 or more hours in the office every week. Some tech companies are demanding 12-hour days, six days a week from their new hires.More job applicants in health care, engineering and consulting have been told to expect long hours than previously demanded due to a weak job market.On the other hand, companies such as Cisco, Booz Allen Hamilton and Intuit have earned a reputation of supporting a strong work-life balance,…

For almost 40 years, people who suspect they’ve been harmed by a vaccine have been able to turn to a little-known system called the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program – often simply called the vaccine court.Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long been a critic of the vaccine court, calling it “biased” against compensating people, slow and unfair. He has said that he wants to “revolutionize” or “fix” this system.I’m a scholar of law, health and medicine. I investigated the history, politics and debates about the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program in my book “Vaccine Court: The Law…

Imagine you purchase a bag of gummies labeled nootropic – a term used to describe substances that claim to enhance mental ability and function, or “smart drugs.” However, within hours of consuming them, your heart starts racing, you’re nauseated and vomiting. Then you begin convulsing and have a seizure, resulting in a trip to the hospital.You certainly did not expect to have such a severe reaction to an over-the-counter edible product, which is available online and in herbal and vape shops nationwide. What happened?So-called “microdosing” of mushrooms has been on the rise over the past few years, accompanying a shift…

AstraZeneca is making flu protection more convenient with the launch of an at-home delivery option for FluMist, its nasal spray flu vaccine, the company announced Friday.On the market since 2003, FluMist was previously only available at pharmacies or doctors’ offices.Beginning Friday, eligible customers can order it online and have it shipped directly to their door, allowing some parents to vaccinate their children at home without shots or a trip to the pharmacy.“This launch of FluMist Home is a transformational moment in the evolution of influenza protection, bringing a simple and accessible option directly into the hands of consumers,” Joris Silon,…

Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram, shared three pieces of advice his dad gave him for leading the messaging app.”A month ago, my father — a leading expert in Ancient Roman literature — turned 80. I asked what advice I should pass to the next generation,” the Russian entrepreneur wrote in a post on X on Thursday. Valery Durov was head of classical philology — the study of language in historical sources — at St Petersburg State University until 2013, the year Pavel cofounded the encrypted messaging service with his brother Nikolai.Durov shared his father’s advice on the…