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MILAN, Feb 9 (Reuters) – The EU food safety agency indicated a safe consumption level for cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychoactive compound found in the cannabis plant, for the first time on Monday, setting a lower bar compared with other countries such as Britain and Switzerland.CBD-infused food and drink items include sweets, honey, biscuits, cakes, tea and coffee. Unlike marijuana, CBD is not intoxicating and is known for its potential therapeutic effects, such as reducing anxiety, pain and inflammation.The Italy-based EU agency, known as EFSA, said its panel of experts had established a provisional safe intake level of 0.0275 milligrams per…
Feb 9 (Reuters) – Artificial intelligence is shaking up industries from software and law to entertainment and education. And as physicians like Dr. Cem Aksoy are learning, it’s posing special challenges in medicine as patients tap AI for advice.Aksoy, a medical resident at a hospital in Ankara, Turkey, says an 18-year-old patient and his family recently panicked after the young man was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor on his left leg. They turned to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The bot said he might survive only five years.It was wrong: A plastic surgeon successfully removed the tumor in July. “He was essentially cured…
Lema, a cybersecurity startup founded by former members of Israel’s elite 8200 intelligence unit, is coming out of stealth and announcing fresh funding to fuel its mission to lessen the danger companies face when outside vendors gain access to their systems.Lema has announced a $24 million Series A funding round led by Team8, a Tel Aviv-based venture capital firm. The valuation was not disclosed.”I think that third-party risk management was the neglected child of cybersecurity for a very long time,” Eddie Dovzhik, Lema’s co-founder and CEO, told Business Insider. “A problem of this magnitude deserves a solution that actually solves…
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A large, long-term study found that playing a brain training video game may help protect the brain against dementia for decades. Experts say the findings are the strongest evidence yet that cognitive training can create lasting changes in the brain.“It’s very surprising,” said Marilyn Albert, director of the Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. “It’s not at all what I would have expected.”The research, published Monday in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, was a long-term follow-up of the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE) trial.Specifically, participants who did up to 23 hours…
A Super Bowl ad is meant to serve as a victory lap for tech companies. But on advertising’s biggest night of the year, some brands were undone by the very thing they were supposed to be showcasing: technology.Mr Beast and Salesforce teamed up to offer viewers a $1 million prize if they could be the first to crack clues hidden in a Super Bowl ad, and elsewhere, in an online treasure hunt. However, some hopeful contestants were immediately foiled by delays in receiving their registration emails.In a message on the contest website, Salesforce said the glitch was caused by an…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is transforming the company’s culture during his tenure, leaving a lasting impression on some current and former employees.That includes Jeffrey Snover, a retired Microsoft chief technology officer and Google engineer, who recalled an “actionable lesson in leadership” he learned from Nadella in a recent blog post.In short, he said, Nadella stressed that executives need to figure out how to succeed with the resources they have, rather than complain.”If you are an exec and don’t have the resources to support your strategy, you have the wrong strategy,” Snover wrote. “Quit whining and wasting time trying to get…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Thousands of public schoolteachers in San Francisco went on strike Monday, the first public schoolteachers strike in the city in nearly 50 years.The strike comes after teachers and the district failed to reach an agreement over higher wages, health benefits, and more resources for special needs students. The San Francisco Unified School District closed all its 120 schools and said it would offer independent study to some of the district’s 50,000 students.“We are facing an affordability crisis,” Cassondra Curiel, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, said in a statement Sunday night. “Family healthcare premiums…
By Renju JoseFeb 9 (Reuters) – A white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in New Zealand seven years ago said on Monday that he was irrational when he pleaded guilty, local media reported, as he sought to overturn his conviction in a New Zealand court.Brenton Tarrant, 35, appeared in a court in Wellington via a video link, and gave evidence as he sought to overturn his guilty pleas and face a trial.Tarrant, an Australian national, opened fire on two mosques in Christchurch in March 2019 during Friday prayers in the deadliest mass shooting in New Zealand’s…