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Growing up, Jo Hayes ate dinner at the same time in the same way every night — at 6:30 p.m. on the dot, at a properly set table and right after the evening news. Her mother, father and all six kids would sit down together, say grace and eat.“As an adult, I hold these memories so dear,” Hayes, an etiquette expert, tells Yahoo Life. “Much of what I do now and teach as an etiquette expert is based on what I was taught over those thousands of childhood family dinners.”It was a time to gather, chat about the day and…

Private equity, and its slash-and-burn routine, doesn’t always play nice with healthcare companies. $55 billion New Mountain Capital wants to win big in healthtech with a different playbook.In May, New Mountain announced the creation of Smarter Technologies, an audacious healthcare AI rollup. The company combines legacy player Access Healthcare, which New Mountain acquired in January, with its newly acquired venture-backed startups SmarterDx and Thoughtful AI to go after hospital revenue management.It’s the latest in a string of aggressive healthcare bets spearheaded by Matthew Holt, New Mountain managing director and president of private equity, who’s been a fixture at the firm…

The enterprise software landscape is being quietly, yet profoundly, disrupted by the rise of AI coding tools such as Bolt, Replit, and Cursor.These services are upending one of the most fundamental technology decisions companies make: whether to buy software from external SaaS vendors or build it in-house. This once-clear distinction is blurring as AI lowers the barrier to building custom software.I grasped the magnitude of this shift at a hackathon party in San Francisco. There, I met Netlify CEO Mathias Biilmann and the startup’s security chief Mark Dorsi. They showed me a live Slack feed where new apps were being…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani is making his Los Angeles Dodgers pitching debut, 643 days after the two-way superstar had elbow surgery.Ohtani will start and pitch an inning or two against the San Diego Padres on Monday night in the series opener.“He’s ready to make his debut on the mound,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Sunday night after the NL West leaders beat San Francisco.The Japanese right-hander has been throwing simulated games recently in preparation for his return while still wielding his powerful bat in the lineup. Typically, pitchers returning from injuries go on minor-league rehab assignments, but Ohtani…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The back-and-forth of these NBA Finals has been constant.Game 1 went to Indiana, so Oklahoma City had to bounce back in Game 2. Indiana reclaimed the series lead in Game 3, only to see Oklahoma City answer yet again in Game 4, knotting the series 2-2.And now, Game 5. The swing game, as some call it. The winner on Monday night — Pacers vs. Thunder in Oklahoma City — will take a 3-2 lead in the NBA Finals, moving one win away from hoisting the Larry O’Brien Trophy.Odds are, the Game 5 winner will go on…

OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) — Nobody backs their way into a U.S. Open title.J.J. Spaun wasn’t about to be the first to say he did.On a day built for umbrellas, ponchos and industrial-sized squeegees, Spaun reversed his own free fall, took advantage of several others’ and hit two shots that turned him into a major champion while finally, mercifully, creating a moment to remember at the rain-soaked brute called Oakmont.“I just tried to dig deep,” said the 34-year-old Californian who can now call himself a major champion. “I’ve been doing it my whole life.”The shots that will go down in history…

There’s a good chance your boss is using AI more than you.Leaders are adopting AI at nearly double the rate of individual contributors, a new Gallup poll released Monday indicates. The survey found that 33% of leaders, or those who identified as “managers of managers,” use AI frequently, meaning a few times a week or more, compared to 16% of individual contributors.Gallup’s chief scientist for workplace management and wellbeing, Jim Harter, told Business Insider that leaders are likely feeling added pressure to think about AI and how it can increase efficiency and effectiveness.”There’s probably more leaders experimenting with it because…

Homes will become the new center of care, with AI enabling this shift, said Dr. Shravan Verma.AI will not replace clinicians, especially in home settings, the cofounder and CEO of Speedoc said.AI can’t replicate doctors’ presence, empathy, and nuanced judgment in uncertain or complex conditions.This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Dr. Shravan Verma, the cofounder and CEO of Speedoc, a Singapore-based health tech startup. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.As someone who has worked in both tertiary hospitals as well as some underserved environments, I saw the opportunity to create a virtual hospital that…

Reddit’s relationship with Google is complicated.The social media forum, which went public last year and is under pressure like never before to attract advertisers and turn a profit, has recently enjoyed priority status on Google Search.And now that Google has launched its AI Overview, a natural language synopsis of search results at the top of the page, it seems its preference for citing Reddit remains.Analytics firm Semrush shared data this month on how AI-powered search is affecting traffic. It found that Reddit is the second most-cited website in Google AI Overviews, following Quora.”Quora and Reddit users often ask and answer…

Tattoos can reveal a lot about a person. One day, they could even reveal a person’s brain waves.At least, that’s the goal for researchers at the University of Texas at Austin. “This tattoo is not like a normal tattoo,” Nanshu Lu, a professor in the university’s Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, told Business Insider.Lu worked alongside engineering professor Luis Sentis and others to develop an ultra-thin, wireless wearable device that she compared to a temporary tattoo sticker. The non-invasive device, applied to the skin with an adhesive, measures brain activity and eye movement to gauge an individual’s mental…