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Ricki Lake, 56, says she’s gotten a lower face and neck lift after losing 40 pounds.”I don’t want there to be any stigma,” the “Hairspray” star said.Other celebrities, like Kylie Jenner and Barbara Corcoran, have also recently gone public about their plastic surgery.The days of celebrities hiding their cosmetic procedures are long gone, and Ricki Lake, 56, is the latest to speak openly about it.During an appearance on Thursday’s episode of “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen,” the “Hairspray” actor spoke about getting a lower facelift and why she’s being transparent about the procedure.”I’ll reveal this to you. I’ve…

Mark Zuckerberg is making a 28-year-old CEO the lynchpin of Meta’s investment in the AI race.On Thursday, Meta confirmed that it’s buying a 49% stake in Scale AI, giving the company a valuation of over $29 billion. The tech giant is spending about $15 billion for the stake.Scale’s founder and CEO, Alexandr Wang, is joining Meta to work on the tech giant’s AI efforts.Here are five key things to know about Wang.1. He’s an MIT dropout.After his freshman year, Wang dropped out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He and cofounder Lucy Guo had launched Scale AI three years before,…

Meta has rolled out a new internal AI assistant for coding that is powered by multiple AI models, including those from rivals like Anthropic’s Claude.The tool, called Devmate, became available to employees in March and is increasingly being used for more complex coding tasks that another internal AI assistant called Metamate often struggles with, two employees, who requested anonymity for fear of retribution from Meta, told Business Insider.The addition of Claude and other models shows that despite investing tens of billions of dollars into building its own AI models, Meta remains willing to use competitor models when they perform better.”Like…

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Panthers led 3-0 in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final against the Edmonton Oilers.But, they lost.Matthew Tkachuk and the stars of the defending champion Panthers smothered the Oilers in the first period. Edmonton’s veterans responded fiercely, scoring four straight goals to take a 4-3 lead. The Panthers rebounded, scoring in the final seconds of the third period to force overtime. But, Oilers star Leon Draisaitl scored 11:18 into OT to give Edmonton a 5-4, series-tying victory Thursday night.What initially looked like an easy victory that would put Florida one win away from clinching…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ananda Lewis, the former MTV and BET host who became a beloved television personality in the 1990s with her warmth and authenticity, has died. She was 52.Her sister, Lakshmi Emory, confirmed Lewis’ death in a Facebook post Wednesday. Lewis had been battling breast cancer.“She’s free, and in His heavenly arms,” Emory wrote. “Lord, rest her soul.”Lewis, a San Diego native, made a name for herself as a host on BET’s “Teen Summit,” which tackled issues facing Black youth and featured community leaders, entertainers and politicians. She landed big interviews with Kobe Bryant, Tupac Shakur and Louis…

On June 11, 2025, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a slate of eight new members to serve on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on national vaccine policy.The announcement, made on the social media platform X, comes two days after Kennedy removed all 17 of the serving committee members. Kennedy called their replacements “a bold step in restoring public trust” rooted in “radical transparency and gold standard science.”However, public health experts decried the removals, pointing to Kennedy’s promise not to change the committee and warning that the move politicizes…

Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) — toxic chemicals found in products like nonstick pans and personal care items — can linger in the body for up to 20 years, earning them the nickname “forever chemicals,” professor and lead study author Mingyu Zhang of Harvard Medical School told ABC News.Forever chemicals have come under growing scrutiny in recent years because they build up in the body and may trigger health problems, according to a growing body of research.In this new study, Zhang and his team found that when babies were exposed in the womb to specific types of forever chemicals — PFDeA,…

If you had trouble accessing your Google Meet link or your firewall service, you are not alone.Multiple major sites, especially cloud platforms, experienced a mass outage on Thursday.Based on information on the Google Cloud Service Health page, a wide array of cloud services are down across multiple continents, from the Americas to Africa. As of 2 p.m. PT, active outages in the US included the agent assist function, speech-to-text, Cloud Memorystore, Cloud Workstations, and Google BigQuery.At around 11:30 a.m. PT, Downdetector showed over 13,000 reported incidents for Google Cloud.Soon after, web services that appeared to experience disruptions included Amazon Twitch,…

Voice assistants are becoming a bigger part of our daily lives, and hype from frontier labs like OpenAI has sparked debate about whether talking chatbots might actually be a substitute for real human connections.But in many health and social care contexts, voice AI is less about replacing human-human connections and more about filling gaps and freeing up staff from busywork. In clinics across the US, AI-powered voice tools are already calling insurers and handling paperwork, freeing up staff for more meaningful, patient-facing work.At the individual level, AI voice companions are stepping in to offer conversation and comfort to people who…

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. — By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. He weighed 97 pounds and wasn’t expected to survive a year with stage 4 cancer.Two years later, grueling rounds of chemotherapy have slowed the cancer’s progress, even as it has continued to spread. But chemotherapy has also ravaged Tennant’s body and his quality of life.Recently, however, the 58-year-old had reason to hope things would improve. Last fall, his wife, Rebecca, learned of a relatively new, noninvasive procedure called histotripsy, which uses targeted ultrasound…