Author: IQ TIMES MEDIA
Bethany Skorik loves to entertain, and up until recently, her grocery store purchases were based on flavor, color and, sometimes, what she could buy in bulk. But since becoming pregnant with her first child, Skorik wanted to be more informed about the ingredients she was consuming. She started using Yuka, a mobile food and cosmetic scanning app with 55 million users that assesses products’ nutritional quality and safety, to determine pregnancy-safe food.“I can tell you I’m stunned, borderline appalled, at what I was consuming in the past,” Skorik, a certified etiquette consultant and founder of the Charming Diplomat, tells Yahoo…
At a recent dinner for tech investors in San Francisco, venture capitalists discussed the usual industry gossip on deals before turning to a more nagging question: Who is behind the Arfur Rock X account?”The guessing game was certainly going on,” said Dylan Itzikowitz, a principal at South Park Commons who attended the dinner. “There are a lot of rumors about who he is.”Cloaked in anonymity, Rock is on a mission to bring more transparency to tech, as long it’s good news.Rock launched last year as a more serious, techie version of the popular Wall Street Litquidity account to serve up…
Most CEOs keep board meetings private.But for the first seven to eight years of building the data management firm Rubrik, Bipul Sinha let every employee in.”We put the board meeting in a large conference room,” the CEO and cofounder said on an episode of “The Logan Bartlett Show” published Friday. “We let people sit on the ground if needed.””People could ask questions, so it was not a webinar style,” Sinha said. “We’ve had situations where people actually asked hard questions in the middle of the board meeting.”As many as 800 staff members tuned in to some of these sessions, Sinha…
The moment is clearly not too big for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.These are his first NBA Finals. It’s hard to remember that sometimes. The Oklahoma City Thunder star — and NBA MVP — just had a pair of debut finals games like nobody in league history, with a combined 72 points in his first two appearances in the title series.That’s a record. The previous mark for someone in his first two finals games: 71 by Philadelphia’s Allen Iverson in 2001.“I’m being myself,” Gilgeous-Alexander said. “I don’t think I tried to reinvent the wheel or step up to the plate with a different…
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Back in the same locker room that was the scene of Connor McDavid’s profanity-laced outburst and the tearful ending to his first Stanley Cup Final, the Edmonton Oilers hope they can avoid the same result this time around.Their next chance to take that step comes Monday night in Game 3 of their final rematch against the Florida Panthers, with play shifting to Sunrise after the teams split in Edmonton. The Oilers practiced in the shadow of the Panthers’ championship banner and, afterwards, players stood in the same room McDavid did his post-Game 7 interview at the…
OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) — A look at some of the anniversaries this year at the U.S. Open:100 years ago (1925)Site: Worcester Country ClubWinner: Willie MacFarlaneRunner-up: Bobby JonesScore: 74-67-72-78-291Margin: Playoff (MacFarlane 147, Jones 148)Winner’s share: $500Noteworthy: Jones felt his club moved the ball in the rough on the 11th hole of the first round. Officials were unable to confirm this and left it to Jones to make a ruling. He called a one-shot penalty on himself. Praised for his sportsman ship, Jones famously replied, “You might as well praise me for not robbing a bank.”AP story: Willie MacFarlane, “finest of men…
Last month, Scottie Scheffler made mention of a trend in golf design that rubs him wrong — removing trees from courses. This week, the world’s best player and favorite to win the U.S. Open will play a course that did just that, but didn’t become one bit easier the way some layouts do when the trees go away. Under the dark of night three decades ago, the people in charge of Oakmont Country Club started cutting down trees. They didn’t stop until some 15,000 had been removed.The project reimagined one of America’s foremost golf cathedrals and started a trend of…
Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood said she would invest in Elon Musk’s Tesla if she were only allowed to pick one stock.Wood was speaking to investor Steven Bartlett on his podcast “The Diary Of A CEO” when Bartlett asked for her top stock pick. The full interview with Wood aired on YouTube last week.”Because, think about it. It is a convergence among three of our major platforms. So, robots, energy storage, AI,” Wood said of Tesla.”And it’s not stopping with robotaxis, there’s a story beyond that with humanoid robots, and our $2,600 number has nothing for humanoid robots. We just thought…
HONG KONG (Reuters) -China said that by the end of this year all tertiary level hospitals must offer epidural anaesthesia during childbirth, a move it said would help promote a “friendly childbearing environment” for women.Tertiary hospitals – those with more than 500 beds, must provide epidural anaesthesia services by 2025 while secondary hospitals – those containing more than 100 beds – must provide the services by 2027, China’s National Health Commission (NHC) said in a statement last week.Authorities are struggling to boost birth rates in the world’s second largest economy after China’s population fell for a third consecutive year in…
CNN — Keanu Reeves was the unlikely but seemingly enthusiastic co-star of Jonathan Groff’s performance at the Tony Awards on Sunday. Groff appeared on stage in a sparkly tuxedo to perform “Mack the Knife,” a song from the Tony-nominated musical “Just In Time,” in which he stars as Bobby Darin. Toward the beginning of the lively performance, Groff hopped off the stage and into the audience. After doing so, he ran up to Reeve’s chair, climbed onto it and straddled Reeves, standing with one foot on each armrest. Groff sang his song as Reeves looked into the camera with wide…