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MIAMI (AP) — Tuesday’s classes at Christopher Columbus High School in Miami have been canceled.There wouldn’t be much learning going on that day. No matter what happens Monday night in the College Football Playoff title game between Indiana and Miami — a game that will be played in South Florida — Columbus will be busily celebrating the sight of alums hoisting the national championship trophy.Thing is, will it be Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza, the Heisman Trophy winner? Or will it be Miami coach Mario Cristobal?“The kids here, that’s all they’re talking about this week,” said Herb Baker, the school’s longtime…
Nicholas Leonard and Derek Caneja wanted to build AI voice agents, but when they went to build the product, they felt many of these voice agents had design flaws. Some of these agents were being built with no-code tools, meaning shipping to production was fast, but the quality of the product was often low. Other agents were being made by companies that had the time and resources to spend months building specialized tools. “Developers and enterprises needed an alternative,” Leonard told TechCrunch, adding that he and Caneja also realized that the future of software would be “coded, validated, and optimized…
BOSTON (AP) — The Trump administration apologized in court for a “mistake” in the deportation of a Massachusetts college student who was detained trying to fly home to surprise her family for Thanksgiving, but still argued the error should not affect her case.Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old Babson College freshman, was detained at Boston’s airport on Nov. 20 and flown to Honduras two days later. Her removal came despite an emergency court order on Nov. 21 directing the government to keep her in Massachusetts or elsewhere in the United States for at least 72 hours.Lopez Belloza, whose family emigrated…
(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.)By Nancy LapidJan 14 (Reuters) – An experimental treatment significantly improves the quality of human eggs and increases the proportion that can be used for in vitro fertilization, researchers reported at the Fertility 2026 conference in the UK.In lab experiments, the treatment raised the proportion of viable eggs from about 47% to 71%, manufacturer Ovo Labs GmbH in Munich said in a press release.If the treatment proves effective in actual assisted reproduction procedures, it could lead to an additional million babies being…
In 2025, Grindr launched a medication side hustle. The company’s internal product strategy roadmap shows its ambition to launch other DTC offerings and scale them into meaningful moneymakers.Grindr plans to create multiple new direct-to-consumer businesses, according to a product strategy plan obtained by Business Insider. Its goal is to scale up four successful DTC businesses each earning between $15 and $30 million in revenue in 2028.”Our users have significant disposable income and are spending it on DTC products and services elsewhere — e.g., medications; wellness and fitness products; luxury experiences; travel; networking,” the document reads.”We are creating new business lines…
Elon Musk has a Valentine’s Day present for Tesla owners: another subscription.The billionaire said on Wednesday that Tesla will stop making its Full Self-Driving feature available as a one-off purchase and will only offer the assisted driving software as a subscription service.”Tesla will stop selling FSD after Feb 14. FSD will only be available as a monthly subscription thereafter,” the Tesla CEO wrote in a post on X.Tesla owners currently have the option to buy FSD for $8,000 or pay $99 a month to access the service.It comes as the company struggles to get customers to pay for the technology, which Musk has…
Legal bills from outside law firms are some of the biggest checks companies write each year. Artificial intelligence is suddenly giving in-house lawyers a way to shrink those costs.When Doug Mandell, the general counsel of chatbot-maker Inflection AI, was working on a new data security policy, he turned to a tool from the legal AI startup GC AI. It chewed through his notes and background material and spit out a draft policy. Mandell then workshopped it in Google Docs before sending it to an outside law firm for review.Before he had the tool, Mandell said, he would email outside counsel…
Silicon Valley is raising its standards for talent.Adrien Friggeri spent over a decade combined at Meta — including back when it was called Facebook — with stints at Michael Bloomberg’s Hawkfish and Clubhouse as well. Now, he works as a partner software engineer at Microsoft, according to his LinkedIn profile.The consequences of underperforming are “more drastic” now than they were 10 years ago, Friggeri said on “The Peterman Pod.”In an email to Business Insider, Friggeri wrote that there is less “organizational ‘slack'” and higher expectations for tech employees.”That means performance gaps are identified and addressed faster, and if someone is…
By Andrew SilverSHANGHAI, Jan 14 (Reuters) – BGI Genomics and Roche Diagnostics have rolled out tests for Alzheimer’s disease in China, the companies said, in an effort to expand access to easier-to-use diagnosis and monitoring choices for patients with the brain-wasting condition.In a statement, BGI Genomics said doctors are using a blood test it developed as an auxiliary tool in Guangzhou, Qingdao, Shenzhen and Wuhan to evaluate the disease’s progression and the risk of onset.Switzerland’s Roche also said in a statement that its team in China was working with a local regulatory authority to make its own test measuring pTau181,…
Newly released federal dietary guidelines for Americans call for fewer ultra-processed foods, but some public health experts are concerned that a lack of information around definitions for such foods could pose possible barriers for both the policies and informed consumption decisions.”In short, we are asking individuals to eat less of nearly 70% of the food supply without giving them the tools, clarity, or systemic support to do so, and without confronting the economic and marketing forces that keep ultra-processed foods at the center of the American diet,” Alexina Cather, director of policy and special projects for the Hunter College New York City Food Policy Center, told ABC News.The updated guidelines, released Jan. 7 by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy…