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Millions of Medicare patients could soon be prescribed Wegovy — and it’s going to cost taxpayers a lot of money. Last month, Medicare announced that it will cover the new class of anti-obesity drugs, including Wegovy and Ozempic, for patients at risk of stroke or heart attack. It’s a watershed moment for a novel class of medications, one sure to amplify debates about their long-term value — and whether their high price tags are worth it.
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Ukrainian company Celebra Tech claims its Trident laser weapon destroys drones, helicopters, and surveillance systems across significant battlefield distances. Read more ›
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Remember Bard? It was the original name of Google’s AI chatbot, but the Gemini brand long ago replaced it. Just as you’ve likely forgotten that history, you’re not likely to remember Rufus in 12 months’ time, either. Rufus, the name of Amazon’s AI-powered shopping chatbot, got tossed on Wednesday and replaced with Amazon’s well-established Alexa virtual assistant brand name. I could make lots of jokes about what a terrible name... Read more ›
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Thankfully, both are old. But this raises questions about what's considered private info in the AI age. Read more ›
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The final Backrooms trailer has arrived as A24 prepares to bring the internet's creepiest urban legend to theaters on May 29. Read more ›
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LinkedIn is cutting marketing roles and trimming paid media spend as it leans on AI, its CMO Jessica Jensen says in an internal email. Read more ›
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For decades, the IQ test has been one of the most familiar — and most contested — yardsticks for human intelligence. Now, a startup project called AI IQ is applying the same metaphor to artificial intelligence, assigning estimated intelligence quotients to more than 50 of the world's most powerful language models and plotting them on a standard bell curve.The result is a set of interactive visualizations at aiiq.org that have... Read more ›
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The new Alexa for Shopping feature can use data about the customer to help find products. Read more ›
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Ikea's Family Membership plan may not seem like a big priority to get, but if you shop often at the Swedish megastore, it can bring a lot of meaningful perks. Read more ›
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Apple is unveiling iOS 27 on June 8, and a new report from the usually very reliable Mark Gurman at Bloomberg brings us more details about it. According to him, the camera app will become customizable in iOS 27. You will be able to choose which features you want to see in the app and where they're placed. This includes the controls for the flash, exposure, the timer, night mode,... Read more ›
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Apple released iOS 26.5 yesterday with a new Suggested Places feature in the Apple Maps app, which is a precursor to the ads that Apple plans to start showing later this year. There was some confusion over whether ads are live, but as of now, the Apple Maps app still doesn't have ads. Apple did start laying the groundwork for ads in iOS 26.5 and tested a splash screen, but... Read more ›
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Ring's latest upgrades complete its new generation of higher-resolution cameras, now available with bright LED lights. Read more ›
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Cisco Systems reported revenue grew 12% to $15.8 billion in its April quarter compared to last year—up 2% from last quarter—and forecast 14% growth for its current quarter. On an earnings call, Cisco executives said the acceleration stems from major cloud providers ordering more networking ... Read more ›
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Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram. Read more ›
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Today's pet cameras offer two-way audio, pet recognition and more. We tested models to find the top performers. Read more ›
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Just as the redistricting wars were coming to a close, the Supreme Court blew up the entire landscape with a decision that all but gutted the Voting Rights Act. And since that decision last week, Republicans around the country have been moving quickly to see how they can take advantage of the new redistricting rules. […] Read more ›
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This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Bans on kids and teens using social media have swept the country and the world in the past few years, with lawmakers from Australia to Massachusetts enacting or considering legislation to keep young people off platforms like TikTok. […] Read more ›
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In February, the TikTok creator Brittany Panzer posted a video over five minutes detailing the unraveling of her friendship. There was no disagreement, no blowup, not even ghosting. Panzer felt she’d lost her friend to ChatGPT. At first, Panzer’s friend used artificial intelligence for relationship advice and casually mentioned that she’d consulted the technology in […] Read more ›
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This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Oregonians buying nicotine pouches like Zyn and Rogue were met with a surprise at the cash register starting this year. Each tin had a new 65-cent tax on it, meant to bolster funding for the state’s wildfire […] Read more ›
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A generation or two ago, when you had a medical question, the solution was obvious: Ask your doctor. But these days, as trust in doctors and other traditional medical authorities like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has eroded, Americans are more and more likely to consult their Instagram or TikTok feed. According to […] Read more ›
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On Wednesday, when FBI agents raided the office of one of the most powerful Democrats in Virginia, Fox News just happened to have one of its Washington-based foreign correspondents on the scene in the small city of Portsmouth. What an extraordinary coincidence! The raid targeted state Sen. Louise Lucas, the 82-year-old president pro tempore of […] Read more ›
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So, what’s a guy got to do to become a billionaire around here? Greg Brockman scribbled the question in his diary, recently unsealed as trial evidence, just two years after co-founding OpenAI as a charity in 2015: “Financially, what will take me to $1B?” For Brockman, now OpenAI’s president, the answer was a yearslong restructuring […] Read more ›
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It’s hard to imagine modern life without glycols. They are used in cosmetics, fog machines, and food. As you read this, you’re almost certainly wearing or drinking from something they were used to produce — polyester fabric or plastic bottles, for example. If you brush your teeth with toothpaste or top your salad with bottled […] Read more ›
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The details of the ongoing outbreak of hantavirus may sound uncomfortably familiar to all of us who lived through Covid-19: an aggressive pneumonia-like infection, a cruise ship quarantined with sick passengers, the world’s public health authorities on high alert. So it’s natural to have the follow-up question: Is this the next pandemic? Not likely, experts […] Read more ›
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It’s been four months since the US captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and brought him to the US to stand trial. His vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, is now in charge, but the Trump administration has been largely silent on what comes next for the country. In the meantime, Missy Ryan, a staff writer at the […] Read more ›
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