NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL Apple announced on Thursday it’s introducing a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature for some Watch Series 8, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra. With this move, Apple is bringing back blood oxygen monitoring by tweaking the feature to get around the International Trade Commission’s (ITC) import ban. Blood oxygen data will be Continue Reading
NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL Paul Adams BBC Diplomatic Correspondent BBC Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet in Alaska on Friday Speculation has swirled over whether the Trump-Putin summit will result in the map of Ukraine being forcibly – and fundamentally – altered. Russia has laid claim to vast parts of Ukraine since 2014, when Continue Reading
NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL Instead of going to the pharmacy to get the annual flu vaccine, many people in the US will now be able to get it shipped to their door to take at home themselves. Starting today, AstraZeneca’s FluMist is available through an online pharmacy in 34 states. FluMist is not a new Continue Reading
NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL Investors once saw Canadian AI startup Cohere as a promising contender to challenge OpenAI and Anthropic in the race to build frontier AI models, with its backers pouring roughly $1 billion behind CEO Aidan Gomez, who co-authored a seminal paper on LLMs when he was a 20-year-old Google intern. But Cohere’s Continue Reading
NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL ADI IGNATIUS: I am Adi Ignatius. ALISON BEARD: I’m Alison Beard, and this is the HBR IdeaCast. ADI IGNATIUS: All right, so Alison, today we have a topic that’s really interesting to me and that is the parallel development of AI ecosystems in the West and in China. So you think Continue Reading
NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL Esme Stallard and Mark Poynting BBC News Climate and Science James Wakibia/Getty Images Global talks to develop a landmark treaty to end plastic pollution have once again failed. The UN negotiations, the sixth round of talks in just under three years, were due to end on Thursday but countries continued to Continue Reading
NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL Trump makes false claims about crime in Washington DC as homeless camps are cleared Good morning and welcome to the US politics live blog. My name is Tom Ambrose and I’ll be bringing you all the latest news lines over the next few hours. We start with news that Donald Trump Continue Reading
NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL We are constantly being bombarded by scam texts—often impersonating trusted organizations—containing phishing links that aim to collect personal information, from account credentials to credit card numbers. The majority of Americans receive such texts at least once a week, and 20% of Americans are spammed on a daily basis. It’s best practice Continue Reading
NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL Listen to this podcast Your browser does not support the element. Opinions of Hamas are shifting—among its international backers, in Gaza, even within its affiliates’ ranks. If it opts to disarm, what would happen next? A new blockysis suggests using a sense of risk to explain markets’ movements might be focusing Continue Reading
NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image zooms in on the feathery spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 45, which lies just 22 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus (the Whale). The portrait uses data drawn from two complementary observing programs. The first took a broad view of 50 nearby galaxies, Continue Reading
NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL “They’re tweaking my voice or whatever they’re doing, tweaking their own voice to make it sound like me, and people are commenting on it like it is me and it ain’t me,” Washington recently told WIRED, when asked about AI. “I don’t have an Instagram account. I don’t have TikTok. I Continue Reading
NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL Eleven International Space Station crew members gather inside the space station’s Unity module for a portrait on Aug. 3, 2025. In the front row, from left are, Kimiya Yui of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Zena Cardman of NASA, Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos, and Mike Fincke of NASA. In the second Continue Reading