Etsy: Online marketplace lays off 11% of staff to cut costs
CEO Josh Silverman tells staff the cuts are needed as sales have been “essentially flat” for two years.
Cystic fibrosis: The miracle drugs priced out of reach
Regulators around the world have questioned the high price set by Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
Name that whale! How AI aces animal spotting
Artificial intelligence helps people identify what animals they are looking at and aids conservation.
Want a Shohei Ohtani Dodgers jersey? They’re selling faster than Messi, Ronaldo jerseys
Shohei Ohtani jerseys are now available for purchase at Dodger Stadium. If you want one before Christmas, though, you might want to hurry — and also double-check how much you have in your bank account. The Top of the Park gift shop received its first shipment of replica jerseys featuring No. 17 and the name…
If you can’t build the next Ozempic, buy it: Where M&A could be heading in the obesity drug space
Investors are contemplating where and when the next big obesity drug deal will occur. At the moment, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly have the growing obesity drug market all to themselves. But given the potential size of this opportunity, which some have put at more than $100 billion by 2030 , other pharmaceuticals companies —…
Elon Musk’s Tesla recalls two million cars in US over Autopilot defect
It follows investigation into crashes which occurred when firm’s Autopilot system was in use.
Vertex shares pop after nonopioid painkiller posts positive midstage trial results
A sign hangs in front of the world headquarters of Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Boston on Oct. 23, 2019. Brian Snyder | Reuters Shares of Vertex Pharmaceuticals jumped Wednesday after the company’s painkiller, which is being tested as an alternative to opioids, significantly decreased pain in a midstage trial. Those positive results for diabetes patients suffering…
Facebook encryption risks children’s safety, National Crime Agency warns
Signs of abuse will be missed because of the encryption of messages, the National Crime Agency says.
Google is rolling out new AI models for health care. Here’s how doctors are using them
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, speaks on artificial intelligence during a Bruegel think tank conference in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan. 20, 2020. Yves Herman | Reuters Google on Wednesday announced MedLM, a suite of new health-care-specific artificial intelligence models designed to help clinicians and researchers carry out complex studies, summarize doctor-patient interactions and…
Science doesn’t yet support broad restrictions on teens’ access to social media, experts say
To understand the path forward in regulating social media, it’s helpful to look to a transformative technology from the previous century: the car. A car is an essential tool for getting to places we want and need to go. It’s also an exceptionally powerful one that can be dangerous if handled irresponsibly. We require education…
