The GOP healthcare fight is creating a lot of uncertainty around health...
Senate Republicans released their version of a plan to repeal and replace Obamacare last week, and it, like the one passed by the House of Representatives, could have a major effect on health tech...
View ArticleWhat exactly did Mitch McConnell think he was up to?
After days of insisting that Republicans would absolutely go ahead with a vote on a healthcare bill this week, Republican leaders in the Senate have announced there will be no vote this week, as they...
View ArticleA Boston TV network pulled a roast of David Ortiz from broadcast schedule...
On Thursday David Ortiz hosted a roast of himself in order to raise money for his charity, the David Ortiz Children’s Fund, which does work to help children in both New England and the Dominican...
View ArticleVirtual reality gets smelly thanks to this Japanese startup
The smell of freshly baked cookies or cut grass can elicit strong memories. A Japanese startup is using that insight to try to make virtual reality an even more immersive experience. Tokyo based Vaqso...
View ArticleTrump has a fake Time Magazine cover with his face on it hanging in several...
President Donald Trump has several fake Time magazine covers hanging in his clubs. The Washington Post’s Dave Farenthold, who has covered the of the presidency’s effects on Trump’s businesses,...
View ArticleThe outlandish surgeon who aims to do the first body transplant says he wants...
During a recent Skype call, Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero waved a tattered grey book in front of the camera and said it contained one of the keys to the outlandish procedure he claims to be on...
View ArticleThe number of people who would lose health insurance under GOP bill is equal...
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that 22 million Americans would lose their health insurance by 2026 under the Senate Republican healthcare bill. As Bobby Kogan of the liberal...
View ArticlePandora has gained 5 million users in the past 3 years, while Spotify has...
Pandora is down a CEO, and it’s not hard to understand why the company’s board and investors might have been itching for a change. To put it simply: Pandora hasn’t been doing great, particularly...
View ArticleEen mijlpaal voor Zuckerberg en de zijnen: 2 miljard gebruikers voor Facebook
Facebook heeft een nieuwe mijlpaal bereikt. De technologiegigant heeft nu twee miljard gebruikers die het sociale platform minimaal maandelijks gebruiken. Dat maakte oprichter en CEO Mark Zuckerberg...
View Article‘You’re inflaming everybody!’: Watch reporters clash with Sanders over press...
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View ArticleSTOCKS CLIMB: Here’s what you need to know
Stocks climbed on Wednesday, with all three major indices finishing in the green. First up, the scoreboard: Dow: 21,454.61, +143.95, (+0.68%) S&P 500: 2,440.69, +21.31, (+0.88%) Nasdaq: 6,234.41,...
View ArticleScientists figured out a simple habit that makes people eat less when they’re...
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View ArticleFacebook’s leaked rules on censoring hate speech protect ‘white men’ but not...
A bombshell investigation by ProPublica published Wednesday sheds light on how Facebook trains its thousands of content moderators to police hate speech, including a leaked training slide that...
View ArticleThere’s a striking relationship between cancer and Alzheimer’s, and it could...
Alzheimer’s disease affects about 5.5 million Americans – a number that’s expected to balloon to 13.8 million by 2050. As the most common cause of dementia, it’s the sixth leading cause of death in...
View ArticleTrump had Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert crash the Chicago Cubs’ photo op at the...
The Chicago Cubs have had a whirlwind 24 hours. On Tuesday night after the Cubs gave up seven steals to the Washington Nationals, catcher Miguel Montero made headlines after criticizing starting...
View ArticleBanks are jumping after passing the Fed’s second stress test
The bank stocks passed a big milestone Wednesday. The results of the qualitative Fed’s stress test were released after the market close on Wednesday, and all of the banks passed. This was the first...
View ArticleBitcoin donations to a $16 billion charitable fund are soaring
Bitcoin is red hot these days. The price of the cryptocurrency is up about 140% since the beginning of this year. And now it looks like bitcoin’s popularity among the charitable is also on the rise....
View ArticleStaples is being acquired by a private-equity firm for $6.9 billion
Staples agreed to be acquired by Sycamore Partners for about $6.9 billion. The company announced Wednesday that it entered a merger agreement with the private-equity firm in which its shareholders...
View ArticleRed state governors warn that the GOP healthcare bill would devastate their...
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock and Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, both Democrats leading deeply conservative states, warned that the cuts to Medicaid proposed in the GOP’s Senate healthcare bill would...
View ArticleThe bizarre and controversial ‘Flintstones House’ reportedly sold for $2.8...
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