All roads in the medical and healthcare sector led to the NEC, Birmingham earlier this month as the UK’s Medtech community gathered on the 7-8th June at the UK and Ireland’s leading event for medical device manufacturing, Med-Tech Innovation Expo. With Government officials taking a prominent role on the conference programme to demonstrate the importance …
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A federal judge on Tuesday urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to strike a compromise with Binance that would allow the global cryptocurrency exchange to continue operating in the United States as it fights a civil fraud lawsuit filed by the regulator. Last week, the S.E.C. charged Binance and its U.S. affiliate with mishandling customers’ …
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In 1988, a 65-year-old man’s heart stopped at home. His wife and son didn’t know CPR, so in desperation they grabbed a toilet plunger to get his heart going until an ambulance showed up. Later, after the man recovered at San Francisco General Hospital, his son gave the doctors there some advice: Put toilet plungers …
For older viewers, maybe less accustomed to seeing themselves so bluntly as numbers on other people’s spreadsheets, the strategy of wedding philanthropy so closely with audience growth can seem, well, icky. But Donaldson’s young fans have mostly grown up on YouTube; some, like Jeremiah Howard, have been watching his videos since they were preadolescents. They’re …
Introduction In recent years, concerns about the impact of social media on teenagers’ mental health have become increasingly prevalent. Parents and experts alike worry about the effects of excessive screen time and the potential harm it may cause to young minds. However, despite the widespread belief that social media is detrimental to teenagers, scientific research …
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A Russian ransomware group gained access to data from federal agencies, including the Energy Department, in an attack that exploited file transfer software to steal and sell back users’ data, U.S. officials said on Thursday. Jen Easterly, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, described the breach as largely “opportunistic” and neither focused …
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To provide high-quality patient care, physicians and other clinicians need quick and easy access to patient records. Yet many health systems struggle to deliver comprehensive information in a consistent format precisely when it’s needed most – at the point of care. THE PROBLEM Baptist Health, which serves the Jacksonville, Florida, community through a wide-reaching healthcare …
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The European Union took an important step on Wednesday toward passing what would be one of the first major laws to regulate artificial intelligence, a potential model for policymakers around the world as they grapple with how to put guardrails on the rapidly developing technology. The European Parliament, a main legislative branch of the European …
Quordle needs to be approached in a different way to Wordle. With four puzzles to solve in nine guesses, you can’t blindly throw letters at it and expect to win – you’ll stand a far better chance if you think strategically. That’s the case in Wordle too, of course, but it’s even more important in …
On Capitol Hill and in the courts, Republican lawmakers and activists are mounting a sweeping legal campaign against universities, think tanks and private companies that study the spread of disinformation, accusing them of colluding with the government to suppress conservative speech online. The effort has encumbered its targets with expansive requests for information and, in …
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