Новости за 21.05.2024

New research this month is the latest to link the use of Ozempic, Wegovy, and other GLP-1 drugs to a greater risk of gastroparesis, a potentially serious medical condition. So what exactly is gastroparesis and how worried should you be about it if you’re on or thinking about taking these medications?

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Months after Nvidia unveiled the next-generation version of its highly sought-after superchip, one of its largest customers is already swapping out its order for the powerful new successor.

The United States government is about to begin selling off a bunch of gasoline. Announced Tuesday, about 1 million barrels — the equivalent of 42 million gallons of gasoline — will be released for sale from the Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve (NGSR). The reason why? Summer road trips.

Last July, OpenAI announced its “Superalignment” team, a unit dedicated to controlling artificial intelligence’s existential dangers — an effort the company said it was dedicating 20% of its computing power to over the next four years. But the company reportedly did not keep its commitments.

The millennial-skewed telehealth platform Hims & Hers this week joined several online pharmacies in offering customers a compounded version of semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy.

The streets of the United Kingdom could become flooded with self-driving cars as soon as 2026 after new legislation became official this week.

Boeing announced Tuesday that it will be spending CAD 95 million ($70 million) on further developing tech at its Wisk autonomous electric vertical take off and landing subsidiary. The money is part of a CAD 240 million ($175 million) spending spree focused on Boeing operations at the Aerospace Development Centre in…

Former President Donald Trump shared a video on Truth Social Monday afternoon referencing “the creation of a unified Reich” among possible headlines that would read if he wins re-election in November. Trump deleted the video sometime around 8:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday after receiving stark criticism.

It’s taken almost two months of work, a few tons of explosives and the construction of a whole new trench in the lower Patapsco River, but the container ship that hit and destroyed the Francis Scott Key bridge is finally on the move again. The Dali hit the bridge on March 26 and has finally returned to port in…

A Singapore Airlines flight from London to Singapore ended in tragedy and was forced to make an emergency landing in Bangkok after severe turbulence left one person dead and more than 30 others injured. The BBC reports the plane dropped about 6,000 feet in only a couple of minutes, sending the Boeing 777-300ER into…

The fast food chain meal deal wars are heating up. This time, Wendy’s is making a bid to reach inflation weary consumers with a $3 breakfast bundle.

Bitcoin and Ether — the two top cryptocurrencies by market cap — thrived on Tuesday on speculation that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would approve spot Ethereum ETFs this week.

Cambridge, U.K.-based pharmacuetical giant AstraZeneca announced an ambitious sales goal for the end of this decade, just as it pulls it COVID-19 vaccines off the shelves.

After OpenAI said it was pausing ChatGPT-4o’s Scarlett Johansson-like voice, the actress responded saying she had declined an offer to work with the company, and was “shocked, angered and in disbelief,” the company went ahead with using a voice “so eerily similar” to hers.

Nestle is getting into the weight loss business.

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A group of Tesla shareholders is asking investors to vote down Elon Musk’s $46 billion pay package, which is driving tension between the automaker’s super fans and skeptics.

Scarlett Johansson is “shocked, angered, and in disbelief” that OpenAI used a voice that sounded “eerily similar” to her own after she declined to work with the startup.

Long-serving JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon can finally see his retirement on the horizon.

NASA aims to set up a long-term human presence on the Moon, but maintaining a habitat on the surface will require some innovative infrastructure. To one day transport cargo across the dusty, cratered landscape, NASA is considering a magnetic levitation railway system.

Macy’s is trying to find a sweet spot that resonates with cash-strapped consumers and shareholders and it seems to be, at least for now, working.

Lowe’s is continuing to face headwinds as it grapples with a slowdown in home sales, higher interest rates, and a pullback in consumer spending.

Trump Media & Technology Group reported a loss before income taxes of $327.6 million last quarter, as the company behind former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social says it’s prioritizing products over revenues.

Many of us will spend a lot of hours working in a browser window when sitting in front of a computer — and for two-thirds of people, that browser will be Google Chrome. To put it another way, Google Chrome keyboard shortcuts have the potential to save a lot of users a lot of time, meaning they can jump around the web…

In today’s job market, young professionals have to consider a number of factors when they decide to embark on their professional journey — and that could mean changing where they work.