Nobel prizewinner, IVF pioneer Robert Edwards dead Robert Edwards, a Nobel prizewinner from Britain whose pioneering in vitro fertilization research led to the first test tube baby and has since brought millions of people into the world, died Wednesday at age 87.... More
Women, think about freezing your eggs I wish I'd had the option of egg freezing. Egg freezing is the newest reproductive technology: a recently perfected form of flash-freezing that allows human eggs to be successfully stored in egg banks. Only commercially available in American IVF clinics since October 2012, when the "experimental" label was lifted, egg freezing is being heralded as a "revolution in the way women age," a "reproductive backstop," a "fertility insurance policy," an "egg savings account" and in particular, a way for ambitious career women to postpone motherhood until they are ready. More
KFC to offer boneless chicken KFC wants to make it easier for people to eat chicken so it's getting rid of the bones. The fast-food chain is introducing fried boneless chicken chunks on April 14 as an alternative to its traditional breast, thigh and drumstick pieces. More
The 50 Best Movies on Hulu Right Now (April 2024) The best movies on Hulu span international hits and cheeky originals, with its curated selection fitting squarely between the content glut of Netflix and the highly selective Criterion Channel. 04/18/2024 - 3:10 pm | View Link
Family suing Twin Peaks, pool hall for serving underage son alcohol the night he was severely injured A family in northern Kentucky is suing two restaurants they say served their underaged son alcohol before he suffered a severe injury. 04/13/2024 - 10:22 am | View Link
Plans underway for Twin Peaks 'breastaurant' at former Claim Jumper in Reno Twin Peaks, a national sports bar and "breastaurant" chain akin to Hooters, hopes to revamp the former home of the Claim Jumper in Reno. 04/8/2024 - 12:03 am | View Link
Hooters history: 40 years ago in Clearwater, the breastaurant was born The term “breastaurant” emerged in the early 1990s, a few years after Hooters imitators started to pop up around Tampa Bay. “It wasn’t one we used. We kept it lighthearted,” said Droste ... 10/4/2023 - 12:31 am | View Link
Chowhound: What it’s like to work at a ‘breastaurant,’ according to a Detroit foodie Tips: [email protected]. Past life regression: Erica Pietrzyk, a current Detroit restaurateur and former “breastaurant” employee, recently responded to our June, 21 column, “Boob jobs ... 07/18/2023 - 9:54 pm | View Link
Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.
Elon Musk's OpenAI competitor is getting ready to raise some big money from Silicon Valley. According to new, anonymously-sourced reports from The Information and TechCrunch, Musk's AI company xAI is currently raising $6 billion on a $18 billion pre-money valuation, and the deal is expected to close in a matter of weeks.
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(NEW YORK) — Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable.
Just ask a hardy band of mostly amateur Wall Street investors who have collectively made tens of millions of dollars over the past month by betting that the stock price of his social media business — Truth Social — will keep dropping despite massive buying by Trump loyalists and wild swings that often mirror the candidate’s latest polls, court trials and outbursts on Truth Social itself.
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Several of these investors interviewed by The Associated Press say their bearish gambles using “put” options and other trading tools are driven less by their personal feelings about the former president (most don’t like him) than their faith in the woeful underlying financials of a company that made less money last year than the average Wendy’s hamburger franchise.
“This company makes no money.
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Hackers are assailing websites using a prominent WordPress plugin with millions of attempts to exploit a high-severity vulnerability that allows complete takeover, researchers said.
The vulnerability resides in WordPress Automatic, a plugin with more than 38,000 paying customers. Websites running the WordPress content management system use it to incorporate content from other sites.
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On Thursday, the US Department of Energy released its preliminary estimate for the nation's carbon emissions in the previous year. Any drop in emissions puts us on a path that would avoid some of the catastrophic warming scenarios that were still on the table at the turn of the century.
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Spy Pet, a service that sold access to a rich database of allegedly more than 3 billion Discord messages and details on more than 600 million users, has seemingly been shut down.
404 Media, which broke the story of Spy Pet's offerings, reports that Spy Pet seems mostly shut down.