Author: News Room
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Dr. Stephen Chang, a gastroenterologist and the interim endoscopy director at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and an assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. The following has been edited for length and clarity.Since the cyclospora outbreak, my family…
Apple is raising prices on Apple Music subscriptions as well as certain Apple One plans as the company faces higher licensing costs. The tech giant last week hiked prices for Apple Music plans across subscription tiers. Individual plans will rise by $1 a month to $11.99, while student plans will…
I grew up in a Bagel Bites and SnackWell’s kind of ’90s household, descending from a long, prestigious line of women who did the cooking required of mothers without once pretending to enjoy it.Take, for example, my Grandma Lillie, a brilliant woman who deserved to go to college alongside her…
Amazon’s Leo satellite business has appointed its first dedicated finance VP, another sign the company is building the satellite venture into a more independent business.Mike Recupero, who most recently served as Alexa’s finance chief, was named Leo’s VP of finance earlier this month, according to people familiar with the move.…
The angst over China’s latest AI models is missing an important business fact: “open weight” AI is not the same thing as open-source software.Open-source software, where the code is freely shared, can be an amazing business. Think Red Hat, which IBM bought for $34 billion. Open-weight AI models are different…
When Summer Farmen first noticed the shortness of breath and persistent tiredness, she didn’t think much of it.It was early 2020, but COVID wasn’t her first thought, since she otherwise felt fine.Within a month, she found herself choking and coughing during casual conversations.The Pennsylvania-based mom of three was used to…
Nvidia has held the position as the world’s biggest company since about a year ago, when it became the first to reach $4 trillion in market value. It soared past former leaders Apple and Microsoft. But in recent days, Apple, which hasn’t climbed as much as its peers during the…
Usually, schools do the grading, but a new WalletHub study put public school systems nationwide to the test.To determine the states with the best and worst school systems, WalletHub evaluated public school systems in all 50 states and the District of Columbia using 32 weighted metrics falling into two categories:…
Finding a really good restaurant or bar takes effort.Corner, a startup looking to make that process easier, has raised more capital to stake its claim in the map game.Corner, which was founded in 2022, is a social-mapping app targeting Gen Z users who want to meet up in real life.…
Student loan defaults are up to a record high, with 9.5 million borrowers in default, meaning they are more than 270 days behind on loan payments, according to data from the Office of Federal Student Aid. The near-10 million borrowers in default represent a record-high and nearly double the number…
