For a decade, Oprah Winfrey was the face of Weight Watchers. The program, which promotes a diet where you can still eat your favorite foods — just in moderation — was the one Winfrey credited for her weight loss success. But recently, Winfrey has found something even more helpful in her quest to lose weight and … Read more
For a decade, Oprah Winfrey was the face of Weight Watchers. The program, which promotes a diet where you can still eat your favorite foods — just in moderation — was the one Winfrey credited for her weight loss success. But recently, Winfrey has found something even more helpful in her quest to lose weight and … Read more
Biotech startup SynFlora brought an enticing pitch for a new type of skin treatment technology to 4YFN at the MWC tradeshow in Barcelona this week. The Spanish startup, whose three co-founders all have PhDs, is working to improve understanding of the skin’s microbiome and engineer skin microbes with the goal of enabling more targeted and … Read more
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The crises here keep compounding. Armed gangs have forced more than 300,000 from their homes. The police are outgunned and overmatched. Half the people don’t have enough to eat. This Caribbean nation of 11 million has no democratically elected officials. The National Assembly is empty. The presidency is vacant. That’s left Ariel … Read more
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran marked Sunday the 45th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution amid tensions gripping the wider Middle East over Israel’s continued war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Thousands of Iranians marched through major streets and squares decorated with flags, balloons and banners with revolutionary and religious slogans. In Tehran, crowds waved … Read more
RIO DE JANEIRO — Sound begins blasting ear drums and rattling bones even before the speakers — hauled by big rigs creeping their way through Brazil’s thronging Carnival crowds — draw near. The behemoth sound trucks known as electric trios are a Brazilian innovation that amplified music and effectively did away with front-row seats — … Read more
The cost of making further progress in artificial intelligence is becoming as startling as a hallucination by ChatGPT. Demand for the graphics chips known as GPUs needed for large-scale AI training has driven prices of the crucial components through the roof. OpenAI has said that training the algorithm that now powers ChatGPT cost the firm … Read more
TMZ’s 3-part event — “TMZ Presents: UFO Revolution” — premieres today on Tubi … and is set to lift the lid on the biggest cover-up in the history of the world. Play video content TMZ Studios A brave group of men and women, including Congressman Tim Burchett, are fighting for the truth — telling us … Read more
Mobile Payment, Women, Contactless Payment，China – East Asia, Shanghai, 20-29 Years, Paying, Banking Asia-pacific Images Studio | E+ | Getty Images Southeast Asia is “supercharged” to power a shift toward digital payments and other innovations in digital services, thanks to an acceleration in digital transformation during the pandemic, said accounting and consulting firm PwC. Widespread mobile … Read more
Early in the pandemic, an agent—literary, not software—suggested Fei-Fei Li write a book. The approach made sense. She has made an indelible mark on the field of artificial intelligence by heading a project started in 2006 called ImageNet. It classified millions of digital images to form what became a seminal training ground for the AI … Read more