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Festering Infections to Untreated Cancer: ICE Detainees Describe Medical Neglect Across US
An Albanian man’s pain grew so unbearable, he said, he pulled out his own tooth as he languished for months in a New Mexico immigration detention center. A Honduran mother of two said she was hospitalized for a heart problem after she was denied blood pressure medications while held in Florida. A Venezuelan man said
Focused on Work, Needed at Home: A Federal Caregiving Policy Might Help
(Candice Evers for WPLN and KFF Health News) Jill Woodrow reached a tipping point as a caregiver when her mom began struggling to communicate information about her latest doctor appointments. Woodrow’s mother, a uterine cancer survivor, was seeing specialists to get to the bottom of several new, concerning symptoms. “When she would try to tell
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Meta’s antitrust trial, Nvidia’s stateside manufacturing, and 7 AI breakthroughs: Tech news roundup
Photo: Lintao Zhang (Getty Images), Anna Moneymaker (Getty Images), Andrew Harnik (Getty Images), Brandon Bell (Getty Images), Anna Moneymaker (Getty Images), Anthony Kwan (Getty Images), Justin Sullivan (Getty Images), Justin Sullivan (Getty Images), Sean Gallup (Getty Images), Joe R (Getty Images) Photo: Lintao Zhang (Getty Images) Artificial intelligence is scaling at an unprecedented speed. As
Will Meta’s Revised Approach to Moderation Impact its Ad Business?
Will Meta’s decision this week to loosen its moderation rules and get rid of fact-checking make Facebook and Instagram less brand safe as a result? That seems to be what happened on X following Elon Musk’s moves to reduce internal content moderation staff in favor of user-sourced Community Notes, with various reports and investigations suggesting that the
Meta’s 50,000 KM subsea cable to connect the world like never before—Here’s what it means
Meta has announced its most ambitious subsea cable project yet, Project Waterworth, a multi-billion-dollar initiative that will span over 50,000 km—longer than Earth’s circumference. Once completed, it will be the world's longest subsea cable project and will use the highest-capacity technology available to enhance global connectivity. Expanding global connectivity Project Waterworth aims to connect five
Soon to be out of a job, Meta’s fact-checkers battle a blaze of wildfire conspiracy theories
Los Angeles CNN — Just hours after Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg announced last Tuesday that the social media giant would eliminate its US-based fact-checkers, the iconic hills above Los Angeles began to smolder. As fire crews scrambled in vain to contain the resulting firestorm, the fact-checking partners...
The Download: mice with two dads, and Meta’s fact-checking challenges
Plus: AI investors are freaking out over DeepSeek This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Mice with two dads have been created using CRISPR What’s new: Mice with two fathers have been born—and have survived to adulthood—following a complex
Instagram to make up more than half of Meta’s US ad revenue in 2025: Report, Money News
Instagram is set to account for more than half of Meta Platforms' advertising revenue in the United States next year, as the social media platform improves monetisation of its products, according to research firm Emarketer. Why it's important Instagram's Reels competes with ByteDance's TikTok and YouTube Shorts, as users find short-form videos more engaging, driving marketers
Meta’s Horizon Worlds is opening to young teens in the US and Canada
Months later than rumored, Meta's Horizon Worlds is opening its doors to younger teens. The company is making its metaverse space accessible to teens aged 13 to 17 in the US and Canada in the weeks ahead. Unsurprisingly, the company is promising "robust" safety measures and parental controls — it wants to be sure the
Zuckerberg’s plan to open Meta’s Horizon Worlds to minors is facing opposition
Pressure is mounting on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to abandon plans to open Horizon Worlds, the tech giant’s flagship virtual reality platform, to children aged between 13 and 17.In a joint letter, over 70 advocates for health, privacy, and children’s rights led by Fairplay, the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), and the Center for Countering
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Festering Infections to Untreated Cancer: ICE Detainees Describe Medical Neglect Across US
An Albanian man’s pain grew so unbearable, he said, he pulled out his own tooth as he languished for months in a New Mexico immigration detention center. A Honduran mother of two said she was hospitalized for a heart problem after she was denied blood pressure medications while held in Florida. A Venezuelan man said
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Focused on Work, Needed at Home: A Federal Caregiving Policy Might Help
(Candice Evers for WPLN and KFF Health News) Jill Woodrow reached a tipping point as a caregiver when her mom began struggling to communicate information about her latest doctor appointments. Woodrow’s mother, a uterine cancer survivor, was seeing specialists to get to the bottom of several new, concerning symptoms. “When she would try to tell
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Baffling. Frustrating. Frightening. What It’s Like To Be Sued Over Medical Debt.
When Christine Wood received a $12,000 bill from Bristol Hospital, she thought it must be a mistake. It was more than she and her husband made in a month combined. “I’m freaking out,” said Wood, who lives in a 1,700-square-foot home in Terryville, a village just outside Bristol, Connecticut. “I don’t understand it.” Wood, 52
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Former Angels Top Prospect Jordyn Adams, 26, Commits To SMU Football
The 2018 wide receiver recruiting class was spearheaded by top prospects Amon-Ra St. Brown and Ja’Marr Chase. Both elite talents lived up to the immense hype and have since become All-Pro receivers in the NFL. Lost in that group was the player who sat between Brown and Chase in the rankings — a once highly-touted