If enhanced premium tax credits under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are allowed to expire at the end of the year, out-pocket premiums for 22 million enrollees that receive premium assistance will increase by an average of 114%, or $1,016 per person. Democrats have pushed for the enhanced tax credits to be extended, and a…
Simplify the cooking process 8. Rely on Gemini for Home as your right-hand helper Gemini for Home replaces Google Assistant on your smart displays and speakers and also upgrades devices in your home like your cameras and doorbells. There are plenty of ways to use it for holiday hosting. Just say “Hey Google,” then ask…
Mark NormanSouth East health correspondent Mark Norman/BBC Jules Fielder was diagnosed with incurable lung cancer aged 37 A non-smoker who was diagnosed with lung cancer at the age of 37 is campaigning for better awareness of the condition in young women. Jules Fielder, from Hastings, East Sussex, has secured a meeting with Health Secretary Wes…
Available for over a year Leila Nathoo sits in for Naga Munchetty. She speaks to Hannah Lane about being diagnosed with ovarian cancer and her life living with the condition. She’s also joined by regular experts Dr Nighat Arif and Dr Christine Ekechi. First broadcast on BBC 5 Live on 18 November 2025 Programme WebsiteShow…
Organizations have used geospatial machine learning (ML) for property risk assessment, disaster response, and infrastructure planning. These systems worked well but couldn’t scale beyond specialized use cases. Each question required multiple geospatial datasets, each with its own model and often its own workflow, limiting these capabilities to a handful of high-value use cases at the…
A new investigation led by the University of Oxford reports that kissing may have originated in the shared ancestor of humans and other large apes roughly 21 million years ago. The research, published on November 19 in Evolution and Human Behavior, also indicates that Neanderthals likely practiced kissing. Kissing is seen in many animal species,…
Getty Images The Covid Inquiry’s second report, into political decisions during the pandemic, will be published on Thursday. In July 2024, the inquiry’s first report said the UK’s flawed preparations had led to more deaths and greater economic damage than there should have been. Just under 227,000 people died in the UK from Covid between…
This post is co-written with Rejin Surendran from Wipro Enterprises Limited and Bakrudeen K from ShellKode. In manufacturing environments, industrial automation engineers face a significant challenge: how to rapidly convert complex process requirements into Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) ladder text code. This traditional, manual process typically requires 3-4 days per query, creating bottlenecks in production…
Chemotherapy appears to activate a stress-sensing system inside immune cells. According to new research from Weill Cornell Medicine and Wake Forest University School of Medicine, this reaction sets off inflammation and nerve injury, which may help explain why many people undergoing cancer treatment experience serious and often long-lasting pain. Up to half of all individuals…
It all began, as many things do, with Elon Musk. In the early 2010s he realized that AI was on a track to become perhaps the most powerful technology of all time. But he had deep suspicion that if it were to fall under the control of powerful profit-driven forces, humanity would suffer. Musk had…
