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Employer-focused Progyny acquires Berlin-based fertility benefits platform Apryl

  • June 24, 2024
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Publicly traded employer-focused fertility and family building company Progyny announced it had acquired Berlin-based fertility benefits platform Apryl, thereby expanding its global reach.  The New York-based company offers benefits packages focusing on family building, fertility and women’s reproductive health, including IVF, adoption, IUI and surrogacy. Apryl, which also focuses on the employer benefits market, allows […]

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Pain Doesn’t Belong on a Scale of Zero to 10

  • June 24, 2024
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Over the past two years, a simple but baffling request has preceded most of my encounters with medical professionals: “Rate your pain on a scale of zero to 10.” I trained as a physician and have asked patients the very same question thousands of times, so I think hard about how to quantify the sum […]

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New York’s largest offshore wind farm just got the official greenlight

  • June 24, 2024
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Map: Orsted Sunrise Wind, New York’s largest offshore wind farm, now has the final permit it needs from the US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to start construction. Its permitted construction and operations plan outlines the offshore wind farm’s one nautical mile wind turbine spacing, the requirements for the construction […]

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Tesla (TSLA) is expected to have tough quarter for deliveries again

  • June 24, 2024
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Photo: Tesla Tesla (TSLA) is again expected to have a difficult quarter for electric vehicle deliveries as estimates are going down. Last quarter was a rough one for Tesla. The automaker delivered 386,810 vehicles – down 20% quarter-over-quarter and 8.5% year-over-year. Tesla is so important to the electric vehicle industry that the results dragged the […]

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Health Technologies

Robot helps people with mild cognitive impairment

  • June 24, 2024
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Meet CARMEN, short for Cognitively Assistive Robot for Motivation and Neurorehabilitation – a small, tabletop robot designed to help people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) learn skills to improve memory, attention, and executive functioning at home. Unlike other robots in this space, CARMEN was developed by the research team at the University of California San […]

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Wrigley Field adds EV charging, highlights signage problems

  • June 24, 2024
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Chicago’s iconic Wrigley Field baseball stadium has been home to the MLB’s Chicago Cubs for over a century – and now, it’s taking steps to cater to the next generations of fans by adding EV charging to its list of amenities. LG Electronics announced the installation of ten L2 EV charging stations at one of the […]

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Health Technologies

Nanotech: improving cancer and disease detection

  • June 24, 2024
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Building upon his previous nanoparticle research, Xiaohu Xia has received a National Institutes of Health grant to further enhance the sensitivity and accuracy of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) testing to screen for cancers and other diseases. University of Central Florida Department of Chemistry Associate Professor Xiaohu Xia recently received a $1.3 million R01 grant from […]

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This is a totaled Tesla Cybertruck

  • June 24, 2024
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A couple of Tesla Cybertrucks deemed “totaled”, a total loss, have shown up on auction sites as concerns about repair costs arise. Due to its novel nature, there have been concerns about the repair costs of the Cybertruck. For example, we learned that the truck’s giant windshield cost $1,900 to replace. An early owner was […]

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