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For decades, mainstream medicine has promoted the idea that estrogen is protective for the brain, particularly in post-menopausal women. The conventional wisdom has been that the increased risk of dementia in older women is due to the “deficiency” of estrogen that occurs during menopause. However, a groundbreaking new study published in JAMA Neurology challenges this … Read more
When I told our video producer that I wanted to make a video today about the SpaceX Polaris Dawn launch, she responded, “This story has everything! Space, Mars colony, crazy space suits, and a billionaire in space.” She’s right. Polaris Dawn is intriguing, to say the least. The commercial SpaceX mission will travel farther than … Read more
Vinyls are back in vogue and some people are building their CD collections back up in anticipation that they’ll also be cool again, but the fact remains that most people listen to music today using streaming services. Indeed, just two services, Spotify and Apple Music, took up about 45% of the industry’s market share as … Read more
ChatGPT maker OpenAI has announced its next major product release: A generative AI model code-named Strawberry, officially called OpenAI o1. To be more precise, o1 is actually a family of models. Two are available Thursday in ChatGPT and via OpenAI’s API: o1-preview and o1-mini, a smaller, more efficient model aimed at code generation. You’ll have … Read more
Rajeev Behera’s new all-in-one HR startup, dubbed Every, is either brilliant or crazy. Crazy because multi-module HR software that does payroll, onboarding, and spend management for small businesses is already a jam-packed market. Competitors include unicorn startups Gusto, Rippling, and Deel; incumbents that are strong in one area and are expanding into others like Mercury and … Read more
We’re out-of-this-world excited to announce that we’ve finalized our dedicated Space Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. It joins Fintech, SaaS and AI as the other industry-focused stages — all under one big roof. To top it off, we’re thrilled to share we’ll be hosting a pitch competition this year called “The Space Challenge, powered by … Read more
Antonio Moraes, the grandson of a late prominent Brazilian billionaire, was never interested in joining the family-owned conglomerate of construction companies and a bank. Shortly after graduating from college, he founded one of Brazil’s first impact funds, which invested primarily in companies that made healthcare more accessible and affordable. But while attending Stanford University, where … Read more
Germany is denying an assertion made by former President Donald Trump during the presidential debate Tuesday about the country’s renewable energy industry. “You believe in things like we’re not going to frack, we’re not going to take fossil fuel, we’re not going to do things that are going to be strong, whether you like it … Read more
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies. That growth has propelled OpenAI itself into … Read more
Cohost, a would-be X rival launched to the public in June 2022, is shutting down, the company announced via the social network’s staff account earlier this week. The service had operated much like Twitter, offering users the ability to follow others, view posts in a feed, and like and repost content shared by others. However, … Read more