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WorkScientists propose novel way of treating mosquitoes for malaria Mosquitoes should be given malaria drugs to clear their infection so they can no longer spread the disease, say US researchers. Malaria parasites, which kill nearly 600,000 people a year, mostly children, are spread by female mosquitoes when they drink blood. WorkWorkMexico's navy points finger at US after ship hits Brooklyn Bridge Hugh Cameron is Newsweek U.S. news reporter based in London, U.K. with a focus on covering American economic and business news. Hugh joined Newsweek in 2024, having worked at Alliance News Ltd where he specialised in global and regional business developments, economic news, and market trends. He graduated from the University of Warwick with a bachelor's degree in politics in 2022, and from the University of Cambridge with a master's degree in international relations in 2023. Languages: English. You can get in touch with Hugh by emailing [email protected] WorkInside the High-Tech Pickleball Company With 1,900 Percent Revenue Growth - Inc (No paywall) Pickleball brand Selkirk Sport started out as the brainchild of the Barnes family. But its become much more than that. The pickleball craze that swept the U.S. during the Covid-19 pandemic also swept the companys sales to unanticipated heights. Despite never accepting outside investment, the companys revenue has surged over 1,900 percent since 2019 and it has products in Costco, Dicks Sporting Goods, and other major sports retailers. And with a million-dollar investment in a cutting-edge laboratory, complete with testing and compliance equipment, they arent stopping anytime soon.
WorkWorkWorkAMDs Lisa Su on Experimenting with AI - Harvard Business Review (No paywall) HBR editor at large Adi Ignatius speaks with Lisa Su, CEO of leading semiconductor company AMD, about the companys evolution toward high-performance and adaptive computing, the future of AI use in different sectors, and the importance of responsible risk-taking. She advocates for fast experimentation and implementation while ensuring safety through initiatives like AMDs Responsible AI Council, active learning within the organization and among industry peers, and the hiring of diverse talent to drive innovation. Time Magazine recently named Su their CEO of the Year. Work
WorkWorkWorkLGBTQ+ researchers sue HHS, NIH over grant cuts - STAT (No paywall) A group of physicians and researchers working on LGBTQ+ health sued the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services Tuesday over the sweeping grant terminations that have impacted medical research on queer people as part of the implementation of President Trumps executive orders targeting transgender people and diversity initiatives. Work
WorkWorkTemperature-controlled switch activates sperm, is key to fertility | WashU Medicine
WashU Medicine researcher Polina Lishko, PhD, a BJC Investigator and professor of cell biology and physiology, has shown in mice that sperm have a temperature-controlled switch that changes their movements and is key to male fertility. The discovery sheds light on why mammals, including humans, have evolved to keep male reproductive organs cooler than their core body temperature. WorkStartup enables 100-year bridges with corrosion-resistant steel Images for download on the MIT News office website are made available to non-commercial entities, press and the general public under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license. You may not alter the images provided, other than to crop them to size. A credit line must be used when reproducing images; if one is not provided below, credit the images to "MIT." WorkThe Radical Courage of Noor Abdalla - The New Yorker (No paywall) Last Sunday, Noor Abdalla drove from her apartment in Morningside Heights to St. Paul and St. Andrew United Methodist Church, on the Upper West Side. She was with her sister and her month-old son, Deen; the occasion was an alternative graduation ceremony for students at colleges and universities in New York who had been expelled or suspended for protesting Israels war in Gaza. Inside the church, preparations were under way, with photographs of the protests projected on a far wall and signs hung elsewhere that read WAR CRIMINALS OFF OUR CAMPUS and FREE PALESTINE. Abdalla made her way to the pastors office, where she left Deen sleeping soundly in his stroller. Honestly, hes a really good baby, Abdalla, who is twenty-eight, told me. Obviously, Im biased; Im his mom. But hes really good. You know, as long as hes fed, hes happy. 
WorkThe Enhanced Games Envision More Than Events Without Drug Testing When Kristian Gkolomeev woke up one morning in February, the last thing he expected to do was break a world record in the pool. The Greek swimmer and four-time Olympian, who finished fifth in the 50-m freestyle in Paris and Tokyo, had come to Greensboro, N.C., to take part in a preview of something called the Enhanced Games, a new start-up that plans to stage an Olympic-style competition permitting the use of most performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) currently banned in global sports. WorkWorkWorkPakistans diplomatic victory conceals its weakness - WSJ (No paywall) Nothing boosts a Pakistani generals flagging domestic popularity like being able to claim he won a confrontation with his countrys archenemy, India. Asim Munir, Pakistans army chief, has been on a victory lap since President Trump announced an abrupt end to a four-day subcontinental conflict May 10. On Tuesday the Pakistani government promoted Mr. Munir to field marshal, a self-promotion for the countrys most powerful man.
WorkWorkBy putting AI into everything, Google wants to make it invisible  If you want to know where AI is headed, this year’s Google I/O has you covered. The company’s annual showcase of next-gen products, which kicked off yesterday, has all of the pomp and pizzazz, the sizzle reels and celebrity walk-ons, that you’d expect from a multimillion-dollar marketing event. WorkAmericas Johnson & Johnson Problem - The Atlantic (No paywall) In February, when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as the senior-most health-care official in the United States, many Americans were appalled. Kennedy has a long and lucrative history of promoting theories that are both unfounded (cellphones and Wi-Fi cause cancer) and dangerous (vaccines cause autism). If youre seeking explanations for the popularity of Kennedy and the so-called health-freedom movement, it might be tempting to turn to individual rather than systemic culprits: online influencers spreading conspiracies, politicians exploiting public anxiety, tech bosses engineering outrage and radicalization, grifters pushing pseudo-scientific miracle cures. Work
WorkWorkIs AI making us dumber? Opinion I don't want to sound like an aging boomer, yet when I see junior programmers relying on AI tools like Copilot, Claude, or GPT for simple coding tasks, I wonder if they're doing themselves more harm than good. WorkHow the Brain Stores and Edits Memories Summary: A new scientific review maps the cellular and molecular mechanisms behind memory formation, consolidation, generalization, and updating, revealing how memories are stored, altered, and even manipulated in the brain. WorkI tried the 'Japanese walking' method for a week -- and I'm hooked Here on the Tom's Guide fitness desk, we love nothing more than a walking trend -- from silent walking to the viral 12-3-30 workout, we've tried them all. The latest trend in walking? The Japanese Interval Walking Training (IWT), which promises to burn more fat and lower your blood pressure. 
WorkPeople with Insomnia Find Relief in New Drugs, Promising Cannabinoids, and Wearable Devices - Scientific American (No paywall) Miranda cannot remember a time in her life when she did not have insomnia. The 23 year old, who asked for her last name to be withheld, started struggling with sleep when she was a child. As shes grown older, its only become worse. She takes a myriad of medications each night, she says, but usually still cannot fall asleep until the early hours of the morning. I cant get up and be functional until halfway through the day, she says. She had to drop out of university because she couldnt attend classes, and she cant hold down a job. Her insomnia exacerbates other medical conditions as well, including migraines and the pain condition fibromyalgia. Its hugely debilitating, she says. It affects everything. WorkTrump unquestionably violates a court order What happened? On Tuesday, the US government put eight men only one a South Sudanese citizen on a deportation flight to South Sudan, an unstable country in East Africa that is on the verge of civil war, with minimal notice and no chance to speak with a lawyer. Their exact location is now unclear. WorkWorkFor Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time | Quanta Magazine One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing. It was a rough sketch of a mathematical proof that memory was more powerful than computer scientists believed: A small amount would be as helpful as a lot of time in all conceivable computations. That sounded so improbable that he assumed something had to be wrong, and he promptly set the proof aside to focus on less crazy ideas. Now, he’d finally carved out time to find the error.
WorkAI Age Brings The Biggest Acquhire There are no two ways to say it — OpenAI, made the biggest acquihire in Silicon Valley’s history. Sam Altman and his crew bought Jony Ive and his coterie of ex-Apple hotshots for a whopping $6.5 billion. It is an all-stock deal for io Products, a 55-person company that is building an “amazing AI device.” The Information first reported the likelihood of this deal in April 2025. Sources have told The New York Times that OpenAI had a 23-percent stake in io, prior to the latest news announcement. Work3 Teens Almost Got Away With Murder. Then Police Found Their Google Searches Amadou Sow woke to the shrieking of smoke detectors. It was a little after 2:30 am on August 5, 2020, and his house in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado, was ablaze. The 46-year-old rushed to his bedroom door, but a column of smoke and heat forced him back. Panicked, Sow ran to the rear window, broke the screen with his hand, and jumped. The two-story drop fractured his left foot. WorkWork
WorkWorkWorkJump in UK borrowing shows Rachel Reeves needs to relax her strict budget rules The public wants the economy to recover more than it wants fiscal rectitude, and while the financial markets are anxious about rising public debts, the scale of the modest easing needed in the UK will be dwarfed by what is going on in the US, where Trump is pushing for tax cuts that will raise US debt levels by more than $5tn (£3.7tn) by the end of the decade. Work Work'It was born to be a champion': How Dubai chocolate conquered the world It was a cold, damp evening in Munich in December 2024, but the festive tunes and the twinkling fairy lights at the Marienplatz Christkindlmarkt (Christmas market) lifted my spirits. With a mug of glühwein (hot mulled wine) in hand, I made my way to the candy stall to get my usual supply of German Christmas cookies. But I stopped in my tracks when I realised that the longest queue was not for lebkuchen (gingerbread biscuits baked for Christmas) or the traditional stollen fruit bread, but for a new kid on the block: Dubai chocolate. WorkIconic Pokemon Logo Creator Reveals His Early Design Drafts - IGN That’s the advice that was given to designer Chris Maple by a fellow designer friend back in 1998, who warned him the call would be coming later that day. At the time, Maple was no stranger to sudden phone calls from company executives. Maple ran his own design business, Media Design, which specialized in last-minute work for companies in emergency, time-crunch situations whose agencies weren’t equipped to handle the speed or size of their request. Though it was rarely, if ever, publicly credited for this type of work, over Media Design’s history, Maple says his company quietly developed a good reputation with clients throughout its local Seattle area. He recalls doing work for (among many others) Boeing, the Seattle Mariners, Holland America Line cruises, and others. WorkBig US cities are sinking. This map shows where the problem is the worst. Known scientifically as land "subsidence," the most common cause of the sinking is "massive ongoing groundwater extraction," say the study authors, though other forces are at work in some places. The cities include not just those on the coasts, where sea level rise is a concern, but many in the interior. WorkWhat If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds beyond Ours We humans have perhaps 100 billion neurons in our brains. But what if we had many more? Or what if the AIs we built effectively had many more? What kinds of things might then become possible? At 100 billion neurons, we know, for example, that compositional language of the kind we humans use is possible. At the 100 million or so neurons of a cat, it doesn’t seem to be. But what would become possible with 100 trillion neurons? And is it even something we could imagine understanding? 
WorkWorkThe Dyson PencilVac is the most stick-like stick vacuum ever Dyson hasn't shared pricing details on the PencilVac, but there's plenty of time for the company to figure that out, since it's only going to be available in the US next year. That's 2026. Meanwhile, the device will retail in other regions. WorkWorkNews publishers call Google's AI Mode 'theft' The trade association backing some of the biggest news publishers in the US slammed Google’s newly expanded AI Mode, which trades traditional search results for an AI chatbot-like interface. In a statement on Wednesday, the News/Media Alliance said the new feature is “depriving” publishers of both traffic and revenue. WorkRevealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest healthcare conglomerate, has secretly paid nursing homes thousands in bonuses to help slash hospital transfers for ailing residents – part of a series of cost-cutting tactics that has saved the company millions, but at times risked residents’ health, a Guardian investigation has found. TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise | Privacy PolicyUnsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
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