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Federal health officials push effort to spur cheaper biotech drugs

Federal health officials push effort to spur cheaper biotech drugs

Federal regulators are trying to make it easier to develop cheaper alternatives to powerful drugs that many Americans depend on to treat autoimmune diseases or cancers. The Food and Drug Administr...

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Nvidia has started the $5 trillion club. A look at its rise, by the numbers

Nvidia has started the $5 trillion club. A look at its rise, by the numbers

Nvidia on Wednesday became the first public company to reach a market capitalization of $5 trillion. The ravenous appetite for the Silicon Valley company’s chips is the main reason that the compa...

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Making EVs takes big energy, but after 2 years, they’re cleaner than gas-fueled cars, study finds

Making EVs takes big energy, but after 2 years, they’re cleaner than gas-fueled cars, study finds

DETROIT (AP) — Making electric vehicles and their batteries is a dirty process that uses a lot of energy. But a new study says that EVs quickly make up for that with less overall emissions through...

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Broadway stars emphasize ‘now is the time’ for all to act philanthropically at Town & Country summit

Broadway stars emphasize ‘now is the time’ for all to act philanthropically at Town & Country summit

NEW YORK (AP) — Philanthropy isn’t so different from theater for Tony Award-winner Brian Stokes Mitchell. “Life is a collaborative art,” explained Mitchell, one of Broadway’s preeminent leading me...

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Phony AI-generated videos of Hurricane Melissa flood social media sites

Phony AI-generated videos of Hurricane Melissa flood social media sites

One viral video shows what appears to be four sharks swimming in a Jamaican hotel’s pool as floodwaters allegedly brought on by Hurricane Melissa swamp the area. Another purportedly depicts Jamaic...

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Microsoft Azure service hit with outage

Microsoft Azure service hit with outage

NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft says users of its Azure cloud portal may be not be able to access Office 365, Minecraft or other services due to issues with its global content delivery network services....

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