Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly turning to telehealth platforms for direct-to-consumer drug sales. That’s according to a report Monday (Aug. 4) from Axios, which notes that this effort is happening as President Donald Trump is urging more companies to adopt the practice.
The FAA proposed a new rule last week that would make it easier for companies to fly drones outside of an operator’s line of sight and therefore over longer distances. A handful of companies do that now, but they had to obtain waivers and certification as an air carrier to deliver packages.
Batteries that stay charged forever, contact lenses that remember names and health sensors on everything imaginable, from your steering wheel to your underpants.
Anthropic and OpenAI have been going head-to-head in the AI arms race for quite a while, racing to roll out competing features and functionalities — like voice modes, larger context windows, and new subscription tiers — as they both raise ever-increasing funding amounts. Last week, OpenAI launched GPT-5, and Anthropic is currently looking to close a round that could value it as high as $170 billion.
In a large and hastily arranged Zoom call on Saturday, about 800 rattled staffers with the CDC tried to make sense of the trauma they endured just a day earlier when a gunman opened fire on the agency's buildings from across the street. They had been winding down for the weekend when more than 40 bullets smashed through their office windows, whizzing just over their cubicle walls and petrifying staffers in at least four buildings
The sutures used to help close up large cuts and surgical incisions mostly get the job done, but they're far from perfect. A new biocompatible polymer that helps glue and repair tissue without causing damage – initially developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – might be a better way to heal wounds.