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America's Top Three Insurers Reaped $7.3 Billion From Their Drug-Middlemen's Markups, FTC Says
America's Federal Trade Commission has been "raising antitrust concerns" about them for years, reports NBC News.
The latest? America's three largest drug middlemen "inflated the costs of numerous life-saving medications by billions of dollars over the past few years, the FTC said in a report Tues...
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World's First AI Chatbot, ELIZA, Resurrected After 60 Years
"Scientists have just resurrected 'ELIZA,' the world's first chatbot, from long-lost computer code," reports LiveScience, "and it still works extremely well." (Click in the vintage black-and-green rectangle for a blinking-cursor prompt...)
Using dusty printouts from MIT archives, these "software arc...
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Jackie: Cool
Bumble Founder Returns As CEO Amid a Dating App Decline
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Bumble founder and executive chair Whitney Wolfe Herd, who stepped down as CEO at the beginning of 2024, is returning to the post in mid-March. Former Slack CEO Lidiane Jones, who succeeded Herd, has resigned for "personal reasons" and will remain ...
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Nintendo Addresses Donkey Kong Country Returns HD Credits Controversy
Nintendo released Donkey Kong Country Returns HD earlier this week, with fans noticing that the original team members at Retro are not individually credited in the updated version. "Instead, the credits state that it was 'based on the work' of Retro Studios, while the team at Forever Entertainment g...
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Meteorite Crash In Canada Is Caught By Home Security Camera
Smithsonian Magazine reports: A homeowner on Prince Edward Island in Canada has had a very unusual near-death experience: A meteorite landed exactly where he'd been standing roughly two minutes earlier. What's more, his home security camera caught the impact on video -- capturing a rare clip that mi...
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Jackie: Thank goodness it wasn't any bigger
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