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Dr. Mehmet Oz speaks before the Senate Finance Committee during his confirmation hearing to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Craig Hudson/The Washington Post/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Craig Hudson/The Washington Post/Getty Images Mehmet Oz â the surgeon-turned-TV-star better known as Dr. Oz â faced senators on Capitol Hill last week, asking them to confirm him as the new head of the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. “I commit to doing whatever I can, working tirelessly to ensure that CMS provides Americans with access to superb care, especially Americans who…
Politics / March 20, 2025 Roberts wasnât ârebukingâ Trump when he issued his statement against impeaching judges, he was bending the knee. Ad Policy Donald Trump greets US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on his way to address a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025.(Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images) Donald Trump, his chief of ghouls Stephen Miller, and his czar of white-ethnonationalism Tom Homan, have been making the rounds calling out ârogueâ federal judges who dare to try to apply the law to Trump and his administration. Most recently, on Tuesday, Trump called for…
As director of the MIT BioMicro Center (BMC), Stuart Levine â97 wholeheartedly embraces the variety of challenges he tackles each day. One of over 50 core facilities providing shared resources across the Institute, the BMC supplies integrated high-throughput genomics, single-cell and spatial transcriptomic analysis, bioinformatics support, and data management to researchers across MIT.âEvery day is a different day,â Levine says, âthere are always new problems, new challenges, and the technology is continuing to move at an incredible pace.â After more than 15 years in the role, Levine is grateful that the breadth of his work allows him to seek solutions…
A message posted on Monday to the homepage of the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is the latest exhibit in the Trump administrationâs continued disregard for basic cybersecurity protections. The message instructed recently-fired CISA employees to get in touch so they can be rehired and then immediately placed on leave, asking employees to send their Social Security number or date of birth in a password-protected email attachment â presumably with the password needed to view the file included in the body of the email. The homepage of cisa.gov as it appeared on Monday and Tuesday afternoon. On March…
Hello, my name is Jean. Iâm a freelance web developer based in Paris. For the past three years, Iâve been working with various startups and agencies to build high-quality web products. Iâm also passionate about WebGL technologies and spend a lot of time learning, experimenting, and pushing the boundaries of web experiences. Here are some of my favorite and most recent works. In October 2024, I was contacted by Luma AI to build a marketing website for their brand-new image generation model: Dream Machine. The person who reached out was leoyakxi, a designer at Luma with whom I had previously…
A green energy plant expected to be built in Chile’s Atacama Desert could increase night-time sky brightness at one of the world’s most valuable astronomical locations by up to 35%, a new study has revealed.Such an increase would seriously affect the scientific observations conducted by some of the world’s largest and most expensive telescopes, hampering scientific progress in our understanding of the most intriguing phenomena in the universe.The astronomical site in peril is Mount Paranal, where the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) is located. A 7,400-acre (3,000-hectare) green hydrogen production facility, dubbed INNA, has been proposed by…
Jerry Engelmann used to work for the Mavs and the Suns, and now writes for former ESPN editor Royce Webbâs substack where he has been one of the most interesting writers of late with his controversial but data-driven opinions. You can subscribe at roycewebb.com/naterate and get a special deal for Duncâd On listeners. We get into a ton of interesting topics, including players Nate thinks might be overrated by Jerryâs metrics and why he disagrees, whether Alex Caruso is one of the best defensive players this century, the Hornets potentially trading for Anthony Davis, what the data says about injuries, and which players fall…
At least 55 Palestinians have been killed in overnight Israeli air strikes in Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry has said.Hours later Israel’s military said it intercepted three rockets which Hamas’s armed wing said it fired at Tel Aviv in response. It comes after Israel resumed its bombing campaign and ground operations in the territory this week, with air strikes having already killed more than 430 people over the past two days, according to the health ministry.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Thursday it had started a ground operation in northern Gaza. There had been a lull in large-scale military…
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Bitcoinâs cultural footprint has evolved significantly, from peer-to-peer currency to a canvas for artistic and community expression through Ordinals. Now, Blockware, a pioneer known for introducing mining-as-a-service to North America, is bridging two foundational aspects of the Bitcoin ecosystemâmining infrastructure and digital collectiblesâthrough a unique model of community-driven participation and reward distribution. Blockware, having mined over 15,000 BTC, deployed more than 500 MW of energy, and distributed over 400,000 mining servers, is leveraging its scale and expertise to introduce an innovative concept: integrating Bitcoin mining rewards with Ordinals to foster community engagement. This approach transcends typical digital art collections, positioning…