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Johnson & Johnson reveals 2025 sales forecast and plans for its orthopedics business
Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday raised its 2025 sales forecast after reporting quarterly earnings that topped Wall Street expectations, and announced plans to spin off its orthopedics business into...
Alibaba expands cloud business with a second data center in Dubai
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba‘s cloud business unit has launched its second data center in Dubai, it said on Tuesday, nine years after its first, as it expands its global...
Overheating at night? An AI-enabled mattress cover could be the answer
A startup called Orion is ready to take on America’s sleep loss epidemic with a new, AI-enabled mattress cover that can adjust its temperature throughout the night to maximize...
Walmart and Sam’s Club will let you shop directly with ChatGPT as retail giant announces deal with OpenAI
America’s largest brick-and-mortar retailer is partnering with the country’s most prominent AI firm in the clearest signal yet that companies are hoping to boost their sales with artificial intelligence-assisted...
SpaceX completes the 11th test flight of its Starship, the biggest rocket ever made
SpaceX launched another of its mammoth Starship rockets on a test flight Monday, successfully making it halfway around the world while releasing mock satellites like last time.Starship — the...
Meet the first-ever luggage with built-in AirTags
When Apple’s AirTag came out four years ago, one of the most obvious uses for it was for luggage. On my long trips to Asia, I always breathe a...
The Download: aging clocks, and repairing the internet
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How aging clocks can help us understand...
The 3 next big things in education for 2025
The coming years offer an opportunity to transform education. AI can provide precise insights about student needs and deliver lessons in a way that resonates with students’ interests and...
In Toronto, a polluted industrial wasteland is now a beautiful park
For more than a century, a stretch of riverfront in Toronto was an industrial wasteland, with oil storage tanks, factories, and shipping infrastructure sitting on former wetlands. Now, part...
OpenAI’s true ambition isn’t about chabots. It’s about a ‘super app’
OpenAI never wanted to build a chatbot. As an early beta tester for OpenAI’s GPT-3 model, I can vouch for the fact that the company was caught totally off...
