Author: Daniel snow

[ad_1] An aerial view of Valley Health Hampshire Memorial Hospital on June 17, 2025 in Romney, W.V. Ricky Carioti | The Washington Post | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would make sweeping changes to U.S. health care, leaving millions of vulnerable Americans without health insurance and threatening the hospitals and centers that provide care to them. The Senate on Tuesday voted 51-50 to pass the controversial spending measure after a marathon overnight voting session on amendments. But the bill will face another major test in the House, where Republicans have a razor-thin majority and some members have already raised…

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[ad_1] Disposable diapers are a massive environmental offender. Roughly 300,000 of them are sent to landfills or incinerated every minute, according to the World Economic Forum, and they take hundreds of years to decompose. It’s a $60 billion business.One alternative approach has been compostable diapers, which can be made out of wood pulp or bamboo. But composting services aren’t universally available and some of the products are less absorbent than normal nappies, critics say.A growing number of parents are also turning to cloth diapers, but they only make up about 20% of the U.S. market.ZymoChem is attacking the diaper problem…

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[ad_1] Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of Figma, appears at the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco on May 9, 2024.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDesign software company Figma filed for an IPO on Tuesday, and plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol FIG.The offering would be one of the hotly-anticipated IPOs in recent years given Figma’s growth rate and its high private market valuation. In late 2023, a $20 billion acquisition agreement with Adobe was scrapped due to regulatory concerns in the U.K. That led Adobe to pay Figma a $1 billion…

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[ad_1] The U.S. Capitol Building is reflected in the Capitol Reflecting Pool at sunset on June 18, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Kevin Carter | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesSome Americans ages 65 and over may be poised to see additional tax relief if Republicans’ “big beautiful” bill becomes law.Now that the Senate and House have both passed their versions of the tax and spending bill, it is up to both chambers to decide how large that new temporary deduction — called a senior “bonus” in the legislative text — will be.Per the Senate bill, the deduction would amount to…

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[ad_1] Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on an artificial intelligence spending blitz — and Wall Street does not seem to mind. Zuckerberg has invested tens of billions of dollars in computing infrastructure and research and development, and he’s worked tirelessly to implement AI across the internal organization and to enhance user engagement and ad targeting on Instagram and Facebook. In the latest phase of these efforts, Zuckerberg has ripped a page out of New York Mets owner Steve Cohen’s playbook and thrown huge amounts money at top AI talent to build out a “superintelligence” unit, with the goal…

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