Author: Daniel snow

Cardiac arrests at work are rising, and often fatal, employment risk

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In January 2023, Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s shocking collapse during an NFL Monday Night Football game due to cardiac arrest placed a high-profile spotlight on a concerning, and growing, statistic: each year, more than 10,000 people suffer from cardiac arrests in U.S. workplaces.  But unlike Hamlin, whose unique workplace allowed him to receive immediate treatment from NFL and team medical professionals who administered CPR and used an automated external defibrillator to revive him before he was transported to a nearby hospital, many other workplaces across the U.S. are not prepared to address cardiac arrest so easily, nor are the workers…

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Bitcoin jumps to new all-time high, surpassing prior record in January

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Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesBitcoin rose to a new all-time high on Wednesday, breaking its January record.The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by 2% at $108,955.10, according to Coin Metrics. Earlier, it rose as high as $109,500.”Bitcoin’s new high has been concocted by an array of favorable ingredients in the macro cauldron, namely softer U.S. inflation numbers, a de-escalation in the U.S.-China trade war and the Moody’s downgrade of U.S. sovereign debt, which has put the spotlight on alternative stores of value like bitcoin,” said Antoni Trenchev, cofounder of crypto exchange Nexo.Stock Chart IconStock chart…

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang slams U.S. chip restrictions as a “failure”

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said overnight that U.S. chip export controls are a “failure” and warned that the restrictions are doing more damage to American business than to China.Huang said in a press conference at Computex, an artificial intelligence exhibition in Taiwan, that the policies have cut the AI chip leader’s China market share from 95% to 50% and motivated Beijing to make its own chips faster.Huang’s comments came as the truce between the U.S. and China over tariffs and semiconductors continues to be delicate.The Chinese Commerce Ministry responded to the Trump administration’s recent chip policy change on Monday, calling…

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