Surgeons in Boston successfully transplanted the kidney of a genetically modified pig into a 66-year-old man with kidney failure last month, Massachusetts General Hospital announced on Friday. It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as part of a new … Read more
This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email [email protected] with any questions. casey newton Match Group has a new CEO, Kevin. kevin roose Yeah? casey newton And it is the former … Read more
Amazon saw healthy consumer sales and a pickup in its cloud computing business in its latest quarter, but the company told investors on Thursday to expect slowing growth ahead. Sales from October through December hit $187.8 billion, up 10 percent from a year earlier. Profit rose 88 percent, to $20 billion. Both were roughly in … Read more
Leah Barlow, a liberal studies professor at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, prepared to teach her Intro to African American Studies class this semester as she always does: She put together a syllabus, mapped out assignments and created a TikTok account to make the material as accessible as possible. She posted a video … Read more
Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, the blue-chip venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, defended to investors their decision to hire Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran acquitted on a charge of criminally negligent homicide last year, according to an internal memo viewed by The New York Times. Andreessen Horowitz, the memo said, is most likely the largest … Read more
In Washington, Elon Musk has been at the forefront of Trump administration efforts to gut programs designed to promote diversity. At the same time, Tesla, the electric car company that Mr. Musk leads, has in recent days, with little notice, tried to appease critics who have accused the company of racial discrimination. In a little-noticed … Read more