April 16, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Congress grills RFK, Jr., about vaccines and cuts to health budget The HHS secretary defended proposed budget cuts to science, his vaccine moves and health care costs on Capitol Hill on Thursday By Dan Vergano edited by Tanya Lewis U.S. Secretary of Health and…
Few venture firms have bet more aggressively on AI than Sequoia Capital, and it isn’t slowing down. The Silicon Valley stalwart has raised roughly $7 billion for a new fund, according to Bloomberg. Sequoia declined TechCrunch’s request for comment. The money will go toward what the firm calls its “expansion strategy” — essentially its late-stage…
Paramount today held its first upfront presentation since the company last held court at Carnegie Hall in 2022. The event at the Paramount Theatre on the historic studio lot in Los Angeles, held almost a month ahead of the traditional upfront week, was the first upfront for New Paramount following the August acquisition by Skydance….
Heelys, the sneakers with wheels that were a fad in the 2000s, helped me form my first friendships. Recently, I decided to tap into that joy again.
The creator of Bitcoin has hidden behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto for 17 years.
The NFL Draft is here, and the Fantasy landscape is about to change dramatically. Some draft picks will work in our favor, while others will cause chaos. It’s the same drill every season, and it’s fun to react to the rookies. Prior to the NFL Draft, we have our wish list for each AFC West…
Anatoly Doroshenko is tasked with entering Chernobyl’s reactor 4 to take vital radioactivity readings Mykhaylo Palinchak The shattered remains of Chernobyl’s reactor 4 are one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. Not only are the ruins physically dangerous, but they are highly irradiated, pitch black and shrouded by a crumbling, concrete sarcophagus, which is,…
Bluesky is once again having a wobble. The platform said some of its systems are down and that it’s “investigating an incident with service in one of our reginos” (that’s Bluesky’s typo, not mine). The issue appears to have started at 1:42AM ET and was still persisting as of 11AM when this story was originally…
The Focker-in-Law trailer is cute but I’ve only seen the first film! Seeing Robert DeNiro & Ariana Grande in the same film is a hoot though. [JustJared]For months now, the hype around Digger is that Tom Cruise will get another Oscar nomination out of it. The CinemaCon hype is the same. [LaineyGossip]Lena Dunham appeared on…
Kazuhiro Nogi | AFP | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets opened lower Friday, as cautious optimism over the Middle East conflict tempered sentiment, diverging from Wall Street’s record-setting rally. U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said that the war in Iran “should be ending pretty soon,” reiterating rosy predictions about the end of the conflict. Hours earlier,…
