Two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya won an appeal against athletics’ testosterone rules on Tuesday when the European Court of Human Rights ruled she had been discriminated against. The ruling could force sport’s highest court to re-examine regulations that force Semenya and other female athletes to artificially lower naturally high levels of testosterone in order … Read more
SEATTLE (AP) — The next big breakthrough in cancer treatment could be a vaccine. After decades of limited success, scientists say the research has reached a turning point, with many predicting that more vaccines will be available in five years. These are not traditional vaccines that prevent disease, but injections to shrink tumors and prevent … Read more
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A masked Lil Uzi Vert opened the 2023 BET Awards on a platform suspended from the ceiling and leapt into a pyrotechnic launch performance before the show quickly turned into a celebration of hip’s early years -hop. For a show that promises to celebrate 50 years of hip-hophe set the tone … Read more
When it comes to flying, going green can cost you more. And it will take time for the strategy to take off. Sustainability was a hot topic this week at the Paris Air Show, the world’s biggest event for the aviation industry, which faces growing pressure to reduce the climate-altering greenhouse gases that planes emit. … Read more
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jennifer Lawrence has wanted to do great comedy for years. She has always been funny and dynamic in her television appearances. And while she’s brought humor and physical comedy to many of her roles for David O. Russell and others, she also doesn’t exactly have the big, wide “Dumb and Dumber” … Read more
LE BOURGET, France (AP) — Just a speck on the horizon at first, the insect-like and surprisingly quiet electric contraption buzzes above Paris and its rumble of traffic, offering its no doubt amazed passenger privileged views of the Eiffel Tower and the city’s iconic zinc-gray rooftops before landing it with a slight downward hover. And … Read more
For the first time, U.S. regulators on Wednesday approved the sale of chicken made from animal cells, allowing two California companies to bring “lab-grown” meat to restaurant tables across the country and, eventually, store shelves. supermarkets. The Department of Agriculture has given the green light to Upside Foods and Good Meat, companies that have strived … Read more
BOSTON (AP) — In early June, sporadic but severe outages affected Microsoft’s flagship office suite — including Outlook email and OneDrive file-sharing apps — and cloud computing platform. A shadowy hacktivist group has claimed responsibility, saying it flooded sites with unwanted traffic in distributed denial-of-service attacks. Initially reluctant to name the cause, Microsoft has now … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — If you’ve hopped on Reddit to scroll through your favorite forums this week, you may have encountered “private” or “restricted” posts. That’s because thousands of subreddits chose to go dark in an ongoing protest against the company’s plan to start charging some third-party developers for accessing site data. But Reddit CEO Steve … Read more
Testosterone replacement therapy is safe for men with ‘low T’ who have heart disease or are at high risk, a new study has found. But doctors warn that the popular treatment is not an “anti-aging tonic”. The research, published Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that heart attacks, strokes and other major … Read more
