Some new drugs aren’t actually ‘new’ – pharmaceutical companies exploit patents and raise prices for patients, but data transparency can help protect innovation

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Pharmaceutical innovation saves lives. But not every “new” drug is ...
BBC

Satellite images show path of deadly Sudan landslide

New satellite imagery shows the path of Sunday's landslide in western Sudan that the UN estimates killed at least 370 people Our team has verified videos showing the aftermath of last night's ...
The Independent

Teacher banned after pupils see explicit image when he was using laptop to present to class

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
IEEE

A Dual-Path Multiple Instance Learning Network Guided by Image Quality Assessment for Cervical Whole Slide Image Classification

Abstract: The existing cervical whole slide image classification methods ignore the influence of image quality, resulting in low classification accuracy. To address this, we propose a dual-path ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni 'disgusted' with adult website using her image

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has expressed her outrage over an adult website that published unauthorised images of herself and other women. Administrators of the website took it down after it ...
Nature

Machine-learning model generates images using light

Machine-learning models identify relationships in a data set (called the training data set) and use this training to perform operations on data that the model has not encountered before. This could ...
SFGate

Deep-pocketed Republican donor launches 'misleading' mailers into Calif.

Last week, scores of California households received a stark 8-by-11-inch flyer in the mail that declared, “We cannot save democracy by burning it down.” The mailer was sent out after Gov. Gavin Newsom ...
Times Union

For Stefanik, GOP insiders say, a path to victory is possible

Former Gov. George E. Pataki, left, and former Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings, right, in 2024. Pataki was the last Republican to unseat a Democratic incumbent as governor in 1994. He went on to win two ...
Austin American-Statesman

Tropical Storm Erin could become a major hurricane in route to US. Track projected path

Tropical Storm Erin officially formed Monday, Aug. 11, in the eastern tropical Atlantic, making it the fifth named storm of the 2025 Atlantic season. Erin is expected to gradually strengthen over the ...
STAT

Using mRNA, scientists overcome a key challenge to HIV vaccines

Jonathan Wosen is STAT’s West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter. You can reach Jonathan on Signal at jwosen.27. The decades-long push to develop an HIV vaccine has been riddled with setbacks. But ...
PC World

This built-in Windows 11 app can pull the text in any image with one click

Microsoft has added an OCR function (Optical Character Recognition) to the Windows Photos app, which basically means it can now recognize text in an image and instantly extract it for you. To use this ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Inside ‘Elio’s’ “Catastrophic” Path: America Ferrera’s Exit, Director Change and Erasure of Queer Themes

Creatives at Pixar who saw the original director's previous cut of 'Elio' tell THR about the movie's challenging production process: "'Elio' just [became] about totally nothing." By Ryan Gajewski ...