Policies to screen doctors' fitness seen as lacking in fairness

Policies to screen doctors' fitness seen as lacking in fairness

Nearly one in four U.S. physicians with an active license is over the age of 65. This has spurred a small minority of hospitals to enact policies to assess these caregivers' cognitive and physical health, with the aim of reducing lapses that harm patients. Doctors whose assessments show deficits cou...

AnswerThis (YC F25) Is Hiring

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Telly only had 35,000 TVs in people’s homes last fall

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. When free TV startup Telly came out of stealth in 2023, it did so with big promises: Company executives told the media at the time that...

Sony announces its first turntables in years

Sony is releasing a new turntable for the first time since 2019. Two, in fact. The entry-level PS-LX3BT ($399.99) and step-up PS-LX5BT ($499.99) are designed for easy operation with both wired and Bluetooth hi-res audio. Both turntables include one-button automatic playback - which starts the turnta...

Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

Developers have been comparing the strengths and weaknesses of Anthropic's Claude Code, Anysphere's Cursor, and Microsoft's GitHub Copilot for months now, looking for a winner. While no individual AI coding tool manages to be the best at every task that software developers do each day, Claude Code i...

Congress is taking stock of proposed ethics rules

Congress is taking stock of proposed ethics rules

Congress is considering a bipartisan bill to ban stock trading by members, their spouses and dependent children, and to divest all current stock holdings within 180 days, in response to public concern about the perception that Congress's members are insider-trading on the stock market.

World leaders text just like us

World leaders text just like us

President Donald Trump’s late-night Truth Social posting spree on Tuesday—doubling down on his Greenland ambitions and threatening any who try to get in his way—also included a flurry of leaked texts from the leaders of NATO, France, Finland, and Norway.  TL;DR: French President Emmanuel Macr...

Clipse and Pharrell Williams to Perform at 2026 Grammy Awards

Clipse and Pharrell Williams to Perform at 2026 Grammy Awards

In the third Grammy performer announcement of the week, the Recording Academy has announced that multiple 2026 Grammy nominees Clipse and Pharrell Williams — captured above in a vintage photo from 2003 — will take the stage at the show on Sunday, Feb. 1. Clipse are up for five Grammy Awards this...