Saturday, March 2

In The NEWS


Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
In partnership with NativePath
> Video game giant Electronic Arts lays off 670 employees, roughly 5% of its workforce, amid industrywide layoffs (More) | Universal Music Group begins previously announced layoffs across multiple company music labels (More)

> Héctor Ortiz, former MLB catcher and longtime Texas Rangers coach, dies of cancer at 54 (More) | Former WWE star Billy Jack Haynes charged with second-degree murder in connection with shooting death of his wife (More)

> Iowa's Caitlin Clark now 18 points from breaking all-time, men's or women's, NCAA basketball scoring record; Iowa takes on Ohio State Sunday to wrap up their regular season (More) | Clark declares for WNBA Draft, widely expected to be top pick (More)


Science & Technology
> Prostate cancer involves two distinct subtypes, new study finds; results may lead to more targeted treatments for the disease, which affects one in eight adult men (More)

> Brain waves during sleep help flush cellular waste from the brain during sleep; rhythmic movement of neurons pushes cerebrospinal fluid through tissue, supports links between high-quality sleep and health (More)

> Daddy longlegs species found to have a set of underdeveloped eyes as embryos; vestigial organs implying some types of the insect diversified earlier than previously thought (More)


Business & Markets
> US stocks markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.5%, Dow +0.1%, Nasdaq +0.9%); Nasdaq and S&P 500 rise to all-time highs (More) | Key inflation metric—personal consumption expenditures price index—rose 2.8% year-over-year, the slowest annual pace since March 2021 (More)

> OpenAI faces investigation from US Securities and Exchange Commission over whether company's investors were misled (More) | US Commerce Department launches probe into potential national security risks of smart vehicles produced in China and otcountries (More)

> Weight Watchers shares drop 18% after Oprah Winfrey announces exit from company's board, plans to donate all her stock to a museum (More) | Humanoid robot startup Figure AI valued at $2.6B after raising funds from investors including Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, Amazon, OpenAI, and Microsoft (More)

SOURCE:  1440 News

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