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What Pregnant Black Women Should Know About Preeclampsia Risks After Beloved South Carolina Midwife’s Death
The Root spoke exclusively with Dr. Kaytura Felix about the risk factors related to preeclampsia and how we support healthy pregnancies for Black mothers.
Beyond Meat’s protein soda might be its last chance and best hope
Beyond Meat just launched a new product that's even further from meat than ever before: a protein soda. Beyond Immerse is the company's first product that makes no attempt to replicate meat whatsoever, marking a sharp shift in Beyond's business model. It might seem like it comes out of left field, but it all clicks […]
Slice, which uses AI agents to encode tax policies and legal rules across 60+ countries, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight, taking its total funding to $32M (Mary Ann Azevedo/This Week in Fintech)
Mary Ann Azevedo / This Week in Fintech:
Slice, which uses AI agents to encode tax policies and legal rules across 60+ countries, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight, taking its total funding to $32M — Slice Global Equity, an equity compliance and management startup, announced Wednesday that it has raised $25 million in Series A funding.
This soft humanoid robot is designed to be ‘physically safe and socially approachable’
A startup called Fauna Robotics has revealed a new humanoid robot called Sprout it's been developing over the past two years. Standing around 3.5-feet tall, Sprout's design, featuring a soft padded exterior, a wide head, and expressive mechanical eyebrows, was inspired by some of science fiction's friendlier robots like Baymax and Rosie Jetson, the startup's […]
How Jacob Wysocki’s 'You Are a Regular Guy' rant took over the internet
Jacob Wysocki breaks down how an off-the-cuff rant from Dropout’s Make Some Noise turned into one of the internet’s most heartfelt viral moments.