Investors are sitting on mountains of cash: Where will it be deployed?

Jeremy Abelson Contributor Share on Twitter Jeremy Abelson is the founder and lead portfolio manager of Irving Investors. Combining his experience as an operator and institutional investor, Abelson runs Irving as a multistrategy platform making long-term durable investments in both the public and private markets. More posts by this contributor What am I worth now? … Read more

Apple’s iMessage and FaceTime are down for some users

First, WhatsApp went down this morning. Now, Apple’s iMessage and FaceTime appeared to experience an outage in the U.S. this afternoon. Several Twitter users noted they were having trouble sending messages and connecting on the services and Apple’s System Status dashboard marked iMessage and FaceTime as having issues. “Some users are affected,” the status said. … Read more

Uber, DoorDash will deliver Paxlovid from Walgreens for free to vulnerable neighborhoods

Image: Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune / Tribune News Service via Getty Images Uber and DoorDash will deliver prescriptions for the covid antiviral Paxlovid filled through Walgreens for free to underserved neighborhoods, the companies announced Monday. The partnership is part of new pandemic response efforts from the White House. “This partnership is yet another way … Read more

Who wants to buy an e-bike made by a car company?

Photo by Nilay Patel / The Verge Last week, Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe confirmed what many of us already knew: the buzzy automaker was exploring the possibility of making its own electric bikes. If it follows through — and there’s no reason to assume it won’t; an electric mountain bike would fit in nicely with … Read more

Run multiple deep learning models on GPU with Amazon SageMaker multi-model endpoints

As AI adoption is accelerating across the industry, customers are building sophisticated models that take advantage of new scientific breakthroughs in deep learning. These next-generation models allow you to achieve state-of-the-art, human-like performance in the fields of natural language processing (NLP), computer vision, speech recognition, medical research, cybersecurity, protein structure prediction, and many others. For … Read more

Binge-watching Doctor Who just got a lot harder

Image: BBC The BBC is partnering with Disney to bring upcoming episodes of Doctor Who to the Disney Plus streaming platform for global audiences, complete with a brand-new logo inspired by Tom Baker’s era as the galaxy-traveling timelord. But it’s also going to make it way harder to binge-watch the show. New episodes of the … Read more