Monday, December 23

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Israel Expands Operations in Southern Gaza Amid Worsening Humanitarian Crisis
29Dec By adminNo Comments
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Israel Expands Operations in Southern Gaza Amid Worsening Humanitarian Crisis

Israeli forces expanded their military operations in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, intensifying efforts to kill Hamas’s top leadership, as aid agencies said the areas to which Israel has directed Palestinians to evacuate were increasingly overcrowded and short on resources.A Hamas political delegation was headed to Cairo on Friday to discuss a deal proposed by Egypt to end the war, a plan which neither side has agreed to so far, Egyptian officials said. Israel said negotiations on the deal, which would free hostages held by Hamas, were under way.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Startups Are Using AI to Predict Responses to Cancer Drugs
28Dec By adminNo Comments
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Startups Are Using AI to Predict Responses to Cancer Drugs

Dec. 28, 2023 12:01 pm ET|WSJ ProBiomedical startups are using artificial intelligence to predict the response patients will have to cancer treatments, aiming to increase the success of drugs in clinical trials and tailor therapies to individuals.As data accumulate from clinical trials and fields such as gene and protein research, AI is helping scientists sift through large volumes of information to uncover signatures that correlate with response—or resistance—to treatment. Startups are using it to predict which drugs are likely to work in clinical studies and create tests to help doctors choose treatments.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Israel-Hamas War: Hunger Spreads in Gaza as Fighting Rages
16Dec By adminNo Comments
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Israel-Hamas War: Hunger Spreads in Gaza as Fighting Rages

Listen to article(2 minutes)Residents of the Gaza Strip are facing widespread starvation for the first time in recent history, as Israel and the United Nations trade blame over why aid deliveries are falling short of soaring needs.An overwhelming majority of Gaza’s 2.2 million people don’t have enough food, with residents often skipping meals and some not having any food for multiple days, according to the World Food Program, a U.N. agency.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Visa Agrees to Acquire Majority Interest in Payments Processor Prosa
16Dec By adminNo Comments
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Visa Agrees to Acquire Majority Interest in Payments Processor Prosa

Visa entered into an agreement to acquire a majority interest in Prosa, a payments processor in Mexico.The payments-networks company said Prosa will operate as an independent company with its own technology infrastructure under the agreement, while Visa looks to expand Prosa’s product offering with new digital solutions, among other efforts.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Championing Diversity From Inside Google
8Dec By adminNo Comments
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Championing Diversity From Inside Google

Google has not always been closely associated with words like diversity and inclusion. By its own count, less than 13% of its workforce is Black or Latino, and the company is currently fighting a class-action lawsuit in which plaintiffs allege a “racially biased corporate culture.” Google promised to fix its image-recognition algorithms after a software engineer discovered in 2015 that Google Photos classified him and his Black friends as “gorillas,” but in May the company was forced to acknowledge that it had simply blocked its algorithms from identifying gorillas at all.These are the kinds of issues that Annie Jean-Baptiste must grapple with as the company’s first director of product inclusion and equity. The role is meant to help ensure that people can use what Google offers regardless...
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Health Care Roundup: Market Talk
6Dec By adminNo Comments
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Health Care Roundup: Market Talk

The latest Market Talks covering the Health Care sector. Published exclusively on Dow Jones Newswires at 4:20 ET, 12:20 ET and 16:50 ET.0902 GMT – Merck’s failure to reach key goals in late-stage clinical trials for its multiple sclerosis drug, evobrutinib, spells an end to its development and shifts the German pharmaceutical company’s focus to cancer drug xevinapant, Citi analysts say in a note. A potential treatment for late-stage head and neck cancer, xevinapant is in phase-3 clinical trials and might be “practice-changing” if it hits the market, say the analysts. They forecast sales of more than EUR1.4 billion, which is 25% ahead of consensus, saying that it is years ahead of competitors. “While evobrutinib’s failure is an obvious setback, we had previously argued the risk-reward was ...
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Adobe’s $20B Purchase of Figma Would Harm Innovation, U.K. Regulator Provisionally Finds
28Nov By adminNo Comments
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Adobe’s $20B Purchase of Figma Would Harm Innovation, U.K. Regulator Provisionally Finds

The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority said it has provisionally found Adobe’s planned $20 billion acquisition of collaboration-software company Figma would likely harm innovation for software used by the vast majority of U.K. digital designers.The regulator said Tuesday that, following a detailed Phase 2 investigation, it provisionally found the deal would eliminate competition between two main competitors in product-design software, reduce innovation and the development of new competitive products, and remove Figma as a threat to Adobe’s flagship Photoshop and Illustrator products.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Gaza Is Falling Into ‘Absolute Chaos,’ Aid Groups Say
28Nov By adminNo Comments
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Gaza Is Falling Into ‘Absolute Chaos,’ Aid Groups Say

Updated Nov. 28, 2023 12:54 am ETListen to article(2 minutes)A shaky cease-fire between Israel and Hamas has allowed a surge of aid to reach Palestinians in Gaza, but humanitarian groups and civilians in the enclave say the convoys aren’t nearly enough to address the needs of the strip’s two million people.Despite the pause in fighting, Palestinians in Gaza are burning door frames and piles of garbage to cook, sleeping crammed into school classrooms and strangers’ homes, and scrambling onto trucks bringing aid from Egypt in a desperate grab for supplies, residents say. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Gaza Is Falling Into ‘Absolute Chaos,’ Aid Groups Say
28Nov By adminNo Comments
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Gaza Is Falling Into ‘Absolute Chaos,’ Aid Groups Say

Nov. 27, 2023 11:00 pm ETListen to article(2 minutes)A shaky cease-fire between Israel and Hamas has allowed a surge of aid to reach Palestinians in Gaza, but humanitarian groups and civilians in the enclave say the convoys aren’t nearly enough to address the needs of the strip’s two million people.Despite the pause in fighting, Palestinians in Gaza are burning door frames and piles of garbage to cook, sleeping crammed into school classrooms and strangers’ homes, and scrambling onto trucks bringing aid from Egypt in a desperate grab for supplies, residents say. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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