Month: August 2022

Over-the-counter hearing aids will for the first time be available to tens of millions of Americans, officials said Tuesday, in an effort to cut prices from $5,000 (roughly Rs. 3,96,400) a pair. ”For many Americans who suffer from hearing loss, safe and effective and high-quality hearing aids have been unaffordable,” US health secretary Xavier Becerra told
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Ratan Tata, the octogenarian industrialist who steered the $128 billion (roughly Rs. 10,13,200 crore) Tata Group for decades, has backed a startup that connects senior citizens with young graduates for meaningful friendships. Goodfellows, which promotes “inter-generational friendships” said on Tuesday that it received a seed investment of an undisclosed sum from Tata, the influential chairman emeritus of
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The US on Friday adopted new export controls on technologies that support the production of advanced semiconductors and gas turbine engines that it said are critical to its national security. The “emerging and foundational technologies” covered by the move include gallium oxide and diamond, because “devices that utilize these materials have significantly increased military potential,” the
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Bitwise Asset Management CIO Matt Hougan joins Emily Chang and Bloomberg’s Sonali Basak to discuss the highly-anticipated Ethereum Merge and its potential impact on the whole crypto ecosystem, after Ethereum developer Tim Beiko revealed the update is expected to happen on the second week of September.
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