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Photo: Postmodern Studio (Shutterstock)After its Twitter account spewed links to fake, inflammatory, and racist stories on Thursday morning, the New York Post let readers know it had been hacked. “We Must Assassinate AOC for America,” read one headline, linking to what appeared to be an article featuring a picture of the progressive politician. Another hed read: “Zeldin: Eric Adams Is NYC’s Fried Chicken Eating Monkey,” in reference to Lee Zeldin, the GOP candidate for New York governor, and Adams, New York City’s mayor,…

Image: NetflixAnimation master Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) returns with Wendell and Wild, a spectacle of stop-motion oddities that was well worth the wait. The highly anticipated Netflix production is a collaboration with co-writer Jordan Peele, who also co-stars with his Key & Peele comedy partner Keegan-Michael Key.As it turns out, Selick was a huge fan of the show and had approached the duo back in 2017 to work together as Peele’s directing career began to take off. All the while, this peculiar…

Abbott Laboratories has made leadership changes at its major baby-formula manufacturing plant and in its quality organization, following a temporary shutdown of the Sturgis, Mich., plant earlier this year after contamination was found. The Abbott Park, Ill., company also plans to spend about $500 million to build a new baby-formula plant in the U.S., after analyzing the market and concluding more capacity is needed, Chief Executive…

For 25 years, I've had Type 1 diabetes. Like the tens of millions of Americans with diabetes, one of the most important things I have to do to stay healthy is make sure my blood sugar is in normal range.Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) allow diabetics to track their blood sugar 24/7. They're incredibly useful, providing insight on how your blood sugar reacts to insulin, food, exercise and whatever else affects it.Abbott Laboratories and Dexcom are the leaders in the CGM market, which hit $5.1 billion in revenue in 2021…

A gift to the subreddit r/PoliticalHumor. Love, Gizmodo.Illustration: Jody Serrano / GizmodoUnderstanding the wacky laws that get passed in Texas—my home state—to “reign in” Big Tech can get confusing. Is it free speech to tell a private company what its users are and are not allowed to post? Or is that censorship? One of the Texas’ most recent laws targets social media companies and bans them from moderating, or, as the state says, “censoring,” users’ posts based on their political views. I’ll explain, and I’llask you…

A new heart valve repair device from Edwards Lifesciences Corp. was as effective as the market-leading device from Abbott Laboratories in a clinical study of heart-disease patients, a finding likely to intensify competition in a growing device market.Edwards said Thursday that its new product, known as Pascal Precision, had been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of a disease called degenerative mitral regurgitation. It will be…

As Britain’s most heartwarming vocal duo since Morecambe and Wise, could you record a Christmas cover of Bring Me Sunshine? Cruyff14Paul Heaton Erm, no! I understand the dangers of a novelty song becoming bigger than everything else. If we did Bring Me Sunshine people would be disappointed if we didn’t dress up as Eric and Ernie and do the dance. Hmm. I’m warming to it now.Jacqui Abbott I’m not generally into remakes. When I heard there was going to be a Blade Runner 2 I thought: “Oh, my God.” When I joined the Beautiful…

The hit sitcom "Abbott Elementary" may have taken home two Emmys for its first season, but it wasn't because of a bottomless marketing budget. Earlier this year, show creator Quinta Brunson revealed that the "Abbott Elementary" production team and ABC agreed to take a portion of the budget they had allocated to marketing expenses and donate it to teachers. "We chose to put the marketing money toward supplies for teachers," Brunson said in an interview on NPR's "Fresh Air" in March. "It's about being able to make those…

In 1994, when Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott first met outside a nightclub in Merseyside, few could have guessed that the pair – he a songwriter for Hull pop-rock group the Beautiful South, she a shelf-stacker in her home town of Saint Helens – would go on to form one of the most fruitful musical partnerships of the 90s. As part of the Beautiful South, Heaton and Abbott churned out hits including Rotterdam (Or Anywhere), Don’t Marry Her, and Perfect 10, the band’s defining, platinum-selling hit.Heaton and Abbott parted…

Abbott Laboratories ABT -2.25% raised its annual earnings guidance after posting higher than expected revenue from Covid-19 testing products. Abbott, based in Abbott Park, Ill., now forecasts $6.1 billion in revenue from sales of Covid tests this year, up by nearly a third from an earlier projection. Most of those sales have already occurred. It expects just $500 million in sales coming in the next few months. Without the…