Esther and Anne Wojcicki back new healthcare accelerator, fund A new residency-venture program helps to tackle one of the most pressing issues in the U.S. — healthcare.   Mary Minno, an investor and former product manager at Google, announced on Wednesday the launch of an early-stage startup accelerator program called Treehub and an early-stage venture firm called AI Health Fund,...

'Stop, stop, stop': Listen to LaGuardia control tower audio during collisionAn Air Canada plane carrying 72 passengers and four crew initially landed safely from Montreal on Sunday evening before colliding with a firefighting vehicle. Air traffic control audio captures the moments leading up to the deadly crash that killed two pilots. Forty-one passengers and crew were taken to the hospital,...

Truck carrying fireworks catches fire, sparks spectacular displayOnlookers were treated to an early Fourth of July display when a truck hauling fireworks caught fire on 6 June, sending pyrotechnics skyward along a Tennessee highway.Sparks flew for several minutes, stopping traffic in both directions, while astounded eyewitnesses filmed the spectacular scene near the city of Chattanooga.The...

Mercor’s Brendan Foody calls out Sequoia over ‘dual-pricing’ valuation tricks In recent days, founders and founders-turned-investors took to X to share horror stories about being mistreated by VCs. Their complaints ranged from VCs falling asleep during pitch meetings to investors suggesting a founder fire a co-founder. Brendan Foody, co-founder of the AI talent platform Mercor, which was last...

'Pretty special': Diver on filming rare footage of Great White shark in the MediterraneanA diver who filmed an incredibly rare encounter with a Great White shark in the Mediterranean Sea in May has described the moment as "pretty special"."The shark was pretty close to us [...] And in fact my fingers were trembling when I was trying to get the camera operating," volunteer diver Derk Remmers...