Key Takeaways Workman and his co-founders launched wearable baby monitor Owlet in 2015. In 2021, the company went public — then received an FDA warning letter. Owlet got FDA clearance, focused on lean profitability and has monitored over 2.5 million infants. This as-told-to story is based on a conversation with Kurt Workman, co-founder and CEO of Owlet, the only over-the-counter, FDA-cleared wearable baby monitor. Workman and his co-founders Zach Bomsta, Jordan Monroe and Jacob Colvin met in college and launched Owlet in 2015, building it from $0 to $20 million in revenue in its first year. The company went public in…
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Isaias is officially the first hurricane of this year’s Atlantic season—marking the latest arrival of a first hurricane in the region since reliable tracking began.As of this writing, the Category 1 hurricane is about 385 miles (620 kilometers) off the U.S. Gulf Coast and is expected to make landfall late on Friday or early on Saturday, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Isaias’s winds are currently about 80 miles per hour (130 kilometers per hour), with “additional strengthening” expected before landfall, NOAA said in its recent forecast.As Scientific American previously reported, the Atlantic hurricane season has been historically…
Republican Sen. Darline Graham of South Carolina and Democratic challenger Annie Andrews clashed Sunday night in their first and perhaps only debate of the general election, tangling over President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill,” the high costs of gas and goods, the Iran war and AI data centers. South Carolina is a ruby-red state where Trump remains popular among Republican voters. But the race has tightened in the closing stretch of the campaign, and Democrats believe they have a shot at knocking off Graham, who was appointed to fill her brother Lindsey Graham’s Senate seat after his sudden death…
As I reported, I was told that President Donald Trump was going to “strong-arm” Zelensky into a ceasefire regarding energy. Trump has made more than 6 calls to this lowlife about attacking Russian energy and he refused to comply. Many rational people are starting to realize that the problem is Ukraine and their pervasive hatred of the Russian people that has been as toxic and Iran vs Israel. All my sources in Ukraine argued Zelensky was never elected and that was all rigged. I was also told back then that this was the guy hand-picked by the Neocons to start…
The father of a Tennessee player has a pointed message for part of the Volunteers’ fanbase following the team’s win over Arkansas.His comments come after criticism that surfaced during and after the game.The remarks highlight the tension that can build around a program when fans turn on players or their families.Tennessee’s victory keeps the Vols moving forward in the SEC, but the reaction from the stands and online has become a story of its own.AI-generated briefing — triage, not the story; every claim links out to the coverage below.Latest videoPowered by TPD VideoIn this storyOrgTennessee VolunteersOrgArkansas RazorbacksTopicFan CriticismTopicCFBReader pollAdvertisementPowered by…
Winning “Top Chef: Carolinas” season 23 has changed Rhoda Magbitang’s life in many ways. For one, she joked that she can no longer come out of an airport bathroom without getting recognized. The bigger picture, of course, is that her win has changed her life in grand ways, as well as the lives of the people around her. Thanks to her time on “Top Chef” and her incredible career that began long before her time on the show, Rhoda will now be one of the celebrity chefs with the prestigious honor of cooking at F1 in Las Vegas this November. …
Police put the number of participants at the march, the latest in a series to be held in Brussels, at 45,000. Energy crisisAfter having its hopes dashed for a more ambitious deal last year in Brazil, the European Union is setting its sights low for next month’s COP31.With climate sceptic Trump withdrawing the United States from the negotiations, international efforts to combat global warming had already taken a battering.Now the situation looks even less promising. Surging energy prices have put major oil and gas producers in a position of strength that makes them less likely to want to discuss phasing out…
Zack Polanski calls for internal rule reforms to give party leaders greater control over policy after Zionism vote.Published On 11 Oct 202611 Oct 2026Zack Polanski, the leader of the United Kingdom’s Green Party, has proposed a potential overhaul of his party’s democratic mechanisms, calling for the leader to have larger control over strategic direction.The appeal came in an article published in The Guardian on Sunday after party members passed a motion declaring that Zionism is racism at their annual conference on October 4 in a divisive vote.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listPolanski also failed to grab a parliamentary…
If the Tampa Bay Rays are going to win their first World Series title, they will have to do so without Shane McClanahan.Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reported that McClanahan has been declared out for the rest of the postseason. He had not pitched since Sept. 3, landing on the Injured List with left forearm tightness. McClanahan also missed time in August with back tightness.Injuries are nothing new for McClanahan as he missed the previous two seasons due to Tommy John surgery and a nerve issue in his left triceps. He was effective when he was on the…
People who know what they are talking about, such as Bill Gates, are frightened by the unregulated, lightning-speed development of frontier artificial intelligence.Gates is taking time away from his work on global health at the Gates Foundation to warn anyone who will listen that a threshold has already passed where AI is getting a dangerous mind of its own. There’s no point in working to eradicate diseases in Africa, after all, if the biggest threat to human health could be a horrendous pathogen released by a rogue AI agent.Gates is not alone in the tech world sounding the alarm. Numerous…