Wordle is now available in The New York Times Crossword app for both iOS and Android users. The addictive guessing game joins both The New York Times Crossword variants, Spelling Bee, and more. Users can also continue to play the game on their desktop and through the mobile website.
The word-guessing game became an immediate phenomenon after it was released in October 2021. TheTimes then acquired Wordle from its creator Josh Wardle in January. That decision was not without complaints, as users began speculating that the game had become harder and some of their streaks were ruined. Despite complaints after its acquisition, TheTimes said that the game allowed TheTimes to see a jump in new subscribers at its earnings meeting in May and now says that as of July, about 10 percent of “active” players have played more than 145 games of Wordle.
Other than tackling the complaints, TheTimes has been tweaking the game during the year. It introduced the WordleBot in April for web Wordle players to help analyze each puzzle to best come up with the best starting word for the game. The company eventually tweaked the WordleBot to begin recommending a new start word, changing its identity to WordleBot 2.0. As cool as it is, WordleBot was only available to specific subscribers. Recently, The New York Times announced that it’s partnering with Hasbro to release Wordle as a physical board game in October.
Integrating the game into the Crossword app seems like an easy way to keep the game in front of interested players, although some are still wary that eventually Wordle or some of its features could end up paywalled, requiring a subscription with The Times. The game continues to be available for free on both the mobile app and desktop website.
Scientists have discovered a beautiful ocean world that looks like it was ripped out of the Star Wars prequels. The exoplanet TOI-1452 b was discovered just 100 light-years from Earth. A new paper on the discovery says that the entire planet is covered by a thick layer of water and that it’s located far enough from its star to possibly support life.
The ocean world was discovered by a team of researchers at the Université de Montréal. Charles Cadieux, the team leader, announced the discovery this week. Cadieux is also a member of the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx).
Scientists found an ocean world that may support life
The planet is just slightly greater in size and mass than Earth. While the fact that this exoplanet is covered in water is intriguing, it’s also located a perfect distance out from its stars to not be too cold or hot. That means that it could potentially support life, though it’s unclear what kind of life might thrive on an ocean world such as this.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen entire planets or celestial objects covered in water. Some of Jupiter and Saturn’s moons are covered in thick water layers. However, it’s unclear if the ocean world is truly oceanic, or just covered in a thick layer of ocean that eventually meets rock.
The researchers first pick up a trail to this ocean world thanks to surveys from NASA’s TESS space telescope. Because there was a slight decrease in the brightness of an area of the sky, the researchers believed a planet larger than Earth might be found within that area. So, they began to look at that area more in-depth. That’s when they discovered TOI-1452 b.
This world could be covered in water. Image source: MARIMA/Adobe
The ocean world itself is contained within a two-star system just 100 light-years away from our own planet, within the Draco constellation. And, because it’s so close and appears to be covered in water, it could eventually be one of those planets that scientists hope to attempt to colonize – should our space endeavors ever actually reach that point.
Based on data they gathered from other observation instruments, the researchers say the ocean world is probably rocky like Earth. However, a thick layer of water may cover most of its surface and may also make up much of the planet’s mass. Right now, it’s unclear, but more observations using the James Webb space telescope could help us determine more.
The researchers published their findings in The Astronomical Journal.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Giants lost wide receiver Collin Johnson for the season Wednesday on the same day that veteran Sterling Shepard returned to the practice field.
Johnson tore his Achilles tendon during Wednesday’s practice, per the team. The big receiver (6-foot-6, 220 pounds) out of the University of Texas had been receiving first-team reps in recent weeks at practice with Kadarius Toney and Shepard among those on the sideline.
Coach Brian Daboll had noted earlier in the week that Johnson and fellow wide receiver David Sills were making a strong impression. Johnson started Sunday’s preseason win over the Cincinnati Bengals and had three receptions for 41 yards; Sills had five catches for 56 yards, with most of the damage coming with the first-string offense.
“Collin Johnson, David Sills, they’ve stepped their game up,” Daboll said. “And they’re right in the mix, not just to make a team but to play.”
The Giants’ opener is in 18 days in Tennessee. Toney (right leg), C.J. Board (ribs) and Darius Slayton are also dealing with minor injuries.
Shepard, meanwhile, was making his way back from a torn Achilles suffered last December. He returned to practice for the first time Wednesday since the injury.
“It felt great, man,” said Shepard, who snuck in some reps during live drills and even caught a 20-yard pass from backup quarterback Tyrod Taylor. “Just being back on the field, it’s a blessing. Especially when you go through an injury like that and you’ve been on the sidelines for so long watching those guys get after it. You have to take every day and cherish them because you never know when you’re going to have to sit out that long.”
It had been eight months and five days since Shepard tore his Achilles. He is the longest-tenured Giant and has 349 catches for 3,884 yards and 21 touchdowns in his career, all in New York.
Shepard’s return made it appear as if the Giants were actually getting healthier at the position. Toney, Board and Slayton participated in the early portions of Wednesday’s practice.
But Toney was seen grabbing at the back of his leg during the workout, and Johnson and Marcus Kemp (hamstring) suffered significant injuries. Both Johnson and Kemp landed on injured reserve later in the day.
The Giants claimed wide receivers Bailey Gaither and Jaylon Moore on Wednesday to fill the voids. They cut tight end Jordan Akins to make room on the roster.
Johnson, 24, has 29 catches for 377 yards in 26 career games with the Jacksonville Jaguars and Giants. He made his mark with the Giants last year as a blocker.
But this summer it appeared he had taken his game to the next level. He was making plays consistently throughout training camp, earning him the trust of starting quarterback Daniel Jones and some first-team reps.
Johnson even had 10 catches for 123 receiving yards in the first two preseason games this season. With Toney still banged up and Shepard coming back from a serious injury, it looked possible that Johnson could have started — or at least played a substantial role — Week 1 against the Tennessee Titans. Instead his season came to a premature end.
Bad news if you need to travel to one of America’s smaller airports. Insider reports regional airline company Aha! has declared bankruptcy and shut down. The move comes less than a year after the airline launched, and just over a month after it was called the “fastest growing regional airline in the western US.”
Aha! was born of the pandemic. After ExpressJet, one of the oldest regional airlines in the country, filed for bankruptcy in the fall of 2020, Aha! was founded out of its ashes just over a year later.
Using small, 50-seat Embraer planes, the airline connected smaller regional airports in the western US for point-to-point travel. If you needed to get somewhere like Bakersfield (god only knows why someone would need to fly into Bakersfield) or Eugene, Oregon, Aha! was your airline.
But ongoing global issues rang the death knell for the company. In a prepared statement, CEO Subodh Karnik said a “combination of conditions” led to the airline filing for bankruptcy and ceasing operations immediately. Among them: rising fuel costs, a lack of aircraft availability and a pilot shortage. “Despite the valiant efforts of our employees to overcome challenges, and despite great support by our cities and airports – especially Reno-Tahoe and the community there, we arrived at a point where termination of operations was in the best interest of our stakeholders,” Karnik said in a statement.
Insider points out that smaller regional airlines have been hit hard by the pandemic. A lack of demand has driven down profits and caused many small operators to close up shop.
The Biden administration has completed its review of the proposed “final” text of a revived Iran nuclear deal, and of Iran’s response to the proposal, and sent its answer to European Union negotiation coordinators, the State Department said Wednesday.
Iran said it has begun its own “detailed review” of the U.S. reply, according to Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani.
The trading of response documents marked the latest step in an apparent endgame after nearly a year and a half of negotiations over a return to the 2015 agreement — lifting sanctions on Iran in exchange for its submission to strict curbs on its nuclear program and international monitoring — with no guarantee that a new deal will be reached.
“We are closer now than we were just a couple of weeks ago,” National Security Council communications coordinator John Kirby told reporters. “Gaps remain. We’re not there yet.”
The U.S. move came as Israel, whose national security adviser has been consulting in Washington this week, renewed its opposition to the deal. Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, speaking to reporters Wednesday in Jerusalem, said his government was “not against any agreement. We are against this agreement, because it is a bad one. Because it cannot be accepted as it is written right now.”
U.S. officials have said the terms of the new text are largely an update of the original agreement. President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the deal in 2018, reimposing lifted sanctions and adding many more. In response, Iran resumed its pre-deal nuclear program and speeded it up, increasing the quantity and quality of its uranium enrichment far beyond the prescribed limits that it had previously adhered to and blocking some inspection measures.
Experts urge return to Iran nuclear deal as prospects dim
Israel, and opponents of a new deal in Congress, have said that the lifting of nuclear-related sanctions will provide Iran with hundreds of billions of dollars to finance terrorist activities, and the early expiration of some of its provisions will quickly allow Iran to revive plans to manufacture a nuclear weapon. Administration officials dispute the dollar calculations and say that the reinstatement of limits on the Iranian nuclear program, even with some expiration dates, will provide several years’ relief from an imminent nuclear threat and room for further negotiations.
Iran has said that its program is only for peaceful purposes and that it has no plans to build a weapon.
State Department spokesman Ned Price announced the dispatch of the U.S. reply to E.U. foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, but provided no details on its contents. Borrell, in charge of orchestrating the negotiations, compiled the final text last month, saying that all possible compromises had already been reached. Iran transmitted a response early last week that Borrell characterized as “reasonable,” but with some proposed “adjustments.”
Kirby also declined to provide details of the U.S. reply. “We’re not going to want to negotiate this thing in public,” he said. “I don’t have a response to speak to today, and I don’t know that we ever will.”
Kirby acknowledged that Iran had previously “acceded to some concessions that has allowed us to get to where we are in the process,” including dropping its demand that the United States remove a terrorist designation against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a part of the Iranian military.
Most of Iran’s proposed adjustments involve which of thousands of U.S. sanctions the administration is prepared to lift and when, according to people familiar with the issue, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive diplomacy. That leaves the center of the dispute where it has been from the beginning — between the United States and Iran — with other parties to the original deal, including Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China, largely as bystanders.
As in the initial agreement, the United States has said it would lift only those sanctions related to Iran’s nuclear program. “It’s important for people to remember that what we’re talking about here is a return to the JCPOA,” shorthand for the original Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Kirby said. Iran must “stop spinning centrifuges” used to enrich uranium, “get rid of its enriched uranium” and agree to inspections, he said.
“Yes, there’s sanctions relief,” but “this deal is about their potential weapons capability. That’s where it was in 2015, that’s where it is today,” he said. As written, it does not eliminate or reduce “ample sanctions in place today that will stay in place … or preclude us from imposing others.”
Russia and China have indicated they would support the final text as written. Following a telephone call between President Biden and his British, French and German counterparts last weekend, the administration has said the Europeans agree with the U.S. response. Throughout the talks, Iran has refused direct negotiations with the United States, and the Europeans have acted as go-betweens.
Iran has also continued to demand that the International Atomic Energy Agency drop its investigation of radioactive traces found several years ago at several undeclared sites within the country. While a separate issue from the JCPOA, Iran has indicated it will not implement a new nuclear deal unless the investigation is dropped. Iran’s refusal to cooperate with the IAEA investigation led to a censure resolution this year from the agency’s board of governors.
“No deal will be implemented before the IAEA Board of Directors PERMANENTLY closes the false accusations file. Iran’s nuclear program will not be dismantled,” Seyed Mohammad Marandi, part of Iran’s negotiating team, said on Twitter on Tuesday.
Earlier in the week, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said that the investigation would continue. “So far, Iran has not given us the technically credible explanations that we need to explain the origin of many traces of uranium,” he told CNN. “Let us have an explanation. If there was nuclear material there, where is it now?”
Biden campaigned on a pledge to revive the original agreement. Start-and-stop negotiations began in April 2021, only to be halted after a few months for Iranian elections, which brought hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi to office. Amid lengthy haggling over which U.S. sanctions would be lifted, talks that resumed toward the end of the year included an Iranian demand that Biden guarantee that no subsequent U.S. administration would withdraw from a revived deal — something that it was impossible for him to deliver.
Iran is still asking for some sort of guarantee, according to the people familiar with the talks.
Shira Rubin in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday he believes the bear market bottom is in, suggesting Wall Street’s June lows will prove to be durable floor for stocks.
The S&P 500’s closing low this year came on June 16 at 3,666.77, at which point the broad U.S. stock index was down roughly 24% from its all-time highs. It has rallied since then, up about 13% based on Wednesday’s close.
“I like where we are now,” the “Mad Money” host said, while acknowledging the market could “test June’s lows,” because there are “plenty of reasons to be apprehensive.” However, he added, “I’m betting the market will bend, not break, through a rough September, and when we get through that period, that June low will hold.”
Cramer said he came to this conclusion based on what’s happened outside equities. Specifically, he pointed to the fact both the 10-year Treasury yield and the per-barrel price of crude oil topped out around mid-June, as well.
The 10-year Treasury yield notched an 11-year high of nearly 3.5% two days before the S&P 500’s June 16 low.
West Texas Intermediate crude, the U.S. oil benchmark, also has rolled over since early-to-mid-June, when it settled north of $120 per barrel on multiple days.
“Since the June lows, nothing has happened that would shatter the illusion — or reality — of a bottom,” Cramer said, noting that oil has remained well below $120 and “the vast majority of companies” that reported earnings in July and August “did fine.” In fact, he said there’s been “very few true disappointments.”
“Without a spike in oil, which would cause a collapse in corporate earnings, then I think the June lows will hold. Notice I didn’t say they should hold, I said they will hold. The trial will come when the Fed starts selling its own bond holdings with reckless abandon as they keep raising rates. That could create a test of the lows in September, again, but I’m confident they’ll hold.”
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The study from the National Cancer Instituteanalyzed responses from over 272,000 people between the ages of 59 and 82 who completed questionnaires about their leisure time activities as part of the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study, a longitudinal study of the relationship between diet and health.
The study researchers followed participants for a dozen or so years and analyzedhealth records for deaths from cancer, heart disease and any cause.
Any combination of aerobic-based activity done for the recommended amount of time per week was associated with a 13% lower risk of death from any cause when compared with doing none of the activities, the researchers found.
Playing racket sports had the highest return for cardiovascular issues: There was a 27% reduction in risk for death from heart disease and a 16% reduction in early death. The largest reduction in cancer risk (19%) was associated with running, while running reduced risk of an early death by 15%, the study said.
Walking for exercise was the most beneficial for lowering the risk of early death after racket sports and running, the study found.
All the activities studied were associated with some lower risks of death, the study found.
“Participation in any of the activities was associated with lower mortality in comparison with those who did not participate in each activity, including moderate-intensity activities,” wrote study author Eleanor Watts, a postdoctoral fellow in epidemiology at the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health.
The study could only show an association, not a full cause and effect.
Harvey Weinstein was granted permission to take his appeal of his 2020 sex crime conviction to the State of New York Court of Appeals.
On Wednesday, New York’s highest court agreed to hear the 70-year-old disgraced movie mogul’s case after the appellate division, a lower court, upheld his conviction in June.
The five-justice appellate panel unanimously ruled against overturning the verdict in which Weinstein was found guilty of rape and sexual assault in New York. He was sentenced to 23 years in prison.
Harvey Weinstein’s appeal of his 2020 rape conviction will be heard by the State of New York Court of Appeals. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
Ashley Hume is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital.
Unsure what to eat before a workout? There’s a real science to what passes your lips before training: typically, you’ll want to consume slow-release carbs for longer endurance sessions and you’ll need fast-release carbs for short, intense workouts.
But what counts as a slow-release or fast-release carb? And how do other macronutrients, like protein and fats, help during training? We asked a group of qualified nutrition experts to explain.
What should you eat before a workout?
Pre-training nutrition should be determined by the type of exercise you plan to do and the physiological adaptation you’re trying to achieve – like gaining muscle (opens in new tab) or losing weight. But carbs are best for providing energy.
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If you favor exercises like HIIT, weightlifting, or power training, you should attempt to prioritize quick-releasing high-glycemic carbs that spike sugar levels for a quick energy release. Think instant oatmeal and sports beverages. If you prefer low-intensity endurance exercise like longer runs, slow-release carbs planned a few hours to an hour in advance will help sustain energy release over time. Think quinoa, whole grains, sweet potatoes, and pulses in this case.
Rob Hobson, Head of Nutrition at Healthspan Elite, recommends consuming something quick-digesting before your standard workout – like toast with peanut butter, an oat smoothie, or a banana (opens in new tab). But for a long race lasting more than an hour, Hobson says you should ideally plan carb intake more carefully, “aiming for up to 4g of carb per kg of body weight, which means eating several meals starting four hours before you hit the start line”.
Rob Hobson is an award winning registered nutritionist with 15 years of experience working in the industry. He’s previously worked with public health bodies in the UK, along with trade bodies and private clients. He holds a BSc in Nutrition and an MSc in Public Health Nutrition and has delivered lectures at various universities in the UK.
Jamie Wright, Myprotein (opens in new tab) nutritionist, agrees that carbs should be the main focus leading up to a workout, but says you shouldn’t overlook other macronutrients. “A source of high-quality protein can further reduce the breakdown of existing protein structures (like muscle) and may contribute to a reduced recovery period post-workout,” he says. “But for simplicity’s sake, and because some can experience digestive issues when having protein pre-workout, I usually suggest having carbohydrates leading into training and protein after.”
Why you should eat carbs before a workout
There are actually three different sources available to your body for energy: carbs (opens in new tab), proteins (opens in new tab), and fats (opens in new tab). All play a crucial role in helping your body function, but carbs are the body’s main energy source.
Fat can be utilized as an energy source but it’s usually only tapped into when you’re in a fasted state and haven’t consumed any carbohydrates. And the body typically only uses protein for fuel when it can’t access either carbs or fat. As such, having a good supply of carbohydrates is crucial for workouts, as it provides the energy you need.
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Wright explains the science behind it: “When we work out, our body burns through a molecule called adenosine triphosphate (ATP) at a much higher rate than usual. ATP is simply the body’s ‘currency’ of energy, and all processes in the body require a certain amount.
“Consumed or stored carbohydrates are like large daisy chains of smaller units of carbohydrates. When we eat carbohydrates or need to use our stored supplies, we have to cleave off these smaller units from the chain to transport around the body for energy,” he explains. “Glucose [from carbohydrate] is one example of this and it travels in the blood to our cells. If it’s to be used to produce energy, it enters a series of complex processes known as cellular respiration to produce ATP.
“Carbohydrate produces a tonne of ATP during these processes, which makes it, at least in my – and the bulk of available scientific literature’s opinion – the best nutrient to have leading into a workout.”
Wright adds that eating carbs pre-workout also reduces or delays the use of existing energy stores (namely glycogen, the stored form of carbohydrate within our muscle and liver), which can extend how long you can exercise.
Jamie Wright is an accredited nutritionist, with a BSc in Sports and Exercise Science and an MSc in Human Nutrition. He’s currently the head nutritionist at Balance; a team of fully qualified nutritionists and dieticians working with everyone from office workers to Olympic athletes.
When should you eat before a workout
Most advice states that you should eat two to three hours before a workout. A small study, published in Nutrients Journal (opens in new tab), compared the effects of a six-hour versus three-hour pre-feeding regimen in a group of eight active women. In general, performance results were more favorable for the three-hour group, suggesting that this really is the golden time for loading up with food.
However, it’s not always possible to adhere to this two-to-three-hour rule. “If you have an early morning training session (especially if you don’t fancy eating before your session), having a carbohydrate-rich meal the evening before can still help give you the energy you need,” suggests Hobson.
Should you eat after a workout?
If the thought of eating before you train turns your stomach, there could be some benefit to skipping on a feed altogether. Brian Carson, head of science and innovation at Whole Supp and a senior lecturer in exercise physiology, tells Live Science that exercising following a period of fasting can promote adaptation towards your body’s ability to utilize fat as a fuel source.
“We have previously published a systematic review (opens in new tab) and meta-analysis at the University of Limerick examining this approach and found a greater utilization of fat during exercise, with no negative impact on performance for exercise which lasts less than 60 minutes when performed in a fasted state,” he explains. “We also recently published research looking at restricting carbohydrates pre-exercise and feeding protein before high-intensity sprint interval training, and found that this was an excellent approach for this short intermittent type activity.”
Brian Carson, Phd, is a senior lecturer in exercise physiology at the University of Limerick, where he is pursuing research into the role of exercise and nutrition in the regulation of metabolism for performance and health. He’s also the head of science and innovation at Whole Supp (opens in new tab).
Hobson suggests that other factors can help you decide whether to plan a pre-workout meal. “Some people like to train on an empty stomach, and endurance athletes often train after fasting, known as ‘training low,’” he explains. “The effect of intermittently periodizing your nutritional intake in this way (intermittent fasting (opens in new tab)) is that the body adapts in positive ways, like improving the oxidation of fats (breakdown of fatty acids); this has a glycogen-sparing effect and can enhance performance when racing.”
In other words? There’s no one size fits all approach to pre-exercise meals. Fasting has benefits, but if your body is in a significant calorie deficit (opens in new tab), you might not have the energy to perform.
Amazon will shutter Amazon Care, the virtual and in-home health service it initially created for its employees, by the end of this year.
People who work at Amazon Care learned the news in a meeting on Wednesday, according to two people with knowledge of the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they signed nondisclosure agreements.
Amazon Care is available to the employees of half a dozen corporate customers including Hilton, Silicon Labs, Precor, and Amazon-owned Whole Foods, as well as its own workforce. Workers were told the service was shutting down because those customers did not see the value in the service, one of the people said. Dozens of employees will lose their jobs at the end of the year, according to the people.
Amazon spokeswoman Christina Smith confirmed the decision and shared a memo announcing it with The Washington Post.
“This decision wasn’t made lightly and only became clear after many months of careful consideration,” said Amazon senior vice president of health Neil Lindsay in an email to staff. “Although our enrolled members have loved many aspects of Amazon Care, it is not a complete enough offering for the large enterprise customers we have been targeting, and wasn’t going to work long-term.”
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Post. Amazon first provided the letter announcing the closure to GeekWire and Fierce Healthcare.
Amazon’s health ambitions sometimes clashed with best health practices
The decision to shutter Amazon Care is a surprise given Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s commitment to expanding Amazon’s health-care investment. It follows Amazon’s $3.9 billion acquisition of concierge health care start-up One Medical last month, a deal that could still face antitrust scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission.
In his 2021 letter to shareholders, Jassy named Amazon Care as an example of the “type of iterative innovation” that is “pervasive across every team at Amazon.”
Amazon Care is currently available virtually nationwide, and was supposed to expand to 20 cities for in-home care delivered by mobile health nurses by the end of this year.
Last week, The Post reported on tensions between Amazon Care and the clinical staff the company brought on to treat patients. Those medical professionals work for an independent company called Care Medical that is also being shut down. Six former employees told The Post that the two sides clashed over Amazon’s fast and frugal approach to expanding Amazon Care, which some former employees felt prioritized the business over best medical practice.
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A former Amazon Care executive told The Post at the time that Amazon was going to “try to do what they do in every other line of business: They’re going to try and make it better than everyone else, make it less expensive and get crazy adoption because of convenience. But health-care is different. It’s hard.”
In response, Amazon’s Smith told The Post in an email that Amazon prioritized patient and employee safety and that “Amazon Care has evolved and improved for both patients and clinicians since the days of our pilot program.”
In his email, Lindsay said Amazon Care employees could be placed in other jobs within Amazon, and that the company would “support employees looking for roles outside of the company.”
Lindsay — an Amazon veteran who took over the firm’s new health services department in December 2021 — emphasized in his letter that Amazon remains committed to its health-care businesses.
“Our vision is to make it easier for people to access the health care products and services they need to get and stay healthy. We know accomplishing this won’t be easy or fast, but we believe it matters,” he wrote.
This is the second major health-care investment Amazon has wound down. A health-insurance venture called Haven that it co-created with finance firms Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase shuttered last year.
High-profile health-care venture backed by Amazon, JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway shutters
The company continues to operate Amazon Pharmacy, a prescription ordering and delivery service it spun out from its 2018 acquisition of Pillpack. Its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, also has a significant presence in healthcare, where it uses machine learning to analyze health-care data for large health organizations, among other enterprises.
In the year after taking the helm as CEO, Jassy has tried to focus Amazon’s business, shuttering some of its retail operation and slowing growth in its logistics division.
