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Inspire Medical Systems Inc. (INSP) reports earnings

The report was filed on February 10, 2025

KORU Medical Systems Inc. (KRMD) reports earnings

The report was filed on March 12, 2025

Jack Kerouac inspired the new blogging platform Ghost, but will it inspire you?

I know what you’re thinking: Why do we need yet another blogging platform? Especially in light of the failure of blogging platform Posterous, the acquisition of Tumblr by Yahoo, and the ten year anniversary of WordPress, which is already powering around 20% of the sites on the web and shows no signs of slowing.

The Senegalese Sufi saint who inspired a banking system based on generosity

The best leaders seek no followers, no power, and no titles. Yet they attract people anyway, precisely because they reject conventions and have a unique message. That’s true of Amadou Bamba Mbacke, a Senegalese Sufi poet, mystic, and peaceful resistor who lived from 1853 to 1927, and is now celebrated every July 28 in New York.

This new virtual reality system is taking researchers inside microscopic images

Scientists have found a new way to study the incredibly detailed images captured by cutting-edge microscopes: Physically moving through the 3-dimensional scans in virtual reality.

The global food system is broken and needs radical reform

The world’s food system is at a tipping point. For every one person suffering from malnutrition, there are two people overweight or obese. Food waste is becoming an increasing problem, and current agricultural practices are a leading contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.

Inspire: Q3 Earnings Snapshot

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. (AP) — GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. (AP) — Inspire Medical Systems Inc. (INSP) on Tuesday reported a loss of $8.5 million in its third quarter.

Inspire: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. (AP) — GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. (AP) — Inspire Medical Systems Inc. (INSP) on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter net income of $14.8 million.

How the violent gold collapse may pose a systemic risk to the financial system

Let’s hope the violent collapse of gold prices in recent days remains a concern only for gold bugs betting big on the metal. But after seeing threads of contagion connect asset to asset in the crises of the last decade, we can’t help but wonder if the decline in gold prices could act as a catalyst in some unexpected corner of the markets.

All Systems Go

With aerospace experts from Quartz, Gizmodo, and Jalopnik explore the frontiers of science, tech, and business on Earth and beyond, presented by Airbus.

Refugee athletes inspire, again

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Inside Pitchfork's absorption into GQ: When 'music media' becomes 'men's media,' what's lost?

Pitchfork, the most influential music publication of the internet age, is being absorbed by another entity – a men’s fashion magazine

An architect of inspired social housing has won UK’s most prestigious architecture medal

As London grapples with a public-housing crisis, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is awarding its highest honor to an American architect who has dedicated his career to creating inspired living environments for the masses. Born in Utica, New York, Neave Brown created landmark social-housing complexes including the 520-apartment Alexandra & Ainsworth Estate, the Dunboyne Estate, and the Fleet Road Terrace Housing in London, where he lives today.

Kenya’s striking medical workers are using social media to challenge the government

The ongoing health workers strike in Kenya has taken a new dimension with medics adopting social networking sites to air their grievances. In the process they have forged a discussion in the new information spaces, and rallied support for their actions.