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Sunday August 31, 2025. 09:27 PM
'A class of drugs called beta-blockers — used for decades as a first-line treatment after a heart attack — doesn't benefit the vast majority of patients,' reports CNN. And in fact beta-blockers 'may contribute to a higher risk of hospitalization and death in some women but no...
'AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language Model mills,' argues Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at the Register. And 'when AI searchbots, with Meta (52% of AI searchbot traffic), Google (23%), and...
'I'm still teaching at Princeton,' 83-year-old Brian Kernighan recently told an audience at New Jersey's InfoAge Science and History Museums. And last month the video was uploaded to YouTube, a new article points out, 'showing that his talk ended with a unique...
'According to a new study, wearing the right kind of perfume or cologne can enlarge your brain's gray matter,' writes ScienceAlert Researchers from Kyoto University and the University of Tsukuba in Japan asked 28 women to wear a specific rose scent oil on their clothing for...
There's something rare about a snail named Ned, reports CNN: Ned's shell spirals left, while almost all other snails have right spiraling shells. It's a one in 40,000 genetic condition among the common corno espersum... 'I was quite breathless for a moment,' says Giselle...
Some of the best reasons to use a Pixel phone are turned off by default. Follow these steps to get the most out of your device.
Whether you’re at a festival, tennis match, or wedding, these hand fans and wearable cooling devices will make the heat way more bearable.
Welcome to your shiny new Google-powered mobile device. It will be up and ready in no time with these handy tips.
Put away those caustic wipes! Here’s how to clean your computer monitor.
The &Space Project upcycles waste materials from space development. Now it has designed Debris, a set of speakers using test fuel tanks from commercial rockets.
'A new study released Friday found that young children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, are often prescribed medication too quickly,' reports CBS News: The study, led by Stanford Medicine and published in JAMA Network Open, examined the...
In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to: It breathes oxygen and sulfur at the same time.
'Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship' About 1,000 of a set of 15,000 open access scientific journals appear to exist mainly to extract fees from naive academics.…
The FTC notified companies like Google, Meta, and Apple that they must not apply the Digital Services Act, which regulates digital platforms, if it jeopardizes the freedom of Americans.
The Washington Post covers 'a string of false reports of active shooters at a dozen U.S. universities this month as students returned to campus.' The FBI is investigating the incidents, according to a spokesperson who declined to specify the nature of the probe. While...
Running AIs on your own machine lets you stick it to the man and save some cash in the process Feature After a decade or two of the cloud, we're used to paying for our computing capability by the megabyte. As AI takes off, the whole cycle promises to repeat itself again, and ...
In 2017 Rick Beato streamed 'Rick's Rant Episode 2' — and just received a copyright claim this month. And days after jazz pianist Chick Corea died in 2021, Beato livestreamed a half-hour video which was mostly commentary, but with several excerpts from Corea's albums (at...
'For months, tens of thousands of people around the world have been complaining Meta has been banning their Instagram and Facebook accounts in error...' the BBC reported this month... More than 500 of them have contacted the BBC to say they have lost cherished photos and...
At the moment, the Spotify exodus of 2025 is a trickle rather than a flood, writes the Guardian, citing the departure of five notable bands 'liked in indie circles,' but not 'the sorts to rack up billions of listens.' 'Still, it feels significant if only because, well, this...
Intel amended its deal with the U.S. Department of Commerce 'to remove earlier project milestones,' reports Reuters, 'and received about $5.7 billion in cash sooner than planned.' 'The move will give Intel more flexibility over the funds.' The amended agreement, which...
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