GLP-1s Linked to Lower Risk of Cancer Spread in Four Tumor Types: colorectal, liver, breast, and lung cancers. These cancer types rely on high glucose and inflammatory environments. We're finding so many benefits from these drugs besides weight loss and glucose control. Maybe we should start putting GLP-1 agonists in the water supply!
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Whuut? Why isn't this report not getting more attention?When a beam of light passes through a cloud of atoms, photons (particles of light) sometimes appear to spend a negative amount of time there, with light seeming to exit the cloud before it even enters.
Perplexity used to be really useful. But over time, as they added things to compel you to subscribe and upgrade to the Pro plan, the free plan stopped working. I'm always hesitant to sign up for an account, where my searches can be linked to me personally. So I was happy to see that there is an open-source version, called Perplexica. And the source code behind it is available in case you wanted to roll your own.
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Your brain changes during meditation begin within minutes and peak around the 7-minute mark. This is great, and perhaps it's not necessary to meditate for an hour each time.
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Will string of science scandals ruin century-old journal Nature’s reputation in China? Even Chinese scientists are disgusted with the fraudulent research published in the journal Nature. Ironic, since Chinese paper mills are the source of so much research fraud.
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Mental disorders have nearly doubled since 1990, now affecting 1.2 billion people worldwide. I've noticed this. So many mentally ill people in the news. Especially in politics. What's going on? Paper here.
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3D-printed speaker cover can focus audio into a private 'sound spot'. This is cool. Kind of like a parabolic microphone, but instead of the listener having the device, the speaker has the device.
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Imagine identity verification just by putting earphones on. A novel earphone design with heartbeat sensors can verify users just from their heartbeats. Awesome, but a little scary, too. If you can identify someone just from their heartbeat, it could enable a new kind of surveillance. I'm skeptical it will be that precise, however, since there are so many variables that factor into a heartbeat. I think this is just proof of concept. But man, aren't neural nets awesome?
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I'm Tired of Listening to Nerds and Dweebs. Don't we all share this guy's frustrations? Everyone wants to be an expert, and on social media, no one knows you're a dog.
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AI is killing the cheap smartphone. Because RAM is so expensive now. I don't think that this is necessarily a bad thing. Like I don't think the demise of Spirit Airlines and super cheap airfare was entirely a bad thing either. If you know what I mean.
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A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale. Open source software, like American democracy (or republicanism to be accurate) is only as good as people who act with propriety. Too bad, open source. Fun while it lasted, I guess.
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Steve Wozniak tells college kids what they want to hear – that they have Actual Intelligence. Yeah, but will they use it?
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Well, well. You might have thought that by using the Signal app's disappearing messages feature, that your deleted messages could not be recovered. Nope, it may still be recoverable, through Apple's Time Machine backup systems. Deleted, but not forgotten.
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All right, Robert X. Cringely is blogging again! Let's see if he still has the inside connections.
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Solid state batteries are showing promise. Let's get them into production, folks. We got datacenters to power.
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This is where they come from. All those crazy progressive socialist women politicians didn't appear out of nowhere. Here is their incubator! It's called Emerge Oregon. Holy crap!!! Burn it with fire!
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