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(New York Times) – Scientists continue to rethink the idea that moderate drinking offers health benefits. Adults under age 50 have been developing breast cancer and colorectal cancer at increasingly higher rates over the last few decades, and alcohol use … Read More ..read more
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(Wired) – SocialAI is an online universe where everyone you interact with is a bot—for better or worse. There’s only one real human in the SocialAI equation. That person is you. The new iOS app is designed to let you … Read More ..read more
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(ABC News) – The number of calls to U.S. poison centers about children consuming energy drinks increased about 20% in 2023 after years of remaining relatively flat, according to data from America’s Poison Centers. America’s Poison Centers, which accredits and … Read More ..read more
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(Associated Press) – Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday it has closed its operations in Russia after 32 years, citing a Justice Ministry letter that said the medical aid group had been removed from a register of foreign nongovernmental organizations. The … Read More ..read more
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(NPR) – For the first time in decades, public health data shows a sudden and hopeful drop in drug overdose deaths across the U.S. “This is exciting,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute On Drug Abuse [NIDA], … Read More ..read more
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(Plough) – If only her parents had been spared the terrible freedom of having to choose whether to have a child with a disability. “My husband and I decided that it was a loving decision not to bring her into … Read More ..read more
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(Wall Street Journal) – A now-ended adoption program created the perception that Chinese girls weren’t valued. One adoptee, once hidden in a grocery bag, found there was more to her own story. In “Ricki’s Promise,” a 2014 documentary by Changfu … Read More ..read more
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(Wired) – OpenAI truly does not want you to know what its latest AI model is “thinking.” Since the company launched its “Strawberry” AI model family last week, touting so-called reasoning abilities with o1-preview and o1-mini, OpenAI has been sending … Read More ..read more
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(Wall Street Journal) – CEO Anne Wojcicki ‘surprised and disappointed’ after independent directors say she failed to produce ‘actionable’ buyout proposal All seven independent directors of DNA-testing company 23andMe resigned Tuesday, following a protracted negotiation with founder and Chief Executive … Read More ..read more
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(MIT Technology Review) – US policymakers have an ‘everything everywhere all at once’ approach to regulating artificial intelligence, with bills that are as varied as the definitions of AI itself. More than 120 bills related to regulating artificial intelligence are … Read More ..read more