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Fresh or fishy: Microneedle device spots sketchy seafood in real time:
When you're checking the freshness of a piece of fish that you plan on eating, you want results right away.
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06 December 2025.
If you're stuck at a desk, sit on something decent:
Let's face it, most of us are spending an unhealthy amount of time seated in front of screens.
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06 December 2025.
ACIP Decides More Newborns Do Need To Catch Hepatitis B:
The fucking maniacs did it.
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06 December 2025.
What is Blockchain: Everything You Need to Know (2025):
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24 November 2025.
AI chatbots can effectively sway voters – in either direction:
A short interaction with a chatbot can meaningfully shift a voter’s opinion about a presidential candidate or proposed policy in either direction, new Cornell research finds.
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04 December 2025.
AI deepfakes of real doctors spreading health misinformation on social media:
Hundreds of videos on TikTok and elsewhere impersonate experts to sell supplements with unproven effects TikTok and other social media platforms are hosting AI-generated deepfake videos of doctors whose words have been manipulated to help sell supplements and spread health misinformation.
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06 December 2025.
UK IVF couples use legal loophole to rank embryos based on potential IQ, height and health:
British fertility clinics raise scientific and ethical objections over patients sending embryos’ genetic data abroad for analysisWhat is polygenic embryo screening in IVF and does it work?Couples undergoing IVF in the UK are exploiting an apparent legal loophole to rank their embryos based on genetic predictions of IQ, height and health, the Guardian has learned.
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06 December 2025.
How to shop with AI: 6 ways I find deals, price track, and let agents buy for me:
Forget the old way of shopping.
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06 December 2025.
Deep-sea mining tests impact over a third of seabed animals - scientists:
The findings contribute to a controversial debate that pits green technology against the environment.
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05 December 2025.
EU hits Elon Musk's X with $140 million fine over business practices:
The fines were due to the platform's misleading use of blue check marks to identify verified users and a lack of transparency over ads and data access for researchers.
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05 December 2025.
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros in $83 Billion Deal:
The deal to acquire the Hollywood behemoth’s television and film studios as well as HBO Max will bulk up the world’s biggest paid streaming service.
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06 December 2025.
Hertz's multibillion-dollar bet on EVs magnified America's pain points — and soft spots — for electric cars:
Hertz's multi-billion dollar bet on a rental EV fleet did not pay off, but it did show how some consumers are open to a new powertrain — for the right price.
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06 December 2025.
Stampeding Turtles Might Have Made Fossil Tracks in Italian Cliffs:
Researchers suggest that an earthquake spooked a mob of sea turtles gathered together in a prehistoric sea.
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06 December 2025.
This High Arctic rhino may change what we know about ancient animal migrations:
A 23-million-year-old rhinoceros fossil is reshaping scientists' understanding of mammal evolution.
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04 December 2025.
There is No Substitute for Thinking:
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06 December 2025.
'Rage Bait' Named Oxford Word of the Year 2025:
Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares a report from the BBC: Do you find yourself getting increasingly irate while scrolling through your social media feed? If so, you may be falling victim to rage bait, which Oxford University Press has named its word or phrase of the year.
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06 December 2025.
China’s humanoid robots are gaining ground – but they’re not there yet:
The U.S. and China are racing to build humanoid robots capable of performing many daily tasks – but the complexity of home and business environments makes that challenging.
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29 August 2025.
Science history: Female chemist initially barred from research helps helps develop drug for remarkable-but-short-lived recovery in children with leukemia — Dec. 6, 1954:
In December 1954, Gertrude Elion and colleagues described a new compound they had developed that sent children with leukemia into remission.
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06 December 2025.
Some of the tech in my workday
Best programming language?
The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google.
The TIOBE Programming Community index measures popularity based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses, third party vendors and search engine activity.
w3techs analyses page content to determine the technology used, and also uses publicly available information from sources such as Alexa, Google, Microsoft and ipinfo.io.
While Java and Python top the popularity charts, more than 80% of all websites run on PHP.
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