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Interoception helps your brain read internal signals like hunger, heart rate, and tension, and problems with it may affect mood and anxiety.

Lorde says ‘fuck the glasses’ they’re ‘not sexy’ about festival sponsor Ray-Ban’s Meta AI smart glasses.

Why chatbots love “it’s not X, it’s Y”

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

Nearly 50% of survey respondents believe that the information listed on LinkedIn is more trustworthy than the information that's listed on dating profiles.

The development of AI will require investment of $5 trillion each year by 2040, and any talk ‌of a bubble forming around the technology is "absurd", SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son said on Tuesday.

If scrolling feels more exhausting than entertaining, you're not alone. I feel the same way, and a recent study backs up the sentiment: Social media is losing its fun factor.

What used to be a meandering journey is now an immediate arrival at your destination.

Send them $10,000. They send you $10,000. You've both booked $10,000 in revenue. Cash never moves. Everybody's a rocketship. (Satire.)

No, you're not going to code your own Jira

The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators.

Ever since James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released in 1991, I’ve been reading about the many ways ILM, led by visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren, had to basically invent new way…

An AI detection company found that amount of AI content that users actually see in their day-to-day browsing is shockingly high.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is imposing the nation’s first-ever statewide freeze on new “hyperscale” data centers. Hochul is pausing state-level environmental permits for “up to” a year to give the state time to put together a framework to protect the environment, the energy grid and New Yorkers’ electric bills, her office said. Hochul…

The Convivial Society: Vol. 7, No. 5

Scientists say modern buildings, LED lighting, and repetitive patterns may overload the brain's visual processing system, causing headaches, nausea, and physical distress for millions.

Pfizer transformed manufacturing operations by rebuilding trust and processes between digital and plant teams.

Learn how enterprises can manage AI investments in the agentic era by measuring useful work per dollar, improving efficiency, and scaling high-value workflows.

The Solar Sharer Offer launches 1 July 2026. Here's what changed, how the cap works, and how to maximise free daytime electricity for your home.

Author summary Emergency physicians face the challenge of rapidly synthesizing a patient’s entire medical history — often spanning years of records across multiple hospitalizations — within minutes of meeting them for the first time. To support this process, physicians write a ‘one-liner’: a single sentence that distills the most relevant aspects of a patient’s background and current complaint. Crafting this summary is cognitively demanding, particularly in busy emergency departments where interruptions are frequent and time is scarce. In this study, we evaluated whether a large language model (LLM) — a type of artificial intelligence trained on vast amounts of text — could generate these one-liner summaries from electronic health record data. We asked 21 emergency physicians to blindly rate paired LLM- and physician-authored summaries across accuracy, completeness, and clinical utility. LLM-generated summaries received higher ratings across all three dimensions. Importantly, the two approaches showed complementary strengths: LLM summaries were more faithful to the medical record, while physician summaries contributed contextual nuance. These findings suggest that a hybrid approach, where LLMs provide a structured foundation that clinicians then refine, may represent the most promising path forward. Prospective validation in live clinical settings is needed before these tools can be deployed.

“Billionaires could fund cures for cancer — so why are they funding glasses for perverts instead?" asked the protest group Everyone Hates Elon.

Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

Pascal Finette – Co-Founder and Chief Heretic at radical. Author. Speaker. GYSHIDO-San.

Promoting Imagination Over Artificial Certainty

The grid is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding grid.

The global AI memory squeeze is pricing cheap phones out of existence.