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1 year agoAnalysis lexi6
Individuals with higher anxiety sensitivity tend to be less physically active
People with heightened levels of anxiety sensitivity tend to engage in less physical activity, according to new research published in Mental Health and Physical Activity. The more intense the physical activity, the stronger the connection between anxiety sensitivity and being less active. ...
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1 year agoCurrent Event lexi6
Chromebooks will now receive 10 years of automatic security updates
A report from the US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) in April highlighted how Chromebook churn has become a huge problem in schools. Part of the issue...
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1 year agoCurrent Event lexi6
Team USA fails to medal, loses to Canada in OT
Team USA lost a thrilling overtime contest at the World Cup to Canada, which won a major international medal in men's basketball for the first time in 87 years.
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1 year agoCurrent Event lexi6
Life on Venus? Intriguing molecule phosphine spotted in planet's clouds again
There's a new chapter in the Venus phosphine debate.
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1 year agoCurrent Event lexi6
‘I’m a prisoner in my own home,’ asthma sufferer, 15, tells landmark US climate trial
Mica, aged 15, learned about climate change at the young age of four, when his parents showed him the documentary Chasing Ice. “I understood it more than my parents thought I would,” he testified in a groundbreaking trial on Tuesday. “I just knew something bad was happening, but I didn’t know exactly what it was.”
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1 year agoCurrent Event lexi6
'AI doctor' better at predicting patient outcomes, including death
Artificial intelligence has proven itself useful in reading medical imaging and even shown it can pass doctors' licensing exams. Now, a new AI tool has demonstrated the ability to read physicians' notes and accurately anticipate patients' risk of death, readmission to hospital, and other outcomes important to their care.
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1 year agoCurrent Event lexi6
Don’t worry, be happy? It’s not that simple, according to UB research
Is happiness something to work hard towards and accumulate over time or is it something transient and fleeting that should be savored in the moment? Past research has examined who, when and why some people favor feeling happy now versus later, but those studies don’t address how this preference for immediate versus delayed happiness relates to behavior and well-being.
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1 year agoCurrent Event lexi6
Biodiversity: Almost half of animals in decline, research shows
A study led by Queen's University Belfast finds 48% of species are undergoing population declines.
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1 year agoCurrent Event lexi6
Vice and BuzzFeed were meant to be the future of news. What happened?
After Rupert Murdoch invested tens of millions of pounds in his digital publishing company in 2013, Shane Smith, boss of Vice Media, laughed at how much old media companies wanted his sexy young business. Acknowledging that they were being left behind, they would offer billions: “And we keep saying ‘no, no, no’”.
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1 year agoCurrent Event lexi6
Study identifies processes linking parent's anxious overprotection to reduced academic confidence in their children
New research sheds light on how parents’ tendency to be overly anxious and protective affects their child’s academic performance in college. The study, published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, identifies several interpersonal and intrapersonal processes that play a key role in linking parental overprotection to reduced academic confidence.
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1 year agoCurrent Event lexi6
‘Overemployed’ Hustlers Exploit ChatGPT To Take On Even More Full-Time Jobs
"ChatGPT does like 80 percent of my job," said one worker. Another is holding the line at four robot-performed jobs. "Five would be overkill," he said.
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1 year agoCurrent Event lexi6
Comedy suffering because 'you have to be careful' now says Aniston
Jennifer Aniston said she wishes we could laugh more at ourselves, rather than having to police every word in comedies. "Comedy has evolved, movies have evolved," the "Friends" star, 54, told AFP in Paris, where her new film "Murder Mystery 2" with Adam Sandler, is set. "Now it's a little tricky because you have to be very careful, which makes it really hard for comedians, because the beauty of comedy is that we make fun of ourselves, make fun of life,&quo...
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1 year agoCurrent Event lexi6
Apple A17 Bionic SoC Performance Targets Could be Lowered
Apple's engineering team is rumored to be adjusting performance targets set for its next generation mobile SoC - the A17 Bionic - due to issues at the TSMC foundry. The cutting edge 3 nm process is proving difficult to handle, according to industry tipsters on Twitter. The leaks point to the A17 Bionic's overall performance goals being lowered by 20%, mainly due to the TSMC N3B node not meeting production targets. The factory is apparently lowering its yield and execution targets due t...
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1 year agoCurrent Event lexi6
Google tells users of some Android phones: Nuke voice calling to avoid infection
Google is urging owners of certain Android phones to take urgent action to protect themselves from critical vulnerabilities that give skilled hackers the ability to surreptitiously compromise their devices by making a specially crafted call to their number. It’s not clear if all actions urged are even possible, however, and even if they are, the measures will neuter devices of most voice-calling capabilities.